Modern First Editions from Linden Avenue Books

First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Book is square with sharp corners, solid binding and minimal wear. Simon and Schuster remainder mark on bottom edge. Some discoloration on front and rear pastedown. The unclipped dustjacket shows original $12.95 price and is bright and unfaded. Protected in mylar. "In… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Very Good in a Good+ dustjacket. Square with solid binding and sharp corners. Wear at head of spine, pages show some age-toning else fine. The unclipped pictorial dustjacket shows original $2.50 price and is bright with chipping and short tears at extremities. Protected in mylar. Carefully packaged and shipped… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Black Cloth over black boards illustrated with silver & black chessboard and silver lettering on spine. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Not a remainder. Book is square with sharp corners, tight binding and minimal wear. The interior is clean and free of any markings (no bookplates, previous owner names, etc.). The dustjacket is clipped,… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Book is square with sharp corners, solid binding and minimal wear. Not remaindered. Some discoloration on front and rear pastedown. The unclipped dustjacket shows original $12.95 price and is bright and unfaded, with darkening at top of inside flaps. Protected in mylar.… Read more about this item

First Edition. First Canadian Printing of the author's second novel. Black cloth over blue boards with silver lettering on spine and map-illustrated end papers. Near Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket, protected in mylar. Books shows no flaws, just lacks the crispness for a grading of Fine. Translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally. Basis for the 1997 mystery /… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in a Fine dustjacket. Blue and green cloth binding with decorative picture frame in gilt and gilt lettering. Slight wear at head of spine else fine. The interior is clean and unmarked. The unclipped dustjacket is crisp and bright with original $19.95 price and no chips, tears or creases. Protected in mylar. Heller's freewheeling… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine panel, publishers bright red topstain and deckled pages. The interior is clean and bright with no bookplates, previous owner names or markings of any kind. The red, black and yellow dustjacket is unclipped with original $10 price intact. Bright with no chips, creases… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Good in a Good+ dustjacket. Black cloth over green boards. The book has a slight lean and boards show some staining. Interior is clean and free of any markings. The illustrated dustjacket is bright and unclipped, with creasing on front panel. Protected in mylar. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Beige and 1/4 grey cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Square with tight binding and sharp corners. Interior is clean with no bookplates, previous owner names, etc. The unclipped dustjacket shows orginal $11.95 price. The front panel is creased at top corner, else fine. A collectible… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Good condition, no dustjacket. True first edition, with "published October 1912" on the copyright page. Illustrated green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Text has four beautiful illustrations by Walter Tittle, including the tissue-protected frontispiece. Square with solid binding, no bookplates, previous owner names, etc. Shows wear and some soiling, a closed tear on page 13 does… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Good+, no dustjacket. Patterned blue boards with gilt lettering and deckled pages. First edition with number (1) on the last page. Solid binding. Spine shows sunning and minor wear. Small bookstore sticker on rear endpaper. Text is clean and free of any markings. Wharton won the Pulitzer for her classic "Age of Innocence" in 1921, becoming… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Very good, no dustjacket. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering and deckled pages. First edition with number (1) on the last page. Solid binding, square with minimal shelfwear. Attractive bookplate on front pastedown. Text is clean and free of any markings. Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Age of Innocence" in 1921. "The Gods Arrive"… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Good, no dustjacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering and deckled pages. First edition with number (1) on last page. Spine cracked but all pages firmly attached. Fading on spine and wear at extremities. Attractive bookplate on front pastedown. The text is clean and unmarked. Wharton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Age of Innocence" in 1921, declared… Read more about this item

Later printing (seventh). Red cloth boards with black embossedl lettering. Square with solid binding, light edgewear. The interior is clean and free of any markings, with some age-darkening. The unclipped paper dustjacket has original $3.95 price and shows some wear and chipping. Protected in mylar. Overall, a very nice reading copy. Shaw's first novel is one of the finest narratives… Read more about this item

FIrst Edition, FIrst Printing. Near fine in a Fine dustjacket. Navy blue quarter cloth over light purple boards with silver and light blue lettering on spine. Square with sharp corners and tight binding, minor sunning along top edge else fine. Interior is clean and unmarked. The unclipped dustjacket shows original $17.95 price and is clean and bright with no chips,… Read more about this item

First American Edition, First Printing. An x-library copy, but surprisingly clean and well-preserved. Library stamps on top edge, front endsheet and title page, otherwise unmarked. The front endpaper shows abrasion, likely from removal of a pocket. Green cloth boards with gilt and silver lettering on spine, with minor wear at extremities. Pages show the typical age-darkening. The clipped dustjacket is… Read more about this item

FIrst Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Clean, square with sharp corners. Interior is unmarked. The glassine printed dustjacket is unclipped and shows original $22.95 price with no chips, creases or tears. Protected in mylar. Born LeRoi Jones in New Jersey in 1934, Baraka was a poet, playwright, writer, and activist who became a seminal figure in the… Read more about this item

First American Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Quarter blue cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Square with sharp corners and solid binding. Interior is clean and unmarked. The unclipped dustjacket shows original $25 price. Clean with no chips, creases or tears and protected in mylar. The fourth novel from… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Square with sharp corners and solid binding. Minor edgewear and Simon & Schuster remainder mark. Interior is clean with no markings of any kind. The unclipped dustjacket shows original 18.95 price, rubbed with some wear at base of spine. Protected in mylar. Quinn, a former Washington Post political reporter… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Red boards and a white spine with red and black lettering. Remainder mark on fore edge. Square with sharp corners, interior is clean and free of any markings. The unclipped dustjacket shows original price of $17.95 and has minimal wear. Protected in mylar. From the author of The Manchurian… Read more about this item