Elmer Gantry by Elmer Gantry - 1927

New York:::: MacMillan,,,, 1954... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good Plus copy in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with two short closed edge tears, and some light edge wear. This is essentially the British edition with the black cloth binding, British sheets with the Macmillan titlepage cancel added and jacket with the price in pounds and the UK publisher Blackwell on the spine. These letters are, in the main, a record of three lives coming to first flower in the decade before 1914; and it must be said at once that they add little that is new to our direct knowledge of T. E. Lawrence's share in the Arab Revolt, of the writing of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, or of his later years as an Aircraftman in the R.A.F. But if we ask what manner of young man made the Arabian adventure, here is perhaps the fullest answer likely now to be given. Here we see T. E. Lawrence still unstrained, eager and impish; passionately discovering new horizons of knowledge and beauty ; pouring out the… Read More

NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Author's First Book, a poetry collection, Signed by Walker (author of The Color Purple) on the title page. Remainder mark, else fine in a very good plus jacket.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's Story for Children, THE CATS OF COPENHAGEN in a special limited edition of 200 copies.
Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow has brought to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink drawings, specially commissioned, and printed by typographique cliché.
This Numbered issue, printed on Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum, is in double-elephant sextos and hand-bound in one-quarter cloth over marbled boards.
Further details and images are available at http://ithyspress.com

First Edition; Numbered Issue. One of 140 copies printed on Fedrigoni Vellum (a 190gram, smooth and elegant Italian paper) and handstiched and handbound in hardcovers featuring the red and black letterpress printed paper designed by Elisabeth Hyder and black head- and tail bands. The front cover is impressed with a letterpress printed label. This issue is our 'standard': a collectible, modestly priced finepress first edition. Fine/New.

NY, Random House, 1962, first edition, first printing.. No dust jacket, this is John Gardner's first book, preceding his The Resurrection by four years, it is essentially a text book written while he was an English professor at Chico State College, Signed by Gardner, it includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, pages 248-258, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B124, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and others. Very good plus.

London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1925, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Review Copy with review slip, preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham, jacket illustration by E. Lucchesi, includes four short stories, they are The Warrior's Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, and The Black Mate, all the stories were privately printed originally, this is their first trade publication, Smith 27, Keating 193. Very good.

Surrey, Kerosina Books, 1987, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. With publisher's slipcase, a novel, with an afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson, No. 179 of 250 specially bound copies Signed by Robinson, together with Cosmogony and Cosmology, a separate book by Dick , with an introduction by Paul Williams, issued without dust jacket, also published in 1987 by Kerosina Books, also No. 179, being one of 325 hardcover copies to be distributed with Valis. Fine, unread.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 8vo. Gray cloth, with red spine lettering. Red top stain. Gray end papers. 534 pages. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$8.95" price intact) is chipped, with small, closed tears at top of both the front and rear panels.