Search Results: Authors starting with C from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

London: Novello, Ewer and Co., n.d. [1904]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher’s paper covered boards; some wear and spotting; very good. Consisting of 18 songs, their music and lyrics; printed in two colors (black and blue), but without Blake’s illustrations. Very uncommon.

London: Robert Hale, 1943. First English Edition. Very good in dust jacket.

New York: Avon Books, 1944. First Separate Edition; originally issued in Three Of A Kind. Publisher’s wrappers; a very good to fine copy.

Comprising typed letters signed by Cain and related paperwork, largely concerning contracts, copyrights and screen rights with discussion or mention of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Love’s Lovely Counterfeit, Jealous Woman, Sinful Woman, Rainbow’s End, The Institute, and others. A detailed description is available upon request.

New York: Avon, 1947. Large digest-size format paperback; wrappers. Pages a bit yellowed; very good.

New York: Avon Books, 1943. First Separate Edition; originally issued in Three Of A Kind. Publisher’s wrappers; a near fine copy.

New York: Avon Books, 1943. First Separate Edition; originally issued in Three Of A Kind. Publisher’s wrappers; a nearly fine copy.

New York: Avon, 1947 [according to Hubin, 1948]. First Edition; publisher’s wrappers. Aside from a small stamp on the front wrapper; very good plus.

New York: Avon Books, 1944. First Edition; publisher’s wrappers; a very good to fine copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First Edition of Cain’s second published novel. A very good copy with publisher Knopf’s “Hovel” bookplate, designed by Rockwell Kent.

In a letter dated November 17,1957, writing an academic, recalls his start in writing and the influence of H.L. Mencken and on the craft of writing. This three page double-spaced letter, nearly seven hundred words, is signed in ink, with two tiny ink corrections; creased in the center and with one tiny stain; excellent condition; with the original envelope. In a second letter to the same recipient dated September 26, 1971, single-spaced, around four hundred words, signed in ink, with minor ink corrections. Cain expounds further on writing, mentioning George Jean Nathan, Lardner, Twain and London, and recounting his experience with Walter Lippmann. Creased in the center; excellent condition, with the original envelope. With the publication of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cain was propelled into the hard-boiled company of Hammett, joined by Chandler in 1939.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition of the author’s first novel; a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Very minor offsetting (browning) on the endpapers, closed tear in the back panel, else fine. The cloth is exceptionally bright; in a very good dust jacket with some browning and tiny chips. Few novels have been as well-served by a cinema adaptation as this book was by the 1946 film.

New York: Avon, 1947 [according to Hubin, 1948]. First Edition; publisher’s wrappers. Very good plus.

London: Elliot Stock, 1882. First Edition; large paper issue (a pencil note indicates that there were 50 such copies); an original photograph of Rossetti is mounted on the frontispiece. Bookplate; some foxing and minor wear; very good.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First Edition. Small spot on the title page and the opposite leaf; very good.

New York: Henry Holt, 1940. First Edition. Very good in a good, chipped dust jacket.

New York: Richard R. Smith, 1931. First American Edition. Big game hunting, polo, etc. Very good in dust jacket.

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept, of Health, Education and Welfare, National Library of Medicine, 1958. First Edition; wrappers. Near fine.

London: Ash & Co, 1951. Second printing; publisher’s wrappers; a fine copy.

Paris: Gallimard, 1958. #521 of a numbered edition, from 251 - 750; as typical with French publications, there were numerous issues, lettered, deluxe, etc. His Nobel Prize acceptance speech; bound in publisher’s cloth (silk?) decorated in gold an black; fine in its original cardboard slipcase (a little browned).