The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain - 1946

[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

Mr. Munchausen .Used. Noyes, Platt & Company, Boston, 1901 First Edition. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL, . artist/author of the "Hole Book" series. Used. Very Good / No DJ if originally issued. Front cover illustration in good shape. All colour plates present and affixed to the binding. No dust jacket is included if issued. Tight binding, gutters intact. Pages are fairly bright. A nice copy. Readers should get a Bangs out of it. 180 pages plus adverts.

RARE. Collectible: 1916. Signed by the author. Cambridge MA: University Press. Very Good. Hardcover. Light soil to green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped title, author's name, and design. A bright solid, book - 27 pages; Inside covers are sunned. Pages clean and bright. Frontspiece. "View from Mrs. Thaxter's Garden Gate. 29 illustrations. Small book: 7" x 5"

The Prince of India Vol I & II. By Lew Wallace. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. 1893. First Edition. Hardbacks without dust jacket. Good Condition. Blue cloth with gilt titles on front cover along with embossed red rosary and moon and star in silver-light. Light rubbing at extremities. Covers faded and rubbed. Spine and edges have minor bumping, as well as some shelf/edge wear. The inside of Volume I is clean and unmarked except for 2.00 on fly page. Volume II is clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name and "November 1899" written on fly page. 502 pp + 578 pp are yellowed. Binding is good. Lewis Wallace was a general for the Union army during the Civil War. He went on to become governor of the New Mexico Territory out west. Wallace was also a lecturer who wrote three works during his busy life. Between his tenure as member of the court and holding office as governor, he published The Fair God (1873), while preparing to write Ben Hur (1880), which has since been translated into… Read More

The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".

[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

Mr. Munchausen .Used. Noyes, Platt & Company, Boston, 1901 First Edition. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL, . artist/author of the "Hole Book" series. Used. Very Good / No DJ if originally issued. Front cover illustration in good shape. All colour plates present and affixed to the binding. No dust jacket is included if issued. Tight binding, gutters intact. Pages are fairly bright. A nice copy. Readers should get a Bangs out of it. 180 pages plus adverts.

Golden Treasury Series. London, MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1899Small 6 1/2" X 4 1/2 " blue hardcover with gilt lettering. No DJ. Spine and edges are rubbed and bumped. Title and publishing company in gilt on spinePrinted by R & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh139 pages.Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's signature, and penciled 75 and another word that I can't read.Back inner cover has "Harvard Cooperative Society Booksellers" stamp.Back Board is not straight. Pages yellowed. Foxing noted especially on inner boards.

The Prince of India Vol I & II. By Lew Wallace. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. 1893. First Edition. Hardbacks without dust jacket. Good Condition. Blue cloth with gilt titles on front cover along with embossed red rosary and moon and star in silver-light. Light rubbing at extremities. Covers faded and rubbed. Spine and edges have minor bumping, as well as some shelf/edge wear. The inside of Volume I is clean and unmarked except for 2.00 on fly page. Volume II is clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name and "November 1899" written on fly page. 502 pp + 578 pp are yellowed. Binding is good. Lewis Wallace was a general for the Union army during the Civil War. He went on to become governor of the New Mexico Territory out west. Wallace was also a lecturer who wrote three works during his busy life. Between his tenure as member of the court and holding office as governor, he published The Fair God (1873), while preparing to write Ben Hur (1880), which has since been translated into… Read More

The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".