New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First printing. Hardcover. 260 pp. Small 8vo., bound in tan cloth with gilt, brown, and black decorations on the front board. BAL 3436, Ahearn APG 045a, McBride 135. A Near Fine book with a small crack to the rear hinge (binding is...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 428 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Fold-out map intact. Inscribed by Sandoz on the free front endpaper, with a hand-drawn illustration by the author. Noted for her use of words...

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Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 384 pp. Quarter-bound in brown calf over red cloth, binder's ticket on the rear pastedown shows the book to be bound by Burn, in this case Robert Burn, the grandson of the London bookbinder Thomas Burn (Packer, 26). Brown...

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New York: Random House, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. 197 pp. Red paper covered boards quarter bound in black with gold lettering on the spine and the author's initials embossed on front board. As with all of McCarthy’s early works, there was a relatively small print run. The story of Lester...

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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Reprint. Hardcover. 2 vols., 8vo, 365 pp., 339 pp. Half bound in red leather with marbled boards, gold lettering on the spines, top edges gilt. With additions and corrections from the sixth English edition. Both volumes Very Good with mild darkening to the...

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New York: The Viking Press (1964), 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 341 pp. Price of $5.75 on front flap of jacket. Signed by the author on the free front endpaper. Bookmark from Kroch's and Brentanos First Edition Circle laid in. A very attractive copy of the author's sixth book, winner of the National Book Award.

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New York: Random House (1955), 1955. First printing. Hardcover. 212 pp. Price of $3.95 on front flap of jacket. Decorations by Edward Shenton. Ahearn APG 045a. A very attractive copy. Very near Fine book with a bookplate on the front pastedown in a sharp Near Fine dust jacket with a....

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London: Chapman & Hall, 1839. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 624 pp. Bound in dark brown leather, spine with 5 raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece (portait of the author engraved by Finden from a painting by Maclise) along with...

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New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. 303 pp. Bound in reddish-brown cloth with a buckram-colored spine, 8vo. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. A collection of short stories by one of America's greatest writers of the twentieth century. Goldstone & Payne A11, Ahearn APG 013a...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. 327 pp. Bound in the publisher's bright orange cloth with black lettering on the front board. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition. Banned for obscenity in both the...

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Topeka, KS: Published by the Authors, 1901. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 630pp. Light brown cloth with gilt titles, black lettering and vignettes in black on front board and spine. Frontispiece with tissue guard, numerous illustrations and portraits, folding map at rear. An attractive example of this history of the Overland...

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. 428 pp. 8vo. Three-quarter bound in red morocco, over red cloth with five raised bands on the spine and gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Gilt rules between the leather and the cloth, top edge gilt. Endpapers and pastedowns are...

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