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[Toronto]: Doubleday, Doran & co, 1933. 1st Canadian edition. 'Printed in Canada by T.H.Best . . . Toronto'. Near fine in gold & red dust jacket a bit frayed & rubbed at the tips but still nice & bright. Binding & dust jacket as in the US edition. Somewhat scarce.. First Edition. Cloth.

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys [1983.] 1st Canadian edition. Publication date listed as 'April 8/83'. * Uncorrected proofs in red printed wraps. One corner bumped & wavy else a fine copy in custom made heavy blue board slipcase - rare proof, few were done for the small Canadian market.. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Galley/Proof.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1983. 1st edition. Uncorrected proof in blue printed wraps and proof dust jacket. Fine copy in fine dust jacket which is a little wrinkled at the spine where it oversizes the proof. At the time of purchase it was represented as being one of only 25 copies; but experience has since made this number dubious at best.. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Galley/Proof.

[ NP ]: Hearst Magazines, 1932. this is an advertizing card - double sided - 8 1/2 x 13 " - one side with a print ad for Zane Grey's " Lost Wagon Train " & Coolidge on war debt - the other side a magnificent full length Harrison Fisher girl with parasol lounging on a beach - this famous cover amply demonstrates Fisher's high degree of technical skill in the integration of illustration, tyopography, and colour - this ad on heavy card stock would have been displayed on a street magazine stall - rare Fisher ephemera - scann available for serious inquires .. First Edition. Ad Card. Very Good. Illus. by Harrison Fisher / E. Stetson Crawford. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-merrill, 1928. First printing - Not considered a fantasy by Bleiler or Day but certainly seems to be a kind of Christian Fundamentalist / Revivalist fantasy, the Jesus Complex - Light green cloth printed in black - Fine in very good pictorial dust jacket, a bit dusty, with minor use, but essentially a very bright & fresh copy & rare thus .. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

N. P.: N. P., 1996. advance preliminary proof - in-house - [ pre-1996 ? ] - 11 5/8 by 8 1/4 " - 169 photocopied sheets, not typeset - padbound with black binders tape spine, pink word- processed wraps with just author and title - no publisher or place given - comparison of the text reveals missing sections, missing photographs and the inserted rhymes, etc. - a manuscript type proof produced for his editor's consideration, the publishers legal department etc. - a rare and virtually unknown [ only known copy ] form of this Pulitzer Prize winning Memoir which I found in a used paperback bookshop in the Australian outback - minor sticker shadow on upper cover else about fine. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. Galley/Proof.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. WWII philosophical novel - wartime publication with paper restrictions causing very minor paper defect on fly else fine in nf dj - a little nicked & worn at the the spine top but overall very bright & fresh & scarce thus .. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, England: Andre Deutsch, 1965. - first English edition - first printing - very fine in very fine dj, no flaws.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1958. 1st edition; 1st issue. Printed on smooth paper with the text sheets bulking 21.5 mm, jacket fits the book properly. Small neat calligraphic bookplate on the front pastedown else fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket, small tears at spine edge folds, minor darkening of the spine, but overall very fresh - Very scarce in this advance state, a full Robert Temple report on issue points available for anyone who cares any more.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Vg. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Viking Press, 1982. 1st American edition. Proof copy in mustard yellow wraps. Very fine copy in printed wraps in a custom made paper board slipcase. The translation was the object of some controversy.. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Viking Press, 1982. 1st American edition. Proof copy in mustard yellow wraps. Very fine copy in printed wraps in a custom made paper board slipcase. The translation was the object of some controversy.. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974. 1st edition. Fine / fine dust jacket - without the usual price increase sticker.or price clipping & scarce thus - author's signature tipped in on a slip at the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, Eng.: John Long, 1944. - war-time collection of short stories, with supernatural content, not in Bleiler, but noted by Day - cheap war-time production, [ 1944 ] - vg condition - rare.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

San Francisco: Michael Hargraves, 1981. - one of 150 copies signed - weird voodoo / hallucinogenic drugs and CIA headhunters - 19 pp. - a lovely little tale of Shamans, African politics and guesome beheadings.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Sutton West, ON: Paget Press, 1983. 1st edition. Wraps. 8 pp. Two photographs and two facsimile letters. Very fine in pictorial wraps. advance exerpt of the book = prospectus - NOT THE BOOK .. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. 1st edition. Fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. Review copy with the Canadian slip laid in, and a review stamp on the endpaper.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1966. 1st edition. 1st novel. Evidence of bookplate removal on front paste-down but a very good copy in very good price-clipped dust jacket; minor rubbing, bit of edgewear at the spine top. Quite a nice copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago, Ill.: Spotlight Publishers, 1944. - Twain contribution in this anthology of 1940's softcore, such as it was in the popular press - this anthology includes, Blake, Burns, Rabelais, Balzac, Voltaire & I just found another Twain - " Men minus Women " - anthology is titled " The Pleasure Primer " edited by Walter S. Keating - vg in pulp digest sized wraps, paper browning - piracy one presumes.. First Thus. Original Wraps. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1970. 1st edition. * 2nd novel. Michael Ondaatje's copy with his very early completely legible ownership signature " Michael & Kim Ondaatje " [ Kim being his first wife ] - nice association copy . Fine copy in fine dust jacket but for a tiny spot on the rear wrap - future dystopian feminist novel, an influence on Margaret Atwood. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Knopf, 1926. Roberts A 34, note - first American edition - variegated colour paper boards a little chaffed at spine tips but much better than usual copy in the orange printed dj that is faded / tanned at the spine, nicked at the tips, but vg.. First Edition. Paper Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall.