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Boston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. Octavo. Grey cloth, spine gilt. 248 pp. First edition, third issue with the dedication page tipped in facing the copyright page. Original dust jacket, price intact. Page 173 has the requisite misspelling of the title character "Seymour" as "Seymore." Small crease at bottom foretip of front endpaper, spine slightly sunned, else a very good/near fine copy.  This last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about the Glass family. .

New York: Random House, 2003. About fine.. Octavo. Maroon paper over boards, gilt spine lettering. 347,[5] pp. First edition, later printing. Nafisi offers a portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and a glimpse inside the lives of women in revolutionary Iran. About fine, in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Wallace Morgan:. Original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, applied pictorial paper onlay to front panel. First edition. Color onlay, and eight inserted black and white illustrated plates, by Wallace Morgan. Four page catalogue follows text. Minor shelf wear at toe of spine, else a very good, bright copy without pictorial dust wrapper. BAL: 4557. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hessian cloth backed, gloriously marbled decorated boards. First edition, US issue, which preceded the UK edition by nine years. An unnumbered copy of the 925 copies bearing the US imprint. Fine, partially unopened, bright copy, lacking the often derelict slipcase. ROBERTS A32.

Mecklenburgh Square, London: The Hogarth Press, 1939. Octavo. Stiff  pale blue stitched wrappers, printed in mauve. 32pp. 7¼ x 4⅞. First edition, published 2 November 1939; 5140 copies printed at 6d. Note by Leonard Woolf follows the text and serves as a low-key rebuttal. Slightly toned at spine edge, otherwise without fault, a near fine copy. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. . WOOLMER 463. KIRKPATRICK A24a.

[New York and London]: Bloomsbury, 2003. First edition. Small octavo. Black boards decorated in white in wrap-around design. 210,[10] pp. Author's signature to Bloomsbury label affixed to the half-title. Notes and bibliography. Designated "An Urban Historical" in a series.  A fine copy in a near fine, translucent printed dust wrapper with three minute tear-drop shaped spots on lower panel.   First US edition. "When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack o lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of one of the most striking social careers in New York's history. The daughter of rags-to-riches multi-millionaire and philanthropist Madame C. J. Walker, A'Lelia was America's first black poor little rich girl, using her inheritance to throw elaborate, celebrity-packed parties in her Westchester mansion and 136th Street salon." -- from the dust jacket front flap.