Literature
THE EXILES AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-3] 4-221 [222: blank] [223-224: ads], 17 inserted plates, original decorated green cloth, front panel stamped in dark green, silver and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's device stamped in silver on rear cover. First edition. Collects seven fictions. BAL 4517. Wright (III) 1433.
COUNTRY GROWTH.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-14] 1-322, original light blue cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue and yellow. First edition. Signed inscription by Derleth to author and anthologist Phil Stong: "To Phil Stong / With admiration and regard. / Cordially / August Derleth." A collection of short stories, part of his "Sac Prarie Saga," set in the Sauk City/Prarie du Sac area of Wisconsin.
EVENING IN SPRING.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-308, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in gold and blue, top edge stained dark blue, First edition. A novel in the author's "Sac Prarie Saga," set in the Sauk City/Prarie du Sac area of Wisconsin. "This work Derleth considered among his finest. What The Milwaukee Journal called "this beautiful little love story," is an autobiographical novel of first love beset by small town religious bigotry. The work received critical praise: The New Yorker considered it a story told "with tenderness and charm," while the Chicago Tribune concluded: "It's as though he turned back the pages of an old diary and told, with rekindled emotion, of the pangs of pain and the sharp, clear sweetness of a boy's first love." Helen Constance White, wrote in The Capital Times that it was "...the best articulated, the most fully disciplined of his stories." - D'Ambrosio, A WEE BIT OF WISCONSIN, pp. 33-34.
RESTLESS IS THE RIVER.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-514, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in gold and green, map end papers, top edge stained green. First edition. Set in the years 1839-1848, the story of a Hungarian nobleman who flees the Hapsburg empire and and settles in Wisconsin. A novel in the author's "Sac Prarie Saga," set in the Sauk City/Prarie du Sac area of Wisconsin.
SHADOW OF NIGHT.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-354 [355-356: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in greenish blue and and yellow, top edge stained light green. First edition. A novel which takes place in the 1850s, part of his "Sac Prarie Saga," set in the Sauk City/Prarie du Sac area of Wisconsin.
MARY AND THE GIANT.
New York: Arbor House, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition.
MARY AND THE GIANT.
New York: Arbor House, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A posthumously published novel. A mainstream novel originally written in the early 1950s.
IN OLD PLANTATION DAYS ...
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. Octavo, ten inserted plates with illustrations by Martin Justice, original pictorial brown cloth stamped in green, black and gold, color illustration pasted to front cover. First edition. A collection of short fiction. In the book of AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY (1922) Dunbar's friend James Weldon Johnson wrote - "Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show a combined mastery over poetic material and poetic technique, to reveal innate literary distinction in what he wrote, and to maintain a high level of performance. He was the first to rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race. He was the first to see objectively its humor, its superstitions, its short-comings; the first to feel sympathetically its heart-wounds, its yearnings, its aspirations, and to voice them all in a purely literary form." Laurence Dunbar was listed in Molefi Kete Asante book 100 GREATEST AFRICAN AMERICANS. His legacy also includes a number of schools are named after him. BAL 4946 (noted printing 1, binding A). Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 D-597.
GENTLEMAN JUNKIE: AND OTHER STORIES OF THE HUNG-UP GENERATION.
Evanston: Regency, 1961. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Story collection, contains the classic story "Daniel White for the Greater Good." These stories are mostly social commentary, not speculative fiction. This book was a major boost for Ellison as it was favorably reviewed in Esquire by Dorothy Parker.
RUMBLE.
New York: Pyramid Books, 1958. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid #G 352. Paperback original. Teen-age street gangs.
LORD JOHN TEN.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology celebrating ten years of this fine small press with short stories, essays, poetry, photographs and a play. Twenty six contributors which include Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Raymond Carver, Stan Freberg, Jim Harrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, John Updike and others.
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES.
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1993]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first novel. Filmed in 1999 with Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett.
THE REIVERS: A REMINISCENCE.
New York: Random House, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Filmed in 1969 with Steve McQueen.
THE TOWN.
New York: Random House, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A novel of the Snopes family.
ICE PALACE.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, & Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A novel set in Alaska.
THE SARATOGA TRUNK.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1941. Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in blind to front cover, stamped in cream and gold to spine panel, top edge stained blue. First trade edition. Filmed in 1945 with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.
COLD MOUNTAIN.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for fiction, Pulitzer Prize winner. Basis for the feature film.
A MASQUE OF REASON.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1945]. Large octavo, publisher's boards with linen shelf back. First edition. One of 800 numbered copies signed by Frost. Crane A27.
SOLDIER IN THE RAIN.
New York: Atheneum, Publishers:, 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third book. A novel of the adventures of two sergeants at an U. S. Army base during the waning days of the Korean War. Filmed in 1963 featuring Steve McQueen, Jackie Gleason and Tuesday Weld.
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS AT LE MANS.
New York: The John Day Company, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Novel of the famed race written by someone who has driven it.
LOST ISLAND.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-212 [213-214], oringal green cloth, front and spine stamped in blue. First edition. Takes place on a small Polynesian island during WW II where a airstrip is to be built.
ON GUNS AND HUNTING.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1970. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett # T2299. Paperback original. From the author of the Matt Helm books, a collection of the authors own stories on hunting, most first published in magazines.
PRINCESS SAYRANE: A ROMANCE OF THE DAYS OF PRESTER JOHN.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1910. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-313 [314] [315-316: blank], four inserted plates with color illustrations by Harold H. Betts, printed throughout in red and black, original decorated red-brown cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, decorated endpapers. First edition. Romance novel set in ancient Egypt. Bleiler (1948), p. 142. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 H-297.
DAS GLASPERLENSPIEL. Versuch einer Lebensbescheibung des Magister Ludi Josef Knecht samt Knechts hinterlassenen Schriften ...
Zurich: Fretz & Wasmuth Verlag AG, [1943]. Octavo, two volumes; pp. [1-14] 15-451 [542]; [1-8] 9-441 [442] [443-444: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front panels stamped in gold, spine panels stamped in gold and black, top edges stained brown. First edition, first printing. This utopian novel set in the twenty-fifth century was the principal work for which Hesse received the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature. The English translation became the capstone of the Hesse revival in America in the 1960s. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-212. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 89-90. Negley, Utopian Literature 567. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 899-904. Bloch (2002) 1471. Not in Nagl.
STEPPENWOLF.
Berlin: G. Fischer Verlag, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-64 [1-2: section title printed on yellow paper stock] [1] 2-289 [290: printer's imprint] [291-292: blank], title page printed in red and black, original gray green wrappers printed in black, all edges untrimmed. First edition, first printing with "1. bis 15. Auflage 1927" on the copyright page. A classic fictional autobiography of an outsider who must learn to relate successfully to humanity and reality without sacrificing his ideals. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 5-137. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1821-5. Not in Bloch.