A Close Run Thing by Mallinson, Allan - 1999

New York: Delacorte/Lawrence (1979).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pages yellowing, dust jacket has a couple of very small tears. The price is intact. This award-winning author's first book by a major publisher. "These stories of America's disenfranchised - men and women light-years away from the American dream - are quite unlike any in our literature. She's an original, and this book of hers is a crooked beauty." - Raymond Carver

Lipsiae: B.G. Teubneri [circa 1846]. (Hardcover set) 361, 358, 329pp. Good to very good. 3 volumes bound in 3 / 4 green leather with marbled boards. There is what appears to be an official stamp dated 13 May 1846 on the back of each title page. The covers are somewhat worn and rubbed, the edges of the pages are spotted and there is some spotting on the pages, there is an owner inscription on the front inner board of each volume, and the inner hinges are cracked. Text in Greek Language. (Classics, Orations).

London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. First Edition. Original Cloth. As New/No Jacket as Issued. Jonathan Cape, London, 2005. Hardback. Book Condition: As New. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback. Book in in MINT/UNREAD condition. No dustjacket, as issued. Complete with promotional bookband which is also in MINT condition. SIGNED by Julian Barnes shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.

New York: New Directions, 1990. Signed on the title page by the Robert Creeley. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition Charles Scribner's Sons; New York; 1931 "A" 8vo size tan clothbound hardcover with blue title and decorations and dust jacket; 314 toned pages. The back of the dust jacket features a small photograph of the author and his biography. From jacket flap: "His stories concern love in the springtime, courting, jealousy, an accident, a lynching, old age, a death. Some of them are very short, yet the reader finds within their brevity all the flavor and mood of some American incident which, in Caldwell's hands, becomes a story - interesting, individual, authentic." Price sticker on fep. Jacket is separated into two pieces on front spine seam with edgewear and chipping, particularly to head and heel and edges; small abrasion on fep from sticker. Top and bottom of spine are bumped and the bottom of spine is frayed. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. First printing (so stated). Blue paper-covered boards quarter-bound in gray cloth. A very handsome copy; fine except for a touch of wear at the spine ends. The dust jacket is toned, darkest on the spine. There is very light wear at the spine ends and the corners. The jacket price is intact but partially inked over. In Brodart dust jacket protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Pauline Baynes. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

Boston: Printed for the Booksellers. Good+. 1832. Hardcover. Clean blue paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. Complete in three volumes . 216pp, 220pp and 216pp. Interiors of the three texts are tight, clean and intact. Each volume with a frontispiece. German literature, a Corsican bandit uprising against French domination. Small piece of blue paper missing from #1's rear cover. Lightly rubbed on front corners. Prior owner's signature on top edge and frontispiece. Vol. 1 & 3 have a small narrow damp stain on bottom margin. Novel, German Literature, Fiction; Thin 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 652 pages .

"LITTLE PAUL" from the "Dombey and Son" of Charles Dickens. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); Redfield; New York. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Scarce volume from the 6-volume "DICKENS' LITTLE FOLKS" series which was "undertaken with a view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration." "With this view, the career of [Little Paul has] been detached from the large mass of matter with which [he was] originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public."Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; 1" cloth tear at the top-right corner of the spine; horizontal crease across the front cover which is also visible on the opposite side of the board. Occasional foxing and staining to the pages (heaviest on end… Read More