New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1948. First Edition of Mailer’s first book. Bookplate on the front free endpaper; some edge rubbing; very good in a dust jacket with nearly invisible tissue repair at inner folds. More
[Book #35188P]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First Edition. Very good or a little better in dust jacket; in a custom cloth clamshell box. An excellent association copy, inscribed “For Max and Mab with my love. Oscar.” The recipients were Maxwell Anderson and his longtime companion, whose stage name was Mab..... More
[Book #35187P]
Garden City: Doubleday, 1949. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket. Signed by the author. Basis for the film of the same title. More
[Book #35186P]
Garden City: Crime Club, 1930. First American Edition of the first Clunk book. Aside from a minor erasure on the front free endpaper, fine in a dust jacket with the original promotional wraparound band. More
[Book #35185P]
New York: Scribner’s, 1937. First Edition. Very good in a good to very good dust jacket. More
[Book #35184P]
New York: Doran, 1923. First Edition. Name stamp on endpapers; very good in a dust jacket with a huge chunk out of the front panel. More
[Book #35183P]
New York: Dutton, 1981. First Edition. One of 550 numbered and signed copies. Fine in the publisher’s slipcase. More
[Book #35182P]
Boston: Telephone Despatch Co., n.d. [c. 1890]. Original printed wrappers; 52 pages; minor wear; inscribed by the company manager. One of the earliest Boston phone directories, listing about 800 subscribers, mostly commercial enterprises, especially banks, insurance companies and railroads. Not all of the subscribers are listed with numbers, although by..... More
[Book #35181P]
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932. First Edition. A very good copy; inscribed by the author in 1932. More
[Book #35180P]
Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860. Third Edition; printing 1 (BAL 21397- "probable sequence"); state 1 of the frontispiece portrait; binding B (no sequence established, but binding A was issued in wrappers for reviewers, and therefore those copies might have been issued prior to printed sheets being sent to the binder..... More
[Book #35179P]
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Bookplate; binder’s glue stains on the pastedowns; very nearly fine in a dust jacket with very minor wear at the extremities; in a custom morocco clamshell box. More
[Book #26993P]
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973. First American Edition. Red rubber stamp of a symbol on the title page; about fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. More
[Book #35178P]
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1931. First printing by this publisher. About fine in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears. More
[Book #35177P]
London: George Newnes, 1899. Bound without wrappers with other publications in a plainly bound volume, titled on the spine Reprints From The Strand Magazine, this collection includes Stories from the Diary of A Doctor, An African Millionaire, and Martin Hewitt, lacking wrappers. Vincent Starrett’s dated (1954) ownership inscription in ink..... More
[Book #35173P]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Fine in a lightly worn first issue dust jacket with a two inch, fairly unobtrusive, tear extending from the bottom of the spine into the back panel. Signed by Updike. More
[Book #35172J]
Chicago: Schulte, 1891. First published a year earlier, this utopian political novel, was one of the nineteenth-century’s great crackpot books. In Bleiler. Inscribed by the author the year before his death, "Every hour since this book was written has shown that it is prophecy. Ignatius Donnelly. Feb. 22, 1900." A...... More
[Book #35171P]
New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First Edition in English. Translated from the French by Clara Bell. Six volumes. Publisher’s decorated cloth; six volumes; an excellent set, with only very slight wear. Each pair of volumes in cloth (Before Tilsit, The Invasion, Borodino) was issued at $1.75. Like Ulysses, War..... More
[Book #35170P]
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition; library issue (a more durable binding); very good in dust jacket. Jacket illustration (repeating the cover) by Edward Gorey. Basis for the films of the same title. Daughter of a famous, successful father, the author did very well on her own. More
[Book #35169P]
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition. Gorey designed bookplate of “A. Regensburg” (handwritten); very good in a Gorey designed binding; Inscribed by the author, “For Alice with warmest love - Mary.” Basis for the films of the same title. More
[Book #35168P]
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1938. First Edition. 1000 copies of this story were issued in advance of its appearance in Wind, Sand and Stars the following year. Nearly fine. More
[Book #35167P]
New York: Macmillan, 1935. First Edition; American issue; comprising chapters 30-59 of Mike (1909), with some changes. Very good in a price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear and chipping. More
[Book #35166P]
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. First Edition. Bookplate on the front free endpaper; a very good copy in a dust jacket with very light wear and tear. This novelization appends a glossary of gangster vocabulary. Preceded by Little Caesar and followed by Scarface, this early talkie gangster picture still..... More
[Book #35165P]
London: Humphrey Milford, 1918. First Edition of the author’s first book. Very good plus in a very good dust jacket with a 3/4 inch chip at the foot of the spine, other minor chips and soiling; in a custom slipcase. Hopkins, a Catholic priest, saw only a few poems published..... More
[Book #35163P]
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First American Edition. Publisher’s “library” (sheep binding with morocco labels). This is a typically mixed state copy with the following points: p. , “Him and another man” incorrectly listed as at p.88; page 57, “..with the was...” as opposed to “...with the saw...”; the..... More
[Book #35162P]