Browse Books Listed by Author's Name NoAuthor A Ba-Bn Bo-Bz C D E F Film G Ha Hb-Hz King IJK London L M NO P Photo QR Steinbeck Steinbeckiana Stegner S T UV WXYZ Browse Armed Services Editions Books Listed by Issue Numbers ABCD EFG HIJ K L M N O P Q R ST 655-699 700-799 800-899 900-999 1000-1322 | | [Armed Services Editions] Cahill, Holger. Look South to the Polar Star. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1249 in this important series, a novel, the story of a group of Americans in contemporary China that alternates between mystery and adventure, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Spine faded, else very good minus. JD32916 | $60.00 |
[Steinbeckiana] Canby, Henry Seidel. Casuals of the Road. NY, Saturday Review, February 27, 1937, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A review of John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, page 7, Canby praises the book quite highly, photo of Steinbeck by Sonya Noskourak and a quote from the review are featured on the magazine's front cover, this was published on what was Steinbeck's 35th birthday, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Previous owner's ink name, address, and date, else fine. JD28384 | $25.00 |
[John Steinbeck] Capp, Al. The World of Li'l Abner. NY, Ballantine Books, 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 8, a paperback original, introduction by John Steinbeck which is excerpted on rear cover, foreword by Charles Chaplin, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Near fine. JD29559 | $25.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Carroll, Andrew (editor). War Letters. NY, Washington Square Press, 2002, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. LP-1, this is the first book in the renewal of the Armed Services Editions issued by the Council on Books in Wartime during World War II, the seven books in this new series were all developed by Carroll and his Legacy Project, a national nonprofit organization that works to preserve American war letters, the book covers the Civil War, World War I and II, the Korean War, and Vietnam to the present day, although the book appears to be well-aged along its edges, it was manufactured that way to make it look as if it too was one of the old-style Armed Services Editions, that aged look was abandoned after publication of this book which was done in the wider-than-tall format of the earlier ASEs, this copy Signed by Andy Carroll. Fine. JD34662 | $35.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Carroll, Andrew (editor). War Letters. NY, Washington Square Press, 2002, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1-TLP/VFW, this book was a prelude the renewal of the Armed Services Editions issued by the Council on Books in Wartime during World War II, the seven books in this new series were all developed by Carroll and his Legacy Project, a national nonprofit organization that works to preserve American war letters, the book covers the Civil War, World War I and II, the Korean War, and Vietnam to the present day, it was issued solely for use for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, this book was followed by the seven books that renewed the Armed Services Editions, those seven books were distributed to military all over the world, including those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, this copy Signed by Andy Carroll, this version of War Letters is in the upright/vertical format. Fine. JD34665 | $35.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Carse, Robert. There Go The Ships. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. A-5, just the fifth book in this important series, "the story of a convoy to Murmansk," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD36963 | $50.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Caspary, Vera. Stranger Than Truth. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1209 in this important series, a novel by the author of Laura and Bedelia, with a note about the author at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Very good plus. JD35996 | $95.00 |
[Miscellaneous] Caughey, John W. Their Majesties The Mob. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1960, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. This Western Americana historian writes about "the vigilante impulse in America," this is an Author Presentation/Association Copy being inscribed to Western writer and publisher, J. Wilson McKenney, noting that if he had known of McKenney's own work on vigilantes that "it would have stood very well at pages 132-135". Minor wear to jacket extremities, else fine. JD30665 | $35.00 |
[John Steinbeck] Cerf, Bennett (editor). Great Modern Short Stories. NY, Modern Library, 1942, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. P4, includes John Steinbeck's The Red Pony, pages 405-469, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and others. Very good. JD29382 | $10.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 751 in this important series, Author's First Book, film source, to say that this is a mystery is wholly inadequate, Bruccoli check list I-6 (with an incorrect date of publication), issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34457 | $175.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Chandler, Raymond. The Lady in the Lake. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 838 in this important series, a Philip Marlowe mystery and film source, Bruccoli IV-3, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, scarce. Some cover creases, else very good. JD36608 | $150.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Chandler, Raymond. The Lady in the Lake. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 838 in this important series, a Philip Marlowe mystery and film source, Bruccoli IV-3, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, scarce. Good. JD36857 | $75.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Chase, Mary Ellen. Windswept. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. E-142 in this important series, a novel set in Maine, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD34113 | $20.00 |
[Modern Literature] Chekhov, Anton. Two Plays of Anton Chekhov. Norwalk, Easton Press, 1977, first edition thus. Full leather, AEG, gilt designs, hubbed spine, moire endpapers, ribbon place marker, the two plays are The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters, with an introduction by John Gielgud, illustrations by Lajos Szalay including a color frontispiece portrait of the author. Fine. JD33818 | $10.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Chesterton, G. K. The Man Who Was Thursday. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 984 in this important series, "a nightmare," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD35010 | $45.00 |
[Steinbeckiana] Clurman, Harold. Famous American Plays of the 1930s. NY, Dell, 1959, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, No. LX 117, includes John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, pages 297-383, it also incluides William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, Clifford Odets, and others, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good plus. JD29613 | $15.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Cohn, David L. This Is the Story. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1274 in this important series, foreword by the author, the book is the result of his 1944-45 journey to Great Britain, France, Belgium, Corsica, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, India, Burma, and China, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Poor. JD36886 | $25.00 |
[Wallace Stegner] Colberg, Nancy. Wallace Stegner A Descriptive Bibliography. Lewiston, Confluence Press, 1990, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, introduction by James R. Hepworth, frontispiece photo portrait of Stegner by Leo Holub. Fine. JD2164 | $45.00 |
[Wallace Stegner] Colberg, Nancy. Wallace Stegner A Descriptive Bibliography. Lewiston, Confluence Press, 1990, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, introduction by James R. Hepworth, frontispiece photo portrait of Stegner by Leo Holub, this is the definitive Stegner bibliography, one of 1,000 copies, this copy is signed by both Stegner and Colberg at the publication party for this book Nov. 18, 1990 which was held at Stegner's Los Altos, CA home, laid in is a cocktail napkin from that cocktail/publication party which is imprinted in gilt "Wallace Stegner/A Descriptive Bibliography". Minor top edge foxing, else fine, unread. JD35637 | $85.00 |
[Stephen King] Collings, Michael R. Horror Plum'd. Woodstock, Overlook Connection Press, 2002, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Subtitled An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960-2000, published at $75, this is not a print-on-demand abomination and is not one of the 2003, 2004, etc. reprints. Fine. JD36783 | $125.00 |
[Stephen King] Collings, Michael R. and Engebretson, David. The Shorter Works of Stephen King. Mercer Island, Starmont House, 1985, first edition, first printing. Hardcover, issued without dust jacket, covers Night Shift, Different Seasons, The Dark Tower, Creepshow, Skeleton Crew, and others, this is No. 9 in the Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism series. Fine. JD36778 | $35.00 |
[Steinbeckiana] Committee on College Reading. Good Reading. NY, Penguin Books, 1947, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. P19 in the Pelican series, a descriptive guide to more than 1,000 books, sponsored by the Council of Teachers of English with the help of many well known writers, it gives very brief descriptions, includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and Tortilla Flat, page 130, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, Morrow 582. Very good plus. JD28501 | $15.00 |
[Modern Literature] Connell, Evan S., Jr. I Am A Lover. Sausalito, Contact Editions, 1961, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. "With comment from various sources selected by Evan S. Connell, Jr.," profusely illustrated with photos by Jerry Stoll, inspired by Edward Steichen's Family of Man, most of the photos were taken during a six-month period near Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, this copy Inscribed by both Stoll and Connell, scarce. Very good. JD31171 | $125.00 |
[Steinbeckiana] Conrad, Barnaby. Fun While It Lasted. NY, Random House, 1969, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated, it was Conrad who made John Steinbeck's short story, Flight, into a film, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, he was a matador, restaurateur, novelist, and Sinclair Lewis's secretary. Fine. JD28702 | $30.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Jessie. Joseph Conrad As I Knew Him. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Frontispiece illustration of Conrad at age three and one-half, plus two other plates which show his two sons, introduction by Richard Curle, she provides her own preface, Keating 284. Previous owner's name, place, and date, else fine in a jacket with internal tape reinforcements. JD31524 | $85.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Jessie. Personal Recollections of Joseph Conrad. London, privately printed, 1924, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. No. 11 of 100 copies Signed by Jessie Conrad, wife of the great novelist, she provides her own preface in which she notes that Conrad approved her recollections shortly before his death, there are three sections (First Days, The Early Years, and Later Days), original red patterned boards with paper spine label, TEG, with original glassine dust jacket, Keating 270. Bit of bubbling to front board, else very nearly fine. JD31516 | $300.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. A Personal Record. NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912, first edition, first printing. Original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, published in England as Some Reminiscences, subsequent British editions adopted this American title, includes Conrad's A Familiar Preface, Smith 16, this is Cagle binding A, Cagle A15c, Keating 94. Fine. JD31483 | $200.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. A Set of Six. London, Methuen & Co., 1908, first edition, first printing. Original slate-blue cloth with title, author, publisher, and decorations in gilt, front cover in burgundy, with 40-page publisher's catalogue of books for sale at the end dated June 1908, one of 1,500 copies, these short stories originally appear serially, the stories are Gaspar Ruiz, The Informer, The Brute, An Anarchist, The Duel, and Il Conde, Smith 14, Cagle A13a(2), Keating 81. Front cover lettering dulled, some age, else a nearly fine copy. JD31478 | $250.00 |
[Joseph Conrad] Conrad, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1896, first American edition, first printing. Conrad's second book, published as part of Appleton's "Town and Country Library Series," with advertisements at the end, lime green cloth with green, red, and gilt decorations and titles, there are textual changes from the British edition that Appleton thought necessary to fit this family series, Keating 6, Cagle A2(b)2. Fine. JD31454 | $500.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Falk Amy Foster To-Morrow Three Stories. NY, McClure, Phillips and Company, 1903, first edition, first printing. Original blind-stamped blue cloth with anchor design, title, author, and publisher in gilt, Falk, Amy Foster, and To-Morrow are the three "other stories" that appeared in Typhoon and Other Stories as published by Heinemann in London in 1903, this is the first separate printing of these three stories in book form, with 10 pages of undated ads at the end, Cagle A8c, Keating 46. Just light wear, very nearly fine. JD31468 | $325.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. A-26, just the 26th title issued in this important series, a classic novel and source for the Peter O'Toole film, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, a very scarce book. Very good. JD35586 | $125.00 |
[Joseph Conrad] Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1904, first American edition, first printing. Original green cloth with front decorated in orange and black with title and author in gilt, Smith 11, Keating 62, bookplate on front pastedown from the A. M. McGregor Home, Tootier McGregor established the A. M. McGregory Home in 1904 in East Cleveland, OH to honor her late husband, Ambrose, a close associate of John D. Rockefeller. Very good plus. JD31473 | $300.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Notes on Life & Letters. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1921, first edition, first printing. Original dark green cloth, second state with the "S" and the "E" in Tales of the Sea misprint on the Contents page corrected by hand-stamping by the publisher, with Conrad's Author's Note, Cagle A51a(2) second state, Smith 24, Keating 139. Very good. JD31503 | $150.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Notes on Life & Letters. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1921, first edition, first printing. Original dark green cloth, third state with the misprint on the Contents page corrected by a cancel, with Conrad's Author's Note, Smith 24, Keating 140. Nearly fine. JD31505 | $85.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Suspense A Napoleonic Novel. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. First trade edition, preceded by a limited edition of 377 copies, Keating 189. Fine in a jacket with minor loss at the extremities. JD31522 | $150.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Tales of Hearsay. London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1925, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Review Copy with review slip, preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham, jacket illustration by E. Lucchesi, includes four short stories, they are The Warrior's Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, and The Black Mate, all the stories were privately printed originally, this is their first trade publication, Smith 27, Keating 193. Very good. JD31519 | $450.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919, first edition, first printing. First issue with line 16-17, page 5 reading "with proper credentials and apparently" that in subsequent issues read "with proper credentials and who," also with 20 titles by Conrad listed opposite the title page which in subsequent editions lists 21 titles, also with the error noted by Keating 126 on lines 6 and 7, page 248, the American edition precedes the British by four months, Cagle A38a(1), Smith 22. Bit of age, very nearly fine. JD31493 | $85.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus" A Tale of the Sea. London, William Heinemann, 1898, first British edition, first printing. Slate gray binding with a life preserver in gilt on front cover, his third novel, issued earlier by Dodd, Mead in America under the title The Children of the Sea A Tale of the Forecastle, this copy with 32 pages of ads at the end, undated and with the publisher's spine imprint in uniform small letters (no priority as to the latter), Cagle A3.c.1, binding state c. Some cocking, very good. JD31456 | $500.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920, first edition, first printing. Original blue cloth, it precedes the British edition, Cagle A49a(1), Keating 131. Very good plus. JD31495 | $85.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1920, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Original green cloth, it follows the American edition, but includes revisions not found in that edition, back jacket panel includes advertisements for other works by Conrad, Cagle A49b, Keating 133. Bit of age, else very nearly fine. JD31496 | $450.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920, first edition, first printing. Original blue cloth, it precedes the British edition, Cagle A49a(1), Keating 131. Very good plus. JD33715 | $85.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rover. London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1923, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. The British edition follows the American signed/limited edition, original green cloth, there are two states of the dust jacket, this copy with the white paper jacket with the title and author shown within the decoration on the front cover, jacket is priced at seven shillings and sixpence, includes all issue points as noted in Smith 25, Keating 180, with a publisher's advertising sheet laid in loosely, one sheet folded to make four pages, the front cover of which features a portrait of Conrad by Bender after a photo of him, with a facsimile of his signature, with text internally about The Rover and advertising other books by Conrad available from the publisher. Very good. JD31508 | $350.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rover. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923, first trade edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, first issue with the single quote mark missing before the word "That's" on page 219, seven lines up, Smith 25, Keating 179. Clean, very nearly fine. JD31510 | $250.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rover. London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1923, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. The British edition follows the American signed/limited edition, original green cloth, there are two states of the dust jacket, this copy with the white paper jacket with the title and author shown within the decoration on the front cover, jacket is priced at seven shillings and sixpence, includes all issue points as noted in Smith 25, Keating 180, with a publisher's advertising sheet laid in loosely, one sheet folded to make four pages, the front cover of which features a portrait of Conrad by Bender after a photo of him, with a facsimile of his signature, with text internally about The Rover and advertising other books by Conrad available from the publisher. Very good. JD31968 | $350.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon And Other Stories. London, William Heinemann, 1903, first edition, first printing. Limited to 1,500 copies with the publisher's windmill on the title page and without the words "Reserved for Colonies" on the verso of the title page, it followed the American edition of 1902, but it adds three other stories, Amy Foster, Falk, and To-Morrow, Conrad's final revisions were not included in the American edition, but they are included here, these additional stories appear for the first time, the book was not intended for distribution to the United States, original charcoal slate cloth with title, author, publisher, and life preserver illustration in gilt, includes 32 pages of ads at the end which appears in some copies, but not all, Cagle's binding A with only the top edge trimmed and with 110 mm between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on the spine, Cagle A8b(1), Smith 9, Keating 42. Very good. JD31462 | $550.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Victory An Island Tale. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915, first edition, first printing. Original dark blue cloth, world map on front endpapers showing the locations of Conrad's novels, the courses of the ships, etc., first issue with all of Smith's points, including the missing quotation mark at the beginning of line 3, page 431, one of 10,000 copies, published six months before the British edition, Smith 20, Cagle A19a(1), Keating 113. Bit of age, nearly fine. JD31489 | $200.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Within The Tides Tales. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916, first American edition, first printing. Original blue cloth, includes The Planter of Malata, The Partner, The Inn of the Two Witches, and Because of the Dollars, Cagle A18b, Keating 110. Bookplate of Pauline H. Rogers signed by her, bit of age, else nearly fine. JD31488 | $75.00 |
[Modern Literature] Conroy, Pat. The Prince of Tides. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Source for the film that starred Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte. Fine. JD33082 | $30.00 |
[Armed Services Editions] Crane, Stephen. Selected Short Stories of Stephen Crane. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition , wrappers. Softcover. No. E-147 in this important series, a paperback original, 14 short stories edited and with an introduction by Carl Van Doren, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD36327 | $35.00 |
[Steinbeckiana] Crouch, Steve. Steinbeck Country. Palo Alto, American West Publishing, 1973, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with photos by Crouch who also provides the text about John Steinbeck, also includes excerpts from Steinbeck's works, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine in a very good jacket. JD35675 | $20.00 | CONDITIONS OF SALE - Media rate postage is $4 for the first item and $1 each thereafter.
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