Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen so - 1938

New York: The Armchair Detective, 1991. Signed by Richard Condon on the colophon. Limited Edition / First Printing. Number 87 0f 100 copies. Maroon cloth in a Maroon cloth slipcase Very fine in a very fine slipcase. With a new introduction by Richard Condon. Basis for the 1962 John Frankenheimer film, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 284pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gold-stamped decoration to the upper board. With decorated endpapers, a title page decoration, a frontispiece and twelve Henderson tailpiece decorations. Top edge lightly dust marked and spotted, others untrimmed. A narrow strip of browning to the free endpapers and a touch of soiling to the pastedowns. A very good copy in the most uncommon dust wrapper which reproduces a larger version of the frontispiece design; the wrapper is price-clipped, tanned at the spine panel, a little marked, spotted and stained in places with a tiny sliver of loss from the head of the spine panel, just a fraction of further loss from the tail and several more millimetres of loss from the corner tips and upper edge. A historical novel by the honorary Inkling, retelling 'The Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion', written between his… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 226 pages. In Very Good condition, with Very Good dust jacket. Spine yellow with red titling. dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Price uncut '$2.00'. Very mild wear and rubbing overall. Larry McMurtry's copy, with his neat (and therefor very early) ownership signature in pencil on the front free end paper. CX Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room G. Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter, perhaps best known for 'Terms of Endearment' and 'Lonesome Dove.';. 1346551. Special Collections.

Condition: VG+. First edition, second issue with tipped in title page (as expected). 327 pp. followed by two leaves of ads. Light bumping to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's stamp to FFEP and an owner's bookplate affixed to rear of first color plate. Solid and square book. Front pastedown has some cracking at hinge.

New York: E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, 1988. Signed on the half-title page by the author. Also signed at the lower right corner of his illustration on the cover of dust jacket by Russell Chatham. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, olive paper-covered boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1961. Stated First edition. hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo. Quarter red cloth and black boards, with gilt lettering. 337 pages. An Advance Review Copy in promotional dust-jacket. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. Spine [blank] and flap folds of dust-jacket are slightly toned, with a tiny chip at spine tail. A Fine copy in special dust-jacket of Yates' first novel.

NY, Random House, 1962, first edition, first printing.. No dust jacket, this is John Gardner's first book, preceding his The Resurrection by four years, it is essentially a text book written while he was an English professor at Chico State College, Signed by Gardner, it includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, pages 248-258, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B124, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and others. Very good plus.

London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1925, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Review Copy with review slip, preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham, jacket illustration by E. Lucchesi, includes four short stories, they are The Warrior's Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, and The Black Mate, all the stories were privately printed originally, this is their first trade publication, Smith 27, Keating 193. Very good.

Leipzig, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1915 (Copyright indicates, correctly, 1915, title page 1916, which has been cause of considerable confusion). Octavo, red boards, cloth covered spine and corners, 500 pp. Decorative title on cover and spine, ribbon, top-edge gilt. No printing date, which indicates this is the true first edition (after 100 numbered copies). Printed on mold-made paper. An excellent copy, some mild rubbing and faint spots on cover, spine a little toned, else fine. Nice little bookplate in the shape of a postal stamp on flyleaf. No foxing, just the slightest toning at top edge of paper. Ships from Mexico City by DHL or FedEx, insured. More pictures available upon request

NY: Basic Books, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed copy of this first collected edition of Fuchs' enduring novels about life in Depression-era Brooklyn, "Summer in Williamsburg," "Homage to Blenholt," and "Low Company," originally published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. Fuchs has lovingly inscribed this copy to Susan Foster, a long-time personal assistant to film and literary mega-agent Irving Paul Lazar, and later Frank Sinatra. The nature of Fuchs and Foster's acquaintance is unknown, though it seems safe to assume that they might have met during Fuchs' long tenure as a Hollywood scriptwriter. His inscription, "From one Brighton Beachcomber to another," also leaves open the possibility that the two had known each other growing up in Brooklyn. Inscribed by Fuchs and signed as "Dan" on the front free endpaper. Octavo (5.75 x 8.25 in.); vii, 380, 301, 314pp.; red cloth boards, gold lettering on spine,… Read More