Serpent in Eden: H.L. Mencken and the South.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1974. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, dust jacket. xv, 242pp. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition. More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1974. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, dust jacket. xv, 242pp. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition. More
N.p. N.p., May 1937. Paperback. (Vol. 9, No. 2). Small 4to. Wrappers. Pp. [208]-217. Very good. Bit of age toning to outer wrappers only. Cryptic offprint of this essay by the noted Cleveland collector of Dreiseriana. Near top of front wrapper is ownership signature dated 8-14-39 of noted Lincoln and..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, [1971]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 180pp. Near fine/very good. Spine age toned on otherwise bright and sharp jacket. Most attractive first edition, with ownership signature on front pastedown of literature professor/critic John D. Soley (1935-2016), whose..... More
Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, [1970]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black, red and white pictorial cloth. xii, 338pp. Very good. A bit rubbed at edges, else tight and quite nice. First edition of this anthology, with contributions from Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, John Dickson Carr, Jacques Barzun and others..... More
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publisher, [1971]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 47pp. Near fine. A tight and lovely first edition of this title in this publisher's "Contemporary Writers in Christian Perspective" series. More