Africa South of Sahara: Index to Periodical Literature, 1900-1970 Volume 3 by Library of Congress - 1971

[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well… Read More

New Zealand: Penguin, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. first printing 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. 515 pages. A Tale of the Time of Nero. Book is in remarkably good shape for being 116 years old. Clear titling on spine and front pictoral cover. Foxing slightly present on inside cover, binding, flyleafs disjoined.. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. De Lipman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1898. 472 pages. Some wear inside cover....binding loose from first flyleaf, which is gone. Bookplate inside cover. Rest of book is in remarkably good shape for being 115 years old. Gilt titling on spine and front pictoral cover. . Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hugh M. Eaton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. Early Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good - . In red cloth with gilt to spine. Early reprint in a smaller format and part of the Murray Hill Library from the 1920's. Light edgewear, mostly to spine ends and some tiny spots of loss to gilt on spine. Light tanning to endpapers. Jacket has 1 inch square piece missing to top of spine and has had tape repairs on inside of jacket to long split on spine at crease with front panel and corners. Some chipping to top edge of jacket, bottom of spine and corners with one small chip missing to middle of jacket spine and one to rear crease. Otherwise, a few short closed tears to jacket edges and another vertical split to spine crease at rear panel that has not been repaired with associated horizontal splits across spine.Scarce with jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912 unpaginated with 10 color issustrations. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") issued in green cloth with decorative color pictorial in gilt lettering on front cover. 1st edition. Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 May 3, 1935) was a United States illustrator famous for her work in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and for her illustrations for children's books. Born in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Smith studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins in Philadelphia, graduating in 1888. A year later, she started working in the production department of the Ladies Home Journal, for five years. She left to take classes under Howard Pyle, first at Drexel and then at the Brandywine School. She was a prolific contributor to books and magazines during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrating stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's Weekly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's,… Read More

New Zealand: Penguin, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket as Issued. first edition 2nd printing 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Tom Doherty. First US edition-first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Near fine condition.Tom Doherty,2009.A Tor Book.First US edition-first printing(0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).Light blue hardback(small tear and crease on the edge of the spine,gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(large crease,small nicks and scratches on the edges of the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Illustrated with a b/w map.The book is as new with a small black marker mark on the outer edges of the pages,light shelf wear on the Dj cover.575pp including Author's note.Price un-clipped.A collectable first edition.Heavy book.

Paris: Perrin, 1919. Il a été imprimé, de cet ouvrage, quinze exemplaires numérotés sur papier vergé pur fil des Papeteries Lafuma. Petit nom x 2. Quelques rousseurs. xi + 370 pages. Très Bon etat. B2A. Couverture Rigide. Très Bon/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Praha, Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury Hudby A Umeni, 1957, hardcover. First Edition 1957 as a group, of the classic Czech author's Prague novels and stories, originally published 1871 through 1889. Includes also critical essay and notes on the author and these works, plus 12 plates at rear (author portraits, street scenes, artifacts). Text in CZECH. -- Attractive hardcover, ecru cloth with stamped design, pretty endsheets. Condition: very good minus (corners bumped) with good dust jacket (edgeworn; spine tanned else bright).