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New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Early Printing. A. dustjacket art. Nobel Prize winner wrap around band, "Pulitzer Prize 1953" on front flap of dust jacket. Hemingway's classic novella of an old fisherman and his trials on the open sea. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket.

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871. Fifth Edition, with Additions and Corrections. Octavo, original brown blind stamped pebbled cloth. Very Good, with light edge wear including lightly bumped spine ends, and a short abrasion on the side of the spine.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1933. First American Edition (stated). Lazarnick Studio designed dustjacket art. Uncommon American edition of author's first major success. 'Five people linked by the sole accident of their imprisonment together on the train. The brilliant and wealthy young Jewish fruit merchant; Dr. Richard John with his English passport and his strange accent. Coral Musker, cold and hungry and desperately poor; Josef Grunlich, a murderer with the police of Austria snarling on his trail; and Mabel Warren, a crack English journalist [and lesbian] who scented something strange'. Basis for the 1934 Fox Film directed by Paul Martin and starring Heather Angle, Norman Foster and Ralph Morgan. Almost Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket (but with the word 'price' still visible), some tiny chips at spine ends and flap corners, edges with modest wear and short closed tears.

[Washington, DC]: No Publisher, [1944]. Large folio scrapbook; 22 1/2 X 14 1/2 inches; Leather covered heavy boards; Heavy paper leaves held by brackets; 100+ folio pages containing notes, clippings, show programs, cards, notes and other ephemera glued or taped on leaves; almost all items are meticulously notated with dates and other commentary. Scrapbook of Mark Freeman Gillette (1929-2013), son of Senator Guy M. Gillette (D-Iowa) who served in the U.S. Congress (1932-1936) and in the U.S. Senate (1936-1944 and 1949-1955) for a combined 18 years. His son, Mark F. Gillette (keeper of the scrapbook) and his mother accompanied the Senator to Washington D.C., residing there for much of Mark's childhood. The scrapbook is compiled by the young Gillette and spans the years when his father served as Senator from Iowa. The front flyleaf of this large folio scrapbook is festooned with scribbled writings and "dedications" by the teenage Gillette (1944) and conveys a hopeful and patriotic outlook. The second… Read More