The Book and the Sword: A Martial Arts Novel -by Louis Cha by Cha, Louis (penanme for Jin Yong ); Translated By Graham Earnshaw; Edited By John Minford (with Rachel May ) - 2004

London: Hutchinson. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. 1894. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Edward Vizetelly and illustrated with eighty-eight wood engravings from original drawings by George Roux. Illustrated frontispiece, tissued. Dark blue boards with silver decorations, lettering, green blindstamping decoration. One of only 100 published by Hutchinson in this first English edition. Slant. ; Wood engraving; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 399 pages; 12414 .

[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well… Read More

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. 515 pages. A Tale of the Time of Nero. Book is in remarkably good shape for being 116 years old. Clear titling on spine and front pictoral cover. Foxing slightly present on inside cover, binding, flyleafs disjoined.. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. De Lipman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1898. 472 pages. Some wear inside cover....binding loose from first flyleaf, which is gone. Bookplate inside cover. Rest of book is in remarkably good shape for being 115 years old. Gilt titling on spine and front pictoral cover. . Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hugh M. Eaton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

New York: Venture/Simon and Schuster, 1947. FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING THUS. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents the FIRST EDITION of HERMAN WOUK'S very first novel: AURORA DAWN, written during his final year's on a WWII ship in the Pacific fleet. Later on, Wouk would win the Pulitzer Prize for CAINE MUTINY, and his WIND'S OF WAR would become a famous television mini-series. Many other novelists, publishers and historians have called Wouk "an American Tolstoy." The 1947 date on the copyright page matches the 1947 on the title page, making this a FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING THUS. 5 1/2" x 8 1/8", 241 pages, with the ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Overall book is NEAR FINE. Pages = FINE: old price on first fep, light staining from glue on front reverse cover and first and last fep's, else very clear, tight, sharp, no additional marks. Cover (blue cloth boards with gold gilt design and "H W" on front, gold gilt… Read More

London: Hutchinson. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. 1894. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Edward Vizetelly and illustrated with eighty-eight wood engravings from original drawings by George Roux. Illustrated frontispiece, tissued. Dark blue boards with silver decorations, lettering, green blindstamping decoration. One of only 100 published by Hutchinson in this first English edition. Slant. ; Wood engraving; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 399 pages; 12414 .

[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well… Read More

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. 515 pages. A Tale of the Time of Nero. Book is in remarkably good shape for being 116 years old. Clear titling on spine and front pictoral cover. Foxing slightly present on inside cover, binding, flyleafs disjoined.. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. De Lipman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1898. 472 pages. Some wear inside cover....binding loose from first flyleaf, which is gone. Bookplate inside cover. Rest of book is in remarkably good shape for being 115 years old. Gilt titling on spine and front pictoral cover. . Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hugh M. Eaton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

New York: Venture/Simon and Schuster, 1947. FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING THUS. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents the FIRST EDITION of HERMAN WOUK'S very first novel: AURORA DAWN, written during his final year's on a WWII ship in the Pacific fleet. Later on, Wouk would win the Pulitzer Prize for CAINE MUTINY, and his WIND'S OF WAR would become a famous television mini-series. Many other novelists, publishers and historians have called Wouk "an American Tolstoy." The 1947 date on the copyright page matches the 1947 on the title page, making this a FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING THUS. 5 1/2" x 8 1/8", 241 pages, with the ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Overall book is NEAR FINE. Pages = FINE: old price on first fep, light staining from glue on front reverse cover and first and last fep's, else very clear, tight, sharp, no additional marks. Cover (blue cloth boards with gold gilt design and "H W" on front, gold gilt… Read More