Light in August by William Faulkner - 1932

Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1940; First Edition; 8vo, 471 pages; publisher’s beige cloth; black spine titles over a red field. Hemingway’s dramatic semi-autobiographical tale of fate, courage, and death in the Spanish Civil War, released to considerable critical acclaim and recommended for the 1941 Pulitzer prize, though none was awarded that year. Source of the 1943 Oscar nominated film directed by Sam Wood starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Hemingway dedicated the book to comrade, paramour, and energetic war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whom he married the following year. Very Good, pastedown margins lightly tanned, clean, crisp, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. Second issue dust jacket with photographer Lloyd Arnold’s credit beneath the rear panel photo, publisher’s price of $2.75, and Henry Seidel Canby blurb on front flap. Arnold was chief photographer for the Sun Valley Company and its Idaho… Read More

1 . Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. 1st ed. NY (Farrar & Rinehart) 1930. Pictorial boards. Light foxing of title-page else a fine copy in dust wrapper - latter chipped but repaired.

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.

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova… Read More

Volume 1 complete in 4 issues. July 1917 -June 1918. Original wrappers with title and an illustration by Charles Ginner on upper covers. Illustrated by various artists including:- Lucien Pissarro, Walter Sickert, E. McKnight-Kauffer, Paul Nash, Gaudier-Brzeska, J.D.Fergusson, C.R.W.Nevinson, S.J.Pepleo and Nina Hamnett among others. Poems and literature by Herbert Read, Charles Marriott, Laurence Binyon, R.Holbrook-Keen, Geoffrey Whitworth, H.Austin Petch and Vivien Flanders among others. Wrappers slightly soiled and staples rusted o.w in good condition and complete. Very scarce first four separate issues.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1918. First Edition, First Issue . Green Cloth. Very Good/Good Dustjacket. 8" Tall. 475 Pages. Green Cloth Stamped In Yellow And Brown, Illustrated Endpapers. There Is No Definitive Published Bibliography Of The Various Issues Of The Huge Printings Of Books By The Immensely Popular Gene Straton-Porter, But This Is Indeed The Very Scarce First Issue: First Binding State With Publisher's Name With Ampersand In Shape Of Open "E", Without Diagonal Cross Line; Lettering On Cover And Backstrip Both Orange (Not Mixed With One Panel In Yellow).; First Issue With "Were" On Line 20, Page 304 ( Almost All Copies Were Printed With "Were" Corrected To "Was" In Heavier Type); And All Other Points Sometimes Present Even After "Were" Corrected: Perfect Page Number On Page 11; Pages 1 1/8" Thick When Compressed. First Editions Lacking Several Or All Points Are Common; Issues With All First Issue Points… Read More

London: Methuen (1910), 1902. First Edition . Red Cloth. Fine. 31 Pp. + 47 Pp Publisher's Catalog At Rear. First Edition Sheets And First Edition Red Cloth Binding With 1902 Date On Title Page, But 1902 Sheets Bound With 1910 Catalog At Rear. A Philosophical Fantasy, With A Starring Mermaid. Probably Wells' Least Successful Work, Now More Appreciated. A Stunningly Fine Copy, Absolutely Bright, With A Trace Of Bumping At Edges. This Is The Copy Which Belonged To Wells Fan And Indiana Poet And Novelist George Barr Mccutcheon, With His Personalized Engraved Bookplate On The Front Pastedown. There Is Also The Attractive Bookplate Of Anne J. Smith On Ffep, With A Naked Eve Holding An Apple In Which Lies A Tiny Book. The Book Is Enclosed In A Custom Half-Leather Case, With A Cloth Sleeve ( A Matching Case With Men Like Gods Is Also Available). Nice Copies Of This Book Are Apparently Rarer Than Even His Sf Classics.

New York: New Directions, 1939. First Edition, First Issue 1st Printing. Rough Beige Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good + Dust Jacket. 363 Pp. Beige Cloth With Paste-On Illustration Of Eye. First Issue Book And Dj, One Of 2000 Copies, Miller's First Book Publication In The U.S. Bright, Clean Example, Pages Square. No Fading Or Aging To Cloth, A Few Pinpoint Rubs To Cover Paste-On Illustration Of An Eye In The Clouds, A Little Browning To Edges Of Page Block. Some Aging To Endpapers, With Faint Outline Of A Removed Bookplate. On Front Endpaper Is Some Erased Red Pencil "Get Circus Of Dr. Lao - Artzybasheff Illus...", Not In Miller's Hand, With 4 1/2" X 2 3/4" Finely Drawn, High Quality Drawing Of A Bearded Man's Head Looking Just Past The Viewer, In Which Tiny Lines In The Right Of The Beard Include Letters '4M..." And Possibly A Few More Letters, Apparently By Pierre Sicart. Inscribed By Miller To Pierre [Probably His Collector And Friend, The Artist Pierre… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, 1961. Stated First edition. hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo. Quarter red cloth and black boards, with gilt lettering. 337 pages. An Advance Review Copy in promotional dust-jacket. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. Spine [blank] and flap folds of dust-jacket are slightly toned, with a tiny chip at spine tail. A Fine copy in special dust-jacket of Yates' first novel.

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.