MILTON, Ernest

New York: Harper & Bros., 1928

8vo, pp. 345, 4 pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Bookplate to front pastedown,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

New York: Lorac Books, 1941

8vo, pp. 311. Original blue-grey boards, lettered in black on spine.

Second, and probably unauthorised, edition, published the same year as the first.
A mysterious re-issuing of a... [more]

McINTOSH, Harlan Cozad

New York: Dial Press, 1941

8vo, pp. 408. Original blue-green boards, lettered in green on front panel and spine.

First edition.
This Finer Shadow was rejected by every publisher it was sent to during... [more]

CRANE, Clarkson

New York: Harcourt, Brace 1925

8vo, pp. 303. Original black boards, lettered in brown on front panel and spine.

First edition.
Clarkson Crane (1894-1971)... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

GREEN, Julian

New York: Pantheon, 1957

8vo, pp. 222. Original white hessian boards, initialled in brown, black spine lettered in gilt.

First edition in English, first published as Le Malfaiteur in Paris the previous... [more]

DAVIS, George

New York: Harper & Bros., 1931

8vo, pp. 265. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine. Variegated endpapers. Lacking the dustwrapper. Spine ends ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

Los Angeles: One Incorporated, 1959

8vo, pp. 106. Original stiff card wrappers.

First edition.
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STODDARD, Charles Warren

Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Company, 1904

8vo, pp. 318. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine. Top edge gilt. Silk bookmark. Very minor rubbing... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

New York: Scribner's, 1955

8vo, pp. 250. Original black boards, lettered in black and yellow on spine.

First edition.
Bourjaily's second novel, about an atomic scientist haunted by post-Hiroshima guilt. Some... [more]

STONE, Grace Zaring

New York: Harper Bros., 1951

8vo, pp. 249. Original pale blue textured boards and black spine, lettered in gilt at spine.

First edition.
'Grace Zaring Stone is the first novelist who has dared to write frankly ... [more]

BURNS, John Horne

New York: Harper & Bros., 1947

8vo, pp. 342. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.
The author's first novel is barely a novel at all, more a loosely-connected series of short,... [more]

OWEN, Jack

New York: Coward-McCann, 1959

8vo, pp. 192. Original off-white boards, lettered in red on spine.

First edition, signed by THE AUTHOR in the year of publication.
This was the author's only novel, a story of... [more]

EDMUNDS, Murrell

Idaho: Caxton, 1936

8vo, pp. 144. Original grey boards, lettered in black on front panel and spine.

First edition.
Murrell Edmunds (1898-1981) was from a distinguished Southern family, and abandoned a legal... [more]

BRINIG, Myron

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929

8vo, pp. 446. Original brown boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and spine. Small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, lettering ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

Boston: Little, Brown, 1955

8vo, pp. 229. Original grey boards, lettered in green on spine.

First edition.
A compendium of vignettes of wartime life aboard the U.S.S. Nellie Crocker, including one about the... [more]

BARR, James [pseud. FUGATE, James]

New York: Greenberg, 1950

8vo, pp. 373. Original black boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on front panel and spine.

First edition of the author's first book, inscribed by Barr to Richard Yates on the front free... [more]

WINTER, J. Keith

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930

8vo, pp. 308. Original black three-quarter boards, yellow spine lettered in black. Illustrated endpapers. Lacking the dustwrapper. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]