Search Results: Modern First Editions from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1972. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 222pp. Former owner's name on blank prelim. First printing with number line intact. A very nice copy of the author's third book. Near fine in very good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1961. Cloth Spine Over Boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing of this scarce little book, bound in cloth spine over patterned boards. Original dustjacket retains price and is protected by Brodart cover. Tipped-in signatures by both Miller and Durrell. Henry Miller signed bookplate on upper front free endpaper and Lawrence Durrell's signature on gold rimmed label, affixed to lower endpaper. Durrell's and Perles' correspondence is elucidated by intermissions by their mutal friend, Henry Miller. A very collectable association copy. Fine in very good+ dustjacket.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1929. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, red cloth in non price clipped publisher's dust-jacket. 278 pages. With Virginia Woolf quote to front flap of dust jacket and original $2.50 price. Translated by Dr. Joseph Collins. First edition, first printing with (1) present on last page of text. No previous ownership marks. Some darkening to red cloth at extremities, albeit gold spine lettering bright and legible. Several pages roughly opened at binder resulting in short tears to fore-edge margin. Dust-jacket generally worn with edge wear and age toning, now protected by new acetate covers. Good in a poor dust-jacket. .

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1988. Paperback in buff colored printed wraps. Uncorrected page proof with final trim size, page numbers, probable publication date and probable price printed on front cover. A lean, square copy. Fine.. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Warner Books, 1995. Book. Fine. Laminated Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in laminated pictorial boards, complete with original wrap-around printed banner containing price, letterpress, and portrait of author on inner rear flap. Banner is about half the size of a normal dust-jacket. 196pp., Essay on "Child Sex Tourism" by David Hechler appended at rear. First edition, first printing with number line intact. Very mild bowing to laminated boards, else a clean crisp copy. A rather disturbing story, even for the brooding protagonist of comic book fame. Fine in a very fine banner..

Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1973. Trade paperback. 198 pages. Stated first edition. Card covers show age toning. A clean, square, internally unmarked copy that has been read but is in very good condition. No previous ownership marks. A good copy. . First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968. Hardcover, purple cloth in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. With beige end-papers and charcoal gray upper edge. 187 pages. Translated by Michael Roloff. First American edition, stated first printing of Hesse's second novel, originally published in 1906. No previous ownership marks. Text block toned at margins as per usual with this edition, else a clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket is clean with no tears ot chips. Very good in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 294pp., First edition, first printing. A fast paced, sexy thriller set in the Hollywood of the 1940's, complete with murder, intrigue and the Red Scare. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh copy. Excellent condition. As new in an as new dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Viking Press, 1998. Hardcover in translucent, non price-clipped dust-jacket. 96pp., Illustrated. First edition, first printing. Signed presentation copy by author on title, dated Feb. 13, 1999. No previous ownership marks. Very mild shelf-wear to jacket and light finger soiling to endpaper. A very nice, signed first with rather risque presentation. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 318 pages. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. The fictional suppressed memoirs of Edgar Allen Poe. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt, 2003. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 434pp., No previous ownership marks of any kind. A clean, bright, square copy, near as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1989. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Half cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2005. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 422pp., First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. By the author of "The Book of Shadows", Reese continues the main protagonist Herculine's adventures, this time traveling to the new world where she will taste the forbidden and find redemption. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1903. Red cloth stamped in black and gold. Written by George Barr McCutheon under the pseodonym Richard Graves. Light wear to cloth, sheets bulked and untrimmed, slightly shaken. Good.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 306 pages. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Random House, 1952. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Stated first printing. Black cloth spine over orange boards, in non price-clipped dustjacket in Brodart covers. Dustjacket chipped at head and tail of backstrip and worn through on several places on spine. Very good+ in good only dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 287 pages. Illustrated with drawings and photographs by Tony Wright. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. An over the top, modern day Candide, featuring Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, the first cannibal ever ti become a New York City celebrity. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. .

New York: Stein and Day, 1974. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 270pp. No previous ownership marks, no remainder marks, etc. Very mild shelf-wear to rear panel of dust-jacket, else a clean square, tight copy, Fine in a very good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Atheneum, 1980. Hardcover, light blue cloth with spine lettered in gold, in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 172 pages. Stated first edition, first printing. The author's third title in the Ere series and sequel to "The Wolf Bell." No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy in a very nice, clean dust-jacket. Fine in a very good+ dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2012. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 503 pages. First edition, first printing with complete number line. The authors' first published of fiction after the Harry Potter novels. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket shows no tears, chips or soiling. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.