N By E by written & Illustrated By Rockwell Kent, SIGNED By Kent, Frontispiece, Back Inner Flap DJ is Price Clipped in Triangle Shape But You Can Still See Dollar Sign, Top Edge Stained Blue Has Some Fade, Numerous b/w Woodcut Illustrations By Kent Throut - 1930

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976. Very good (some light sunning to the covers including a faint impression of the dust jacket image from sunning; one tiny nick and some light soil to top cover edge, one slightly bumped corner--lower rear) in very good, lightly edgeworn and rubbed dust jacket with one 1/2 inch shiny spot from some clear substance stuck to jacket (see scan). SIGNED by author on title page. Author's 6th book, 2nd novel. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

[New York]: The American Mercury, 1926. Paperback. 8vo. Green wrappers. (6pp). Fair plus. Actually a decent example of this remarkably fragile production, printed on thin limp stock -- which explains its exceptional scarcity, for its poor production quality assured a low survival rate. While fairly attractive and even with caution handleable, the original single horizontal fold is present, there are a couple of corner chips and the original stapled fold is slightly separated and delicate. Mencken explains the infamous "Hatrack" case, in which a Massachusetts society tried to prevent the sale of the April 1926 issue of "The American Mercury" because of articles in it they deemed obscene -- sparking a controversial case in which Mencken sued the Post Office. Mencken won and made his point, and the "Hatrack Censorship Case" is now considered a landmark free-speech case. Despite delicate condition, a quite presentable and displayable first edition of this rarity.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988. Signed by Robertson Davies. First U.S.edition / First printing. Dark green leather, all edges gilt. Very fine.

Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumtibus Caspari Fritsch [Caspar Fritsch], 1781. Hardcover. Very Good. xxviii, 490, [138] p.; 21 cm. Signatures: a8 b6 A-2Q8 2R2 (8vo). Original black paper-covered boards. All page edges red. Light green endpapers. Colophon: Lipsiae, Ex officina Breitkopfia. Woodcut title vignette and head-pieces. Faint stamp on front fixed endpaper: "Swarthmore College Library. Gift of Morris L. Clothier '96"; "Dup" written below. Morris L. Clothier was one of the Clothiers of the Strawbridge & Clothier, the department store. In Very Good Condition: front board heavily scraped; edges rubbed; pages are clean and crisp.

New York::: Scribners,,, 1969... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with previous owner sticker removed from the flyleaf in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. These five works grew, of course, out of Hemingway's considerable experience of the Spanish war as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance and as a participant in filming "The Spanish Earth." More specifically, they grew from adventures in and around besieged Madrid--particularly in the Hotel Florida and in a bar called Chicote's. The book is unified, then, in time, place, and action. It is unified even more by the dominating presence of the author, who is to be found alive on every page. That presence slants the focus, but also gives the book its sharp distinction. This is immediate, unmistakable Hemingway. This collection contains Hemingway's play "The Fifth Column", and the four stories "The Denunciation", The Butterfly and the Tank", "Night Before Battle" and "Under the Ridge". Despite his… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976. Very good (some light sunning to the covers including a faint impression of the dust jacket image from sunning; one tiny nick and some light soil to top cover edge, one slightly bumped corner--lower rear) in very good, lightly edgeworn and rubbed dust jacket with one 1/2 inch shiny spot from some clear substance stuck to jacket (see scan). SIGNED by author on title page. Author's 6th book, 2nd novel. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

[New York]: The American Mercury, 1926. Paperback. 8vo. Green wrappers. (6pp). Fair plus. Actually a decent example of this remarkably fragile production, printed on thin limp stock -- which explains its exceptional scarcity, for its poor production quality assured a low survival rate. While fairly attractive and even with caution handleable, the original single horizontal fold is present, there are a couple of corner chips and the original stapled fold is slightly separated and delicate. Mencken explains the infamous "Hatrack" case, in which a Massachusetts society tried to prevent the sale of the April 1926 issue of "The American Mercury" because of articles in it they deemed obscene -- sparking a controversial case in which Mencken sued the Post Office. Mencken won and made his point, and the "Hatrack Censorship Case" is now considered a landmark free-speech case. Despite delicate condition, a quite presentable and displayable first edition of this rarity.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988. Signed by Robertson Davies. First U.S.edition / First printing. Dark green leather, all edges gilt. Very fine.

Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Sumtibus Caspari Fritsch [Caspar Fritsch], 1781. Hardcover. Very Good. xxviii, 490, [138] p.; 21 cm. Signatures: a8 b6 A-2Q8 2R2 (8vo). Original black paper-covered boards. All page edges red. Light green endpapers. Colophon: Lipsiae, Ex officina Breitkopfia. Woodcut title vignette and head-pieces. Faint stamp on front fixed endpaper: "Swarthmore College Library. Gift of Morris L. Clothier '96"; "Dup" written below. Morris L. Clothier was one of the Clothiers of the Strawbridge & Clothier, the department store. In Very Good Condition: front board heavily scraped; edges rubbed; pages are clean and crisp.

New York::: Scribners,,, 1969... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with previous owner sticker removed from the flyleaf in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. These five works grew, of course, out of Hemingway's considerable experience of the Spanish war as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance and as a participant in filming "The Spanish Earth." More specifically, they grew from adventures in and around besieged Madrid--particularly in the Hotel Florida and in a bar called Chicote's. The book is unified, then, in time, place, and action. It is unified even more by the dominating presence of the author, who is to be found alive on every page. That presence slants the focus, but also gives the book its sharp distinction. This is immediate, unmistakable Hemingway. This collection contains Hemingway's play "The Fifth Column", and the four stories "The Denunciation", The Butterfly and the Tank", "Night Before Battle" and "Under the Ridge". Despite his… Read More