Search Results: Modern Fiction from Great Expectations Rare Books

Old Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Company, 1985. Green cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket.. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943. Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in black, no dust-jacket. 189 pages. Stated first edition. Gilpatric's novelized tie-in about the Merchant Marine, from the Warner Brothers film of the same year, starring Humphrey Bogart. Illustrated, with permission, with 23 full page photographic stills from the movie. No previous ownership marks. Light foxing to endpapers, and some mild sporadic foxing throughout, largely marginal. A sound, internally clean copy, with all photographs extant. Good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York.: Dover Publications, 1980. Trade paperback. 317pp., Unabridged republication of the edition published by Grant Richards, London, 1897. New introduction by Norman Donaldson. Illustrated with 66 pen and ink drawings. First printing by this publisher. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. Several leaves, most in appended catalog at rear, creased at top corner. Twelve finely crafted stories centering on Colonel Cuthbert Clay, gentleman crook and confidence man 'par excellence'. A very good copy. . Reprint. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Quality Paperback Book Club Large trade paperback. 361pp., No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tight copy , lightly read with no spine crease. Very good.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full genuine blue leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 356 pages. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, "privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics." (Published in two earlier editions by the Franklin Library, this last edition was limited and though not rare is the most difficult of the three Franklin editions to locate in this condition.) Illustrated with several full page line drawings by Jill Karla Schwartz. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh pristine copy, unmarked and like new. As new..

New York: Fine Communications, 2004. Trade paperback. 308pp. Introduction and notes by Maureen Howard. Later printing in the Barnes and Noble Classics series. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, crisp copy; no spine crease, appears unread. Fine.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, 2017. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 328 pages. Later printing. A Junior Library Guild Selection. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. An unread, like new copy. Fine. .

New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 548 pages. Book Club edition. No previous ownership marks. Several pages with lower corner folded over at tip, else a clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a fine dust-jacket. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Book League of America, 1942. Book. Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, brown cloth in publisher's dust-jacket. 283 pages. Book Club edition, published by Book ZLeague of America. Wartime edition, novel about Russian partisans on the Eastern front. No previous ownership marks. A tight, clean and unmarked copy. Good reading copy. .

New York: Del Rey, 2012. Large softbound volume. 530pp., Advance Uncorrected Proof, Generic printed wrappers. The third and final novel in the author's post apocalyptic trilogy centering on the efforts of a disparate group of people trying to reclaim what is left of the United States. Uncorrected proof, paperback. An uncirculated copy, no previous ownership marks. An unread, clean, square copy. Fine. . Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Book. Near Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 273 pages. Introduction by Gore Vidal. First edition by this publisher, first printing with full number line. Vidal felt Powell "our best comic novelist", while the literary critic Edmund Wilson thought her to be on a level with Anthony Powell. Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark. No previous ownership marks. No spine cease. Very minor toning to page edges. A lightly read copy, clean, tight and unmarked. Near very good. .

New York: Signet, 2005. Mass market paperback. 253pp., Centennial edition. The novel runs to 105 pages, the remainder of the book contains facsimiles of Rand's letters, interviews and journal notes. A reader's guide to the writings and philosophy of Ayn Rand is appended at rear. No previous ownrship marks. A clean, square, tight copy. Very good+.. Later Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Dutton, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 253 pages. The 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by by Leonard Peikoff and an appendix. The latter reproduces the entire original British edition with Ayn Rand's hand-written editorial changes. First edition thus, first printing with full number line. Private gift inscription on half-title and mild incidental spots to bottom edge. Else a clean, square, fresh and unread copy. Near fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964. Large trade paperback. 280pp. Introduction by Martin Green. First Torchbook edition . A sound, well bound used copy. Good.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full genuine brown leather binding, heavily gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 523 pages. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, "privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics." Illustrated with portraits by K. Wendy Popp. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1926. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and as new copy. As new. .

Random House, 2001. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black boards lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's dust-jacket. 300 pages. Translated by Anthea Bell. Illustrated with evocative black and white vignette photographs throughout. Presumed book club issue, as there is no price on dust-jacket, which remains unclipped. Copyright page has stated first edition, first printing [using Random House method of having number line start with "2". In later printings the words first edition were dropped]. First published in 2001, this haunting novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2019. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Very good in a very good dust-jacket. .

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 261pp., Fourth printing. No previous ownership marks, no faults. A clean, square, tightly bound copy. Near as new. Very fine in a very fine dust-jacket.. Later Printing. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Perennial Library / Harper and Row Publishers, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. re-issue. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback. 317 pages. Fourth printing thus. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine..

New York: Viking, 2000. Hardcover in dust-jacket. 338 pages. Book Club edition, first printing thus. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a very good dust-jacket.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1986. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full genuine deep forest green leather binding, gilt stamped with elaborate decorations and multiple rules. 335 pages. All edges gilt. Sewn in silk book-mark, marbled paper end-sheets and smyth sewn book block complete this work as a quality Franklin Library production, "privately printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics." Illustrated with woodcuts by Gary Kelley. First edition thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1945. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new. .