Fiction from Aardvark Rare Books

Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1893. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, 7.2 in. x 4.5 in., pp. 252. Red cloth boards with gilt floral design and title to front. Gilt title to spine. Rubbing and light soiling to boards. A couple small black stains to front and spine. Corners ndged. Penmark to rear endpaper. Light age-toning to pages, with… Read more about this item

Boston, Mass: Little, Brown & Co, 1954. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Warren Chappell. Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.75 in., pp. 294. Illustrated with ink drawings. Light blue pper boards with silhouette of woman stamped in blind to front over dark blue spine. Gilt title and replete bandlines to spine. Very light rubbing… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1932. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 8 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 537. Signed by the author on the top of title page. Ochre cloth boards with brown title and rifleman to front over black cloth spine. Gilt title to spine. Ligh rubbing to extremities and light… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus / Very Good. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.6 in. , p. 340. Light blue cloth boards with red title to spine. Sunning to spine, rear board, and top edge of boards. Red endpapers. A couple small chips to dustjacket edges. Llght sunning to back of… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1948. Stated Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Only. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 5.5 in., p. 247. Black cloth boards with blue and gilt title and gilt dotted-line design to front and spine. Light shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. Bottom corners lightly nudged. Bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown. Several larger chips and closed… Read more about this item

London, England: Heinemann, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.75 in., pp. 485, [1]. Black net grain cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to dustjacket edges. Dustjacket protected in mylar. Price on dustjacket is "L 2.25" Wilbur Addison Smith (1933-2021) was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. 12mo, 7.25 in. x 5.2 in. pp. 159. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Biege paper boards over brown cloth spine with gilt title to front and spine. From the dustjacket: "In this collection of twelve stories the author evokes the… Read more about this item

Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews and McMeel, 1979. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Good Plus. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.75 in. pp. 88. Signed by the author on the title page. Yellow-green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Two inch closed tear to top of dustjacket. Small chips to top/bottom of dustjacket… Read more about this item

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1950. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Very Good. Eight fictional pieces by one of the early American masters of the short story (and novels). 8vo. Forest-green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to fspine. Very light shelfwear to extremities. Of James, an American who became a naturalized British citizen, Britannica writes: "His fundamental… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Collins, 1993. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good (Priceclipped) Dustjacket. 8vo. Blue paper over boards. Light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities. A wee bit of creasing to spine. Signed (only) on title page. Light shelfwear to price-clipped dustjacket.

Boston, Mass: Little, Brown & Company, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Good Plus. Octavo, 8.25 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 280. Green cloth-covered boards with blue title to front and spine. Light shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. Unmarked, bright interior. Chips and small tears to dustjacket corners, edges, and top/bottom of spine. Protected in mylar. "Many… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine / Very Good Plus. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 6 in., pp. 485. Signed in blue ink by the author on the front free endpaper. Ochre paper boards over dark blue cloth-covered spine. GIlt title to spine. Title page hand-corrected in ink from "(a novel)" to… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1965. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good / Good Plus. Octavo, 8.6 in x 5.8 in. pp. 909. Turquoise boards with dark blue horizontal zigzag lines and gilt amulet figure to front. Gilt title and dark blue zigzag lines to spine. Publisher's red top-stain. Light sunning to top edges. Light rubbing to extremities. Endpaper… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo. Black, cloth-covered boards, ruled in blind. Spine sunned and a wee bit of fraying to spinecaps. Pages lightly toned. 173 pp. A novel set in Vienna whose characters step outside the moral boundaries of traditional married life. Widowed Beatrice is vacationing with her son Hugo,… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine / Near Fine. Octavo, 8.5 in. x 5.4 in., pp. 279. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Beige paper boards over burgundy cloth spine. Seabirds image embossed in blind to front. Gilt title to spine. Protected in mylar. Ivan Doig (1939 - 2015) was an… Read more about this item

New York: Brentano's, 1930. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus / Good. Small octavo, 7.7 in. x 5 in., pp. 279. Red cloth-covered boards with angled gilt lines and black title to front, and horizontal gilt lines and black title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Several stains to front board. Age-toning to pages. Rubbing, age-toning, and some… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Good Plus / Good Plus. Small octavo, 7.75 in x 5 in., pp. 256. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with silver title and three horizontal stripes to front and spine. Publisher's red topstain. Light spotting to fore- and bottom-edges. Light spotting to endpapers and first twelve pages. Light… Read more about this item

New York: A.A.Wyn, Inc, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Small octavo, 7.8 in. x 5.2 in., pp. 469. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Orange cloth-covered boards with black title to front and spine. Publisher's red topstain. Light rubbing to extremities. Shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. CLosed tear to margin of page 14.… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New / Like New. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.4 in., pp. 403, [5]. Signed in black ink by the author on title page. Review copy with two publisher's slips laid-in; includes video CD. White paper boards over red paper spine. Gilt initials to front; gilt title… Read more about this item

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Near Fine. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 6.9 in., pp. 127. Red boards with gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Protected in mylar. Review copy with Publisher's Slips Laid in. "...Occasionally horrifying, often blindingly funny, the stories in WELCOME TO THE… Read more about this item