Category: American Literature

Book and slipcase have almost no wear. Xmas virtual; B&W Drawings; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 58 pages; Limited to 1250 copie. Special note from publisher, James C. Sams, laid in. Signed by Sams.
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Waiting for the Verdict

By: Davis, Mrs. R. H.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Sheldon & Company: 1868

Seller ID: 15166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Brown patterned cloth with gilt titles and decoration on spine. This copy has some edge and corner wear with bumps on the corners and light damage at spine ends. A few light areas, including one streak, on front. See scan. Otherwise the book is square and securely bound. Some interior aging. The copyright page lists the date as 1867, but the title page has 1868. This is correct for the first edition of this book. On the title page there is either a light blue stamp or the lightly printed name, in blue, of "Henry Chadwick." This book came with a group of books that all had some indication of ha...
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Train

By: Dexter, Pete

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2003

Seller ID: 13466

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book is almost new. Jacket has a little edgewear along top. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 280 pages
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Billy Bathgate

By: Doctorow, E. L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1989

Seller ID: 5671

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Book and jacket both have very light shelf wear and light aging. Small black stain on top foredge -- could be a remainder mark but may just be an old ink stainsince it very lightly touches interior pages, about twenty. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 323 pages; Doctorow novel of New York and the Dutch Schultz gang which Billy Batgate becomes a part of.
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Timothy McSweeney's The Presumption of Good Will

By: Eggers, Dave (ed.)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, McSweeney's: 2002

Seller ID: 12922

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

White wraps with blackmtype. This copy appears fine and unread. Very attractive copy.. ; No. 9; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 252 pages; Signed fully in cursive by Eggers on second free end paper and dated 10/26/02. Includes A. M. Holmes, William Vollmann, Dennis Johnson, Doug Dorst, and others. ; Signed by Author
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Timothy McSweeney's Windfall Republic : No. 3

By: Eggers, Dave (ed.)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Rejkjavik, Oddi Printing Company: 1999

Seller ID: 12923

Binding: Softcover

White wraps with black printing. Book wis F except for very small bumps at corners. Beautiful copy. ; B&W and Color Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 287 pages; Contributions by Lawrence Weschler, Rick Moody, Judy Budnitz, Chris Sorrentino, Brent Hoff, Jonathan Lethem, Sarah Vowell and many others, including a short story by David Foster Wallace on spine. ; Signed by Author
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A Nest of Fear

By: Ellson, Hal

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Ace Books, Inc.: 1961

Seller ID: 11570

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial wraps with crease across top right corner and old reading crease to right of spine edge. Spine itself is neither creased nor cracked. Binding is sound. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 160 pages; Novel of juvenile delinquents in the 1960's.
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Triple Plate

By: Frost, Robert

Price: $325.00

Publisher: New York, The Spiral Press: 1939

Seller ID: 15032

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Original dark blue wraps, stitched with white thread. Published as a Holiday Greeting from Ann and Joseph Blumenthal (owners of The Spiral Press) with the poem Triple Plate by Frost, and illustrated with decorations by Fritz Eichenberg. (Crane B7.) This copy has some off-setting or staining on endpapers, probably from the printing process. Overall it is about NF with the stains on the front and rear endpapers being the only real detractor. Joseph Blumenthal began the tradition of these Frost Christmas cards and this one is a very nice and uncommon example. ; Cover Illustration; Oblong 48mo 3...
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At the Owl Woman Saloon

By: Gallagher, Tess

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York City, Scribner: 1997

Seller ID: 10534

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

Agent's sticker on front. New condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 230 pages; Uncorrected Proof of this collection of stories.
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A Member of the Third House; A Dramatic Story

By: Garland, Hamlin

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chicago, F. J. Schulte & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 16197

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Softcover edition of Hamlin Garland's third novel, which was issued in hardcover this same year. This copy is square and securely bound. There is an early and well-done tape repair on the spine. Please see scans. Otherwise this copy has only light edge and corner wear along with expected aging. Of some interest is the Columbia Bicycle ad on the rear wrap which has an image of a rider, or "wheelman" in the ad, on a bike. The image on the front shows three politicians in a smoke-filled room, with the gesticulating man saying, "Give me a hundred thousand dollars, and I'll capture any legislature ...
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A Free life

By: Ha Jin

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 2017

Seller ID: 16028

ISBN: 0375424652

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book is signed on the title page with no inscription. Book is as new and unread. Jacke has maybe a hint of shelf wear. Ha Jin is the award-winning Chinese-American author. This was his fifth novel. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 660 pages; Signed by Author
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Autographed Passage from Times and Places by Emily Hahn

By: Hahn, Emily

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York ?, Emily Hahn: c. 1990

Seller ID: 15363

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

This is a signed, typed passage from the book, Times and Places by Emily Hahn. It is on onion kin type paper. The type is somewhat light and there is a small tear on the top edge near the right corner. Hahn's signature is bold. Hahn was the author of over fifty books and was labelled by The New Yorker: "a forgotten American literary treasure." Her motto, of sorts was, "Nobody told me not to go." Hahn is beginning to experience a sort of comeback because of her work and her recognition as an early feminist. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 1 pages; Signed by Author
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The Poetical Works of Bret Harte

By: Harte, Bret

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1883

Seller ID: 7898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Brown cloth with brown and gilt decorations (butterfly on flower) and titles. Some edge, corner and surface wear, but binding is square and secure. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 324 pages
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Years of Discretion : Novelized from the Play by the Authors

By: Hatton, Frederic and Fanny Locke Hatton

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd Mead: 1913

Seller ID: 11124

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Corners and head and foot of spine bumped, some staining to boards, which looks worse in scan than on book. Light foxing on ffep, frontispiece and title pages, other pages lightly toned. Binding is secure and tight. ; 4 full page color plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages; "SYRACUSE, N. Y. , Nov. 4. (1912) -- David Belasco presented a new comedy, "Years of Discretion," by Frederick and Fanny Locke Hatton, at the Empire Theatre here to-night. The central character is a rich widow who revolts against her serene existence and breaks out as a brilliant butterfly." This is t...
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The Cannibal

By: Hawkes, John

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, New Directions: 1949

Seller ID: 16707

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Book has generally light edge and corner wear with some aging/soiling on gray cloth covers. Occasional light underlinings and marginal comments in pencil. Still square and securely bound. This was Hawkes' first novel. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 223 pages
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Across the River and Into the Trees

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1950

Seller ID: 14026

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dust jacket

Book has some edge, corner and surface wear along with a faded spine. Still square and securely bound. Jacket still looks relatively nice in Mylar but is holding together in only a coupl of areas along the spine. Some loss at spine ends. Jacket actually looks pretty good to be in fair condition only. This is one of Hemingway's later novels. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages
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Their Wedding Journey

By: Howells, William Dean

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: 15942

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Bound in gilt-bordered white cloth with some light foxing/toning -- typical of this edition. Otherwise the book has only light wear. Square and securely bound. The brown, linen dustjacket with gilt titles on spine has some light wear at extremities but is still in quite remarkable condition. This was the first illustrated trade edition, there also being a large-paper, limited edition in vellum. This is a very attractive copy which includes the final chapter, "Niagra Revisited." ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 399 pages
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Henry Miller: A Personal Archive

By: Jackson, Roger & Wm. E. Ashley (compilers)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, Roger Jackson, et al: 1994

Seller ID: 15297

ISBN: 09634235694

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

This number 19 of a Limited Edition of 100 copies bound in boards of this Sale Catalogue of Henry Miller's Personal Archive. It is signed by Tony and Valentine Miller, Henry Miller's son and daughter. A promotional card written and published by Henry Miller (and perhaps signed by him) is laid in a special pocket on the rear pastedown and attested as authentic by Tony and Valentine Miller on the Limitation Page. This is a beautiful and pristine copy of this compendium of Miller's literary holdings at the time of his death. Many photographs. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pa...
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From Here to Eternity

By: Jones, James

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1951

Seller ID: 10773

Binding: Hardcover

Black cover with gilt titles on spine. Book has only light edge and corner wear with light aging. It is square and securely bound. VG to VG+. Jacket has some edge and corner wear including one dime-sized chip top left and a smaller one at top left of spine. G to G+. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 861 pages; This is, I think, the second printing of one of the great WWII novels.
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The Thin Red Line

By: Jones, James

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1962

Seller ID: 10789

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Black cloth with faded gilt titles. General light wear from reading but still square and securely bound. Jacket has some edge and corner wear and a drop of gray paint on right front spine edge (dime-sized) that was partially wiped away. Except for paint drop , jacket would be VG-. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 495 pages
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The Assassins

By: Kazan, Elia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Stein and Day: 1972

Seller ID: 12366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Red covers with cream backstrip and gilt titles on spine. Book has light edge, corner and suraface wear along with some toning on foredges and interior endpapers. Book is square and binding is secure. Price-clippped jacket has some edge, corner and surface wear with toning on flap folds. In mylar. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 311 pages; Third novel by the great, if somewhat controversial. , film director.
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The Golden Legend

By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields: 1851

Seller ID: 14032

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Brown, blindstamped leather with slightly faded gilt titles on spine. Some corner bumping along with damage at spine ends which may be scuffs or, possibly, insect damage -- see scan. Book is square and securely bound, a solid copy. One of Longfellow's long narrative poems. First edition with 1851 date on copyright page and 1852 on title page which indicates the first printing. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 301 pages
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The Truth about Lorin Jones

By: Lurie, Alison

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, The Franklin Library: 1988

Seller ID: 13877

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Book appears unread. ; The Signed First Edition Society; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 328 pages; Signed on ffep. Novel considers the nature of truth as a researcher seeks the real story of artist, Lorin Jones. This is partof Franklin's signed, limited edition series. Of first editions. ; Signed by Author
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J. B. : A Play in Verse

By: MacLeish, Archibald

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boaton, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1958

Seller ID: 12349

Binding: Hardcover

Book is close to NF with only light shelf wear and aging. Jacket has light edge and corner wear but has some light staining or age toning. VG. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 153 pages; Modern play based on the book of Job.
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Category: American Literature