Perfume by Patrick Suskind - 1986: The Story of a Murder

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Maroon cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Books Critics Circle Award. 2013 Winner of the $100,000.00 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, given for lifetime achievement.

MODERN LIBRARY, 1932. HBDJ, STATED First ML edition 1932 on copyright pg; Modern Library #8 (Toledano number 008.2); EarlyVintage Dust jacket lists 257 titles ON BACK & Inverse OF DJ WITH 95 CENTS & pre zip code Coupon, VG+/VG, .Brown BINDING WITH STREAMER MAN in Gold Gilt , book has a Toledano 7 cover, a D or Kent endpapers and a g jacket. INTERIOR PGS LITE WEAR ,FOX,557 pgs + ADS end with G5 Plutarch?s Lives, DJ lite wear, Fade & small Extremities Chips NOT Removing Print, Purple topstain lite wear, Fade spine DJ Fox, ,where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels, Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and Minnie's husband, Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles… Read More

MODERN LIBRARY , NY, 1933. HBDJ, 1933 , States First Modern Library Edition; 245 Titles Verso & Back of DJ with Pre ZipCode Coupon, VG-/GOOD, in the dust jacket. Small Brown cloth with Gilt Streamer man on front Bright & Titled faded on spine Cvr, Book is very slightly faded; Lacking front free end paper; book plate on front paste-down. Dust jacket is slightly time darkened mostly at spine, few small edge chips. Interior is tight and clean. Kent D endpapers. Toledano Spine # 7. (1933), 12mo, 336 pg. + ADS END WITH SELECTED TALES HAWTHORNE, Spine Tanning DJ & small Extremitiy Chips. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

MODERN LIBRARY, 1931. ,INCLUDES , Merry Tattle of Nuns of Poissy, How Chateau D?Azay came to be Built, Dear Night of Love, Monk Amador ETC, HBDJ, 1931, Stated 1st Modern Library edition on copyright pg , VG/GOOD-, On the back of the dust jacket 200 titles are mentioned indicating a 1931 printing and a first with Coupon,. dust jacket is Lightly STAINED especially on the front cover Bound in brown flexible cloth (spine #7) the book is in About Very Good condition with light wear to spine extremities and minimal fading. Solid binding, bright gilt, handsome brown topstain. Bloomingdale's Book Department small, circular stamp on title page. Contents are clean, and there is no writing in the text. Dust jacket is VG- with a browned and faded spine that has minor chipping at the extremities. 553 pgs, EPILOGUE. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Macmillan, 1965. First Edition, Seventh Printing (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 415 pp. Near Fine / Good+. Unclipped first state dust jacket showing original price of $5.95. Red buckram over board, spine lettered in gilt and black. Fore edge deckled, top edge stained red. Publisher's number "51732" black stamped at lower right of back cover with same on dust jacket back panel. Dust jacket front and back panels feature b/w Harlem street scenes by photographer Leroy McLucas, with title and author's name in red script on front panel. Very slight rubbing at tips and spine ends. Text block tight and square, pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket mildly sunned with spine faded; some chipping at spine ends, as well as at top leading corners top, front and back; slight edge creasing; three quarter inch closed tear on front panel near head of spine, as well as half inch closed tear at top leading corner. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Maroon cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Books Critics Circle Award. 2013 Winner of the $100,000.00 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, given for lifetime achievement.

MODERN LIBRARY, 1932. HBDJ, STATED First ML edition 1932 on copyright pg; Modern Library #8 (Toledano number 008.2); EarlyVintage Dust jacket lists 257 titles ON BACK & Inverse OF DJ WITH 95 CENTS & pre zip code Coupon, VG+/VG, .Brown BINDING WITH STREAMER MAN in Gold Gilt , book has a Toledano 7 cover, a D or Kent endpapers and a g jacket. INTERIOR PGS LITE WEAR ,FOX,557 pgs + ADS end with G5 Plutarch?s Lives, DJ lite wear, Fade & small Extremities Chips NOT Removing Print, Purple topstain lite wear, Fade spine DJ Fox, ,where she starts realizing her own American Dream, first as a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, and later becoming a famous actress. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels, Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline "Sister Carrie" Meeber takes the train to Chicago, where her older sister Minnie, and Minnie's husband, Sven Hanson, have agreed to take her in. On the train, Carrie meets Charles… Read More

MODERN LIBRARY, 1931. ,INCLUDES , Merry Tattle of Nuns of Poissy, How Chateau D?Azay came to be Built, Dear Night of Love, Monk Amador ETC, HBDJ, 1931, Stated 1st Modern Library edition on copyright pg , VG/GOOD-, On the back of the dust jacket 200 titles are mentioned indicating a 1931 printing and a first with Coupon,. dust jacket is Lightly STAINED especially on the front cover Bound in brown flexible cloth (spine #7) the book is in About Very Good condition with light wear to spine extremities and minimal fading. Solid binding, bright gilt, handsome brown topstain. Bloomingdale's Book Department small, circular stamp on title page. Contents are clean, and there is no writing in the text. Dust jacket is VG- with a browned and faded spine that has minor chipping at the extremities. 553 pgs, EPILOGUE. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

London: John Murray, 1924. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: John Murray, 1924, second impression (May), one month after the first. Large 8vo., 6 1/4" x 9", viv+338pp., illustrated with b/w plates. Blind embossed green cloth with gilt titles and bands, top edge tinted green. Some sheets unopened or uncut with deckle edge, else near fine, clean, crisp, bright in very good dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Macmillan, 1965. First Edition, Seventh Printing (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 415 pp. Near Fine / Good+. Unclipped first state dust jacket showing original price of $5.95. Red buckram over board, spine lettered in gilt and black. Fore edge deckled, top edge stained red. Publisher's number "51732" black stamped at lower right of back cover with same on dust jacket back panel. Dust jacket front and back panels feature b/w Harlem street scenes by photographer Leroy McLucas, with title and author's name in red script on front panel. Very slight rubbing at tips and spine ends. Text block tight and square, pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket mildly sunned with spine faded; some chipping at spine ends, as well as at top leading corners top, front and back; slight edge creasing; three quarter inch closed tear on front panel near head of spine, as well as half inch closed tear at top leading corner. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.