The Moth

New York: Signet Books, 1950. No. 811. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / 'Long may they weave." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of Signet Books and a publisher whose desire was to bring… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A near fine copy (grey cloth variant), top edge stained green, in near fine or better dustwrapper showing very light use. An extremely good copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition [printing unspecified]. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Small 8vo, light green cloth with green lettering, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with pale green moth designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., 373 pages + [2] Acknowledgements + [2] A Note on the Type. James M[allahan] Cain (1892 - 1977) was an American… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First edition. Inked name and date to front free end paper, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light shelf wear to the spine ends with shallow loss, slight loss at the upper right corner tip and light rubbing to the folds. (24713). Octavo, jacket illustration by… Read more about this item

Robert Hale, London, 1949. First Australian edition. . 8vo, 356pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. A fine copy (grey cloth variant), top edge stained green, in fine dustwrapper showing minimal use. An extremely good copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Small 8vo. [7], 3-373, [5] pp. Light green cloth with blue lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good book with mild offsetting to the endpapers and pastedowns in an age toned jacket with… Read more about this item

First edition first printing of the ninth novel by this author. No dust jacket. Light edge wear. Light tanning to the pages. In very good condition.

NY: Knopf, 1948. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Cain on the obverse of the page listing his previously published books. Minimal shelfwear, mostly at corners, beginning toning on pastedown gutters, light green topstain with few small rubs, small raised area of cloth on front panel (appears to be due to binding glue under cloth); dustjacket with chipped spine ends… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Covers are lightly spotted else a near fine copy in bright very near fine dust jacket with short closed tears on front and rear panels at crown of spine. Quite fresh and bright.

New York: Knopf, 1948. Third printing. Hardcover. Good. Novel relating the life of a young singer who loses his voice with puberty. Bumped corners

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. New York, First edition, octavo. A fine bright copy in like dust jacket.

London: Robert Hale, 1950. 8vo, pp. 356. Original dark red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers, text block browned, old water stain to foot of rear pastedown and gilt to spine faded. A very good copy in a very good, slightly undersized dust jacket, old water staining to reverse of lower edge and… Read more about this item

The New American Library, 1952. Third printing. Softcover. Good. AUTHORIZED ABRIDGEMENT. Signet Books 811. 189, [3] p. 18 cm. Paperback. Slight spine lean. Some creases. Scuff on rear.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 373pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] in grey cloth stamped in green. Small piece of paper with Cain's signature laid in. Light edgewear to jacket, small torn perforation to jacket spine at foot; corners bumped, else boards are crisp and unworn; interior is unmarked. A lesser-known work by… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition [stated]. Gray cloth-textured boards with green lettering/decoration, 373+ pages. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction page 61]. Good copy lightly worn and lightly bumped; interior binding cracked after the second acknowledgments page but neither hinge is cracked in well worn Dust… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First US Edition. A first edition/first issue. A near fine copy in like priced D/W. Inscribed by the author in the date of publication to the Producer of "The Postman Rings Twice." "To Carey Wilson,/ Whose narrative ideals I/ thought… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition (stated). Hardcover, 373 pp. Very good, tight bexample, some minor spotting to the cloth. In very good or somewhat better Hawkins designed dust jacket with a small arear of wear to the head of the spine.

New York: Knopf, 1948. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Solid copy, nice book in a jacket with a small chip and a scrunch to rear panel.

London: Robert Hale, 1949 unclipped dust jacket edge wear and chipping with associated creases, chipping loss from head and tail of spine and corner tips, cloth rubbed to edges, head of spine sunned and starting to fray, book unmarked internally, British edition in the Australian issue, 356pp. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.… Read more about this item