20th Century Literature

New York NY: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1943 Harper & Brothers True Stated First Edition with the 8-43 above and the D-S below. It has a **SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED** note tipped in: Dear Bizz, with love Betty Smith June 1960 Chapel Hill N. Car Condition: A VeryGood/Good copy and a true FIRST printing. The interior has browning on the end pages and inside boards. The DJ shows the $2.75 price and has chips, tears and minor missing fragments that affect only the title at the top of the spine. The DJ was split at the spine and it appears the DJ has been trimmed. The colors are still bright and we have repaired it and placed it in mylar. ***Brenbooks specializes in first edition books made into films.***

London:: Hamish Hamilton,, 1962.. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good Plus copy with owner's name and two small brown spots on flyleaf in a Near Fine, unclipped dj with a touch of soiling to the rear panel of the jacket and a closed edge tear. Contains: The Little Sister, The Long Good-bye, and Playback. With an introduction from Chandler's essay, The Simple Art of Murder.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a dust jacket with minor wear, else fine. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The scarcest of Welch's novels, especially in nice condition.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1968. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by author as Richard Hooker on the title page with quote marks around his name; Richard Hooker is the pseudonym of Dr. Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. Near Fine, with light edge wear, toning to spine ends, small evidence of tape removal to recto of half-title page, hinge at title page over-opened. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, with light shelf wear and toning. A laid-in note in a former owner's hand reads, "Dr. Hornberger autographed this book as "Richard Hooker" while still employed as a doctor at Thayer Hospital in Waterville, Maine." Signed copies are scarce.

Hellman, Lillian: The Searching Wind. PLAY The Viking Press, 1st Ed., First printing Thus, June, 1944. DRAMA. Used. Good/Good unclipped DJ $2.00 price. Protected in a mylar wrap.

Harold At The North Pole (HARPER & BROTHERS 1958 1st Ed. W/ original Dj) 1958 FIRST EDITION, Early printing thus. Exlib. Good Condition/ Good Unclipped Dust jacket. Original price $2.50. Clean. Missing the blank front free endpaper. Please see our photos. RARE/SCARCE. Will ship from Oregon

first American edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (New Directions 1958); prior owner front free end page corner, small price tag shadow front paste-down corner; text unmarked; minimal age tone; light dust top text block edge; tight bind; clean cloth cover vivid titling; dj edge wear: rubbing, few short tears, shallow spine end chipping; flap price clipped; scarce ambibeb

Gaddis, Thomas E.: Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Story of Robert Stroud .1955 Random House 1st. Edition. BIOGRAPHY. True crime, Ornithology. Stated First Printing Thus Exlib. Good- condition. Spine is a bit cocked. No Dust jacket is included. "The fantastic true story of the prisoner with the longest record of solitary confinement in the United States – who became a leading authority on birds." The original source material for the gripping American film starring Burt Lancaster. Will ship from Oregon.

Knopf, New York, 1946. First edition. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Book has light toning from age, discoloration along top edges but it does not bleed onto pages. Dust jacket has several tears and nicks, creasing along spine. $2.00 indicated on dust jacket. Tan/beige cloth with maroon lettering on spine.Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.The story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. The classic novel of the absurd.

WE ARE HAPPY TO PRESENT: Flack, Marjorie. THE STORY ABOUT PING. ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. FIRST EDITION 1933 VIKING PRESS. 3 lines of copyright information. HARDCOVER. BACK DJ FLAP INCLUDES JUNIOR VIKING COUPON. Matching blue floating duck back board and dust jacket panels do not bear weekly reader logo. PLEASE SEE OUR PHOTO OF DJ BACK PANEL. Unclipped Front DJ flap priced at $1.00 . QUITE THE FIND. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD CONDITION UNCLIPPED DJ. Unpaginated. 7 X 9 1/4. A CLEAN SOLID COPY. PLEASE SEE OUR PHOTOS.

La Jolla, CA: Crawl Out Your Window, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 100pp, printed wrappers. Nice copy of the rare seventh issue of this important San Diego journal of experimental writing. Issue includes "New York City in 1979" (14pp) by Kathy Acker, and also features work by other experimentalists. Unmarked copy, light wear and soil, spine a bit toned.

New York: Viking Press, 1952 First printing of the first edition, first state. Original green cloth boards, front cover printed in dark green, spine printed in black on brown background, pictorial jacket., 602pp., with the word "bite" present on page 281, line 38. First issue jacket with photo of Steinbeck on rear panel with no photo credit mentioned. Steinbeck's epic novel about two families who settle in the rich farmlands of California [Goldstone-Payne A32.b.]. Book with light toning to edge of boards and two small, faint blemishes to top page edge, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a couple tiny rubbed spots, edges lightly toned, and light wear to extremities, else fine. A lovely copy, seldom seen in this condition. Basis for the 1955 film starring James Dean.

New York: Viking Press, 1939 First printing/first issue of the first edition; original beige cloth boards, in original first issue dust jacket. Book with mild toning primarily near gutters of the illustrated endpapers and faint rubbing to bottom boards, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a closed tear and diagonal crease to bottom front cover, soft diagonal crease to upper back flap, mild edge wear and shallow creasing, light paper loss to ends and corners, faint toning to spine, a few surface scratches to covers, and light rubbing, else fine. A well preserved collectible.

THE HANDMAID'S TALEMARGARET ATWOODSIGNED UK FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING 1986JONATHAN CAPENot price clipped.Some foxing to the dust jacket flaps, but book itself is clean, with light tanning to the textblock edges. Dust jacket is in a protective cover.Includes a SIGNED LETTER to a fan (presumably a previous owner) with the comment:"It's nice to have a picture of you in the paper".(The name and address of the correspondent in the letter have been blanked out in the photo.)