Search Results: Authors starting with S from Bruce Davidson Books

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by George MacDonald Fraser. First printing. A review copy, with the publisher's (Oxford University Press of Canada) stamp to that effect on the title page. From the library of noted Canadian writer and bibliophile Greg Gatenby, with his signature and date on the flyleaf. Fine in a fine dustjacket Perfect. (box 72)

NY: Prentice Hall, 1948. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. First printing. Very good condition. No markings. No dustjacket. (124)

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Edition not stated. Very good or better in like dustjacket. Nice copy. (box 54)

Cambridge: Belknapp Press/Harvard UNiversity Press, 1971. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a near fine dustjacket with minute edgewear. (box 133)

NY: Random House, 1995. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. Fine in like dj. A spy thriller from the Pulitzer winning NYT journalist and notorious word maven. Of interest, Safire dedicated this book to E. Phillips Oppenheim and James Jesus Angleton, a pretty good hint to the reader as to what to expect. (box 122)

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1983. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing. Fine in a fine dustjacket. (box 57)

NY: E. P. Dutton, 1956. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing. Very good in a very good dustjacket with light edgewear. Not priceclipped and no markings. (box 122)

Norwalk: New Directions, 1963. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing of the New Directions printing. Edited and translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris. Fine in a fine dustjacket in a very good New Directions slipcase. (box 53)

NY: Grove Press, 1967. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. First printing of the author's first book, about the hard life in a California boys' reformatory. Near fine in a very good priceclipped dustjacket with light edgewear. Bookplate on front pastedown, mostly covered by the flap.

Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1992. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. First printing. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine dustjacket with light edgewear. Not priceclipped and no markings.

Madrid: Insula, 1968. First Edition. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. paperback original. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page. Very good condition with a little edgewear. In Spanish.

Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second issue (first was in 1942). This is J. D. Salinger's fisrt commercial appearance in print. Near fine condition with a trace of wear to the corners and spine ends, and some browing to page edges (as usual for this book).

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, third state (dedication page following the title page). Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. The spine gilt is somewhat faded, as is the dustjacket spine. Not priceclipped and no markings. A very attractive copy.

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This is the first printing of the 1951 Grosset & Dunlap book club edition. Upper right of the front flap has the 195195. Spine is a bit slanted and there is a small previous owner address sticker to top of the flyleaf otherwise very good in a very good dustjacket with minute edgewear and slightly faded spine.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Third printing. Very good in a very good dustjacket with some edgewear and discoloration. Not priceclipped and no markings.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1928. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good plus. Kurt Wiese. First printing of this beloved children's classic. Foreword by John Galsworthy. Translated by Whittaker Chambers.Spine lettering is a bit faded otherwise very good plus. Lacks dustjacket.

Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2000. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing of this novel of USAF pilots in cold war Europe. SIGNED (without inscription) by the author beneath his name on the title page. (box 77)

NY: Random House , 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing of this superb memoir. SIGNED by the author, without inscription, on the publisher's tipped in page. Fine in a fine dustjacket, perfect.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First (UK) printing. From the library of noted Canadian writer and bibliophile Greg Gatenby, who has signed and dated the flyleaf. Tiny remainder dot on bottom edge, else fine. (box 69)

Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1997. First Thus. . Soft cover. Fine. Uncorrected bound galleys of the 1977 revision of the 1956 original, with a preface by the author. From the library of Canadian writer and bibliophile Greg Gatenby, who has signed and dated the flyleaf. (Not signed by the author) Fine, in blue wraps. (box 145)