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New York: William Morrow, 1939. First Edition. Very good in a price-clipped dust jacket. Goldstone bookplate, and with the usual black lines on the endpapers associated with that collector’s use of old-style jacket protectors. Publisher’s file copy.

New York: Morrow, 1939. First Edition; advance reading copy; bound in the dust jacket. A very good copy.

New York: William Morrow, 1939. First Edition. Very good plus dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author to one of his secretaries, “To Louise with love from the whole fiction factory of which she still remains a part. Yours, Erle. To Louise Weissberger from Erle Stanley Gardner. January 1940.”

New York: William Morrow, 1940. First Edition. Near fine in a dust jacket with minor wear and a slightly faded spine.

New York: Morrow, 1938. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1987. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket.

London: John Richmond, 1913. First Edition; publisher’s wrappers; properly mended, for the most part along the inside of the spine; a very good copy in a custom cloth folder.

Boston: Isaiah Thomas, Jun., 1816. Apparently the second American edition, which featured some additions. Bound in contemporary tree calf with a more recent (although likely also 19th century) morocco spine label. Some staining and wear; church label inside the front cover; very good.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892. Later edition. 1893 owner’s inscription; about fine.

London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First Edition. Pages browned; fine in a slightly wrinkled dust jacket, which is price-clipped, but it has the publisher’s price sticker on the front flap.

Boston: Arena Publishing, 1896. First Edition. Near fine. Wright #305, locating a single copy, and noting that "The patients were New York millionaires.

New York: Putnam’s, 1935. First Edition. Some cloth spotting and foxing; very good. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author to his sister, using their pet names, “for Dear Goosie from Clovis. Nov. 1935.”

London: John Murray, 1918 (1931). First Edition; first issue. Ownership inscription; very good.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. First Edition. Promotional press release laid in; fine in dust jacket.

London: Hutchinson, 1965. First Edition. Plastic laminate a little wrinkled; about fine in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author at Christmas, 1966.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1920. First Edition. Gift inscription; very good.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1944. First Edition of the author’s first book. A fine copy in a dust jacket with very light wear.

Edinburgh & London: Wm. Blackwood & Sons, 1876. First edition. Four volumes bound in contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards; rubbed; good to very good. Paul Johnson in A History of The Jews (1987) points out the enormous importance of this novel, "...in terms of its practical effects it was probably the most influential novel of the nineteenth century." In the novel, a Judaic scholar, Mordechai (based on Eliot's friend Emmanuel Deutsch) echoes Eliot’s own Zionism, “The world will gain as Israel gains. For there will be a community in the van of the East which carries the culture and sympathies of every great nation in its bosom; there will be a land set for a halting place of enmities, a neutral ground for the East...” Johnson notes the “...tragic ironies...” of this hope. The establishment of Israel has hardly pacified the Mid-East. At the end of the novel, the Messiah-like figure of Deronda prepares to restore “...a potential existence to my people, making them a nation again,… Read More

Edinburgh & London: Wm. Blackwood & Sons, 1876. First Edition; four volumes; publisher’s cloth; top of the spine of volume II a little chipped; spines mildly faded; some hinges weak or started; minor shaking and cloth wear; a very good set. Also published in parts, bound copies are usually found made up from that issue; the first book edition is far more uncommon. This is Sadleir’s presumed first issue, without contents leaves. A sympathetic treatment of Jews (unusual in Victorian fiction), this could be called the first Zionist novel, and although nearly forgotten today, it exerted an outsized influence on subsequent events that enable it to claim to be one of the most important novels of the 19th century. Perhaps a new film version will revive its fortune and reputation.

New York: Harriss & Givens, 1942. First Edition; regular trade issue. Inscribed by Patchen to Bill Shank. Very good in a rough dust jacket; in a custom cloth clamshell box.