Strictly From Hunger by Perelman, S.J - 1937

New York: Random House, 1937. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rust cloth, lettered in gilt on dark green fields. No statement of edition/ptg. on copyright page. Cloth is a bit soiled in a few areas, with spine panel rather dulled and showing thin strips of surface loss at extremities. Text block typically a bit tanned by age. 221 pp. Former owner's signature inked on front flyleaf, which also shows a few bits of paper residue, otherwise unmarked. Author's third book, scarce..

1937. PERELMAN, S.J. STRICTLY FROM HUNGER. New York: Random House, (1937). First edition. Some of the stories collected here were previously published in The New Yorker, College Humor, Life, Judge, and Contact. 8vo., orange cloth with horizontal green strip lettered in gilt. Bookseller's stamp to ffep. Some light overall exterior soil, especially at top-edge of bookblock. Small spot of sticker residue to lower ffep. Bookplate removal residue along the gutter of the rear pastedown. Clean and fresh text. A very good copy, scarce in an edgeworn and crown-chipped dust jacket that has been tape-reinforced to the rear of the panels.

New York: Random House, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Robert Benchley. Contemporary owner's signature on front fly, near fine in very good price-clipped dustwrapper with a few small chips, closed tears, and with some old tape repairs on the inside. A very good copy of Perelman's third book (and second solely authored book), a collection of short pieces including one, "Good News, Bibliophiles!" that has the temerity to make fun of first edition collectors.

New York: Random House, 1937. First Edition. 221pp. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in Very Good unclipped pictorial blue dust jacket. First Edition. 221pp. 8vo. Third Book from Perelman.

New York: Random House, Inc., 1937. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. 221 pp, Introduction by Robert Benchley, 21 titled "funny" pieces by S. J. Perelman, Binding tight and square, pages clean, unmarked, with slightly age-toned textblock, maroon red cloth covered boards, blue background to gilt letters, 5.8" x 8.25". DJ unclipped, with closed tears and 1" chip along top edge, worn all around top edge. here and there on foreedge, with some age-toning and soil to rear panel..

New York: Random House, [1937]. FIRST EDITION. Fine book in a bright, near fine dust jacket with some very minor edge wear at top of spine panel. Author's uncommon second book.

New York: Random House, 1937. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Foreword by Robert Benchley. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks and tears and a litttle rubbing, still a superior copy of the author's scarce third book, a collection of short pieces including one, "Good News, Bibliophiles!" that has the temerity to make fun of first edition collectors.

New York: Random House, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Robert Benchley. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, some small, shallow chips, closed tears, and light overall wear. Inscribed by Perelman on the front fly: "To Laurence Edmunds - Prince of good fellows, gay blade, roisterer, and lover of sultry-eyed women - with love, S.J. Perelman." A nice copy of Perelman's uncommon third book (and second solely authored book), a collection of short pieces including one, "Good News, Bibliophiles!" that has the temerity to make fun of first edition collectors. Seldom found signed.

1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve

2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve

First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.

New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478

Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.

New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions… Read More

Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.

Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.