london: Jonathan Cape, 1951. First British Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 494 pp. Fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities, more so to spine ends). The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel depicting the events on board a fictitious World War II U.S. Navy minesweeper and a subsequent court-martial for mutiny. The book...
New York: Doubleday, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 494 pp. Very good (previous owner inscription; light general wear) in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; short closed tears & light creasing to bottom edge). The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel depicting the events on board a fictitious World War II U.S....
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1930. First Edition Thus, Limited to 1000 copies. Small 8vo. 495 pp. Designed and illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins. Black cloth spine over decorative paper covered boards, housed in publisher's slipcase. Near fine in somewhat faded and worn publisher's slipcase. Includes some of Poe's most beloved tales -...
[Princeton]: [University Press], [1951]. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies of which this is Number 68. Small 8vo. [28] pp. Frontispiece portrait chosen by Abeel's widow as his most characteristic likeness is after a painting by Edward Steese in 1925, who also selected and edited these poems with the help...
New York: Random House, 1930. First Trade Edition. Original cloth. 12 mo. 823 pp. Pen, brush and ink drawings by Rockwell Kent. Black cloth with silver lettering and decoration in publishers illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (chips & short closed tears to spine ends; some age toning;...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 225 pp. White cloth with black lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (age toning; light wear to extremities; darkening to spine). The author's first novel "... is a raunchy, funny, swaggering, angry, cocksure book;...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition. 8vo. 154, [1] pp. Cream cloth with red lettering to spine in color illustrated dustjacket designed by Warren Chappell. A fine copy in good only dustjacket (front flap separated but present; wear, chips and short closed tears; some loss to spine...
New York: Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. 8vo. 122 pp. Drawings by Jose Clemente Orozco. Publisher's rust cloth in the first issue dustjacket with Steinbeck looking towards his left in the picture on the rear cover. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (fading to spine; minor wear to extremities...
New York: Stage Publishing Company, Inc., 1936. First Edition. 4to. 4to. 132, [2] pp. Illustrations (some in color). The personal copy of Beatrice Mathieu with her custom bookplate; TLS to Miss Beatrice Mathieu from the editor tipped in. Special publsher's binding of padded pale green moire cloth with gilt illustration...
Oakland, CA: Published by the author, 1905. First Edition. Original wrappers. INSCRIBED "For Miss Lyke / May Gibbons Cooper). Small 8vo. 50 pp. 6 illustrated plates (including 4 original photographs with location written in pencil, most likely by the author). 11 poems. Handmade paper. Stiff green ribbon tied wrappers; color...
New York: Random House Inc, 1987. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 277 pp. Fine in fine dustjacket. A story by one of the grand masters of American fiction about "... the pleasures and perils and occasional penalties of closeness, about love and loyalty, about certain kinds of steadfastness and fidelity...
New York: Random House Inc, 1987. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "To ----/gratefully/Wallace Stegner.8vo. 277 pp. Fine in fine dustjacket. A story by one of the grand masters of American fiction about "... the pleasures and perils and occasional penalties of closeness, about love and loyalty, about certain kinds of...
New York: New Directions, 1945. First American Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 292 pp. Photo-illustrated plates. Tan cloth with blue & brown lettering to spine; illustrated endpapers. A near fine copy (minor wear to extremities with chipping to spine ends). A memoir written by the author about his year-long road trip...
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891-1908. Leather bound. The Riverside Edition, complete in 14 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards in 4 volumes. Dark Blue three-quarter morocco over blue cloth boards; gilt lettering to spines; marbled endpapers; TEG. Engraved previous owner bookplates in each volume else a....
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 182 pp. 6 illustrated plates (including frontispiece); Pronunciation of Proper Names. Publisher's review slip affixed inside front cover. Green pictorial covers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities; slight darkening to spine). Here are 15 stories detailing "...dramatic...
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. Original wrappers. SIGNED by the author on front cover. Small 8vo. 8 leaves, including the wrappers. Original pictorial self-wrappers, stapled, uncut, as issued. One short marginal slit in front wrapper, light general wear; a near fine copy inf somewhat worn folding purple case...
London: Edward Moxon, 1839. First Collected Edition. Leather bound. Small 8vo. 380; 347; 314; 361 pp. Engraved fontispiece portrait of Shelley by W. Finden in Volume 1. Half-title in each volume. Preface & Notes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Contemporary full calf (stamped "Morrell, Binder. London") with elaborate gilt decoration to...
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Ca. 1930, with "K-E" on copyright page. Early printing. Hardcover. Quarto. (xvii) 247pp. Illustrated by the author. 36 full-page plates with 11 in color (including frontispiece) plus 2 small color illustrations; numerous in-text illustrations. Half black cloth and tan paper boards with color...
Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphics, 1948. First Illustrated Edition of Mice & Men in French. Limited to 390 copies, this being "Exemplaire S.P." (Service de Presse). Three-quarter leather. Small folio. 125, [2] pp. 37 color lithographs by Reynold Arnould. Translated by Maurice Coindreau. Three-quarter orange leather over paper covered boards;...
