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The Franklin Library, 1978. Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. The Return of the Native. Written by Thomas Hardy. Illustrated by Roy Andersen. Published in 1978 by The Franklin Library. A Limited Edition. Dark green leather, gilt accents, gilded edges, moire silk endpapers, and satin ribbon bookmark.

Catch-22, Joseph Heller. First Edition, SECOND PRINTING, signed and inscribed by Heller to Olive Plunkett on front flyleaf. In original dust jacket.

Toys in the Attic. Written by Lillian Hellman. Signed and inscribed by Hellman to Peter Benchley, the author of the bestselling novel Jaws and co-writer of its film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. She writes: "For Peter Benchley. With my warm good wishes for a fine future and my pleasure in having had you in the seminar..." Published in 1960 by Random House. First edition. In original dust jacket with some spotting on front. Hellman was an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway as well as her Communist sympathies and political activism. 116pp. 8vo.

First edition, first issue in the original first-issue dust jacket. Issue points present including title page matching the 1926 on the copyright page; Scribner's seal on the copyright page; bottom of front panel of jacket with "In Our Times", which was corrected in later issues to "In Our Time"; stopped misspelled as "stoppped" at p. 181, line 26; "Book Three" at p. 235 spelled out instead of roman numeral "III"; and down-stairs misspelled as "down-staris" at last line on p. 169. Pages intact without tears, creases, or markings, some light foxing. Unclipped dust jacket with original price present ($2.00), with 2 tape repairs, split at joint of jacket spine visible from reverse, chipping at edges, less than centimeter loss at head and tail, tanned. Hemingway's first novel. When it was published in 1926, The New York Times described it as, "No amount of analysis can convey the quality of The Sun Also Rises. It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more… Read More

The Franklin Library, 1977. Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. The Sun Also Rises. Written by Ernest Hemingway. Illustrated by Stan Hunter. Published in 1977 by The Franklin Library. A Limited Edition. Medium brown or orange leather, gilt accents, gilded edges, moire silk endpapers, and satin ribbon bookmark.

The Franklin Library, 1975. Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. A Farewell to Arms. Written by Ernest Hemingway. Published in 1975 by The Franklin Library. A Limited Edition. The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Red leather, gilt accents, gilded edges, moire silk endpapers, and satin ribbon bookmark.