American Literature from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black and red cloth with red spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 285pp. Decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Internally tight and near fine, with faintest hint of dampstaining to top edge of last few leaves; sharp jacket has some miniscule edge chips at head/tail of spine only. Quite attractive… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, 1937. Hardcover. Edited by Norman Holmes Pearson. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. xv, 1223pp. Very good. Internally tight and fine, with binding a tad edgeworn and rubbed and spine faintly sunned; front flyleaf ownership signature. Nice later printing of ML Giant #37 -- based on binding circa 1950. Lovely pictorial addition: Tipped in… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, 1937. Hardcover. Edited by Norman Holmes Pearson. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. xv, 1223pp. Very good. While internally tight and fine, binding shows just the faintest of wear; ownership signature/inkstamp at top of front flyleaf. Tight, quite attractive later printing of ML Giant #37 -- based on binding circa 1950. Choice addition: Tipped… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1976. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ben S. Wohlberg. Small 4to. Full tan calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 563pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations, brown moire silk endpapers, sewn-in brown satin page marker. Fine. Pristine, tight limited (unspecified) first of this edition, Barnes' first novel (published 1930)… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 602pp. Very good. While internally tight and fine, the spine gilt (only) is heavily worn and there is an inoffensive abrasion on the rear board; lacks slipcase. Attractive first edition, with front colophon noting limitation of 1500 copies boldly signed by Steinbeck in blue ballpoint.… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. Hardcover. Illustrations by Mitchell Hooks. Small 4to. Full green calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. xvii, 693pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, grey moire silk endpapers, sewn-in grey satin page marker. Fine. Pristine, tight limited (unspecified) first of this edition of the collection awarded the 1979… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. Illustrations by Kenneth Francis Dewey. Small 4to. Full burgundy calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 531pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, red moire silk endpapers, sewn-in red satin page marker. Fine. Perfectly pristine and tight first of this unspecified limited edition of Stegner's controversial 1971… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. Illustrations by Conrad Hack. Small 4to. Full brown calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 362pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, brown moire silk endpapers, sewn-in brown satin page marker. Fine. Perfect and tight limited (unspecified) first of this calfbound edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1951… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. Illustrations by Mitchell Hooks. Small 4to. Full brown calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 190pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, green moire silk endpapers, sewn-in green satin page marker. Fine. Pristine, perfect first of this edition, being a reprint of Welty's 1972 short novel, winner… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. Illustrations by Walter Rane. Small 4to. Full brown calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 335pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, brown moire silk endpapers, sewn-in brown satin page marker. Fine. Immaculate, tight limited (unspecified) first edition, preceding the Doubleday first trade edition. This primo copy… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1976. Hardcover. Illustrations by John Collier. Small 4to. Full green calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 267pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, green moire silk endpapers, sewn-in green satin page marker. Fine. Perfect and tight limited (unspecified) first edition of this National Book Award winner, slightly preceding… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1976. Hardcover. Illustrations by Barbara Fox. Small 4to. Full green calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 347pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, green moire silk endpapers, sewn-in green satin page marker. Fine. Pristine, tight limited (unspecified) first edition of this novel, slightly preceding the 1976 Knopf first… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. Illustrations by Harlan M. Krakovitz. Small 4to. Full dark green calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 1121pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, green moire silk endpapers, sewn-in green satin page marker. Fine. Pristine and perfect first of this limited edition, just preceding the Little, Brown… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977. Hardcover. Illustrations by Jeffrey W. Cornell. Small 4to. Full deep blue calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 306pp. All edges gilt. Illustrations, grey moire silk endpapers, sewn-in grey satin page marker. Fine. Perfectly pristine first of this leatherbound edition, a reprint of Marquand's 1937 epistolary… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Co, 1902. Hardcover. 12mo. Olive green cloth with ivory lettering and ivory/blue/burgundy pictorial front board stamping. 153pp. Near fine. Most mild of binding wear, else tight and internally fine; tiny Christmas 1902 nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. Quite tight and attractive early printing of this 1901 bestseller about poverty in a Louisville neighborhood, the… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan cloth with orange and black lettering, rules and pictorial stamping. 339pp. Very good. Binding slightly age toned and rubbed, else internally tight and fine; contemporary ownership signature on inner flyleaf. Attractive first edition of the short-lived writer's fourth book, a fictionalized account of Norris's courtship in San Francisco… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. Hardcover. Illustrations by George Wright. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. white rules and gilt/white front board emblem. 370pp, (4pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 3 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Mild binding wear only; internally tight and fine; small ownership signature on front pastedown. Attractive first edition of the last novel completed by… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 201pp, 412pp, 465pp. Near fine/near fine. Front flyleaf ownership signature and same at top of p. 33. Tight and handsome copy of this Modern Library Giant (G41). Not first of this edition (first published 1938), but late 1950s vintage. Bright, delightful… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 286pp.Near fine/near fine. Spine of otherwise fine jacket age toned. Handsome and tight first U.K. edition of Mailer's second book, signed boldly by him in black fineline on front flyleaf.

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941. Hardcover. Introduction by Charles G. Norris. Illustrations by Otis Oldfield. Small 4to. Quarter vellum with gilt spine lettering and blue patterned paper over bevelled boards. (5pp), 390pp. Line drawings, marbled endpapers. Near fine. Choice copy of this first thus, being a reprint of the grim 1899 fiction about an unlicensed dentist who goes… Read more about this item