American Literature from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New YT: 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

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.y.. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with auburn lettering. xiii, 327pp, (8pp ads). Frontispiece, 3 full-page plates. Very good. Faint binding wear only, with text block bright and tight. Nice early reprint edition of this sci-fi fantasy novel, the first title in Burroughs' 11-volume "Barsoom" series, featuring Schoonover's usual… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Hardcover. Illustrations by F.C. Yohn. 8vo. Brown blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering. viii, 510pp. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, 3 full-page color plates. Very good. Binding gently edgeworn and rubbed, though internally tight and fine. Nice, tight first edition of the highly-regarded fifth historical novel set in Virginia in the early 19th century, penned by the… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering and dark green/yellow/grey pictorial stamping. 445pp. Very good. Mildly worn binding with some stray homely red marks; internally tight with near fine text block. A tight and decent first edition of this Colorado-set fiction.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Introduction by Henry Steele Commager. Illustrations by Mimi Korach. Small 4to. Pictorial buckram with gilt spine lettering, slipcase with paper spine label. xiii, 365pp. Frontispiece, full-page color plates and small illustrations. Fine/very good. Slipcase a tad irregularly sunned. First published in 1885, this lovely LEC production of the ninth title in… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1955. Hardcover. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks. Illustrations by R.J. Holden. Small 4to. Cream cloth over bevel-edged boards with gilt-lettered calf spine label and pictorial plate to front and rear boards, slipcase. xvi, 281pp. Numerous brown-tone line drawings. Near fine/very good. Spine (only) lightly age toned; mild slipcase wear. Tight and handsome LEC… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with dark green lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 264pp. Very good/very good. Binding faintly worn, though internally tight and near fine; jacket a tad edgeworn with a few tiny edge chips (mainly corners), though complete and overall attractive. Nice first edition of this compilation of the novellas "Old Mortality,"… Read more about this item

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1904. Hardcover. Illustrations by Maynard Dixon. Small 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and black/pale blue pictorial stamping. xii, 280pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 7 full-page plates. Very good. Mildest of binding edgewear only; tight and internally fine and bright. Handsome ninth printing of the first illustrated 1902 edition of this tale originally… Read more about this item

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Hardcover. 8vo. Modern rebind in dark green cloth (gilt spine lettering) that mimics the remounted original front board cloth (with gilt and black lettering and pictorial stamping). 366pp. Frontispieces, numerous small engravings. Modern rebind and endpapers are fine and pristine, with remounted front board cloth sunned and rubbed; original edgeworn and… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Wiley, 1823. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Rebound as two volumes in one in brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. xi, 275pp; 329pp. Overall very good. Modern rebind is pristine and fine, while text block is moderately age toned and sporatically foxed throughout; small contemporary ownership signature at top of first volume title page. A tight and fairly… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Preface by J. Donald Adams.8vo. Full beige damask with gilt lettered brown calf spine label, slipcase with inner sleeve. 121pp. Frontispiece, full-page color illustrations. Fine/near fine. Quite handsome and sharp copy of this slim novel by the prolific Hoosier first published in 1900 -- second title in… Read more about this item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Illustrations by Fletcher Martin. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, gilt paper over boards clamshell case. xii, 223pp. Top edge gilt. Full-page and smaller partly-color illustrations. Fine/very good. Quite mild clamshell case wear. Sharp, tight copy of this LEC production, with colophon at rear… Read more about this item

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1963. Hardcover. Introduction by Nelson Algren. 8vo. Grey-green cloth with black lettering , price-clipped dust jacket. xix, 409pp. Fine/near fine. First of this university press edition of Hecht's 1921 first book -- a volume in advisory editor Saul Bellow's "Chicago in Fiction" series.

New York: The Viking Press, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy paper over boards with blue spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 314pp. Very good/very good. Single inoffensive "ding" to bottom edge of front board of otherwise near fine binding, with text block tight and pristine; jacket mildly edgeworn only. Ever wonder how the English Pamela Andrews of Samuel Richardson's bestselling… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 312pp.Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with a few tiny edge chips. Tight and handsome first edition, this copy with choice autograph addition: A decade after its publication, a film version of this drama appeared starring JOAN COLLINS (born 1933) as… Read more about this item