The Barefoot Man.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. 350pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and handsome. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. 350pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and handsome. More
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1968. Hardcover. Illustrations by Leonard Vosburgh. 8vo. Black cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 216pp. Line drawings. Near fine/near fine. A tight, quite attractive first edition of this novel set in Virginia just after the Revolutionary War. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1939. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with yellow lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 281pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, but bright and nice. Quite tight and handsome first edition of this shoot-em-up Western paired with a colorful Grosset & Dunlap d.j. Tale of Kansas..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, [1958]. Hardcover. 8vo. Light green paper over boards with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 221pp. Very good/very good. Text block lightly age toned as usual; faint jacket edgewear only. Tight and attractive first edition of this Western fiction -- to cite front jacket flap..... More
New York: Baker, Pratt & Co., 1880. Hardcover. 8vo. Emerald green pebble-grained cloth with gilt spine rules and lettering and black rules and decorations. 502pp, (2pp ads). Frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some full page). Very good. Mild edgewear only and bit of faint rubbing, mainly at spine. A tight, lovely first..... More
New York: H.M. Caldwell Co., [1897]. Hardcover. 16mo. Tan cloth with extensive green orange and gilt pictorial stamping. xx, 59pp. Sewn-in page marker. Illustration. Very good. Mild edgewear. Tight and attractive later reprint of this classic, first published anonymously in 1863. More
New York: The Heritage Press, 1936. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blind-embossed leatherette, slipcase. x, 55pp. Color illustrations. Fine/very good. Slipcase a bit edgeworn and slightly sunned. Tight, handsome "Poor Man's LEC" edition. More
New York: J.J. Little & Ives Co., 1911. Hardcover. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. 46pp. Very good. Bit of edgewear, mainly near tail of spine. Tight, nice first edition of this comic tale, an "autograph edition" this being #187, bearing Halsey's rubber-stamped signature. More
Columbus: The Book Concern, [1910]. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with black and gold decorative stamping. 327pp. Very good. Slightest bit of mild edgewear; bit of usual mild age toning to text block. Tight and handsome unidentified printing of this New England historical fiction. Edition not ascertainable. Superb copy. More
Atlanta: The Library, Emory University, 1946. Paperback. Edited by Thomas H. English. Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers. 79pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Quite minor bit of edgewear. This is the true first edition of this unfinished novel by the author famed for his "Uncle Remus" series. An attractive, tight, clean copy..... More
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. Illustrations by A.B. Frost. 8vo. Full green calf with gilt lettering and extensive decorations. 172pp. All edges gilt. Sewn-in red satin page marker. Numerous line drawings, red watered silk endpapers. Fine. A tight and lovely leatherbound edition of these 1881 African-American filk..... More
New York: Grove Press, [2004]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 388pp. Fine/fine. A superbly tight and pristine first edition of the renowned Michigan writer's dozenth novel. More
New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1933. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Yellow cloth. vii, 231pp. Very good. Bottom ΒΌ" of binding discolored; light coffee cup-type mark on front cover. Autographed by Hart. First edition of this Western by the silent film star, bearing a full choice signature on the front flyleaf..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Hardcover. 12mo. Dark red cloth with gilt spine lettering and black front board lettering. 334pp. Very good. Tight and internally near fine, with mild binding wear only. A tight and quite nice first edition of this collection of eight short stories. BAL 7373. More
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark grey cloth, gilt. xi, 466pp. Frontispiece, 32 full-page illustrations. Good plus. Tight-hinged and handleable and internally quite nice, though binding edgeworn and rubbed. First edition, later state, of Harte's only full-length novel, a Gold Rush romance. More
New York: Platt & Munk, Publishers, [1964]. Hardcover. Foreword by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. 8vo. Grey and green cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial corner-clipped (NOT price-clipped) dust jacket. 512pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. A bright and tight copy of this volume in the "Platt..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Illustrations by Fletcher Martin. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, gilt paper over boards clamshell case. xii, 223pp. Top edge gilt. Full-page and smaller partly-color illustrations. Fine/very good. Quite mild clamshell case wear. Sharp, tight..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Hardcover. 14 volumes. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt. Various paginations (most ca. 450pp each). Frontispieces. Top edges gilt. Most very good. Minor occasional edgewear; the pastedown of each volume bears a bookplate presenting the set to Chicago's noted Union League Club; volume 11 is..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1913]. Hardcover. Illustrations by F. Fox. 12mo. Blue cloth with dark blue lettering and orange, grey and dark blue pictorial stamping. 288pp. Line drawings. Good plus. Mild edgewear, with page edges a bit soiled and spotted and preliminary leaves a tad smudged; nonauthorial 1918..... More
Rochester, NY: Sherwin Cody School of English, 1907. Paperback. 24mo. Stiff blind-embossed brown wrappers.124pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Slightest bit of rounding to overhanging wrapper edges, but overall tight and handsome. Attractive volume from "The Nutshell Library" series, this volume containing a brief biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne plus selected excerpts from..... More
New York: Popular Library, 1933. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 192pp. Very good. Normal age toning. First paperback edition of Haycox's fourth novel, with fun and cheesy cover art. More
New York: The Citadel Press, [1949]. Hardcover. Edited by Henry Goodman. Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 566pp. Near fine/very good. Faintest of mild jacket edgewear. Superb, bright and tight first edition of this generous selection from the Japanese-focused American writer..... More
New York: Avon Book Company, 1943. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glazed wrappers. 164pp, (2pp ads). Very good. Bit of minor edgewear; text block lightly, evenly age toned as usual. Tight, attractive copy of No. 11 in the "Avon Modern Short Story Monthly" series. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Olive green cloth. v, 409pp, (4pp ads). Good +. Bit of edgewear, with spine slightly darkened; endpapers moderately age toned as usual. First edition, second state, of Hecht's first book -- tight-hinged and decent despite wear. Interesting booksellers ticket affixed to..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, [1963]. Hardcover. Introduction by Nelson Algren. 8vo. Grey-green cloth with black lettering , price-clipped dust jacket. xix, 409pp. Fine/near fine. First of this university press edition of Hecht's 1921 first book -- a volume in advisory editor Saul Bellow's "Chicago in Fiction" series. More