Tales from a Rolltop Desk by Morley, Christopher - 1921

London: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670847933 . Signed and dated by the late J. P. Donleavy on the title page. Black cloth binding with gilt title on spine. Many photos, including front jacket portrait of the artist as a young man and rear jacket photo of an elder Donleavy lakeside with Irish wolfhound. The Ginger Man is Donleavy's first novel and remains his most acclaimed, having been selected by The Modern Library as one of the best 100 Novels of the 20th Century. The present book is an autobiography of his youth in New York City, schooling at Trinity College in Dublin, bohemian doings in Ireland, becoming an Irish citizen, and the machinations behind publication rights for The Ginger Man. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 517 pages .

NY: Pantheon. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Top corners bumped, jacket grubby and has . several chips, one small water spot to jacket at center of spine.. [1951]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Yellow boards with title stamped in various fonts in black on front. Black cloth spine with title stamped in yellow. A comic classic of modern Irish literature, first published in England in 1939. Though Graham Greene championed the novel (his Pantheon front jacket blurb trumpets "A book in a thousand...in the line of Ulysses and Tristram Shandy." ) , and later book blurbs quote Dylan Thomas' mini-book review: "This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." ) , it was initially not a hot seller. All of the unsold first edition copies were destroyed during World War II bombings. At Swim-Two-Birds appears on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels list, The Modern Library Reader's List of 100 best novels, and The Guardian's list of… Read More

NY: Baker & Taylor Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine cocked and rubbed, split at head of spine, spine cracked. 1911. First Edition. Brown cloth with title and tree design stamped on front boards and title in gilt on spine. Black and white frontispiece illustration by P. J. Monahan, with tissue guard. A novel about a young man struggling to become a painter. G-464, Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography. 410 pages .

NY: W. W. Norton and Company. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards and endpapers lightly dampstained, jacket . price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, and lightly dampstained on interior.. 1966. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Halfbound in green cloth. Introduction by Francis Wyndham. Jacket art by Bill Logan. The Caribbean-born author wrote this prequel about the characters in Charlotte Bronte’s classic, Jane Eyre, which made both TIME magazine’s list of 100 Best Novels and Modern Library’s list of 100 Best 20th Century English-Language Novels. The book also served as the basis for the 1993 film directed by John Duigan. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .

NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and chipped at spine.. 1940. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Gray cloth binding. Second printing, second state binding with second state dust jacket illustrated by Floethe. B-P code on copyright page. No price printed on jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 359 pages .

London: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. First British Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670847933 . Signed and dated by the late J. P. Donleavy on the title page. Black cloth binding with gilt title on spine. Many photos, including front jacket portrait of the artist as a young man and rear jacket photo of an elder Donleavy lakeside with Irish wolfhound. The Ginger Man is Donleavy's first novel and remains his most acclaimed, having been selected by The Modern Library as one of the best 100 Novels of the 20th Century. The present book is an autobiography of his youth in New York City, schooling at Trinity College in Dublin, bohemian doings in Ireland, becoming an Irish citizen, and the machinations behind publication rights for The Ginger Man. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 517 pages .

NY: Pantheon. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Top corners bumped, jacket grubby and has . several chips, one small water spot to jacket at center of spine.. [1951]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Yellow boards with title stamped in various fonts in black on front. Black cloth spine with title stamped in yellow. A comic classic of modern Irish literature, first published in England in 1939. Though Graham Greene championed the novel (his Pantheon front jacket blurb trumpets "A book in a thousand...in the line of Ulysses and Tristram Shandy." ) , and later book blurbs quote Dylan Thomas' mini-book review: "This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." ) , it was initially not a hot seller. All of the unsold first edition copies were destroyed during World War II bombings. At Swim-Two-Birds appears on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels list, The Modern Library Reader's List of 100 best novels, and The Guardian's list of… Read More

NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket tattered and chipped at spine.. 1940. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Gray cloth binding. Second printing, second state binding with second state dust jacket illustrated by Floethe. B-P code on copyright page. No price printed on jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 359 pages .

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. Good in Good dust jacket; Boards worn, spine cocked, corners rounded, . pages toned, jacket edgeworn.. 1943. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Early printing of this bestselling novel, later made into the 1949 film starring Gary Cooper as idealistic architect Howard Roark. Red cloth titled in gilt on front boards and spine. . First edition is NOT printed on copyright page, but Rand's disclaimer is. Printing errors on pp 9, 321, 381, 480. Later state jacket with Rand's photo and three review blurbs on rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 754 pages .

NY: The Modern Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Topstain faded, owner name on front . endpaper, jacket chipped with closed tears and missing a large portion of . the top front panel.. 1925. 1st modern library edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Green leatherette with green topstain. xv, 270pp. ML #69. Toledano binding style 4, endpaper style 4 by Bernhard, 1st ML on copyright page, owner name and 1927 date on front endpaper. Slightly later issue (1927) jacket style 4, top edge piece noting number of titles missing, titles list to #133 In The Midst of Life by Ambrose Bierce, A new title is added on the 25th day of every month statement runs along the inside bottom edge. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .