Lord of the Flies by William Golding - 1954

Some discoloration to spine of book. Discoloration of pages due to age of book.DJ without clipped corners. Original price $2.50.DJ has rubs to edge and spine edge. Slight toning to spine.1st edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 286 pages; VG-/G; spine light blue with age-toned white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear to volume; significant wear to jacket; front flap detached; dust jacket spine slightly faded and age-toned; chips missing at crown and tail of jacket spine; small closed tear at lower edge of jacket back; two small chips missing from upper edge of jacket back; back flap joint starting; small closed tears to crown and tail of volume spine; jacket very fragile; upper edge of textblock dyed navy; pages 273-280 uncut; pages clean; CX consignment; Shelved in Room G. 1346227. Special Collections.

Condition: VG+. First edition, second issue with tipped in title page (as expected). 327 pp. followed by two leaves of ads. Light bumping to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's stamp to FFEP and an owner's bookplate affixed to rear of first color plate. Solid and square book. Front pastedown has some cracking at hinge.

New York: E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, 1988. Signed on the half-title page by the author. Also signed at the lower right corner of his illustration on the cover of dust jacket by Russell Chatham. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, olive paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1910. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.1 x 5.6 inches). Four full page mono plates by Frank Craig. Fine leather binding of recent full red morocco. The spine with five raised bands, compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. A little very light foxing to a few pages but overall a near fine copy. -- Contains the Poem "If".

NY: ***** Privately Printed *****. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1930. Buckram cloth. Tom Maloney of U. S. Camera and other photography fame was also a poet. His first commercial publication was published by Morrow in 1935. This book was copyright, 1930, Mountain Lakes, N.J. On the front fly leaf it is inscribed "For Bill and Ruth and food and fun not forgetting drink. Tom" . Sm 8vo., 60 pp. .

NY: Basic Books, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed copy of this first collected edition of Fuchs' enduring novels about life in Depression-era Brooklyn, "Summer in Williamsburg," "Homage to Blenholt," and "Low Company," originally published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. Fuchs has lovingly inscribed this copy to Susan Foster, a long-time personal assistant to film and literary mega-agent Irving Paul Lazar, and later Frank Sinatra. The nature of Fuchs and Foster's acquaintance is unknown, though it seems safe to assume that they might have met during Fuchs' long tenure as a Hollywood scriptwriter. His inscription, "From one Brighton Beachcomber to another," also leaves open the possibility that the two had known each other growing up in Brooklyn. Inscribed by Fuchs and signed as "Dan" on the front free endpaper. Octavo (5.75 x 8.25 in.); vii, 380, 301, 314pp.; red cloth boards, gold lettering on spine,… Read More

1904 Jack London 1st/1st ed The Sea-Wolf by Adventure Novel Shipwreck FAMOUS
A rare first British edition of Jack London's famous novel "The Sea Wolf". This book follows the story of Humphrey van Weyden and his adventures alongside Wolf Larsen on the sea. Like many sea adventures stories, this book describes mutiny, shipwrecks, seal-hunting, and many other adventure tropes.
Item number: #20039
Price: $499
LONDON, Jack
The Sea-Wolf
New York, London: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First edition. First Printing

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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vii, [1], 366, [4]
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6 illustrations
· References: BAL 11882
· Edition Note
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"Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1904" printed on the copyright page.
· Provenance: Handwritten – Alfred Schaumleffel
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Blue cloth
· Size: ~7.75in X 5.25in (19.5cm x 13.5cm)
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1927 1ed Hemingway Men without Women Ernest World War I Europe Bull Fighting

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
― Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was one of the most prolific American novelists of the 20th-century publishing prize novels such as 'A Farewell to Arms', 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', and 'The Old Man and the Sea'. One of his lesser known, but still highly desirable works was 'Men without Women.' 'Men Without Women' is Hemingway's collection of short stories of 10 previously published and 4 unpublished pieces. Specifically, it includes:
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The Undefeated
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In Another Country
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Hills like White Elephants
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The Killers
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Che ti dice la Patria?
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Fifty Grand
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A Simple Enquiry
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Ten Indians
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A Canary for One
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An Alpine Idyll
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A Pursuit Race
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To-Day is Friday
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Banal Story
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Now I Lay Me

Hemingway's travel throughout Europe in the 1920s, influenced his book 'Men… Read More

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. VG+ in VG dw. 4to, 24pp, stapled card wrappers with printed dustwrapper. A rare Christmas-themed sequel's sequel's sequel from Joe Brainard. Unmarked copy, toning, light soil, and spine fraying to dustwrapper, does not include printed envelope.