Search Results: Literature from Odysseus Books

New York: Scribner, 2017. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. SIGNED, DATED and PLACED by the author directly on the title page without personalized presentation inscription: "Ann Beattie / 6/13/17 NYC". First edition, first printing, with full number line, 1 to 10, on copyright page. White paper-covered boards and olive-green cloth spine with silver lettering. 270 pages. AS NEW book in AS NEW dust jacket. Both the book and dust jacket are flawless and pristine. Jacket is protected in an archival mylar cover. Book-signing event brochure and copies of two book reviews are laid in..

Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. SIGNED, DATED and PLACED by the author directly on the title page without personalized presentation inscription: "April 18, 2017, NYC / Jami Attenberg". First edition, first printing, with full number line, 1 to 10, on copyright page.Cream-color boards and black spine with bronze lettering. 197 pages. AS NEW book in AS NEW dust jacket. Both the book and dust jacket are flawless and pristine. Jacket is protected in an archival mylar cover. Book-signing event flier and copies of two book reviews are laid in..

New York: Random House, 1957. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, with "First Printing" stated on the copyright page. First-issue dust jacket with publisher's $6.95 price and 10/57 date printed on front flap. Green cloth binding with gold lettering on black title block on the spine. Blue top edge. Peach endpapers. Untrimmed page edges. 1,168 text pages. NEAR FINE book in VERY GOOD + dust jacket. Book is bright and clean with just a few very slight touches of wear, some light creasing in the cloth at the spine ends, a slight touch of sunning to the spine and a moderately sun-faded blue top edge. Tightly bound, straight and square, with no bumping to the edges and no cracking to the hinges. Excellent interior with flawless pages except for a light bottom corner crease on the dedication page and the following contents page. No previous owner markings. Dust jacket is very bright and very clean with no sun-fading. Light wear at the spine ends and folds. Very slight touch… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 2014. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. SIGNED by Bella Thorne on blank page preceding the half-title page, signature only. First edition, first printing, with "First Edition" stated and full number line, 1 to 10, on the copyright page. White cloth hardcover with purple lettering on spine. Purple endpapers. 217 pages. AS NEW book in AS NEW dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are flawless and pristine. Jacket is protected in an archival mylar cover..

New York: Riverhead Books, 2017. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. First edition, first printing, with full number line on copyright page. SIGNED, PLACED and DATED by the author without personalized inscription on the title page "22nd May '17, NYC". Copies of four book reviews are included. AS NEW book in FINE unclipped dust jacket. Book is unread and pristine. Dust jacket has a tiny nick at top spine edge and a light top corner crease on rear panel and is otherwise flawless. Jacket will come protected in a new archival mylar cover. Author is the daughter of "Love Story" author Erich Segal..

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne / G. Cattermole / F. Walker. Very Good +. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition, first printing, of Vols. IX and X of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1867. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations by H. K. Browne and G. Cattermole in Barnaby Rudge and F. Walker in Hard Times on 36 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all of the illustrations that appeared in the first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. xi + 475 and vii + 471 text pages.… Read More

New York: The New American Library, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, "Seventh Printing" stated on copyright page. First-issue price-clipped dust jacket. Black boards and green cloth spine with silver lettering. 309 pages. NEAR FINE book in VERY GOOD + dust jacket. Book is bright and clean, tight and square. Fine except for a light bump at top edge of front board, a faint clear liquid stain at bottom spine end, and some light faint foxing on top edge of text block. Flawless interior. No previous owner markings. Dust jacket is bright and clean with no sunning or toning. Light rubbing at spine ends and corner tips but no tears. Clear liquid stain at bottom spine end extending to adjacent portions of front and rear panels which is outwardly invisible except for slight waviness to paper. Jacket is protected in a new archival mylar cover..

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Stated "Second Printing" of the first edition with title page dated 1961. First-issue dust jacket with $5.95 publisher's price on front flap and the original photo of Heller across entire back panel. Blue cloth hardcover with silver lettering on spine, red topstain and untrimmed page edges. 443 pages. FINE book in VERY GOOD + dust jacket. Book is bright, tight and clean with no sunning or bumping. Flawless interior. No previous owner markings. Dust jacket is bright and clean with no sun-toning. Lightly chipped top spine edge. Three small closed tears: top edge of spine, top edge of front panel and bottom edge of rear panel. Light rubbing on spine panel and some faint spots of discoloration on blue front panel. Thin strip of black adhesive remnant at top edge of rear panel. Otherwise excellent with no creases. Jacket is protected in a mylar cover..

New York: Doubleday, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. "First Edition in the United States of America" stated on the copyright page "September 1991" with full number line beginning with "1". Illustrated dust jacket has the publisher's $15.00 price at the top edge of the front flap. Golden-yellow boards with tan cloth spine with bronze lettering. Green endpapers. 248 text pages. FINE book in FINE dust jacket. Book is obviously unread and not fully opened and is As New except for some faint tiny foxing along the top edge of the text block. Dust jacket has some very slight creasing along the top edges and is otherwise flawless. Jacket will come protected in a new archival mylar cover. .

New York: Riverhead Books, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. SIGNED, PLACED and DATED by the author directly on the title page:" Maile Meloy / 6/20/17 / NYC". First edition, first printing, with title page dated 2017 and full number line on the copyright page beginning with "1". Dust jacket has the publisher's $27.00 price on the front flap. Laid in are copies of three book reviews. FINE book in FINE dust jacket. Book has just slight bending to the edges of the spine ends and is otherwise as new and pristine. Dust jacket has just very slight touches of wear to the corner tips and fore-edge folds and is otherwise as new and pristine. Jacket is protected in an archival mylar cover..

Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1869. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition, second issue, with title pages dated 1869 (first published in 1868 by Ticknor and Fields, which became Fields, Osgood and Co. in 1869). Vols. XIII and XIV of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens.Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations by H. K. Browne on 38 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all the illustrations that appeared in the 1848 first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. ix + 454 and ix + 459 text pages.… Read More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. First UK edition, first printing, with "First published in Great Britain 1969" stated on copyright page with no additional printings stated. First-issue dust jacket with publisher's "42s" price on front flap. Pink cloth hardcover with gold lettering on spine. Blue dust jacket with multi-colored lettering on front cover and spine. 416 pages. VERY GOOD + book in VERY GOOD dust jacket. Book is bright, clean and unworn, tightly bound and square. Slight touch of creasing at top spine end. Sun-toning to top and bottom spine edges and top edges of boards. Foxing to outer edges of the text block. Excellent interior with flawless pages. Previous owner signature on front pastedown. Dust jacket is very bright and clean with no sun-toning. Light wear to the top and bottom edges of the spine and front panel. Rear panel has a one-inch open tear and long crease at top edge and a one-inch closed tear and small… Read More

New York: Grove Press, 1957. Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, fourth issue of the quarterly literary magazine in its original paperback book format. Published in 1957. 160 pages. Front cover has a b/w photo of a motorcycle gang. Back cover features a larger b/w photograph of Jack Kerouac, who contributed "Seattle Burlesque," as well as smaller photos of Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Adamov, Baby Dobbs, and Will Petersen. In VERY GOOD + condition. Wear to the spine ends and edges, some faint light foxing to both covers, browning to the inside covers and facing page, small crease at both bottom corners of covers, and faint bottom corner crease to first few pages. Otherwise bright, clean, unworn, unmarked, and tightly bound with no flaws to the pages..

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, with full number line on copyright page. First-issue dust jacket with publisher's $25.00 price on front flap. Black remainder mark on bottom edge of the text block. NEAR FINE book in FINE dust jacket. Foxing on the outer edges of the text block and the boards. Book and jacket are otherwise excellent..

Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. First edition, "Eighth Printing, February, 1944" stated on the copyright page under the 1943 copyright date. Original larger-size, green-cloth binding with gold lettering on the front cover and spine, the same size as the first printing. In the original-issue dust jacket fitting the larger-format book with the $3.00 price clipped. (Note that 13 stated printings were produced between 1943 and 1944, which were followed by many unstated printings in slightly smaller formats throughout the 1940s and 1950s.) VERY GOOD + book in VERY GOOD dust jacket. Book is bright, clean and unworn. Spine is not sunned except at the top and bottom edges where the dust jacket was chipped. Gold lettering on spine and front cover remains bright and unworn. Small bump on the rear board at the bottom edge. Tightly bound, straight and square with strong, secure hinges with no cracking. Excellent interior with flawless… Read More

Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Early printing of the first edition, with 1943 copyright date but with no printing statement on the copyright page. Original-issue dust jacket with three review blurbs under photo of author on the rear panel and publisher's $3.00 price at the bottom of the front flap and publisher's yellow sticker advertisement for the 1949 movie The Fountainhead starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal and Raymond Massey on the front panel. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. 754 pages. Text includes all the typographical errors found in the first printing. NEAR FINE book in NEAR FINE dust jacket. Book has a lightly bumped top spine end and top corner tips and is otherwise Fine. Very bright, very clean and unworn with no sunning. Tightly bound and square, with strong, sound hinges. No previous owner markings, no browning to the endpapers and flawless pages. Dust jacket is very bright… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1942. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Advance review copy preceding the publication of the first edition hardcover book. Softcover book with French flaps with publisher's $2.50 price on front flap. Illustrated covers are identical to the dust jacket of the first-edition hardcover. Title page is dated 1942 and "First Edition" is stated on copyright page. 310 text pages preceded by four bound pages of facsimile copies of four of the publisher's signed typewritten letters describing the book and the author, the last dated December 1, 1941. Measures 7 3/4" x 5 1/2" x 1 1/4". In VERY GOOD condition. Book is tightly bound. Heavy vertical creasing, slight concavity and light wear to the spine. Covers and flaps are otherwise bright and clean, illustrated front panel especially so with colors remaining vibrant. Slight creasing at the corners. One 1" closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel, which also has some… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First UK edition, first printing, as indicated by "First published in Great Britain 1969" stated on the copyright page with no later printing statement. First-issue white dust jacket has the publisher's original "£1.75 net" price at lower edge of front flap. Black cloth hardcover with gold lettering on spine. 446 pages. NEAR FINE book in VERY GOOD dust jacket. Book is bright, clean and unworn, with no sunning. Tightly bound and square. Excellent interior with flawless pages. Opens slightly wide after the half-title page but still tight and secure. No previous owner markings. Dust jacket is bright and clean except for a small stain on the top end of the spine and just slight overall age-toning to the exterior panels. Light wear at the spine ends, corners and front fore-edge fold. Faint creasing along the top edges. Jacket is protected in a new archival mylar cover..

New York: Scribner, 2002. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. SIGNED by the author directly on the title page, signature only, without presentation inscription. First edition, first printing, with full number line, 1 t0 10, on copyright page. Remainder mark on bottom edge. First-issue dust jacket with publisher's $23.00 price on front flap. Cream paper-covered boards with beige cloth spine. 172 pages. AS NEW book in AS NEW dust jacket. Both the book and the dust jacket are flawless and pristine. Jacket is protected in an archival mylar cover. Copies of three book reviews and an article by Maile Meloy that was published in the NY Times are laid in. Author's first book..

Edinburgh / London: Robert Cadell / Whittaker & Co., 1832. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Vol. 2 only of a two-volume set. "Waverly Novels, Volume 17." First collection of the author's novels under his name. Frontispiece engraving and engraved illustrated title page both dated 1832. Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, and Whittaker & Co., London, by Ballantyne and Company, Edinburgh. Original dark-brown half-leather binding with olive-green marbled boards. Light-brown leather title and volume labels with gilt lettering and edging. Two blank pages + 2 engraved plates + half-title page + 397 text pages + two blank pages. Measures 6 5/8" x 4 3/8" x 1". VERY GOOD condition. Only light general wear to the exterior with gilt lettering on the spine remaining very bright and unworn. Tightly bound and square with no cracking to the hinges. Light foxing and toning to the pages, one closed tear at top blank… Read More