Literature from Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Hancock, Michigan: Book Concern, 1950. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR at front end page -"To Professor Stith Thompson, with the wish that some day I shall learn a great deal more about the "Kalevala" as your student. With deep appreciation, Aili Kolehmainen Johnson". Stith Thompson has been described as "America's most important folklorist". ( Roberts, Warren E. (1996).… Read more about this item

New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1929. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by two of the actors from the New York production at the Henry Miller Theatre, Leon Quartermaine and Colin Keith-Johnston. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, boards worn at corners, spine dulledand soiled, prior owner name front paste down. The two have signed above their names on the Characters page, and Keith-Johnston… Read more about this item

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1934. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page - "Cordially inscribed for a fellow craftsman in the Hard Art of Letters - Arch. J. Wightman - by John Cowper Powys Feb. 1935". Association Copy, Archibald John Wightman (1884-1971) was a legendary British lepidopterist. Frontispiece from a drawing of the author… Read more about this item

Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1925. Very Good, no jacket, in publisher's original illustrated paper covered boards, former owner names and bookplates front end pages, rubbed at joints and edges, 1/4" loss of paper at head of spine. Uncommon. 146, iii (Index), pages containing 242 "quips". "The main object of this book is to exhibit some specimens of the wit… Read more about this item

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1929. First Edition stated. Near Fine, top edge light soiling, in a Very Good Minus dust jacket, 1" x 3" hole at spine, spine uniformly sunned leaving title barely legible. A SCARCE autobiographical novel of the author's time spent in jail and prison. A novel rich in criminal slang which is often found… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1932. Very Good, spine lettering a bit rubbed, prior owner name in ink front end page, in about Very Good dust jacket, old internal tape mends, small chips at spine ends and corners, jacket uniformly browned, front flap top corner price clipped. Internally clean and tight. Broch's masterpiece, of which Stephen Spender said "I first… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd Mead, 1978. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at title page over his crossed out printed name. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The Frirst Printing of the 1978 Dodd Mead reissue of his 3rd published book. A lovely copy. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Reissued First Printing . Pictorial Paper Covered Boards. Fine/Fine. Oblong 8vo.

New York: Random House, 1954. # 535 of 1000 copies on rag paper SIGNED BY AUTHOR at colophon page. Near Fine, tint rub bottom corner. First Printing stated. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

Chicago: At the Sign of the Gargoyle, The Black Cat Press, The Norman Press and Normandie House. . A collection accrued over decades consisting of material produced by, or in conjunction with At the Sign of the Gargoyle, The Black Cat Press, The Norman Press, and Normandie House by Norman W. Forgue, bookmaker, typographer and founder of the above private… Read more about this item

Bombay-Calcutta-New Delhi-....: Asia Publishing House , 1960. RARE Presentation Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half title page - "Cara Carmen, este ? ? Miguel Serrano ? ? 1968". Near Fine, offsetting at paste downs from acidic paper used in jacke, in a Very Good dust jacket, edgewear and a few small tears, light rubbing. From the collection… Read more about this item

London: Peter Owen Limited, 1959. Near Fine, with pink end papers, tiny top corner cloth with the white cloth clean and gorgeous. In a Near Fine dust jacket, light wear at top edge of spine and corners, front flap bottom corner price clipped. Osamu Dazai's masterpiece, the first English translation published by New Direstions in 1958. Basis for the… Read more about this item

Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1975. SCARCE. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, small crease at top edge front panel, small bookstore sticker top corner front panel, tidy prior owner name in ink verso front end page at bottom corner. Original Japanese title "Bo ni natta otoko". . First Edition in English. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

London and Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1864. lvi, 190 pages. In original brick cloth, gilt lettering back, Near Fine, faint name in ink front end page, tiny rubs to corners, the small bookseller's ticket of Gustav E. Stechert of New York verso front end paper. SCARCE, and important edition and study of the Stanzaic or Harleian Le Morte Arthur.… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at front illustarted end page -"Ross Lockridge, Jr.". First Printing, no additional printings stated. Very Good in original green cloth, illustrated end papers, two maps, lacking the dust jacket, cloth rubbed and with light edge wear. Basis for the 1957 Oscar-nominated film starring Elizabeth Taylo, Eva Marie Saint and Montgomery Clift. 1066… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1955. First Edition stated. Near Fine, faint toning front end papers and tidy prior owner name in ink front end page, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, light wear st spine ends and corners. Susan Jordon at sweet 16. Indiana author. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good, cloth at spine with faint crease, prior owner name in ink front end page, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, small chips and light wear at spine ends. Bound in light gray cloth boards with red lettering and blue bird motifs to the spine and upper board. Top… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1957. First Edition stated. Near Fine, faint toning front end papers and one small white spot each at front and rear boards. In a Very Good Plus dust jacket, light wear st spine ends and corners. Susan Jordon at is now 18, and facing a crucial point in her life. Indiana author. . First Edition.… Read more about this item

Paris: A. Quantin, 1879. xlvi, (2), 246, (2) pp. Headbands, engraved culs-de-lamps. 5 magnificent full-page engravings. One of 100 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered and likely one of the 80 copies on Whatman paper. Bound in contemporary half green crushed morocco over marbled boards, stamp signed Thierry sc de PetitSimier, with gilt back, marbled end papers, top edge… Read more about this item

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1947. Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page-" To my colleague and friend James W. Marchand with greetings, Clair Hayden Bell 28th March, 1960". Four volumes in original red cloth, Very Good, no jackets, spines slight sunning, spine lean, Marchand's name stamp front end page, with laid… Read more about this item

Bruxelles, Belgium: Gay et Douce, 1881. Bound in contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards,gilt back, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, one of 500 unnumbered copies printed. The binding stamp-signed "Bound by S. Kaufmann", Near Fine, tiny rubs at corners, foxing at end papers only. Illustrated with a frontispiece on chine etched and printed in bistre featuring a… Read more about this item