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Semiramis and Other Plays
First Edition
New York: Brentano"s, 1904. 255 pages. Dargan (1869-1968) was a writer and poet. This is her first book. ISBN: 281AIB1051131.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in green paper over boards and red cloth covers with label on spine. Mild edge and corner wear. Label darkened. Bookplate of former owner on front pastedown. No dust jacket. A handsome copy.
Book ID: 268149More details Price: $25.00 -
The Good News According to Mark
First Edition Thus
(N.-pl.): Reynolds Price (Privately Printed For the Author), 1976. 50 pages. 5 by 8 inches. One of 300 copies privately printed as holiday gifts by the author. ISBN: B001LCYQWY.
Inscribed by the author and dated on title page. First edition thus. A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Covers mildly scuffed. Slight edge tanning.
Book ID: 268148More details Price: $65.00 -
Better Days or A Millionaire of To-Morrow
1897: The Schulte Publishing Company, Chicago. 373 pages plus 8 pages of other Schulte books. Wright III, 1882 (1891 edition). ISBN: 281AIB1051129.
Later printing, new edition revised, 1897. Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback) with chips missing from covers and portion of front lower page peeled away. Publisher's binding error has pages 107-8 and 117-8 present but inserted at an angle and folded.
Book ID: 268147More details Price: $16.00 -
A Lover Returns
First Edition
New York: Macaulay Company, 1931. 247 pages. A romance novel. ISBN: B00085HJH4.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in blue cloth with bright yellow lettering on front cover and spine. Mild edge and corner wear. In very good illustrated dust jacket with edge and corner wear, clear tape repaired 1 inch closed tear on front lower corner and small edge chips. Rear panel somewhat soiled.
Book ID: 268145More details Price: $25.00 -
We Come as Judges
First Edition
London: "Soviet War News", 1945. 64 pages. B/W photographic illustrations. Soviet WWII propaganda for the British audience. ISBN: 281AIB1051125.
First edition (first printing). Very good in red illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 268143More details Price: $20.00 -
Short Stories and Reminiscences of the Last Fifty Years. Vol. I
New-York: Danl. Mallory; R. P. Bixby & Co.1842. 226 pages. Wright I-1782. ISBN: 281AIB1051123.
Third edition. Vol. I only. A very good copy in original brown decoratively embossed cloth. Title in gilt on spine. Edge and corner wear. Spine edges frayed. Prior owner name and note on front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers and scattered in text. Scarce.
Book ID: 268141More details Price: $50.00 -
City Under Sun Flares
First Edition
N. Pl: Bob Wensch, 1992. 16 pages. Wensch taught at Black Mountain beginning in 1935 and later served as rector. ISBN: 281AIB1051122.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in decorated color wrappers (paperback), stapled
Book ID: 268140More details Price: $16.00 -
List of Manuscripts Awarded by the Book and Author War Bond Committee 1943-1946
First Edition
Jamaica, New York: Book and Author War Bond Committee, 1946. 55 pages. Authors volunteered to support the war effort by speaking in various cities to sell war bonds. Prizes were then awarded to those individuals or organizations that had made the largest purchases of bonds. The prizes were the manuscripts that the authors had contributed toward the end that more bonds might be sold. ISBN: B0017W4YWA.
Inscribed by the compiler/editor on half-title page: "With all good wishes! to the Larremores. Louis J. Bailey." First edition (first printing). Very good in blue printed wrappers (paperback). Wrappers are spotted.
Book ID: 268137More details Price: $30.00 -
Het Liven George Gershwin
First Edition
Den Haag: J. Philip Kruseman's Uitgeversmij, 1957. 31 pages. Musica-serie Kleinbe Boeknen over Grote Mannen No. 19. ISBN: 281AIB1051117.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 268135More details Price: $20.00 -
A Pale View of Hills
First Edition
New York: Penguin Books, 1983. 183 pages with 10 additional pages of ads for Penguin books. First hardback edition was published by Faber & Faber in 1982. ISBN: 281AIB1051112.
Signed by the author on title page. First British paperback edition (first printing). A fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 268130More details Price: $200.00 -
The Collected Poems of Amnesia Glasscock
First Edition
South San Francisco: ManRoot, 1976. Unpaginated. These poems originally appeared in the Monterey Beacon in 1935, either signed Amnesia Glasscock or unsigned. They were attributed to John Steinbeck but actually written by his first wife, Carol Henning. ISBN: 281AIB1047635.
First edition (first printing). Limited edition, #205/250 copies. A near fine copy in decorated blue wrappers, sewn. No glassine.
Book ID: 268129More details Price: $70.00 -
Tannisse Uranium Mining Company of Nevada (stock certificate)
Tannisse Uranium Mining Company of Nevada, n.d., ca. 1924. Oblong format, 10 x 6.6 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1051107.
First edition (first printing). Very good copy with decorated border and eagle with spread wings vignette.
Book ID: 268126More details Price: $16.00 -
Stevenson and California
First Edition Thus
Berkeley: 1909. 8 pages. Reprinted from the University of California Chronicle, Vol. IX, No. 2. Bradley, 1843-1936, was a Professor of Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley, from 1882-1911. Helen Throop Purdy was a Berkeley historian and writer. ISBN: 281AIB1051105.
Inscribed by the author on cover page: "Rev. W. A. Brewer(?), with kind remembrances, from C.B. Bradley." First edition thus. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). With 3-page typed letter to the New York Times, dated January 8, 1916, from Helen Throop Purdy, discussing the activities of the 'Stevenson Fellowship of San Francisco' and the participants in prior years.
Book ID: 268105More details Price: $25.00 -
The War at Seven; The Memorial; Travelling People; The Pattern; The Tree Lady; Reading a Book About Bunker Hill; My Sad Story (poems)
N. Pl: Jim Burns, 1968. Six, 11 x 8.5 inch, sheets stapled, with mimeographed typed poems. Prepared for "Poetry Seminar Friday 16th...Committee Room B, - 7 p.m." Burns, born 1936, is an English poet and publisher. ISBN: 281AIB1051103.
Signed by the author on top sheet and dated 16/2/68. Very good typed copy.
Book ID: 268103More details Price: $30.00 -
The Fashion Book
First Edition
(London): Phaidon Press, 1998. 512 pages. 10 by 11.5 inches. A useful survey of fashions and designers, with one page devoted to each of 500-odd subjects, illustrated with a photograph, mostly in color. ISBN: 9780714838083.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 268097More details Price: $30.00 -
Harlot's Ghost [Limited edition]
First Edition
New York: Random House, 1991. 1310 pages. One of 300 specially bound signed and numbered copies. The author's longest novel, and his eighth best seller. Mailer won the Pulitzer Prize twice, once for fiction and once for non-fiction. ISBN: 281AIB1051097.
First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Edges scuffed from a mylar protector added by a previous owner. Spine a bit concave. In the fine matching slipcase. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Copy number 74.
Book ID: 268098More details Price: $35.00 -
The Long Patrol: 25 Twenty-Five Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer (Uncorrected proof)
New York: World Publishing, 1971. Uncorrected proof. With introduction by Lucid who was Mailer's authorized biographer and literary executor. ISBN: 281AIB1050812.
Faint crease along spine else a fine, square copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 267621More details Price: $50.00 -
The Long Patrol: 25 Twenty-Five Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer
First Edition
New York: World Publishing, 1972. 739 pages. With introduction by Lucid who was Mailer's authorized biographer and literary executor. ISBN: B000HU0K3K.
Light corner bumps and a 1-1/2 inch sticker scar on the front free endpaper. In a dust jacket with short creased tears at the spine ends. Signed and dated November 2000 by Mailer on the half-title.
Book ID: 267616More details Price: $25.00 -
The Deer Park: A Play
First Edition
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. 191 pages. An adaptation of the author's third novel. The play opened off-Broadway in January 1967 and ran for 128 performances. Mailer continued to revise the play for the rest of his life, sometimes recruiting others including Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne. ISBN: 9780297178392.
First British edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 267484More details Price: $30.00 -
Norman Mailer's The Deer Park [Play program]
First Edition
New York: Theatre De Lys, [1967]. [12] pages. 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. The play opened off-Broadway in January 1967 and ran for 128 performances. Evergreen Program Volume 1, Number 4. ISBN: 281AIB1050735.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback). Lightly but unevenly toned on the rear cover.
Book ID: 267452More details Price: $60.00 -
The Deer Park
First Edition
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. 375 pages. The author's third book. Issued in two variant dust jackets, one with the author's name in orange and the work Park in green, the second in the reverse scheme (priority unknown). ISBN: B0007H236U.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with spine color-faded and a short creased tear at the head, and tide marks at the spine ends visible on the verso. Jacket with Mailer's name in green.
Book ID: 267441More details Price: $40.00 -
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions 1960 - 1972
First Edition
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. 499 pages. Collects four previously published narratives on political conventions together with a new preface. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Illustrated with black-and-white photo reproductions. ISBN: 9780316544153.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Light edge wear. Signed by the author on the title page.
Book ID: 267595More details Price: $50.00 -
Tough Guys Don't Dance
First Edition
London: Michael Joseph, 1984. 231 pages. A murder mystery by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. The book was later adapted for a film starring Ryan O'Neal and Isabella Rossellini and directed by the author. ISBN: 9780718124540.
First British edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
Book ID: 267577More details Price: $25.00 -
The Fight
First Edition
London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1975. 206 pages. Nonfiction narrative on the historic "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on October 30, 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire. ISBN: 9780246109507.
First British edition (first printing). Light toning along bottom edge else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 267575More details Price: $25.00 -
Deaths for the Ladies and Other Disasters
First Edition
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. Unpaginated. The only book of poetry by the author who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and non-fiction. Issued simultaneously in wrappers. ISBN: B004PB4H5Y.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with light wear to the edges.
Book ID: 267705More details Price: $40.00 -
St. George and the Godfather
First Edition
New York: Arbor House, 1983. 229 pages. The first hardcover edition of Mailer's reporting on the Republican and Democratic nomination conventions of 1972, first published that year in paperback. With an introduction by John Leonard. ISBN: 9780877955603.
First hardcover edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 267619More details Price: $25.00 -
Tough Guys Don't Dance
First Edition
New York: Random House, 1984. 229 pages. A murder mystery by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. The book was later adapted for a film starring Ryan O'Neal and Isabella Rossellini and directed by the author. ISBN: 9780394537863.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With publisher's review slip and two-page stapled author literary biography on publisher's letterhead laid in.
Book ID: 267576More details Price: $25.00 -
An American Dream (Uncorrected proof)
London: Andre Deutsch, 1965. 271 pages. Uncorrected proof for the British edition of Mailer's fourth novel. ISBN: 281AIB1050800.
A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Spine a bit concave and with minor loss to the foot.
Book ID: 267573More details Price: $25.00 -
Ancient Evenings
First Edition
London: Macmillan, 1983. 709 pages. A novel of ancient Egypt. ISBN: 9780333340257.
First edition (first printing). A few tiny spots to the page block and minor edge wear thus a near fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 267567More details Price: $25.00 -
Pieces and Pontifications
First Edition
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. 192 pages. A collection of essays and interviews. ISBN: 9780316544184.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a price-clipped and somewhat wavy dust jacket.
Book ID: 267564More details Price: $25.00