Search Results: Titles starting with S from Burning Tree Books

A Small Town in Germany, John le Carre.' Stated first American edition, first printing.
Dust Jacket: Very Good+ A beautiful, unclipped dust jacket with original price $6.95 still intact on inside flap. Jacket designed by Lenny Slonevsky. Author photo taken by Chris Salter. There is some foxing on inside jacket with a small area that has some chipping on the spine. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Coward-McCann, 1968. Red cloth with gold lettering on cover and black lettering on spine. No writing or markings in this very sturdy book, 383 pp.
This was le Carre's fifth novel. The authors novel is a Cold War espionage story set in Bonn, West Germany in the 1960's. He creates a world where the lines between right and wrong, good and evil, are horribly blurred. This is le Carré's first standalone novel, and the first not to feature recurring character George Smiley.

James Jones, First edition (A-10.57 H). Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket ($7.50) designed by Greta Franzen. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. Bound in red cloth and black boards, stamped in red. Solid copy with 50 cent mark on flyleaf, otherwise, no writing or markings in the book, 1266 pp.
This was Jones second book following international success with his first book, From Here to Eternity (1951). He spent the next 6 years working on this his second novel. Scribner did a first print run of over 12,000 copies. Reviews were mixed and sales were less than striking. No worries, Jones had already sold the movies rights to MGM. The movie starred Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

Stephen Hero, James Joyce. First American edition.
Dust Jacket: Very Good+ An unclipped jacket with original price ($3.50) still intact. In mylar protective wrapper. Has two small pieces missing on top/bottom of jacket spine. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: A New Directions Book, 1944. Has former owner name and inscription on flyleaf and a small bookshop sticker on same page. Otherwise, no writing or markings in the book, 234 pp.
One of 3,000 copies printed. Edited from the manuscript in the Harvard College Library by Theodore Spencer.
An attractive copy. An early draft of "Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man," published posthumously. The British edition preceded the American by a few months.