Search Results: Classics from Supercalifabulistic Books

Made the " top ten books to have" list for 1940's decade . And the top 100 ever written! A must for any and all collections!
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1945. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4. First American BCE. Waugh's seventh novel
1945 stated on full title page. Copyright dates: 1944, 1945, by Evelyn Waugh. Book printed and bound by Kingsport Press, Inc. Kingsport Tenn.

New York : Doubleday & Company, inc., 1963 Book. Illus. by Mark Twain. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NF/VG Stated First Edition.The square black boards of this hardcover are in Near Fine condition. Slight shelf wear at the corners, Mark Twain is embossed in silver on the front. The spine is stiff and straight, grey with black boxes to hold the silver titles. 705 crisp, unmarked pages with sharp corners. Front flyleaf contains a label bearing former owner's name. Dust Jacket with oil painting of Mark Twain in VG condition. Shelf wear, chipping at top of spine and front top corner. Price of $4.95 on inside front flap. Slight discoloration on portions of off white spine and back cover. "FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ONE VOLUME, ALL THE FAMOUS ESSAYS OF ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST RENOWNED AUTHORS" ~ front cover quote "Emerging from this remarkable collection is the man himself. . . masculine, tender, sarcastic, nostalgic, and humorous. As a critic of his age, mark Twain probed deeply into the character… Read More

Garden City, New York 1934VG/ noneThe collected short stories of W. Somerset Maugham30 Stories: Rain, Fall of Edward, Barnard, Mackintosh, Red Honolulu, Pool, Letter, Before The Party, Force of Circumstance, Outstation, Yellow Streak, P&O, June, Round Dozen, Creative Impulse, Miss King, Hairless Mexican, Gillian Lazari, Traitor, His Excellency, Mr Harrington's, Washington, Footprints in the Jungle,Human Element, Virtue, Alien Corn, Book Bag, Vessel of Wrath, Door of Opportunity, Back of Beyond, Neil MAC Adam

Hardcover. First Modern Library Edition. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. xii, 243 pp. ML Binding Style 1, dark peacock blue 'limp croft leather' (leatherette), with gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt on upper cover, gilt title to spine; with blue marbleized endpapers and catalogue of 35 titles (C3) preceding frontispiece page. Translated by Constance Garnett, with an introduction by Thomas Seltzer, Russian translator and friend of D.H. Lawrence. Illustrated with black & white photographic frontispiece of Turgenev.

Scarce Edition
1959
Crest Giant , Fawcett Publications

New York~Covici Friede Publishers,1937. Very Good+/none. Hardcover. First Edition, second state. April 1937. With the word loosely on page 9. pps 186. Solid, collectible copy. VG++/none. Binding tight. Spine straight, corners sharp. Pages are clean. Appears unopened, unread. .

True First Edition1944, same date on title pageVG/VGDoubleday Rare, Collectible First Edition with ORIGINAL Dust JacketStated in Book, "True, First Edition after the Printing of a limited printing of 750."
Price of 2.75 on dust jacket. Dedication on Valentine's Day 1944. PO's signature.
This is the story of Larry Darell, an American pilot traumatized by WWI who sets off on a search of some transcendent meaning of his life. Concerned in a large part with the search for the meaning of life with the dichotomy between spirituality and materialism.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1920 first printing of first edition. Ex-Library edition, usual library markings. Being the loved book it has always been, it was obviously checked out many times and shows wear for it. Good/none. Red boards, black titles, cover torn and worn at spine ends. Loose binding though inner pages are all in tact and in very good condition.

Pantheon Books, 1947 VG/noneTan boards with decoupage type effect, depicting donkey pulling cart and roosters done with red white and blue . No DJ. Po's book sticker with name on first fly leaf. Otherwise, no other marks. Clean and tight edition. 223 pgs of high qualify, soft paper. Artfully illustrated throughout by Alexander Alexeieff (1902-1982) Translation from the Russian is by Louise and Alymer Maude. The introduction is by Dorothy Canfield. Colorful illustrations resembling wood cuts.

New York: Walter J. Black Incorporated, 1924 Book. Fine. Hardcover. F/NJ One Volume Edition, presumed First Edition, no date listed. This 1004 page red leather hardcover is in Fine condition, a high quality antique collection from a classic author. The boards are square, with (very) slight shelf wear at sharp corner. The red leather covers and strong, straight spine are embossed with designs of leaves and ornate borders, as well as a shield on the front cover containing the gilt name of the author to match gilt titles and designs along the spine. All 1004 pages are intact and unmarked. One small sticker (1/2 inch by 1 inch) bearing the price of 50c on back flyleaf. No Dust Jacket. Rudyard Kipling gives life to the world of his imagination with a keen ability to tap into the timelessness of the collective conscious. His stories and poetry, all contained within these pages, speak in his unique voice of a universal desire to understand and relate to all around us. This book is a gem, free to be… Read More