The Fortune Tellers.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1951. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth. 376pp. Very good. Early (not first) printing, tight and attractive. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1951. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth. 376pp. Very good. Early (not first) printing, tight and attractive. More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth. 503pp. Near fine. First of this facsismile reprint of the 1946 novel. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 286pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight, lovely, sharp first edition of the second novel by this American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (born 1930). More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 341pp. Decorated endpapers. Fine/very good. First edition. Fictional tale of Joseph Smith and the first Mormons. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 239pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and scuffed. Tight and attractive first edition. Novelist Thomas ("The Wind Chill Factor") Gifford's copy, with his bold signature and date (3/68) on the front flyleaf. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1965]. Hardcover. Introduction by Herman Wouk. 8vo. Quarter grey cloth with blue lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 254pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with several archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears. Handsome, tight first edition of this humorous WW2 novel..... More
Vaduz, Liechtenstein: Buch- und Verlagsdruckerei AG, 1960. Hardcover. Illustrations by Franz Deak. 8vo. Green cloth. 53pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Fourth printing of this 1954 short story, boldly inscribed and signed in blue ballpoint on the dedication page ("To Baroness Ludmila von Falz-Fein") by the dedicatee's spouse: "To Don &..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1953. Hardcover. 12mo. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 64pp. Near fine/very good. Mild edgewear. Superb and tight first edition of this simple tale. This interesting copy hails from the library of Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (b. 1930) and belonged to his..... More
New York: Arbor House, [1981]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 189pp. Decorative endpapers. Fine/fine. A tight and pristine first edition of this aviation fiction set in 1928 and involving the U.S. air mail service. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering and dark green/yellow/grey pictorial stamping. 445pp. Very good. Mildly worn binding with some stray homely red marks; internally tight with near fine text block. A tight and decent first edition of this Colorado-set fiction. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, pictorial price-cllipped dust jacket. 280pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First edition of this "Stirring Novel of the Confederacy," tight and handsome. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1929]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue mesh cloth with red lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 303pp, (9pp ads). Near fine/very good. Quite minor jacket edgewear. Truly tight, quite attractive reprint edition of this romantic fiction -- what the trendy young flapper of the '20s would read after..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1953. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and cream paper over boards, dust jacket. xxii, 314pp. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight and nice first edition of this anthology of stories, poems, and sketches from the Workshop of the New School for Social Research, including..... More
New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 1907. Paperback. The February 20, 1907 edition (No. 455) of "Pluck and Luck: Complete Stories of Adventure." 4to. Pictorial color wrappers. 30pp, (2pp ads). Good plus. Outer wrappers a bit age toned and slightly edgeworn as usual; inner text pages moderately age toned and a...... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1902]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Virginia Keep. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black and green decorative stamping. 153pp. Partly-color frontispiece and illustrations. Very good. Faint edgewear, with discreetly, archivally mended ding at tail of spine. A tight and nice early (not first) printing of..... More
New York: Random House, 1975. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. 194pp. Near fine. First paperback edition of the 25th anniversary edition. YOUNG 1547. More
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with brown spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 342pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket age toned and edgeworn, with a few small edge chips -- but complete and overall attractive. Tight and quite nice reprint edition of this 1925 collection..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1929]. Hardcover. Translation from French by Henry Longan Stuart. Introduction by Andre Maurois. Small 8vo. Pale green cloth with dark green lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 398p, (7pp). Decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear; ownership signature on half-title page. Quite handsome reprint edition..... More
London: Heinemann, 1961. Hardcover. Translation by Anne Green. 12mo. Black cloth spine and orange-flecked paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 347pp. Very good/good. Jacket edgeworn, with several edge chips. Tight, decent first edition. YOUNG 1577. More
New York: Doubleday, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 387pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight, quite handsome first edition of this novel by the famed Chicago journalist, inscribed and signed by him enormous in black marker on the front flyleaf: "For..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Light blue mesh cloth with dark blue lettering and rules, pictorial dust jacket. 314pp. Fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear to otherwise-bright jacket. Shockingly tight and bright reprint edition of this 1932 shoot-'em-up set in Arizona involving (to cite jacket flap) "Traft..... More
Akron: Saalfield Publishing Company, [1940]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lloyd Weidner. Small 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Frontispiece, line drawings. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn; nonauthorial gift inscription on front pastedown; inner hinges starting but still tight. Attractive abridged edition of this 1906 classic, with delightfully cheesy spine..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with green lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 274pp. Very good/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn, with several small archivally closed (on verso) edge tears, but complete and overall quite appealing. A tight, attractive reprint edition of Grey's second novel, first published in..... More
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, [1950]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Earl Sherwan. 8vo. Tan paper over boards with green lettering and brown pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 250pp, (2pp ads). Line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good/good. Jacket edgeworn, rubbed and scuffed, with large chip at tail of jacket spine; ownership signature/city..... More