LITERATURE - U.S. - 20TH CENTURY from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. [6], 182, [1] pages, plus color frontispiece. Nine drawings printed with the text. Original patterned paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine and tips, lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers. 20 x 13.5 cm. Very good in fair to good, price-clipped dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities; a little tanning near the… Read more about this item

Wilmington, Delaware: The Wemyss Foundation, [circa 1966. Date mentioned in the text]. 10 pages. Original printed wraps. 23 x 15 cm. Very good plus. Minor soiling to wraps. FIRST EDITION. An essay on social conformity, the impact of technology, and cultural change in post-war America. Fishwick writes: "Once upon a time every man was a tiger. He roamed the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. vii, [1], 403, [1] pages. Original blue-green cloth stamped in gilt on the spine; top edge stained red. 22 x 15 cm. Very good plus in near very good dust jacket. The book shows some minor spotting to covers. The jacket, with the price of $3.95 intact, shows sun and a small, light… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1919]. [4], 123 pages. Numerous drawings in the text by Fontaine Fox, who also illustrated the covers. Original paper-covered boards printed in red and black. 19.5 x 13 cm. Slight loss to the paper covering the rear joint from insect nibbling, else very good. Light wear to the spine ends with one letter of publisher's name rubbed… Read more about this item

Durham, N.C.: Moore Publishing Co., [1968]. [6], 210 pages. Publisher's tan cloth. [20.9 cm.] Very good in good plus dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked; top edge dust soiled; offsetting to front endpapers from laid-in clippings. Moderate foxing to endpapers and a little foxing to the title page, but none elsewhere. The jacket is… Read more about this item

[Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College Press, 1935]. 4 pages. Original printed blue wraps. [22.4 cm.] Near very good. Wraps a bit faded and with some minor soiling. Leaves slightly toned and with some faint traces of foxing or soiling. FIRST EDITION. An address delivered while Allen was serving as a member of… Read more about this item

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1987. [4], 184 pp. Original white paper covered boards. [21.5 cm.] Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Just a hint of faint foxing or soil to edges of spine; some very faint tanning to endpapers; minor dust soiling to top edge. Jacket is a trifle… Read more about this item

[Raleigh, N.C.]: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, [1961]. 32 pages. Original printed wraps. [21.6 cm.] Near fine. FIRST EDITION. A play about the end of the Civil War in North Carolina. Betty Smith is best known as the author of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. xiii, [1], 168 pages. Original black cloth and blue paper covered boards. [25 cm.] Very good plus in good plus dust jacket. Corners rubbed, neat tape repair to half-title, a few minor traces of foxing. Partially unopened. Jacket has a few tiny chips, internal tape repairs at… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, [printed at the Earl Trumbull Williams Memorial], 1923. [10] pages. Original blue boards with silver cover lettering. [23.9 cm.] Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Tanning to free endpapers, rear hinge started, but sound, otherwise a nice copy. Jacket has small tape-repaired tear at head of… Read more about this item

New York: Arrow Editions, [1940]. 162 pages, including index. Original quarter tan cloth and gray paper covered boards with paper spine and cover labels. [25.7 cm.] A good copy. Tiny chip to spine label, not affecting lettering. Boards sunned near top edges and lightly soiled. Minor foxing to endpapers. Text block… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Savage and Savage, [1951]. 64 pages. Original black cloth stamped in silver. [22.2 cm.] Good plus in very good dust jacket. Light edge wear to boards. Top edge soiled, a little soiling to endpapers, tape mark on front free endpaper, but text is clean. Jacket is slightly wrinkled and bumped… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., [printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge], 1923. [2], 128 pages. Original quarter dark blue cloth and light blue paper covered boards with paper spine label. [19.1 cm.] Very good plus in good dust jacket. A little cocked, minor tanning to endpapers. Jacket has chip to head… Read more about this item

Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920. 95 pages, plus frontispiece and seven plates. Original stiff paper wraps with printed paper spine label and emblem in gold on front cover. [24.4 cm.] Very good. Light stain to spine, a few small light spots on covers, some creasing and tiny chips to yapp edges.… Read more about this item

Mount Vernon: Limited Editions Club, Walpole Printing Office, 1937. Three volumes. xiii, [7], 431; 493; and 685 pages, plus nine lithograph plates by Edward A. Wilson. Chapter headpieces printed in color. Original rust-colored cloth. [24.6 cm.] A fine set in very good cardboard slipcase; lacking the fragile glassine dust jackets. Slipcase has edgewear… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1994]. 685 pages. Original blue cloth stamped in blue. [24 cm.] A fine copy in near fine slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED. No. 151 of 200 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1903. xxviii, 313 pages, plus [8] pages ads. Original red cloth stamped in black and gold. [19.4 cm.] A bright, near fine copy. Slight rubbing and some minor evidence of soiling to cloth. Early, neat gift inscription on front free endpaper. A few tiny marginal spots… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. 246 pages. Original black cloth. Top edge stained maroon. [23.3 cm.] Very nearly fine in near fine dust jacket. Gutters of beige endpapers a little faded, two tiny spots to fore-edge. Jacket shows the slightest hint of sun to spine panel and some minor rubbing. FIRST EDITION.… Read more about this item

Heidelberg: Carl Winter, Universitätsverlag, 1954. Issued as Anglistische Forschungen, Heft 89. 139 pages. Original printed wraps. [23.4 cm.] Very good plus. Several short creases at base of spine and several tiny nicks to fore-edge; apparently minor errors by the binder. A few minor traces of soil to wraps; trifling bump to lower corner… Read more about this item

Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, 1908. [8], 160 pages, plus frontispiece and three full-page plates by Brantley Smith. Original dark green cloth stamped in gold and black. [19.6 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference library with no external markings, but a barely perceptible impression of removed call number at base of spine. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown,… Read more about this item