Search Results: Fiction from Warwick Books

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. 1929 printing, of book copyrighted in 1928. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with moderate tanning on spine and light chipping at top of spine. Interior pages are lightly tanned. Nice Art Deco jacket design by M.K. Morris. Decorative Art Deco endpapers. 8vo. 315 pp. In protective Mylar.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Three hardcover volumes in dust jackets. Books are Eighth, Second, and Sixth printings respectively, uniform in book and jacket design. Books are crisp, clean, and well bound. Unclipped dust jackets have no wear to very light wear. So sorry that Justine is missing! 8vo. Varying pagination. In protective Mylar.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with minimum wear. A novel about a patrol lost in the Sahara and its desperate march to safely. The second novel by Rene Hardy. Jacket design by Barbara Elias. 8vo. 256 pp. In protective Mylar.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. Hardcover in dust jacket. Early printing. Book is very good condition in green cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Spine ends are softened. The stamped named of a former owner is on front free endpage. Dust jacket has chips all along top edge and it has tape reinforcement along edges on reverse side and on the back of the jacket. One piece of tape is at the spine. Price of $2 on front flap. A more than decent copy, overall. 8vo. 311 pp. In protective Mylar.

Alhambra, CA: Borden Publishing Co, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Good +. Hardcover in dust jacket. Contemporary (1964) reprint of a metaphysical classic. Book is crisp and clean in blue cloth boards. Unclipped dust jacket in intact, with wear along edges. 8vo. 377 pp. including a two-page vocabulary list at the end. In protective Mylar.

New York: Crown, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is As New, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright with a few tiny tears at edges. Map endpapers. Jacket typography by Paul Bacon. Jacket painting by Hiroko. The first volume in Auel's Earth's Children series. 8vo. 468 pp. A very nice collectible copy. In protective Mylar.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed on front free endpage "For Bill C. with appreciation for a long friendship." Book and unclipped jacket are fresh and bright with very light wear. Map endpapers. 8vo. 415 pp. In protective Mylar.

New York: Pantheon, 1958. Early edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First published in the U.S. in September 1958, with two printings prior to publication. This copy was printed in October 1958, the fifth printing of the first edition, (51st-65th thousand). Book is in very nice condition, clean, unmarked, sturdily bound. Unclipped dust jacket with price of $5 at top is intact with some loss at top of spine and some light spotting on the spine. Overall a handsome copy of Pasternak's celebrated novel. 559 pp., including the poems of Yurii Zhivago. With author's photo on rear. In protective Mylar.

Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover in blue paper boards. Title in gilt on front and spine. Spine has decorative gilt. Pager is faintly tanned but book is otherwise like new. Illustrated. Small 8vo. 397 pp. In Portuguese only.

New York: HarperCollins, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition, second printing. Fine condition. SIGNED by the author on title page. Book is As New. Echo is one of Block's standalone novels. Small 8vo. 215 pp.

New York: Viking Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in fine condition, crisp and clean. Tips spine top of Jacket have a touch of wear. No other marks or mars. Price on flap is $18.95. With illustrations by David Palladini. Printed by Haddon Craftsmen, Scranton, Pennsylvania. In protective Mylar. 8vo. 326 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to her literary agent, Irene Skolnick, from whose estate the book comes. Crisp and clean condition, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with very faint rubbing to jacket back. 8vo. 262 pp. including index. In protective Mylar.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Book is bound in beige boards, with tight binding and sharp corners. Some light staining along bottom edge. Dust jacket is unclipped, with original $3.50 price on top front flap. (The price has been penciled over lightly to read $2.00.) Light overall wear and some chips on edge, along with same light rim of light staining that is on the boards. Photo of Southern on jacket back. Blurbs from the British edition on back flap. Jacket design by Edward Sorel. 8vo. 204 pp. In protective Mylar.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket with original price of $3.95 on jacket flap. First edition, tenth printing. Book is straight and clean, with some white mottling near spine. Dust jacket is fresh and bright, with very light wear at corners and a discreet tape repair at rear. Pictorial endpapers. 8vo. 184 pp. In protective Mylar.

Grass Valley, CA: Teahouse of Danger, 2008. Softcover. Fine. Softcover in glossy pictorial wraps. 2008 edition. SIGNED by the author on title page. Book is in Fine condition, clean and unmarked. Truth's vivid illustrations are integral to the story on every page. 4to. 21 pp. Recently reissued but hard to find in this early edition.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition. Unclipped jacket has a few small chips along edges and moderate soiling to back. The rims of the blue boards have a touch of soiling, but overall the book is in very good condition, clean, crisp, tightly bound. Photo of author on rear. Striking jacket art by E.A. Chavis. 8vo. 341 pp. In protective Mylar.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition, third printing, in a second printing dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed on front free endpage "For Bill C., With warm regards from an old Navy type." Book and unclipped jacket are fresh and bright with very light wear. The basis for the Otto Preminger film starring John Wayne. 8vo. 510 pp. In protective Mylar.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. A 90th birthday celebration. Cover art by Osbert Lancaster. 8vo. 189 pp. In protective Mylar.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Early printing. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. Jacket design by Robert Shore. 8vo. 248 pp. In protective Mylar.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in black cloth boards with title in lightly worn gilt on spine. No dust jacket, but front jacket flap has been affixed to front pastedown page. First printing of first edition. Overall condition is very good. Stamped on copyright page is "Property of U.S. Army," and on title page "Library Service Club No. 1, Camp Stoneman, Calif." Circulation card is glued to the final free endpage. Written in pencil on title page is Taylor's middle name, Hillsman. Clean crisp, and solidly bound. Short stories are what Taylor is lauded for, and this is his first book of short stories. Small 8vo. 166 pp.