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New York:: Rinehart and Company, [1948].. First edition, later printing in the second dust jacket w/ the Tribune review on the front flap. Hardcover publisher's black lettered cloth, titles in white on the spine. 8vo-over 7"-9" tall. 722 pages. This copy is SIGNED by the Author on the front blank page. Otherwise the book is unmarked and in good condition. There's a small tear at the top of the spine. The original jacket is worn, fragile and torn though the original price is intact (please see photos).About the book: Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and marked the beginning of an illustrious career for one of America's foremost authors.

New York City GuidePrepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Project AdministrationRandom House, NY, 1939. First edition xx, 680 pp., folding map in the sleeve at the back; original blue cloth (hardcover) no DJ. American Guide Series. First printing of the comprehensive WPA guide to the Five Boroughs with the World's Fair index/supplement. The book is unmarked and in excellent condition w/o the jacket - the map in the back is torn and fragile, could probably be tape repaired.

Niels Holgersens Maerkelige Rejse Gennem Sverrig/ Neils Holgersens Marvelous Adventures through Sweden by Selma Lagerlöf
Gyldendalske Boghandel, Copenhagen, 1926. Limited to 20,000 printed copies with illustrations in color and B&W by Louis Moe. Hardcover, paper covers boards with a cloth spine. Illustrated endpapers, and some photo illustrations. A scarce antiquarian edition in Danish. 153 pages. The cover is worn (see photos) but the binding is holding and the book is VG inside, clean and unmarked except for a prev owner's name neatly written in front and dated 1929.

Night and Day (Uniform Edition) by Virginia WoolfHogarth Press, London, 1938. Printing history shows this to be the 'Third Edition' but this is effectively the second edition or impression of the Uniform Edition first published in 1930. Woolf's novel about love and marriage also examines questions raised by women's suffrage. Unmarked and in very good condition, without the jacket.

No Thanks by e. e. cummings
Golden Eagle Press, New Rochelle, NY. 1935. First trade edition limited to 900 copies. Hardcover beveled bound in tan cloth, titles in red on the cover and spine. Oblong, 16mo. Unmarked and in VG condition in the original paper jacket - torn and fragile. the front board is very slightly bowed. "No Thanks contains some of Cummings's most daring literary experiments, and it represents most fully his view of life―romantic individualism. The poems celebrate an openly felt response to the beauties of the natural world, and they give first place to love, especially sexual love, in all its manifestations."

Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas JeffersonPrinted by David Carlisle for Thomas & Andrews [et al], Boston, 1801. Eighth American Edition. In original calfskin morocco label, gilt. 364pp. folding map, and folding table - lacking the frontis. portrait of Jefferson. The map by Samuel Lewis is dated 1794. It is the same map as that issued with the Philadelphia 1794 edition. Condition: The map is torn and so is the fold-out table (please see the photos) This edition is lacking the engraved frontis. portrait of Jefferson that usually accompanies the Eighth Edition. About the Notes: Notes on the State of Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson, is at once a compendium of information about the state and a sweeping commentary on natural history, society, politics, education, religion, slavery, liberty, and law. Many consider it the most important American book written before 1800. Jefferson originally composed the work in 1781 in answer to queries posed by a French diplomat, and then revised and expanded it into… Leer más