Literature
DOWN THE RIVER.
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
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.
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.
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.
ALL GOOD AMERICANS ... With a Preface by Ernest Hemingway.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-xii] [1-2] 3-373 [274: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. The Wisconsin-born writer's first book, a collection of twelve stories of small town life in the American Midwest, with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway praising "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness."
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.
SABBATICAL: A ROMANCE.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
REMEMBER? REMEMBER?
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1963]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
THE HAUNTED HOUSE.
New York, London: Harper and Brothers, 1928. Octavo, illustration by G.K. Chesterton, cloth. First U.S. edition.
LOVE INSURANCE.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1914]. Octavo, original light brown cloth, front and spine stamped in white and blind. First edition. Romantic comedy novel. Filmed in 1940 as One Night in the Tropics, the first feature film with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The novel was filmed two earlier times, Love Insurance (1919) and The Reckless Age (1925).
HOUSE OF MIST.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Author's first book. Listed in Hubin.
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.
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.
MAKING LOVE: A CONSPIRACY OF THE HEART.
London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, Doubleday, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Brill on the title page.
THE STUNT MAN.
New York: Atheneum, 1970. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Basis for an interesting film.
GASCOIGNE'S GHOST.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-216, original orange cloth, front stamped in gold and green, spine stamped in gold. First U. S. edition. A father and son are involved in a small newspaper. Though listed in the first Bleiler checklist, this has no fantasy or supernatural content.
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).
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.
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. Hubin, pp. 119-120.
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.
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.
THE MOTH.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Octavo, jacket illustration by Hawkins, original gray cloth, front and spine stamped in green, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut, top edge stained yellow. First edition. A novel of a young man's journey through life and love during the Depression and carrying through WW II and after. Cain considered this one of his best novels. Hubin, p. 125.
MIDSUMMER PASSION AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Avon Book Co., Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition of this collection. Probable first issue. Avon 177. Collects fifteen stories from the hardcover collection JACKPOT (1940) including the disturbing story "Blue Boy."
MIDSUMMER PASSION AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Avon Book Co., Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition of this collection. Probable later issue. Avon 177. Collects fourteen stories from the hardcover collection JACKPOT (1940) and one story from THE AMERICAN EARTH. This edition is a likely a later issue as it omits the disturbing story "Blue Boy" and replaces it with the benign "Molly Cotton-Tail."
THE SHADOW ON THE LAWN.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1962]. Octavo, boards. First edition.