The Overland Monthly, 1868-71, Volumes 1-6.

By: N/A

Price: $950.00

Publisher: San Francisco, A. Roman & Co:

Seller ID: 022012

The first six annual volumes. Hardcover, green pebbled cloth, gilt titles and logo on spine. Each volume 550-600 pp. First appearance of Bret Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp, as well as early contributions by Mark Twain and tales and poems by California Bohemian founders Charles Warren Stoddard and Ina Coolbrith. Among the tales and articles in this short run are Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "Dickens in Camp," and "Plain Language from Truthful James," and Ambrose... View more info

The Hunger and Other Stories

By: Charles Beaumont

Price: $85.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Son: 1987

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k18022603

Condition: Very good-near fine

First Edition. 8vo, gray cloth. Very good-near fine in good d/w. A clean and tight copy with some toning and foxing to end papers. Extremely light rubbing at corners. Dust jacket is not price clipped but has a dozen or so edge chips, one small open tear, and several closed tears of up to ½”. Beaumont wrote for several SF magazines and numerous television scripts for "The Twilight Zone" and other programs. This anthology contains 17 stories, several published here fo... View more info

Rawhide Rawlins Stories [Inscribed association copy ]

By: Charles M. Russell

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Montana Newspaper Assoc, Great Falls: 1921

Edition: 4th printing

Seller ID: k190113a

Condition: Good.

4th printing, brown printed wrappers, 7-1/2”x11’. With illustrations by the author. Toning at top left and lower right front corners. 1/2” split at lower front hinge, small closed-crack along spine. Interior clean and bright. Inscribed on the title page to Los Angeles gallery owner/impresario Earl Stendahl. “To Earl Stendahl / from “the Russells”. While the inscription may have been written by Russell himself, it may also have been inscribed by Russell’s ... View more info

Victory [Munsey's Magazine, February, 1915]

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

McSweeney's Issue 3

By: Eggers, Dave [Editor]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: San Francisco, McSweeney's Publishing: 1999

Seller ID: s1706297

Timothy McSweeney's Windfall Republic [#3 Early Summer / Late Fall 1999] 1st ed., Inscribed, dated and signed by Eggers and contributor Paul Collins. Corners very lightly bumped, otherwise fine. View more info

McSweeney's Issue 2

By: Eggers, Dave [Editor]

Price: $250.00

Publisher: San Francisco, McSweeney's Publishing: 1999

Seller ID: s1706298

Timothy McSweeney's Blues/Jazz Odyssey [#2 Spring 1999] 1st ed., first printing, Inscribed, dated and signed by Eggers and four other contributors. Last page incorrectly numbered as '125' instead of '192'. No indication of later printing on rear cover. White covers, black lettering. Small crease to lower front corner, two small abrasions (probably from sticker removal] lower front, otherwise fine. Initialed D.E. by Dave Eggers on front end paper with added signatures of... View more info

The Literary Pageant. [A Selection of Stories and Art]

By: Kipling, Rudyard; Doyle, A. Conan, etc.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London: T. Werner Laurie: 1911

Edition: 1st ed.

Inscription: signed by HRH Alexander of Teck

Seller ID: cr180228a

Condition: Very good

n.d. (1911). Small 4to, illustrated vellum boards. 110 pp. plus index. Published "in aid of the 'Prince Francis of Teck Memorial Fund' for the Middlesex Hospital." Special limited edition; #18 of 500 copies signed by HRH Alexander of Teck. Includes first printing of the eight stanza literary refrain "The Spies' March" By Rudyard Kipling and the first appearance of Conan Doyle’s “The Giant MaximinThirty stories in all; Other contributors include, Jerome K. Jerome, ... View more info

THE BORZOI 1920 / Being Sort of a record of Five Years' Publishing

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

Keep Out of the Kitchen

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

The Chronicle of Clemendy; or, the History of the IX. Joyous Journeys

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

Collected Stories of Carson McCullers

By: McCullers, Carson

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

Midnight Turning Gray

By: Peter Matthiessen

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

A Clark City Press Reader/Spring 1993. "Red and Blue Days / Writings on the American West" [signed copy]

By: Peter Matthiessen

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

Over, Under, Around or Through; The Proud Sheriff; Paso Por Aqui. [1/1 - INSCRIBED and CORRECTED Special Edition]

By: Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

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 inscri... View more info

The Assyrian and Other Stories

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

Welcome to the City and Other Stories

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