Literature
POST OAKS AND SAND ROUGHS.
Hampton Falls, NH, Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. From the front flap copy: "...a semi-autobiographical novel centering around Howard's friends and acquaintances and the towns in which he lived." "The time frame is from late 1924 [Howard was 18] to early 1928." Introduction by Glenn Lord.
SECOND ENDING.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Hunter on the title page.
MORTAL COILS.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. Octavo, original light blue cloth, top edge stained in blue. First edition. Author's second story collection.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS.
New York: Random House, [1968]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first book.
THE WATER-METHOD MAN.
New York: Random House, [1972]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's second novel.
THE WATER-METHOD MAN.
New York, Random House, [1972]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's second novel.
A NATIVE OF WINBY AND OTHER TALES.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. Small octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-309 [310: blank] [311-312: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, brown coated endpapers. First edition, first printing. The first printing comprised 2000 copies. Collects nine short stories. BAL 10902. Wright (III) 2980.
THE PISTOL.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A novel of the early days of WW II in Hawaii around the time of the Pearl Harbor attack.
SCHINDLER'S LIST.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. This book (first published as Schindler's Ark) won the Booker Prize and was made into a moving Oscar award winning picture by Stephen Spielberg; the story of Oskar Schindler and how he saved numerous Jewish lives during the holocaust of WWII.
ABAFT THE FUNNEL.
New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909. Octavo, original pictorial cloth lettered in red. First edition. Pirated unauthorized edition.
HANGING ON.
New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., [1973]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Novel set during WW II.
THE ALBIGENSES, A ROMANCE. By the Author of "Bertram," A Tragedy: "Woman; or, Pour et Contre," &c. ... In Four Volumes ...
London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 90, Cheapside, and 8, Pall-Mall; and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1824. 12mo, four volumes: [i-vii] viii [1] 2-439 [440: blank]; [i-iv] [1] 2-366 [367-368: ads]; [i-iv] [1] 2-335 [336: blank]; [i-iv] [1] 2-277 [278: ad] [279-280: ads], early nineteenth-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine panels tooled in gold and blind, black leather title pieces, red sprinkled edges. First edition. Originally intended as the first book of a trilogy of historical romances meant to explore the “feelings and manners” of Europeans in ancient, middle, and modern times. Unfortunately Maturin died in the year of publication and so it was his sixth and final novel. “Maturin's final Gothic romance portrays with great sadistic energy if not historical accuracy the persecution and systematic extermination of the Albigenses sect in the year 1209, a large group of Manichean heretics living in communities in southern France in the thirteenth century. The holocaust was conceived by Pope Innocent III and implemented with brutal efficiency by Simon de Montfort ... Maturin tried hard to integrate Gothic devices with historical drama and the two forms do compliment each other thematically if not with total consistency through the four volumes ... If we view the role of history in the novel as a metaphor for human cruelty abetted by 'dubious Christianity' and warped religious ideals, the bloody crusade against the Albigenses then comes to symbolize the potential depravity of the self. Along with the expected Gothic themes of castles, curses, and vocal spectres, the novel introduces lycanthropy, or werewolfism, as a terror motif for the first time in Gothic fiction. The motif was a natural way of expressing the instantaneous bestiality which might erupt without warning and overthrow reason at any moment even in the most civilized human being." - Frank, The First Gothics 269. Set in France "during the wars between the Catholics and the Albigenses, the earliest reformers of the faith, the pictures of the Crusaders, the Albigenses in their lonely worship in mountain shrines, and wicked monks and armed heroines marching about Languedoc are finely conceived and evidently modeled on the works of Scott. In its richness, variety, and forceful delineation, ALBIGENSES anticipates the style of G. P. R. James." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 285-6. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 129. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 1-65. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 1-245. Bleiler (1978), p. 136. Reginald 09825. Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1824: 66. Sadleir 1662. Not in Wolff. Loeber M317.
CADILLAC JACK.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI.
[New York]: Random House, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first issue with blue endpapers. A novel of Naval pilots during the Korean War assigned to destroy a heavily fortified bridge. "The interlocking of timing, men and machines, the stupendous quality of jet flight and warfare, the human element -- in emergency, danger and personal lives -- are here in a sharp, short, telling tribute." - Kirkus Review, 1 July, 1953. Michener was reporter during that war assigned to U. S. Navy aircraft carriers offshore Korea. The novel was filmed in 1954 featuring William Holden, Mickey Rooney and Fredric March. One of the officers of the Task Force that Michener was with served as technical advisor for the film.
SAYONARA.
New York: Random House, [1954]. Octavo, cloth backed boards with cloth edges. First edition. A novel of a love story between and American officer and a Japanese woman. Filmed in 1957 featuring Marlon Brando, James Garner and Patricia Owens.
THE SAVAGE CLUB PAPERS. Edited by J. E. Muddock. Art Editor Herbert Johnson.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] ix-xvi 1-376, illustrations by W. D. Almond and others, original pictorial gray cloth stamped in orange and black, decorated endpapers. First edition. Anthology of fiction and poetry, mostly light or humorous, but including some adventure and crime fiction. Includes work by J. E. Muddock, George Manville Fenn and Arthur Morrison, as well as "Only a Hunchback!" by G. A. Henty. The third and last issue of a literary annual series, issued 29 years after the preceding volume! Not in Faxon or Wolff.
NO MORE GAS.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-3] 4-320, original blue cloth, front and spine silver, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Story of a family in Tahiti.
LOVE AND GLORY.
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Parker on the title page. A non-mystery title.
CINDERELLA LIBERTY.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers:, [1973]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A novel in which a sailor in the hospital becomes nonexistent as his records are lost, he is granted Cinderella liberty, he has to return to the hospital by midnight. While out he meets a bargirl and her children which changes his life. Filmed in 1973 with James Caan and Marsh Mason.
SHIP OF FOOLS.
Boston, Toronto: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book Little, Brown and Company, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Porter's best known work. "The voyage of the Vera is a pilgrims' progress without a happy ending, indeed with no ending at all ... Though, as with life itself, its ends are not neatly tied up, her novel is satisfying in its richness, its intelligence, its depth of comic and tragic sensibility." - Clifton Fadiman. Basis for the 1965 Oscar-winning film directed by Stanley Kramer.
THE GOLD BUG VARIATIONS.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Author's second novel.
THREE FARMERS ON THEIR WAY TO A DANCE.
New York: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Author's first novel.
EXIT TO EDEN.
New York: Arbor House, 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. First of two novels using this pseudonym.
THE WHORE'S CHILD: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Russo on the title page.
LADY FOR LOVE.
New York: Diversey Publishing Corp. [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Novel Library NL 42.