LITERATURE from Champ & Mabel Collectibles

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1966. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Benson, Susan. 127p. Jacket corners worn and edges lightly scuffed. Collection of short stories or sketches of life in the Battersea area of London in the 1960s. B&w illustrations by Susan Benson. (7-5/8"x5-3/8")

Gardena, California: Elbee Publications, 1979. Softcover. Good +. 40p. A few scrapes on front, stains on cover, top right corner bent. Gardena-based author's poetry, prose, and plays about war and its effects. The works collected here have appeared in The Gardena Valley News. Plastic comb binding. B&w illustrations. (8-1/2"x5-5/8")

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. (1st Edition). Cloth. Good +/No Jacket. 347p. Gift note on front endpaper, stains on page fore edges. cover edges and corners scraped with fade spot on front. [Roberts & Poplawski; A21a] (7-5/8"x5-1/4")

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First Edition, Stated (Thus). Cloth. Very good/very good. x, 246p. Jacket corners worn and edges chipped. First English translation published in 1933 under the title: The Sinner. A novel of Hasidic life in the Eastern European area of Galicia. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. (8-5/8"x5-3/4")

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. [xvi], 377p. 1st printing. Top of cover sunned, jacket corners worn. (9-1/4"x6-1/4")

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980. Hardcover. Very good/very good. [271p.] Top back edge of jacket creased. Three short novels that reveal a different aspect of Lenin's personality and his European travels. Translated from the Russian. 8 leaves of b&w plates. (10-3/8"x6-7/8")

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 275p. Chip and crease on top back jacket edge. Collection of remembrances of Lenin's contemporaries including workers, artists, and other revolutionaries. Translated from the Russian. 8 leaves of b&w plates. (10-1/2"x7")

Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1988. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 422p. Collection of short stories by the Russian writer awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Literature. 12 leaves of b&w photo plates. (8-1/8"x4-7/8")

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First American Edition, Stated. Pictorial boards. Very good/good. 177p. Cover corners worn, jacket spine chipped at top and bottom and small tears to edges. Argentinean author's first novel. Originally published in 1948 in Spanish as El Tunel by Sur, Buenos Aires. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. (7-1/2"x5-1/4")

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1968. Cloth. Very good/very good. 277p. Book plate on front endpapers, text has a bit of marginalia, price clipped jacket has a few chips to edges. From jacket flap: "[C]onsists of more than 200 poems, each provided with a fictional prose setting. The poems deal with all the chief topics of Japanese court… Read more about this item

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. xviii, 204p. 1st printing. Jacket rubbed with scratch on back. From the front jacket flap: A "sweeping, vitally important survey of the literary response to nuclear realities from 1945 to" the 1990s. Features all aspects of literature including poetry, children's literature, and history. Includes bibliography. (9-1/2"x6-1/2")

New York: The New York Public Library & Granary Books, 1998. Softcover. Very good. 340p. Cover edges curled and scraped. Accompanies an exhibition held at the New York Public Library that offered "a glimpse into the Mimeo Revolution, focusing on the small press publishing scene in San Francisco and in downtown New York City." [WorldCat] Includes bibliographical references.… Read more about this item

Boston: Cupples, Upham & Co., 1885. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. [86p.], 3 leaves of Cupples, Upham new titles. Book plate and written address on front endpaper, newspaper clipping, which summarizes Besant's rules for novel writing, glued to back pastedown. A lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, April 25, 1884. The Art of Fiction by Henry James, p. 49-85. in… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963. (1st Edition). Cloth. Good/good. [x], 173p. Jacket lightly soiled with chips to edges. Critical review of Raymond Chandler's mystery novels and short stories featuring the private detective, Philip Marlowe, and Los Angeles, California. Includes bibliography and checklist. (8-3/4"x5-3/4")

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [iv], 181p. Endpapers heavily toned, spine sunned and corners worn with fade spots on cover. Collection of short stories of the ideal wife. Red cloth. (7"x4-1/2")

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Cloth. Good +/No Jacket. [viii], 301p. Endpapers heavily toned with first and last few pages foxed, front hinge weak spine sunned and corners worn. Collection of short stories of the supernatural. Red cloth. (7"x4-1/2")

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [xiv], 319p. Endpapers toned, spine sunned with corners lightly worn. An early work by the 19th century Spanish realist novelist of the arrival of a young radical on a provincial town. Red cloth. (7"x4-5/8") H13070

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [xvi], 195p. Endpapers toned, some leaves uncut, spine sunned with corners lightly worn. Collection of short stories about 19th century life in Paris. Red cloth. (7"x4-5/8")

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. [viii], 271p. Endpapers heavily toned with first and last few pages foxed, spine sunned with top frayed and corners lightly worn. Collection of short stories about American girls. Red cloth. (7"x4-1/2")

[Salt Lake City, Utah]: Deseret News Press, 1938. Cloth. Very good/No Jacket. 342p. Endpapers toned, top page edges have brown spots, cover corners lightly worn. Essays sharing the wisdom learned during a hardscrabble upbringing among the sagebrush desert and hills. (8"x5-5/8")