Fiction from Boojum and Snark Books

Macmillan, New York, 1938 First edition/first printing, inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering (substantially faded), gilt front board decoration, 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches, 468 pp. Fair. Spine slant; foxing, edges of book block; sunning, spine; spotty staining, front board; damp staining, lower fore-edge corner bleeding into lower… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1988 An excellent hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, with dustcover, with the publisher's publicity materials laid in: book and dustcover fine. Brown paper-covered boards, black cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, 326 pp. No remainder mark. Dustcover in mylar jacket and not price-clipped. (K083). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.… Read more about this item

Franklin Watts, New York, 1987 An excellent hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, with dustcover: book fine, dustcover very good plus - near fine. Green paper-covered boards, black cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 212 pp. Book fine (pages clean; no marks of previous owners; binding tight and square; no remainder mark). Dustcover has… Read more about this item

Methuen, London, 1966 An exceptional hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, with dustcover: book fine and dustcover near fine. A rather scarce book with an early Ralph Steadman illustration on the dustcover. Black paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches, 124 pp. Book fine (pages clean, with no marks of any kind; binding tight and… Read more about this item

E. P. Dutton, New York, 1988 An excellent hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, with dustcover: book as new, dustcover near fine. Grey paper-covered boards, off-white cloth-covered spine, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 116 pp. Book as new. Dustcover near fine (price-clipped, else fine; in a mylar jacket). "Love in the Days of Rage is a work of… Read more about this item

William Morrow & Co, New York, 1982 A collectible hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, with dustcover: book and dustcover near fine. Cream-colored paper-covered boards, blue cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches, 495 pp. Modest sunning to top edges of dustcover and book block. Very focal and slight staining, edges of book block. Otherwise,… Read more about this item

Farrar, Straus, Giroux; New York, 1987 An exceptional hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing of this author's first novel, with dustcover: book and dustcover as new. Green paper-covered boards, green cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering, 8 1/2 x 6 inches, 184 pp. Small gilt sticker of Colleen's Books, lower spine aspect of front free endpaper. Pages clean and crisp,… Read more about this item

Prentice-Hall, New York, 1946 An excellent hardcover copy of the second printing of the first edition (December 1946), with dustcover. Light tan cloth-covered boards, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 324 pp. Book and dustcover near fine. Pages clean, with no marks of any kind; binding tight and square. Dustcover very good plus, with modest sunning, mild edgewear/rubbing and a… Read more about this item

C. H. Webb, New York, 1867 An excellent, very good plus copy of the first edition. Vincent Starrett's copy, signed by him on a front free endpaper, and with his bookplate tipped onto the front pastedown. (Vincent Starrett, bibliophile, author, newspaperman and Sherlock Holmes afficionado, had several different bookplates. This one was designed by the illustrator Gordon Browne, son of… Read more about this item

Exposition Press, New York, 1971 Second printing of the first edition (November 22, 1971). Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches, 177 pp. Book near fine (stain, bottom edge of book block, else fine). Dustcover very good (modest edge wear; not price-clipped; in a mylar jacket). "A bold, adult novel that bares… Read more about this item

J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1922 First edition thus (first edition with these Arthur Rackham illustrations). A very good copy, without the dustcover. Light blue cloth-covered boards, dark blue stamped spine lettering/decoration, 9 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches, 227 pp., frontispiece and 3 other "colour" illustrations, 16 line drawings in the text. Sunning (darkening) of spine; mild edgewear; lower corner of front… Read more about this item

Viking, New York, 1987 An exceptional copy of the first U.S. edition/first printing, with dustcover: book as new, dustcover fine. Light red paper-covered boards, off-white cloth-covered spine, gilt spine lettering, 9 x 5 3/4 inches, 246 pp. The book is clearly unread, with a tight/square binding and clean pages with no marks of any kind. No remainder mark. Fine, unclipped… Read more about this item

The Viking Press, New York, 1976 An excellent hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, with dustcover: book fine and dustcover very good. Blue cloth-covered boards, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 172 pp. Pages clean, with no marks, and binding tight. Dustcover with modest rubbing; in mylar jacket; not price-clipped. (K019). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good.

Random House, New York, 1987 An exceptional hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, with dustcover: book as new and dustcover fine. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, 486 pp. Pages clean and crisp, with no marks of any kind; binding tight and square. The dustcover spine may be ever… Read more about this item

Dell, New York, 1971 Dell 8029, 95c cover price. "First Dell printing - October 1971". An excellent, very good plus copy, probably unread. Binding tight and square; pages clean, with no marks of any kind. Color-illustrated covers with mild edgewear and several inconspicuous creases, green-tinted edges of book block, 7 x 4 3/16 inches, 215 pp. "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., a… Read more about this item

Trepper & Katz Impact Books, Division of Punto Press; New York, 2012 First edition in new condition. Publisher's review copy, with ink stamp on the title page: "With compliments of Punto Press from (signed by the editor of the Greanville Post and publisher, 'Patrice'"). Softcover, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 319 pp. Not p-r-i-n-t-e-d on demand. Book two of… Read more about this item

Houghton, Mifflin and Co; Boston, 1891 First edition. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt spine and front board lettering, 7 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches, 464 pp. Good plus or very good minus (moderate edgewear, slight cover staining). The first story, "Fourteen to One" has a previous owner's underlinings and brackets in blue pencil, alone with a note in red pencil, "An… Read more about this item

Angus & Robertson, London, 1984 An exceptional copy of the first edition: book and dustcover fine. The first novel of Sydney journalist John Yeomans. Brown paper-covered boards, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 80 pp. (K031). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Trepper & Katz Impact Books, Division of Punto Press; New York, 2013 New condition. Revised and expanded edition. Review copy, signed on the front endpaper by the publisher of Punto Press and editor of the Greanville Post, Patrice Greanville. Softcover, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, 529 pp. (K070). Soft cover. New/No Jacket.

Bantam, New York, 1996 An exceptional hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing, book and dustcover new and flawless. A review copy, with the promotional sheet laid in. Light blue boards, maroon spine, gilt spine lettering, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, 313 pp. Tight, crisp and clearly unread. Dustcover in mylar jacket. The author's first novel. (K023). 1st Edition.… Read more about this item