modern firsts
THE SHUDDERS: A Thatcher Colt Police Mystery
New York and Toronto: Farrar and Rinehart, (1943). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. Jacket mildly toned with some edgewear including some creasing around spine. Faint touches of dampstaining along bottom edge of rear panel. Price-clipped. Foxing and dampstaining to cloth. Interior generally bright and clean...
I WOULD STEAL HORSES
Niagara Falls, NY: Slipstream, 1992. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled cream wraps, very faint stain to outer edge of front cover. Small corner crease. Else clean, bright interior. About near fine. INSCRIBED on title page: "for Jay -- / Don't let them steal your horses. / Friends, / Sherman /...
FOOL'S MERCY
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth with gilt stamped titles, in pictorial dust jacket. Very good in like DJ. INSCRIBED by Allen at FFEP. Light touches of sunning to jacket; mild soiling; two tiny chips. Book's spine moderately cocked. Pages bright and clean throughout. Good and...
GOING TOO FAR ENOUGH: American Culture at Century's End
Washington DC and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter silver cloth over black boards. In pictorial dust jacket. Very good in like DJ. INSCRIBED by Allen to title page in the year of publication. Additional ALS from publisher laid in. Light curl to jacket edges. Mild...
THE FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF A PASTOR'S DISAPPEARANCE
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper covered boards, gilt title lettering to spine. Mild shelf rubbing to unclipped jacket, else bright, clean, unmarked. Clean first of a New York Times notable book of 2001. 277pp.
THE GIRL WITH THE ROSEWOOD CRUTCHES
New York: McBride, Nast & Co., 1912. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. Red pictorial cloth. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners; sparse toning/foxing to pages. About near fine. 267pp. Early work featuring an independent and successful disabled protagonist, first serialized in 1908. A first-person narrative, ostensibly by an anonymous...
FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE
New York: Gnome Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Edgewear and scuffing to jacket, with a few small chips/holes and approximately 1'' losses to head and tail of spine. Bumping and small tears to cloth at spine ends. Toning to endpapers, fainter toning...
TOLD IN THE MARKETPLACE
London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket. Substantial chipping and loss to corners of front and rear panels; spine sunned and jacket toned/soiled. Boards bumped and lightly scuffed at spine ends and corners. Pages toned. Small red and gold bookplate affixed...
THE ANGEL ON THE ROOF: The Stories of Russell Banks
(New York): HarperCollins, (2000). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black boards in pictorial dust jacket. Fine in a near-fine DJ. INSCRIBED by Banks on title page. Hint of a crease to jacket rear panel. Interior bright, crisp, and clean throughout. 506pp. Collection of thirty-one stories by the American author.
THE SEA
New York: Knopf, 2005. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like DJ with just trace shelfwear. Overall, bright, clean, sharp, and sound. First American edition of this Booker Prize winning novel.
STARING AT THE SUN
London: Jonathan Cape, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black imitation cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. Trace rubbing to jacket and boards; hint of mustiness to book. Interior bright, clean throughout. Good and sound. 195pp. First edition/printing of this early novel by the author of THE...
CRUDDY: An Illustrated Novel.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Touches of shelfwear. Else clean, bright, and sharp. DJ unclipped. Illustrated novel from the acclaimed artist., the proported diary of a troubled sixteen-year-old.
THE DEER PASTURE
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark orange cloth boards in orange dust jacket. Front flap price-clipped, minor edgewear. INSCRIBED by Bass on title page. Faint page toning. Near fine in very good plus jacket. 123pp. Bass's first essay collection, illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth.....
A Relative Stranger: Stories
New York: W W Norton, 1990. First Edition. Quarter Cloth. 8vo. SIGNED by author to handsome bookplate. Jacket and book have light shelfwear. Small spot of binding glue to front board. Otherwise, bright and clean throughout. Binding tight. Attractive. From the author of Feast of Love, this collection of short...
THE MATING CALL
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1927). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth. Near fine in very good jacket. Book has just traces of shelfwear. Else sound, bright and sharp. Jacket has a crease to the spine and another to front panel. Minor rubbing, edgewear. Else an uncommonly well-kept example. A shell-shocked...
THE LOST ONES
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, (1972). First American edition. Wraps. 8vo. Printed wraps. Very good plus; mild toning to wraps' edges. Interior bright and clean with hint of toning. Good and sound. 62pp. First Evergreen paperback edition simulatneous with hardcover. A story by Beckett, translated from his own original French.
THE CITY OF FALLING ANGELS
New York: The Penguin Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black boards in photographic dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. SINGED by Berendt to title page. Trace of dust/soil to flaps and page edges. Otherise sharp: bright, clean throughout. Good and sound. 414pp. Berendt's tale of Venice, in...
SECRETS, GOSSIP & SLANDER
New York: Reed Books, 1984. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Trade paperback original. 234pp. An easily very good copy, with minor stains and creasing. Published by Ishmael Reed's publishing company, SECRETS caused something of a literary scandal at the time as this academic novel (in the tradition of Randall Jarrell's NOTES...
CLEAR THE RANGE
New York: Adventures in Poetry/Coach House South, 1977. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect bound pictorial wraps. Near fine. Trace toning, mild rubbing to wraps; minimal trace of soil to fore edge. Interior bright, clean throughout. Good and sound. 135pp. Cover by Berrigan and George Schneeman. One of 750 copies. "[A]...
THE SYMBOL
New York: Random House, (1966). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth in photographic dust jacket. Near fine in a very good DJ. Warmly INSCRIBED by Bessie at half title. Light corner nicks and small tears, mild edgewear; trace toning to jacket. Interior clean and bright throughout. Binding sound. 305pp. Handsome...
THE TIME WINDER
(New York): The Lenox Hill Press, (1970). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Jacket unclipped. Touches of shelfwear, but overall - bright, tight, clean, and sharp. Uncommon sci-fi time-travel novel from Lenox. 192pp.
THE HOUND OF EARTH
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black boards in original pictorial dust jacket. About very good in like DJ. Some chips to spine rear panel, edgewear. 1" closed tears to jacket at head of spine. Interior clean and bright throughout. Good and sound. 250pp. First edition/printing...
FIRST LOVE AND OTHER SORROWS
New York: The Dial Press, (1957). First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Full red cloth, white title lettering to spine, in unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. Red jacket faded at spine, lines of wrinkling evident to front, edges. Ink publisher's stamp to lower end of first endpaper, else bright, clean unmarked. Attractive first...
MARCH: A Novel
New York: Viking Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Presents as unread, bright, clean. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to title page: "For Cathy, / With warmest / wishes / Gearaldine Brooks." Bright, signed first of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel. 280pp.
MARCH: A Novel
New York: Viking Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in like jacket. Bright, clean. First edition / printing of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel. 280pp.