American Literature from Grimalkin Books

New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1903. The complete 12-volume set is in Very Good condition. The books are bound in a powder-blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Each book has a single black-and-white frontis illustration. The bindings are tight and the pages are clean without foxing. Volume 11 (Whittier) has some scratch marks on the rear cover. They all… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1995. This Stated First Edition from March 1995 (and unless it's stated, it's not) has a "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in close to Fine condition, with a close to Fine unclipped dust jacket. (Click on photo.) This monumental anthology traces the history and culture of African American… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. This is a handsome First Edition, Second State (Manhattan Press), of Edith Wharton's first novel, published February, 1902. It's also her only historical novel, set during the Italian Renaissance, yet contains some of the themes she would explore in her later Society novels. This two-volume set is in very good condition, with… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992. This particular copy was given as a complimentary gift by the San Francisco-based publisher. It is in As New, unread condition and comes with the original price-unclipped front and rear flaps. The book includes 28 authors, some with as many as three contributing stories on life in San Francisco, from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the… Read more about this item

New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1905. This handsome set of American short stories contains work by prominent 19th Century authors, many of whom, like Booth Tarkington, still had many years of productivity before them in the new century. These books include both title and author indexes in the fifth volume. The pages are consecutively numbered for a total… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2010. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours and A Home at the End of the World strikes another homerun with this novel about a SoHo art dealer, his editor wife, and her younger look-alike brother. The book is in Fine, Brand New condition, with a Fine, Brand New dust jacket. I've placed… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. In this allegorical novel of Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, the author deals with such current issues as immigration, energy, relgious freedom, and the return of a deranged serial killer known as Preacher Jack. The book is a Stated First Edition and includes a "number line" starting with a "1" to indicate First Printing. The… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. This Seventh Printing from August, 2001 is in New, unread condition, with a New dust jacket. In Anne Tyler's 15th published novel, a middle-aged woman, feeling dislocated from her current life as the matriarch of a large extended family, struggles to retrieve her identity. This new, unread book is bound in deep blue boards… Read more about this item

Pleasantville, New York: Reader's Digest, 1989. This complete, unedited and handsome edition of Jack London's ultimate sea adventure first published in 1904 was a best-seller in its day and helped cement the author's literary career. His other favorite, "The Call of the Wild," had been published to worldwide acclaim the preceding year. The book is in As New condition… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. This Stated First Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine condition with a Fine price-unclipped dust-jacket. As the title suggests, the theme of trust, either betrayed or fulfilled, runs though this collection of 22 short stories by Updike. The book is bound in sky blue-covered boards with a deeper blue cloth… Read more about this item

Chicago: The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1976. This handsome, complete 20-volume set is in Fine condition. Most volumes appear to be unread. It also includes an oversized Near-Fine paperback, Introduction. This Introduction volume also contains the Contents of all 20 volumes and an Index of Authors and Sources. The Encyclopedia Britannica published this edition in 1976, just in time for America's Bicentennial… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. This Stated First Edition with a "number line" ending in a "2" to indicate Second Printing is in As New unread condition with an As New dust jacket. The Pulitizer Prize winning author explores the life of a seemingly ordinary middle-age man whose rich sexual imagination lies just beneath the surface but remains… Read more about this item

New York: Plume, 1982. The Hills Beyond was Thomas Wolfe's last great novel, published posthumously. (Wolfe died at age 37 due to pneumonia.) The novel traces the life of a vital Southern family over three centuries. This oversized paperback book is a Stated First Printing from Plume with the appropriate "number line" starting with a "1". There is… Read more about this item

New York: The Free Press, 1969. This Third Printing oversized soft cover from June, 1969, is in Near Fine condition and does not appear to have been read. This is very minimal edge wear and corner curl (as shown in photo). The book features writing from Frederick Douglass, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B.Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay,… Read more about this item

Little, Brown, and Company, 1972. This collection of Ogden Nash's poems, published posthumously, includes many poems that first appeared in various magazines of the period. The book is an oversized paperback in its original wraps (click on photo). The covers show some light rubbing at the spine tips and light foxing. The binding is secure, and the pages are clean,… Read more about this item

Shippensburg, PA: Shippensburg University, 2009. This issue of Shippensburg University's literary magazine, Proteus, is from the Fall, 2009, Volume 26.2, and features the title article by Charlaine Harris, as well as ten other authors' literary articles throughout on the subject of vampires and psychic vampires, plus other supernatural parasites and invaders, real or fictional. The article is filled with the… Read more about this item

Shippensburg, PA: Shippensburg University, 2009. This issue of Shippensburg University's literary magazine, Proteus, is from the Fall, 2009, Volume 26.2, and features the title article by Charlaine Harris, as well as ten other authors' literary articles throughout on the subject of vampires and psychic vampires, plus other supernatural parasites and invaders, real or fictional. The article is filled with the… Read more about this item

New York: Wing Books, 1994. These 31 stories include a Foreward by the author. This third-printing book is in Fine condition with a Fine dust jacket. The book is bound in beige boards with a light, reddish brown spine and die-stamped gilt titles. There is some age toning around the page edges due to acidity in the paper stock used.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1994. This Stated First Trade Edition (and, unless it's stated, it's not) is in Fine, New, unread condition, with an equally Fine, unclipped dust jacket. The book has mauve taupe boards and a cloth spine with bronze die-stamped titles on the spine and illustrated endpapers. Set in a Florida retirement community, Michener deals with the plights… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. Although this is not a stated First Edition, it has the First Issue point of incorrectly labeling Chapter 22 as Chapter 23 on Page 199. This delightfully whimsical work is a must for Morley admirers. The book is a bright, clean copy. It is bound in a woven green cloth, with… Read more about this item