Short story, "The Walls are Cold," in Decade of Short Stories, Volume V, Number 5, Fourth Quarter, 1943 by Capote, Truman (Contributor) - 1943

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

NY: Pantheon. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Top corners bumped, jacket grubby and has . several chips, one small water spot to jacket at center of spine.. [1951]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Yellow boards with title stamped in various fonts in black on front. Black cloth spine with title stamped in yellow. A comic classic of modern Irish literature, first published in England in 1939. Though Graham Greene championed the novel (his Pantheon front jacket blurb trumpets "A book in a thousand...in the line of Ulysses and Tristram Shandy." ) , and later book blurbs quote Dylan Thomas' mini-book review: "This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." ) , it was initially not a hot seller. All of the unsold first edition copies were destroyed during World War II bombings. At Swim-Two-Birds appears on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels list, The Modern Library Reader's List of 100 best novels, and The Guardian's list of… Read More

Chapman & Hall, London, 1942. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 255pp. Publisher's original oatmeal cloth, lettered in blue at the spine and with the blue top edge stain, resulting in just a fraction of bleeding to the upper margin of a single text leaf. The binding just a fraction cocked and with some fairly light fox spotting throughout. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Very good in lightly rubbed, marked and chipped yet still very crisp price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's sixth novel, detailing the early months of the Second World War, written in July 1941 following Waugh's return home after the evacuation of Crete, and with a printed dedication to Randolph Churchill who was instrumental in Waugh's wartime commission. Davis, Doyle &c xvii..

Palma de Mallorca: Divers Press, 1954. 1st Edition . Wrappers. Very Good/Good. Printed French-fold jacket over plain card wrappers, 141 pp. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Inscribed "To Paul with all my best - the first day of school! Bob"; very probably to Paul Saunders, head of the Albuquerque Academy in the early sixties. Creeley taught at the Academy through 1960-61. Slight roll to spine, page edges tanned, rippling to last few leaves. Jacket sunned, worn at edges and folds, stained at spine and along front edges, rippled at rear, chipped at crown and heel, with closed tears at either side of heel, small nick at rear spine fold. Size: 16mo

RARE OCTOBER, 1908 HARPER & BROS. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING THUS. INCLUDES THE WATERMELON PAGE. COLOUR PRINTS. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL. Good + condition / No DJ included. USED. Front paper past-down is in good shape. Some finger marks noticed on a few pages. Unpaginated. 7 1/4 X 9. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

Up for sale is a Lot of 8 Alfred Duggan Review copies. All Hardcover's with Priced Dust Jacket. Most with review cards or letters laid in. One has some review notations on the back flypage. One has a very small previous owners address label on the first flypage
VINTAGE REVIEW COPIES
BY ALFRED DUGGAN
ALL ARE COWARD McCANN EXCEPT FOR THE 4 WHICH ARE STATED IN THE LIST
CONTAINED WITHIN THE SET:
"WINTER QUARTERS", 1956, HB, PRICED DUST JACKET WITH REVIEW CARD
"DEVIL'S BROOD," 1957, HB, PRICED DUST JACKET, REVIEW CARD LAID IN
1958, "THREE'S COMPANY, STATED AMERICAN FIRST EDITION, HB, WITH PRICED DUST JACKET
1961, "THE RIGHT LINE OF CERDIC" HAS PUBLISHER'S PHOTO OF THE AUTHOR LAID IN THE FRONT, HB, PRICED DUST JACKET, PANTHEON
1963, STATED FIRST PRINTING, "BESIEGER OF CITIES" HB, PRICED DUST JACKET
"THE CUNNING OF THE DOVE" 1960, PANTHEON BOOKS, HAS THE REVIEW LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER LAID IN, HB, WITH PRICED DUST JACKET
1960, "FAMILY FAVORITES" REVIEW CARD LAID IN THE FRONT, HB, WITH PRICED DU
"LORD… Read More

Palma de Mallorca: Divers Press, 1954. 1st Edition . Wrappers. Very Good/Good. Printed French-fold jacket over plain card wrappers, 141 pp. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Inscribed "To Paul with all my best - the first day of school! Bob"; very probably to Paul Saunders, head of the Albuquerque Academy in the early sixties. Creeley taught at the Academy through 1960-61. Slight roll to spine, page edges tanned, rippling to last few leaves. Jacket sunned, worn at edges and folds, stained at spine and along front edges, rippled at rear, chipped at crown and heel, with closed tears at either side of heel, small nick at rear spine fold. Size: 16mo

San German, Puerto Rico: Inter American University, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 192pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Rare first issue of this important little magazine featuring a stellar roster of contributors, including Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray as well as Beat notables including Burroughs (Schottlaender C13), Corso, Ferlinghetti, et al. Unmarked copy with significant bumps and some general wear.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket with slight wear. Fresh clean copy, gray boards have no fading and sharp corners. The author's third book and one of his best. Winner of the 1979 John Burroughs Medal for a distinguished work in the field of Natural History. National Book Award Finalist. Lannan Literary Award. Guggenheim Fellowship.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. VG. 8vo, xii+252pp, grey cloth with spine label, no dustwrapper. The stated first edition of this rare and essential 1928 collection of writings by one of the greatest of American essayists (including works published in Harper's and The American Mercury). No interior markings noted (aside from penciled minor marks to decorative front endpapers); binding has a bit of soil and wear and is a presumed second state (first state, as noted in colophon, was a linoleum block print design by Prentiss Taylor). Highly recommended.