Literature
DOWN THE RIVER.
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Item #9590
THE SHAPE OF FURTHER THINGS: SPECULATIONS ON CHANGE.
London: Faber & Faber, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. SF. Autobiography spanning a month in the life of a speculative writer. Item #8808
THE SOUL SIFTERS: A NOVEL OF PSCHO-ANALYSIS.
London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., [1923]. Octavo, [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-279 [280, blank] + 24 page publishers catalog dated January 1923, original red cloth, front stamped in black and blind, spine stamped in black. First edition. Melodramatic novel of a young man who has lost his memory and also suffering from shell shock and his treatment. Item #10623
MISS BRACEGIRDLE AND OTHERS.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-332 [333-334: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Collects thirteen stories, several crime, two of which were used as film sources. Aumonier was a highly regarded short fiction writer, praised by John Galsworthy and James Hilton. Hubin, p. 37. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 7. Item #22366
ESPEDAIR STREET.
London: MacMillan, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Banks on the title page. Novel featuring sex, drugs and rock and roll. Item #19756
BITTERSWEET.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. The lives of two women and love in the 19th Century American west. Item #14799
SABBATICAL: A ROMANCE.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Item #10596
REMEMBER? REMEMBER?
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1963]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Item #4969
THE HAUNTED HOUSE.
New York, London: Harper and Brothers, 1928. Octavo, illustration by G.K. Chesterton, cloth. First U.S. edition. Item #9065
THE AGONY COLUMN.
New York: Avon Publishing Co., Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. Avon #337. Prints the title story and Fifty Candles, omits The Dollar Chasers which appeared in earlier editions. Item #12073
HOUSE OF MIST.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Author's first book. Listed in Hubin. Item #8809
FICCIONES...edited with introduction by Anthony Kerrigan.
New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1962]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. edition, trade paperback edition. Evergreen E-368. Trade paperback. First edition in English of Ficciones (1956). Collects seventeen pieces. "Borges has no equal as a modern writer of contes philosophiques and these early works, a crucial contribution to that neglected genre, are a landmark of twentieth-century literature." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-34. Item #22250
THAT GHOST, THAT BRIDE OF TIME: EXCERPTS FROM A PLAY-IN-PROGRESS BASED ON THE MOBY DICK MYTHOLOGY AND DEDICATED TO HERMAN MELVILLE...
[Glendale, California: Roy A. Squires, March, 1976.]. Octavo, printed wrappers with unprinted paper overlay. First edition. Limited to 400 numbered copies of which this is one of the first 150 copies with recto of final leaf imprinted "Subscriber's Copy" and bearing Bradbury's signature. Item #14685
SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY.
[New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Post WW II novel concerning the death of a young boy. The author's last novel before his death. Item #12876
THE STUNT MAN.
New York: Atheneum, 1970. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Basis for an interesting film. Item #7806
THE GIANT SWING.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-290, [291: printer's statement] [292-298], title page printed in orange and black, yellow patterned end papers, original cream cloth front and spine stamped in orange and gray, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Novel of a pianist in a small town who makes in big in New York and returns. Basis for the film Dance Hall (1941). Item #22410
GOODBYE TO THE PAST.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-306, title page printed in orange and black, patterned green end papers, original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black and gray, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First edition. "A story told in reverse, tracing from 1929 back to 1873, the history of Bill Meadows, a self-made man, who in the span of his life epitomizes the typical history of three generations of American riches. Told in homely, direct and human style, the story wins sympathy for the man, in his old age barely tolerated in the ultra-respectable and fashionable household, the roots of which he planted; and the interest in him grows space as we follow his back history, -- seeing him the victim of moral standards as accepted in the early years of the century, recognizing the fight he has fought and won, to raise himself by his own bootstraps from the beginnings laid in mining towns, his strength and ingenuity pitted against renegades and Indians and the riff raff of the old west." Kirkus review, 5 September 1934. Hubin, pp. 119-120. Item #22408
KING COLE.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1936. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-292, title page printed in orange and black, original green cloth, front and spine stamped in orange and black, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First edition. First leaf tipped in stating "This First Edition Presentation Copy is sent to you with the compliments of Red Book Magazine," in which the story first appeared. Political novel. "Somewhat timely in its subject matter -- the story of the period before an election, in which the Republican governor is up for reelection, and goes a bit Hitler in his endeavor to counterbalance his opponent's control of the farm vote. Political situation interspersed with counter plots -- his daughter is in and out of love, his son on the verge of expulsion, his own love life is in a precarious state, with scandal on the fringe. With his reelection, the personal problems fade away. Good fast business -- fairly vivid in the telling -- good entertainment for men especially. Burnett can tell a story well." - Kirkus review, 1 October, 1936. Hubin, pp. 119-120. Item #22407
SAINT JOHNSON.
New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh The Dial Press. Toronto: Longman, Green & Co., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-305 [306-308: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red cloth, front stamped in blind, spine stamped in gold, illustrated endpapers by Edna Reindel, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Burnett's third novel. W. R. Burnett had visited Tombstone, AZ and in 1929 Wyatt Earp died. These influenced this novel, a fictional account of the events in Tombstone, AZ with the Earps and Doc Holiday which culminated in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (all with fictional names). This is one the earliest books helping to start the legend of Wyatt Earp. The novel was the basis for four films made between 1932 and 1953. Item #22409
THE SILVER EAGLE.
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-310 [311-12: blank], jacket art by John Gram, original cross hatched black cloth, front stamped in blind, spine stamped in silver. First edition. Burnett writes more about the Chicago of Little Caesar, this novel deals with racketeers and one who wants to achieve a higher social standing. An uncommon book in a dust jacket which features striking cover art. Item #12717
JUNKIE: CONFESSIONS OF AN UNREDEEMED DRUG ADDICT bound with NARCOTIC AGENT.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition and first paperback edition. Ace double D-15. Paperback original of the William S. Burroughs first novel. Semi-autobiographical novel of the author's own drug use and as a small time heroin pusher. NARCOTIC AGENT is an abridgment of the hardcover edition. Item #16379
THE ALLEYS OF EDEN.
New York: Horizon Press, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first novel, set during the Vietnam War. Item #22938
THE SHADOW ON THE LAWN.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1962]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Item #10527
MODERN AMERICAN SHORT STORIES.
Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Co., 1945. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Introduction and biographical notes by the editor. Collects 24 stories. Features John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker and many others. Item #7795
THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1988]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first novel. Made into a film released in 2008. Item #11646