Sailor off The Bremen, And Other Stories by SHAW, Irwin - 1939

Jonathan Cape, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1940. First Edition. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.

London: Cape. Novel set in modern America. Very minor chips / wear to corners of dustwrapper . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1948.

NY, NY: Random House, 1939. 293 pp., red cloth w/ black & gold lettering; Dust jacket in Mylar cover; Book has a little slant to spine; wear to bottom corner of rear board; very slight rubbing to spine; light foxing & a few small brown stains to page edges; endpapers browning, pages slightly; small bookstore label, price sticker & penciled price to rear pastedown; Jacket shows wear at spine ends w/ tears, creases & chipping to the top 3/4"; wear at flap fold ends w/ tears and chipping at top ends; front panel has some edge wear w/ a very small chip to bottom edge; rear panel has some edge wear creasing to top edge, 2 tiny tears & crease to bottom edge, moderate soil overall; soil-foxing to flap folds / Shaw's first collection of short stories. /. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Random House, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing stated. Full dark red cloth boards in illustrated dust jacket, 8-1/4" x 5-3/4", 293 pp. One bit of discoloration to top of front board, some minor soiling to verso of DJ, rubbing to rear panel of jacket. The jacket is lovely, original $2.00 price intact. Shaw's first book of non-dramatic fiction; he had published only plays up to this point, and of course would later become best known as a novelist.

New York: Random House, (1939).. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 293, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., light rubbing to the spine ends and faint soiling to the lower wrapper otherwise a very good copy.

New York: Random House, [1939]. FIRST EDITION. Near fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a few tiny closed edgetears. Attractive copy of this early collection of stories.

New York, NY.: Random House. Very Good. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. This book is hard-bound in red cloth with gilt and black stamping on the spine in a very nice dust jacket with light soiling on the lower panel and light edge-wear. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and generally clean, with a bit of faint foxing to the fore-edge/outer edge of the pages. --- From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature! .

New York: Random House. Very Good. 1939. First American Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Shaw, inscribed: "To Calvin Israel, the young depression stories, with best wishes. First edition author's first book of short stories. Red cloth faintly marked, top edge black. Paper toned, gutters darkened. Nice DJ price intact. Chipping top from panel, spine tip, some along rear panel edges. Old tape revere spine closes a tear with a few white spots showing. ; 8.1 X 5.5 X 1.4 inches; Signed by Author .

New York: Random House,, 1939. His first book of short stories, a fine copy First edition, first printing, of the author's first book of the short stories. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt on black ground, top edge black. With dust jacket. A fine copy in the fresh, sharp jacket.