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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; orange cloth, titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; 473pp. Tight and clean, with just mild external wear and soil; spine cloth sunned, with fading to spine lettering; Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. The second volume in Dos Passos' acclaimed "USA Trilogy.
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1919
by DOS PASSOS, John
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5 Novelettes
by LEHMAN, Dr. M. [Marcus Lehmann]; Nissan Mindel, trans
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[Brooklyn: Merkos L'inyonei Church, 1964 (but 1980?)]. Eighth Printing." Octavo (21.5cm.); original simulated morocco, yellow decorative dust jacket; mixed paginations. Fine. Collection of five novellas translated from the German of rabbi Lehmann (1831-1890), each offset from a different edition with separate half title and paging.
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Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About
by WRIGHT, Charles
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. Quarter maroon cloth over yellow textured boards; dustjacket; maroon top-stain, 215pp. Fine condition. African-American author's third book, covering "poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots..." (upper jacket flap).
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Acres of Antaeus
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New York: Henry Holt and Company Publishers, [1946]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [10],388pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed with a few short closed tears, toning to spine, minor dust-soil to rear panel, else Very Good and sound. "A novel about farms and farm empires" - upper jacket panel. Set in Iowa during the Depression, describes the "development of a corporation farm by those who were foreclosing mortgages on the land of small farmers...[Ends] with an argument for farm co-operatives" - COAN, p. 39; HANNA 802.
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Alice Mansfield's Sin or, The Power of a Woman's Love. [from cover: "A Story of Tolchester, Pen-Mar and Old Point Comfort"]
by THOMPSON, J. Washington
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Philadelphia: Thompson Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. 12mo. Burgundy cloth; gilt titles; 212pp; portr. frontispiece. Gilt dulled on covers; minor rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Moral romance set on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia. The sole notice we find of the book, contemporary or otherwise, appeared in the San Francisco Call of Sunday, Oct. 18 1904: "...it is a dreary story with a purpose, and poorly written." SMITH T-191.
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Alice in Sunderland
by [ALICEANNA] [REGIONAL FICTION - VERMONT] TORREY, Jane Anne
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New York: Cochrane Publishing Co, 1909. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (19cm). Grayish-tan, pictorial textured cloth, 153pp. A bright, straight copy, Near Fine, in the publisher's binding. A curious little novel of country manners, built around an itinerant school-teacher's term in a rural Vermont schoolhouse. A contemporary review in the Rutland (Vermont) Daily Herald notes the novel's regional interest, concluding it "shows a fair insight, without much sympathy, into the lives of the 'truly rural' population of Vermont, and the experience of Alice in dealing with rebellious pupils, complacent superintendent and meddling mothers is true enough to the life lived therein." Another Vermont reviewer identifies Miss Torrey as a school teacher and a native of Bennington county. The book's title is clearly intended as a pun on Alice in Wonderland, and while the author does not go so far as to indulge in Carrollian inversions of logic, she does present a young single woman making her own…
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Alida; or, Town and Country [Bound with] Abednego the Money Lender: A Novel
by [SAMMELBAND] SEDGWICK, Susan Anne Livingston and Mrs. Gore
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New York, 1844-1845. Mixed Editions. Two volumes bound in one; octavo (23cm.); contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine ("Alida" only); text of both novels printed in double column. Boards scuffed, a few leaves in the first volume rather curled, pp. 22/3 separated but present, contemporary owership signatures to both title pages, else Good or better. Contents as follows:. 1. [Susan Anne Livingston Sedgwick]. Alida; or, Town and Country. New York: Henry G. Langely, 1844. Novel of a beautiful but willful woman whose character improves when her father moves the family out to the countryside of Brookfield, Massachusetts. WRIGHT I 2373. 2. Mrs. [Catherine] Gore. Abednego the Money Lender: A Novel. New York: E. Ferrett & Co., 1845. Later edition. Lesser-known novel by the English author who achieved fame for her dandy novels. See Sadleir 1017 for the first (1843) edition, published in three volumes under the title "The Money-Lender.
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The Alien. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed to Ben & Bernarda Shahn
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New York: Grossman Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in blue, gray and red; original Seymour Chwast dustjacket; 209pp. The dedication copy, inscribed on dedication page, below the printed dedication to Ben and Bernarda, "with all my friendship / Ed." A fine copy in slightly worn and spine-darkened jacket. Rosskam's first and only novel, of an American intellectual in Puerto Rico, inspired by the life of Rosskam and the Shahns' mutual friend and FSA colleague Jack Delano. Rosskam and his wife Louise, Ben and Bernarda Shahn all worked together in the photography section of the Farm Security Administration, and later in the Office of War Information, where they produced some of the most memorable images during what has become known as the "Golden Age" of documentary photography.
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All Our Yesterdays [Signed Copy, from the Library of Frank Capra]
by TOMLINSON, H.M. [Henry Major]
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London: Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. First impression. Signed by Tomlinson on the front endpaper. From the library of Hollywood filmmaker and noted bibliophile Frank Capra (1897-1991), with his pencil signature to front endpaper, with additional annotation, apparently in his hand, noting two errors in the text. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket,539pp. A few faint specks of foxing to upper edge of text block, else a pristine copy in the original, unclipped dustwrapper; very Near Fine, with deep, rich color on the spine panel. Retains the publisher's original wrap-around advertising band. Housed in Capra's standard folding chemise and slipcase of black cloth, lightly worn on exterior but still Very Good or better. Tomlinson's great but neglected novel of the First World War, derived loosely from his own experiences as a British Army correspondent in France in 1917. There was a signed, limited issue, but signed copies of the trade edition are infrequently seen, especially in such fine…
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All Things Are Possible: A Novel, dealing with the Psychology of Motherhood and with Religion in Politics
by NEIL, Henry [pseud. Marshall Everett]
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Chicago: Bible House, [1928]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket; mixed paginations. Jacket a bit dust-soiled and chipped along extremities, bottom inch of spine starting to separate, spine additionally quite toned, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Exceedingly uncommon novel, partly dealing with two oppositing politicians and their love for the same woman. OCLC locates seven copies as of January, 2018.
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Allah Kerim
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Boston: Roxburgh Publishing Company Inc, [1920]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's cloth in white printed dust jacket; 118pp. Some minor chipping to jacket extremities, some foxing along flap folds and upper edge, cloth spine ends very gently rubbed, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Experimental novel recounting the sordid life of the "Viper," who strangles his mother to death and is finally chased by an angry mob into a river and mowed down with bullets. ("A Story of a Single Soul A Mortal Without a Name" - upper jacket panel.) SMITH D-120.
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Altars to Mammon. Illustrations by F. Dana Marsh
by [SOCIAL FICTION] [OHIO] NEFF, Elizabeth [Hyer]
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1908. First Edition. Octavo. Original pictorial cloth boards; 334pp. Upper edge dusted; pencil ownership signature; still a tight, Near Fine copy with inked titles and decorations bright and unrubbed. A young Methodist clergyman in an Ohio mining town wages a successful campaign against the bigotry and corruption of his congregation. The novel received high praise in the Yale Literary Magazine, which called it "living proof that practical service is of more use than loud profession," and a "striking argument against that doctrinal conservatism that spells only moss-backed bigotry" (Vol. LXXIII p.335). HANNA 2615.
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An American Hero
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1933]. Second Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue and green dust jacket, dark blue topstain; [4],298pp. A few tiny chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, green spine lettering a bit faded, brief dampstaining to rear panel extremities not affecting cloth, else Very Good and sound. "Satirical account of one man's progress from football hero to millionaire stockbroker" - HANNA 460.
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An American Dream Girl and Other Stories
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New York: Vanguard, 1950. First Edition. Inscribed by Farrell in ink on front endpaper to Rosalie and Lew Carliner "with affectionate regards," undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo (22cm). Black cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 302pp. Subtle offsetting from jacket to endpapers, else a tight, Fine copy in a Near Fine, unclipped jacket (priced $3.00 at base of front flap), lightly toned at extremities and a bit sunned on spine panel. A short story collection, several apparently never previously published. Inscribed to Lewis Carliner, who at this time was Assistant Director of the Internatioinal Affairs Department for the United Auto Workers of America.
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Amerikanische Gettoliteratur. Zur Literatur ethnischer, marginaler und unterdrückter Gruppen in Amerika
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Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 403pp. Minor external rubbing and soil; internally clean, tight and unmarked; VG to Near Fine overall. Study of American ethnic, social and proletarian literature. Text entirely in German.
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The Ancient Law
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908. First Edition. First impression, with uncorrected variants on pp. 31, 216, 338. Octavo (21cm). Original red cloth, stamped in gilt and brown; plain endpapers; [viii], 485pp. A sturdy, sound copy, spine lightly sunned, pushed at head and tail, erased inscription to f.f.e.p.: Very Good. The plot deals with Virginian textile factory workers and the rise of industrial capitalism. KELLY p.30.
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Angela's Ashes
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 364pp. Tight, clean copy, slightly rubbed at spine ends and with mild evidence of use; Very Good Plus. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $23.00 on front flap), slightly rubbed at extremities, creased at crown of spine panel; Very Good. A clean, presentable copy of McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning first book, a memoir of his Irish-American childhood.
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The Angry Ones
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New York: Pocket Books, 1970. First Pocket Books Edition. Octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; bright pink edge-staining; [6],184,[2]pp ads. Gentle sunning to top edge, else a Fine, unread copy. Attractive copy of Williams's first novel, initially released by Ace in 1960. A powerful story of the racism that faces an educated Black man in the professional world, and the painful truths that warp interracial sex.
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Antologia Roberto Arlt
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Havana: Casa de las Americas, [1967]. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Printed card wrappers; french flaps; xix,259,[6]pp. Introduction by David Viñas. Clean, tight and unmarked copy, Near Fine. Anthology of works by the influential Argentinian modernist, collecting the entirety of his first novel (Juguete Rabioso, 1926); the essay "Escritor Fracasado;" selections from his Aguafuertes, and a one-act play ("La Isla Desierta"). Text entirely in Spanish.
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The Apple and Eve
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1933. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in dark blue pictorial dust jacket signed "Gene" in image; [6],307pp. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, white portion of spine a bit darkened, quarter-sized loss to bottom edge of upper panel affecting author's name, else Fine/Near Very Good. Novel about marriage by one of the most popular Dutch authors of the decade, though Ammers-Küller's reputation would wane with her pro-German sympathies during WW2 (see Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature (1995), p. 43).
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