The Same Door; Short Stories by Updike, John - 1959

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition Charles Scribner's Sons; New York; 1931 "A" 8vo size tan clothbound hardcover with blue title and decorations and dust jacket; 314 toned pages. The back of the dust jacket features a small photograph of the author and his biography. From jacket flap: "His stories concern love in the springtime, courting, jealousy, an accident, a lynching, old age, a death. Some of them are very short, yet the reader finds within their brevity all the flavor and mood of some American incident which, in Caldwell's hands, becomes a story - interesting, individual, authentic." Price sticker on fep. Jacket is separated into two pieces on front spine seam with edgewear and chipping, particularly to head and heel and edges; small abrasion on fep from sticker. Top and bottom of spine are bumped and the bottom of spine is frayed. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. First printing (so stated). Blue paper-covered boards quarter-bound in gray cloth. A very handsome copy; fine except for a touch of wear at the spine ends. The dust jacket is toned, darkest on the spine. There is very light wear at the spine ends and the corners. The jacket price is intact but partially inked over. In Brodart dust jacket protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Pauline Baynes. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Fremont, MI: The Sumac Press, 1969. Signed by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber. First edition / First printing. (Softcover edition) Illustrated wrappers. Fine.

Boston: Printed for the Booksellers. Good+. 1832. Hardcover. Clean blue paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. Complete in three volumes . 216pp, 220pp and 216pp. Interiors of the three texts are tight, clean and intact. Each volume with a frontispiece. German literature, a Corsican bandit uprising against French domination. Small piece of blue paper missing from #1's rear cover. Lightly rubbed on front corners. Prior owner's signature on top edge and frontispiece. Vol. 1 & 3 have a small narrow damp stain on bottom margin. Novel, German Literature, Fiction; Thin 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 652 pages .

"LITTLE PAUL" from the "Dombey and Son" of Charles Dickens. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); Redfield; New York. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Scarce volume from the 6-volume "DICKENS' LITTLE FOLKS" series which was "undertaken with a view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration." "With this view, the career of [Little Paul has] been detached from the large mass of matter with which [he was] originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public."Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; 1" cloth tear at the top-right corner of the spine; horizontal crease across the front cover which is also visible on the opposite side of the board. Occasional foxing and staining to the pages (heaviest on end… Read More

1914. 1914 Freeman, R Austin THE UTTERMOST FATHING: A SAVANT'S VENDETTA Philadelphia: The John C Winston Company, c1914 296pp illus H Weston Taylor 8vo red cloth, gilt slight rubbing on corners, spine edges, o/w fine copy.

1925. 1925 Lawrence, DH REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF A PORCUPINE Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925 #423/925cc 240pp 8vo Oatmeal cloth backed/marbled paper-covered boards Faint tanning on spine, else fine bright unflawed, probably unread copy Cardboard slipcase present but in pieces.

Hutchinson, 1961. First UK edition-first impression. Hardcover. Very good/No Dj cover. VGC plus.Hutchinson,1961.First UK edition-first impression.Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks and scratch on the edges of the cover and spine)in VGC, no Dj cover.Nice and clean pages with a couple of small foxing marks and nick on the outer edges,two small foxing marks and a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC plus for its age with light shelf wear.487pp including Author's note.A collectable and scarce first edition but without the Dj cover.

New York: A & C Boni, 1932. First edition. Twelvemo. Light grey cloth stamped in black and silver; dark topstain; green & black-printed title page; xii, 306 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with some sunning to board edges. The unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket is a trifle rubbed with a small chunk missing from the bottom of the front panel; spine browned. [John Joseph] Sherry Mangan (1904-1961) was a Trotskyist writer and poet whose first published novel, Cinderella Married, lampooned the social conventions of the rich and was based on his experiences tutoring the prominent Garland family. We find no other copies available in commerce with just over a dozen institutional copies found via OCLC.

New York: Pantheon, 1999. Signed on the title page and dated Nov. 4, 1999 by the author. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award.