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New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1950). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [cheaply-manufactured book showing wear to boards at all corners and along bottom edge, otherwise a decent clean copy; jacket has a couple of tiny shallow chips, at top of rear panel and top of spine (the latter slightly affecting the author's name)]. INSCRIBED humorously to a friend and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, dated in the year of publication. Satirical novel about a small Mexican fishing village which gets "civilized" (and corrupted) when an American buyer of shark livers comes to town to do business with Domingo Gonzales, "a notorious deadbeat who caught nothing but sharks." The author had previously written three novels (including the justly famous "Detour"), although this fact is curiously unmentioned in the jacket blurb for this book -- which emphasizes his extensive travels about (and two-year residence in) Mexico, while off-hande…Read more

New York/Newark: Barse & Co.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1931). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a lightly-worn book, with a minor bump to the top rear corner and some slight dust-soiling to the top edge; jacket is bright and colorful, with some very minor paper loss at spine ends (no loss of text), some internal dampstaining to the rear panel with only negligible effect to the exterior]. (frontispiece photo of Gertrude Berg) "The Rise of the Goldbergs" (the title was eventually shortened to simply "The Goldbergs") debuted as a 15-minute weekly program on NBC radio in November of 1929, and was an immediate hit. The show became a daily broadcast in 1931, the same year this book appeared, and by which time (per the book's introduction) NBC had received "so many requests .... for copies of the episodes that it has been found advisable to publish the first volume with subsequent volumes to follow." (Essentially, then, these are radio scripts rende…Read more

New York: George D. Hurst. Very Good-. [ca. 1895]. Unstated. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [gilt lettering on spine and front cover still bright; book has absorbed some moisture at some point, as there is dampstaining on the front cover and at the margins of both endpapers and pastedowns, and the book itself is a bit bowed; aside from that, however, this is a good solid copy, internally quite clean; there is a bit of damage (splitting) to part of the internal front hinge, but no separation, and the binding is completely intact]. (B&W photographs, diagrams) Very scarce early photography volume, printed in London (per a statement at the back of the book) despite the New York publisher's imprint, and bearing no date on the book itself (the Library of Congress's copy is catalogued as an 1895 publication). 54 illustrations, on 28 plates. .