Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson - 1971

Riverhead Books. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 1. 2003. Hardback. Fine. First Edition. First Print. Signature only by author on the title page in both Farsi and English. Authors first book. Basis for the movie with the same name. Very collectible copy, excellent addition to your collection. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.

1947 E.P. Dutton Stated TRUE FIRST EDITION of Spillane's 1st mystery with a **SIGNED** CARD of Mickey Spillane tipped in.
A VeryGood+ Hardback and VeryGood+ Dustjacket:
The HB is very clean and tight with the only real wear being some small chips at the spine ends and tiny bumps at the corners.
It is wrapped in a Facsimile DJ also in VG+ condition with almost no wear or marks as well. A VERY RARE COLLECTIBLE!
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1932. First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, First Printing ("A" and colophon on copyright page). Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, Hemingway's facsimile signature in gilt on front cover. Illustrated with tissue-protected color frontispiece of "The Bullfighter" by Juan Gris and numerous (81) B&W photographs. Includes "An Explanatory Glossary," "Some Reactions of a Few Individuals to the Integral Spanish Bullfight," "A Short Estimate of the American, Sidney Franklin, as a Matador;" "Date on Which Bullfights will Ordinarily be held in Spain, France, Mexico, and Central and South America;" and a "Bibliographical Note." . Gilt on spine mildly faded, head and heel of spine show very light wear, minor spotting on rear cover, small bookshop label on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY… Read More

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova… Read More

New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. Hardcover in slipcase. Good/No Jacket, as issued. SIGNED Presentation Copy in Slipcase, #524 of the special limited edition (501-550 were for presentation). Signed by O'Neill in black ink. Though not indicated, this volume is from the library of T. R. Smith, chief editor and adviser at Liveright throughout its heyday in the 1920s and responsible for publishing some of O'Neill's works (including an early volume of one-act plays and Strange Interlude in 1928). Trilogy of plays containing Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Haunted. Includes Working Notes and Extracts from a fragmentary work diary, facsimile pages inserted in rear pocket. Stained & spotted white vellum with beveled edges, gilt-stamping and black spine label. Scarce slipcase in fair condition with fragile & cracked edges and old tape repairs. Binding solid and untrimmed/uncut, but covers are rather spotted & darkened. O'Neill was a Puitzer and Nobel Prize winning American playwright, considered one of… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1938. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 428 pages: 6.75 x 9.5 in.: 2.8: KB#010194: Book is contained in a beautiful, fine condition, matching labeled cloth clamshell box. Bookjacket/dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Dustjacket is price clipped and has some edge cuts and a small edge chip. Book's boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Has scarce Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Boards are original decorated beige cloth, with front and spine lettering stamped in green and a green picture of a boy with his fawn on the front board and yellow endpapers. A classic novel that was the best-selling novel in America for the year 1938, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939, and was adapted into a film in 1946, starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, both of whom were nominated for Oscars for their performances.:… Read More

London, William Heinemann, 1903, first edition, first printing.. Limited to 1,500 copies with the publisher's windmill on the title page and without the words "Reserved for Colonies" on the verso of the title page, it followed the American edition of 1902, but it adds three other stories, Amy Foster, Falk, and To-Morrow, Conrad's final revisions were not included in the American edition, but they are included here, these additional stories appear for the first time, the book was not intended for distribution to the United States, original charcoal slate cloth with title, author, publisher, and life preserver illustration in gilt, includes 32 pages of ads at the end which appears in some copies, but not all, Cagle's binding A with only the top edge trimmed and with 110 mm between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on the spine, Cagle A8b(1), Smith 9, Keating 42. Very good.

London, William Heinemann, 1898, first British edition, first printing.. Slate gray binding with a life preserver in gilt on front cover, his third novel, issued earlier by Dodd, Mead in America under the title The Children of the Sea A Tale of the Forecastle, this copy with 32 pages of ads at the end, undated and with the publisher's spine imprint in uniform small letters (no priority as to the latter), Cagle A3.c.1, binding state c. Some cocking, very good.

861 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Inscribed by the author. First printing, with 'A' on copyright page, first issue jacket with authors photo on rear panel rather than reviews found on later issue jackets.Jones' first book, basis for the 1953 film starring Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, and Frank Sinatra.From Here to Eternity is the debut novel of American author James Jones, published by Scribner's in 1951. It is loosely based on Jones' experiences in the pre-World War II Hawaiian Division's 27th Infantry and the unit in which he served, Company E ("The Boxing Company"). Fellow company member Hal Gould said that while the novel was based on the company, including some depictions of actual persons, the characters are fictional and both the harsh conditions and described events are inventions. From Here to Eternity won the National Book Award and was named one of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library Board.… Read More

This book is in great shape one little spot on front. faded red color on boards. Stamped by library inside covers. 1942 movie Wikipedia says Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther,[3] it shows how the life of an unassuming British housewife in rural England is affected by World War II. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, its supporting cast includes Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Richard Ney and Henry Wilcoxon.[4]