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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Good Plus / Good Plus. Small octavo, 7.75 in x 5 in., pp. 256. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with silver title and three horizontal stripes to front and spine. Publisher's red topstain. Light spotting to fore- and bottom-edges. Light spotting to endpapers and first twelve pages. Light rubbing to dustjacket; small chips to bottom of spine and front corners of dustjacket; crease along bottom edge of front. Price clipped. Karel apek (1890-1938) is generally considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the twentieth century. He was Czechoslovakia's leading novelist, playwright, story writer, and columnist, and the spirit of its short-lived democracy. His plays appeared on Broadway soon after their debut in Prague, and his books were translated into many languages. apek expressed himself in the form of accessible and highly enjoyable writing, which works on many levels. (from Catbird Press) This is the second book in… Leer más

New York: Brentano's, 1930. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus / Good. Small octavo, 7.7 in. x 5 in., pp. 279. Red cloth-covered boards with angled gilt lines and black title to front, and horizontal gilt lines and black title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Several stains to front board. Age-toning to pages. Rubbing, age-toning, and some stains to dustjacket. Small chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine and front corners. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. Karel apek (1890-1938) is generally considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the twentieth century. He was Czechoslovakia's leading novelist, playwright, story writer, and columnist, and the spirit of its short-lived democracy. His plays appeared on Broadway soon after their debut in Prague, and his books were translated into many languages. apek expressed himself in the form of accessible and highly enjoyable writing, which works on many levels. (from Catbird Press).

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good in Chipped Dj. Ex-Library. 12mo (5" x 7.5"). Bound in orange boards, with red lettering to spine, and a red cicle with orage lettering to front board. Some minor staining and rubbing to edges. Library stamp to front free endpaper. Tide marks to front endpapers. Dust jacket chipped in a few locations, with a few small closed tears. 233 pp. "Major O'Shea has come to Madeira on board a German liner following a certain ruthless character, when into his calculations comes hurtling the unexpected in the form of romance" (Front Flap).

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1968. Softcover. Very Good. Trade paperback, 5.5 x 8 inches, pp. 106. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Several surface scratches to left side of cover. Light spotting to top and fore-edge. Gentle thumbing to bottom front corner. Unmarked interior. "The extraordinary voyage on the yacht "Impossible" and the partial ascent of a symbolic mountain serve as the narrative touchstone for this intriguing spiritual autobiography. " (from inside cover).

Boston, Mass: Little, Brown & Co, 1954. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Warren Chappell. Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.75 in., pp. 294. Illustrated with ink drawings. Light blue pper boards with silhouette of woman stamped in blind to front over dark blue spine. Gilt title and replete bandlines to spine. Very light rubbing to edges of boards. Unmarked interior. Light rubbing to dustjacket edges, with slight discoloration along top edge. Protected in mylar. The first novel by the author of "The Mouse That Roared."

New York: The Viking Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.75in., pp. 287. Inscribed by author to a friend on front endpaper. Blue cloth over forest-green boards. Green and white title to spine. Green designer endpapers. Light shelfwear and sunning to boards and dustjacket. "...This first novel, in its straight-from-the-hip attack, explodes the myth of the glory and bravura of war. There are no flags rippling in the distance. No stirring strains of 'The Stars and Stripes Forever.' And John Wayne and Steve McQueen are fighting their war in a Hollywood studio on the other side of the Pacific... PFC Jamie Hawkins is a brand-new version of the all-American combat hero: a twenty-year-old guttermouthed Georgia GI in No Man's Nam, doing his part to save the SongMy Hamlet for democracy. No Bugles, No Drums is Hawk's combat journal, the story of one soldier's struggle to save his sanity and his ass..."

Washington DC: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good Plus. BOUND GALLEY, SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY. Trade paperback from the late writer and member of what came to be known as the "Montana Gang" of writers Richard Brautigan, Jim Harrison, Tom McGuane, Tim Cahill, painter Russell Chatham, Actors Peter Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Warren Oates, and musician Jimmy Buffet. Association copy inscribed and signed on title page: "For Beef, who really knows the true value of this book! Cheers! Gatz. William Hjortsberg. Livingston 7/2/04." Gregory "Beef" Torrey was a writer somewhat associated with the aforementioned "Montana Gang" who published a series of conversations with some of its unofficial "members" From Kirkus Review: "A new way of bringing old fiction back to life: take Hjortsberg's 1971 novel Gray Matters and 1972 novella "Symbiography," package them with a couple of new stories set in the same universe and, voila! In the early 1970s, there was dystopia as far as the eye could… Leer más

Toronto, Canada: Village Book Store Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine Dustjacket / Very Good Slipcase. Octavo, 5.6 x 8.25 in., pp. 248. Limited Collectors Edition #10/99, signed (Raymond Souster) and dated (1973) by author. Blue boards with gold title to spine. Protected in mylar. Blue paper slipcase has sunning to top, bottom, and one inch strip of one side. John Holmes is a pseudonym for Raymond Holmes Souster (1921 - 2012) , a Canadian poet "whose writing career spanned over 70 years. More than 50 volumes of his own poetry were published during his lifetime, and he edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of poetry by others. A resident of Toronto all of his life, he has been called that city's 'most loved poet'. Robert Fulford wrote of Souster in 1998: 'You can't read the history of Canadian poetry without encountering him, yet somehow he remains obscure. His legendary shyness has created, over five decades, a curious form of anonymity: he's at once omnipresent and invisible.'"… Leer más

New York: William Morrow / Harper Collins, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Review Copy with Publisher's slip laid in. Protected in mylar. "Acclaimed as one of our most pungently original and piquantly unpredictable satirists, James Morrow returns with a work at once thought-provoking and utterlymad,a wild carnival of a novel that wittily examines the human soul and those who would presume to improve it." A brilliant philosopher with a talent for self-destruction, Mason Ambrose has torpedoed a promising academic career and now faces a dead-end future. Before joining the ranks of the unemployed,however,he's approached by a representative of billionaire geneticist Dr. Edwina Sabacthani, who makes him an offer no starving ethicist could refuse..." (from front flap).

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo, 7 1/2 in. x 5 in. Brown publishers cloth, blind-spamped decorations to front and back boards. Gilt portrait to front board. Some rubbing to extremities, corners bumped. Cloth chipped to front hinge, top and bottom of spine. Letters in gilt on spine with humorous scene in gilt. pp. [1], 274, [14-advertisements]. Dark maroon colored pastedowns and free endpapers. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper "B[ueyins], J.H. Hofman, Sept 17, 1859" [possibly 1889]. Pencil inscription "Dave y[o]cum" to the back of frontispiece. Portrait frontispiece with printed autograph. Pencil inscription "J.H. Hofman" to titlepage. Some spotting, mostly in margins and first 25 pages. Faint damp stain to bottom edge of rear advertisements. Internal pages clean. (Sabin 19665). The army lieutenant George Horatio Derby (1823-1861) wrote popular sketches and burlesques under the pseudonym John Phoenix or John P. Squibob. After graduating… Leer más

New York: Harper Collins, 1993. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good (Priceclipped) Dustjacket. 8vo. Blue paper over boards. Light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities. A wee bit of creasing to spine. Signed (only) on title page. Light shelfwear to price-clipped dustjacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1937. First Edition. Very Good / Good. Octavo, 5.4 x 8.25 in., pp. 265. Blue cloth boards wth gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Sunning to top and bottom quarter-inch of spine. Right top corner of front free endpaper (presumably bearing previous owner's name/address) clipped off. LIght age-toning to pages. Rubbing and small chips to edges of dustjacket. 1 in. x 1/4 in. chip to bottom of dustjacket spine. 1.5 in. closed tear to top of dustjacket at hinge. Howard Fast's first full-length novel.

Boston, Mass: Little, Brown & Company, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Good Plus. Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 280. Green cloth-covered boards with blue title to front and spine. Light shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. Unmarked, bright interior. Chips and small tears to dustjacket corners, edges, and top/bottom of spine. Protected in mylar. "Many people have been tempted to go gunning for a Dictator. Here is the story of an Englishman who did." (from the dustjacket).

New York: Viking, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed (only) by author Ken Kesey in his characteristic raised silver liquid marker.paint, with red highlights. "Set in the near future, the story takes us to the Alaskan village of Kuinak, a rundown fishing community of Deaps (Descendants of Early Aboriginal Peoples) and Lower Forty-Eight refugees perched on the Western edge of history..." (front dustjacket flap) "Sailor Song is an epic novel that revolves around the question: Does love make any sense at the end of the world?..." (rear dustjacket flap).

New York: Atheneum, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine / Near Fine. Octavo, 8.5 in. x 5.4 in., pp. 279. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Beige paper boards over burgundy cloth spine. Seabirds image embossed in blind to front. Gilt title to spine. Protected in mylar. Ivan Doig (1939 - 2015) was an American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West. With settings ranging from the Rocky Mountain Front to Alaska's coast, Puget Sound and Oregon, the Chicago Tribune noted in 1987 that Doig wrote of "immigrant families, dedicated schoolteachers, miners, fur trappers, town builders" and of "the uncertainties of friendship and love, and colossal battles of will, set amid the vast unpredictabilities of a land noted for sudden deadly floods, agonizing droughts, blizzards and forest fires." (from Wikipedia).

London, England: William Heinemann Ltd, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus in Good Dustjackets. 8vos. Blue cloth with Maugham's characteristic beehive symbols embossed in blind to front boards, which itself is titled in gilt. Black contrasting panels to spine, with gilt lettering within bearing author's last name and publisher, with title itself being simply gilt on the blue cloth, and still-fairly-bright gilt titling to spine. Hardly noticeable shelf rubbing to spinecaps. Hinge just started Volume III, rendering book just slightly shaken. Some sunning, soiling and very light chipping to dustjackets. Faint, and not displeasing, pipe aroma. Original 15s prices to bottoms of front flaps. 201pp.;177pp.285 pp. Clean bright set, in dustjackets which have reliably done their work of protecting the books within. NOTE: HEAVY. Estimated cost to ship internationally : Seventy-Five U.S. dollars. Volume I: Liza of Lambeth Cakes and Ale Theatre Volume II: The Moon and Sixpence The Narrow Corner The… Leer más

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Good in torn and partial Jacket. Octavo. Blue cloth over boards, with silver stencil-style lettering to spine. Shelfwear and sunning. $2.50 price to flap. Partial dustjacket. (Large chip -- up to 2 1/4 in. missing from top of front panel, wrapping around to spine. Additional small chip laid in. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown depiects classic figure with folded arms,holding large tome to chest. (Rockwell Kent?). L'Engle's first book about a young girl separated from her concert pianist mother by a tragic accident, and her own blossoming and maturing into her understanding of her relationships to people and place, "with the one consistent and dominant force in her life: music...[a] journey from a distraught girl to an exhuberant and talented woman with the breadth and poignancy that defines Madeleine L'Engle's signature style..." (M.L'E. site).

New York: Random House, 1965. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Plus. Octavo, 8.6 in x 5.8 in. pp. 909. Turquoise boards with dark blue horizontal zigzag lines and gilt amulet figure to front. Gilt title and dark blue zigzag lines to spine. Publisher's red top-stain. Light sunning to top edges. Light rubbing to extremities. Endpaper maps. "$7.95 / T.S / T..H." and "5/65" to front dustjacket flap. Light age-toning to edges off dustjacket. Chips and small closed tears to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Protected in mylar.

London, England: Heinemann, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.75 in., pp. 485, [1]. Black net grain cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to dustjacket edges. Dustjacket protected in mylar. Price on dustjacket is "L 2.25" Wilbur Addison Smith (1933-2021) was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries. This is his seventh novel.

London, England: John Westhouse, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. 12mo., 7.5 in. x 5 in., pp. 182. Beige boards with gilt title to spine. Rubbing to dustjacket edges; chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Age-toning to pages. Slight spine lean. Protected in mylar. R.T. Campbell is the pseudonym for Ruthven Campbell Todd. Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author, in US from 1947-1958, and then Majorca; his most important nonfiction work, Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art (1946), effectively argued the imaginative power - when conjoined - of the two subtitled categories, instancing at length the work of William Blake (1748-1827) and John Martin; as R T Campbell, he wrote several detective novels, beginning with Unholy Dying (1945) [none contain fantastic elements, and are not listed below]; and as Todd, two metaphysical tales, both labouring under the 1930s misconception that Franz Kafka wrote allegories. The quest… Leer más