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![Image for The Temptation Of Don Volpi [Inscribed Association Copy]](/assets/images/product/k190126s_1)
By: Alfred Hayes
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Atheneum, New York: 1960
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k190126s
Condition: Fine
8vo, ¼ cloth, maroon boards. Stated First Edition. Alfred Hayes was a British-born screenwriter, television writer, and novelist. He wrote the screenplays for Clash by Night [ Fritz Lang], Island in the Sun, and was a co-writer on Roberto Rossellini's Paisan in 1946 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He received another nomination for the film Teresa in 1951. In television he wrote for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Mannix, Logan’sRun, and Nero Wolfe. This copy is inscribed on the front end paper to Hollywood film producer/director Jerry Wald. “It isn’t any shorter than ’... View more info
![Image for Victory [Munsey's Magazine, February, 1915]](/assets/images/product/c1706271_0bfbc5a1a5148b59d8a3cbba2eb1acfc.jpg)
By: Conrad, Joseph
Price: $40.00
Seller ID: c1706271
First printing of the novelette 'Victory' on pp.112–240, Just these pages and front cover; bound in grey boards with paper label on front. A clean near-fine copy with some rubbing at bottom of the cover page; binding has several small chips at spine edge, lightly soiled. View more info
By: Dashiel Hammett
Price: $225.00
Publisher: New Pearson's Magazine: 1923
Edition: 1st edition thus
Seller ID: k200225c
"Holiday", a 3-page short story, is one of Hammett’s earliest works of fiction. It is not a crime story, but a sensitive vignette, possibly autobiographical. War veteran Paul Hetherwick is a patient at Public Service Health Hospital in San Diego. He obtains a day pass, withdraws $100 from the bank, and catches a bus to Tijuana. He spends some time playing the ponies at the track and then drinking with a couple of bar girls. With economical, prose Hammett lets us know that in addition to his lung disease, Paul is suffering from a bad case of ennui; he doesn’t care whether his horses pay off... View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: N.P. (Austin, Roger Beacham: 1987
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: m190723b
Condition: Fine
1st ed., 8vo, grey boards, black cloth spine with titles on paper label. 76pp. with frontis protrait. Designed by W.R. Holman in an edition of 250 copies, printed at Wind River Press. A collection of stories from the life and times of author's father who practiced law in West & East Texas. Condition: near fine; a bright, tight copy. Internally pristine; a fine copy overall but with several small spots on covers. View more info
By: Knopf, Alfred A.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1920
Seller ID: 0219032
Small 8vo. First printing. With original contributions by Willa Cather "On Writing Fiction", H. L. Mencken on Cather, selection of poetry by Eliot, Pound and other Borzoi authors with a number of illustrations and photos; and a complete bibliography of the imprint. Fine; light sunning and small stain to back cover; otherwise a pristine copy. View more info
By: Knopf, Alfred A.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: NY, Alfred A Knopf,: 1920
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: 17082902
Small 8vo. First printing. With original contributions by Willa Cather "On Writing Fiction", H. L. Mencken on Cather, selection of poetry by Eliot, Pound and other Borzoi authors with a number of illustrations and photos; and a complete bibliography of the imprint. Fine; light sunning and small stain to back cover; otherwise a pristine copy. View more info
By: Lewis, Sinclair
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Cosmopolitan, New York: 1929
Seller ID: k180228c
16mo. Blue-green paper-covered boards. Advance printing of a story scheduled to appear in the October, 1929 issue of Cosmopolitan. 34pp. A near fine copy with only minor surface wear. View more info
By: Machen, Arthur
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Carbonnek: 1923
Seller ID: c170705b
Privately printed for the Society of Pantagruelists. 8vo. 331 pp. ¼ vellum and blue boards; Limited edition. No. 241 of 1050 copies, signed by Machen in ink. Fine; a pristine copy in poor d/w with the spine detached from flaps, cut in half (both halves present), and 1” chips at top and bottom of spine. View more info
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1987
Seller ID: 121333
1st ed., with full number line. A virtually pristine copy in dust jacket with very minor shelf-wear; no tears, rubs, or nicks -- just no longer has that shiny new finish. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: & Ampresand Press/Roger Williams College: 1984
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Signed.
Seller ID: s180624b
8vo, softbound gray wrappers.A collection of seven short shories, all previously published. A Fine copy with practically no surface wear. Signed on title page. View more info
![Image for A Clark City Press Reader/Spring 1993. "Red and Blue Days / Writings on the American West" [signed copy]](/assets/images/product/s180624f_1)
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Livingston [Montana]: Clark City Press: 1993
Edition: 1st
Inscription: Signed.
Seller ID: s180624f
Condition: Fine.
5"x9" stapled wrappers, 34 pp.. Publishers announcement containing selections from forthcoming works, including an excerpt from Matthiessen's anticipated book Red and Blue Days/Writings on the American West. The book was never published, leaving this excerpt as the only published survivor. Fine. View more info
![Image for Over, Under, Around or Through; The Proud Sheriff; Paso Por Aqui. [1/1 - INSCRIBED and CORRECTED Special Edition]](/assets/images/product/021004_956446697ad823fdcfded7e86ceb3ba6.jpg)
Price: $750.00
Publisher: Sacramento, E. H. Crussell:
Seller ID: 021004
N.p., n.d. [Sacramento: Edward H. Crussell, c. 1933] Three original issues of the Saturday Evening Post, bound in small folio, ½ burgundy leather and pebbled cloth, gilt titles and borders. April 21,1917; Feb 20,1926; and October 1,1932. Sacramento bookseller Edward H. Crussell was a great fan of Rhodes and had these three issues bound by Sacramento bookbinders Silvius and Schoenbackler. He mailed the book to Rhodes for review. Rhodes responded with a full-page inscription: ####### “Dear Mr. Crussell: Your binding of this book is best possible evidence that you really like these yarns.... View more info
By: Saroyan, William
Price: $650.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: 1950
Seller ID: k1706263
1st ed., inscribed copy. 8vo, burgundy cloth. A very good-near fine copy in very-good d/w. Small bump to lower right corner, otherwise fine. Dust-jacket has $3.50 price at lower right corner but upper right front corner is clipped, lightly rubbed and creased at corners and edges. A lengthy birthday inscription to Armen Bagdasarian in blue ink on front end paper. View more info
By: Shaw, Irwin
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Random House: 1942
Seller ID: k180226i
Condition: Near fine
1st ed., 8vo, red cloth. An early collection of Irwin Shaw short stories. Near fine copy; clean, tight and bright with just a bit of discoloration to end papers. Very good d/w. No chips or tears but spine darkened and a few small, light creases; not price clipped. Inscribed by Shaw on the front end paper to Hollywood writer/director Jerry Wald, who was a high school classmate of Shaw’s and developed several of his books into film projects. View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: London D. Bogue : 1848
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k190125a
Condition: Good
FIRST EDITION 16mo. (approx. 15 x 11.5cm) bound in full calf, gilt decorations and titles, marbled endpapers. t.e.g. 62pp. plus advertisement leaf at rear. Many delightful line drawings by Gilbert and Henning illustrating the text. Ex-libris of [?] Battie-Wrightson, possibly a reference to a member [or family] of William Battie-Wrightson, MP. CONDITION: A good clean copy with rubbing to extremities; back hinge partially cracked with small tear to endpaper. Text block is clean and bright with no foxing. . View more info
By: Thomas, Dylan
Price: $225.00
Publisher: New Directions,NY: 1954
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k180228b
A fine copy in price clipped d/w with light edgewear, small chips to corners of d/w. View more info
By: Various
Price: $175.00
Publisher: San Francisco, McSweeney's Publishing: 2002
Seller ID: s17062906
First edition, first printing. Nine separately bound booklets in board/cloth shell with a large rubber band holding it all together. A fine copy, signed by editor DAVE EGGERS on the rear board with the signatures of MICHAEL CHABON ['the lost chapter from "The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay with cover art by Chris Ware) and ANN CUMMINS ("Red Ant House") inside their respective booklets. View more info
By: Various [AQUITH, Cynthia & Bigland, Eileen - editors]
Price: $55.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1935
Seller ID: c170630c
1st ed., 4to, white cloth, 224p. n.d. [1935] An anthology of stories and poems published to raise money for the Princess Elizabeth Hospital for Children. Two great full-color spreads by the Disney Studios featuring Mickey, Minnie and most of the other Disney characters at the time; introduction by J.M. Barrie, and contributions by Walter De La Mare, Rudyard Kipling, G.K. Chesterson and others. Endpapers by Rex Whistler, color plates by A.H. Watson and others and with many in line b/w illustrations. A Pristine copy in the original dustwrapper with color illustration of portrait of the princess... View more info
