Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1985. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 205 pp. Ink underlining to a few pages only. Jacket rubbed and edgeworn.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1985. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 205 pp. Ink underlining to a few pages only. Jacket rubbed and edgeworn.
Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1930. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Edition of 500 copies. 8vo, 36 pp. Wrappers sunned, chipped, creased; pages tanned.
New York: the author, 1918. Cloth. 612 + 32 pp. With My Memories of Oscar Wilde by Bernard Shaw appended. Spines cocked, rubbed and worn with fraying at head and heel, endpapers browned, previous owner name. Vol. I: front hinge starting, first few leaves loose but not detached.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First printing, wraps issue. Wraps. 8vo, 323 pp. Light edgewear to wrappers, small scuff to back cover, underlining on 3 pp. only (in Chapter One).
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1941. Second printing. Cloth. 8vo, 409 pp., illus. Covers darkened and a bit soiled with light scuffing to front cover, extremities lightly bumped, page edges tanned and lightly foxed, some discoloration to endpapers, neat small label on rear pastedown.
Hearn Society, n.d. Wraps. 4to, 57 pp. In English and Japanese. Two small stains on front, wrapper corners lightly bumped.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985. First printing, wraps issue. Wraps. 8vo, 126 pp. Inscribed and signed by the author. Wrappers edgeworn with small closed tear at top edge.
Orano: National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, 1993. Wraps. 8vo, 511 pp. Spine faded, light edge and corner wear to wrappers.
San Francisco: Self Published, 1973. First printing. Wraps. Memoir of Jack Spicer. Unnumbered pages. Fine paperbound copy. Illus.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. First printing. Cloth. Edited by Diane Stevenson. 1/2" square chip at top of rear panel of d/j.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1995. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 336 pp. Head of spine slightly pulled, pages tanned; jacket lightly handled, with small stick on rear panel.
New York: Gotham Books, 2011. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 367 pp. Light wear to covers at extremities, page edges ja bit dusty, remainder stripe on bottom edge. Very light edgewear to jacket.
New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First edition. Boards. 8vo, 341 pp. Head of spine lightly bumped, light edgewear to jacket.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 135 pp., illus. Includes a Jim Chee Mini-Mystery. Very light rubbing to jacket.
Austin: Center for Middle Easter Studies, University of Texas, 1978. Wraps. Middle East Monographs No. 4. 8vo, 214 pp. Wrappers heavily rubbed, light edge and corner wear to wrappers, underlining on a few pp. only.
Dallas, PA: Stroker Press, 2003. First edition. Wraps. Staplebound. 48pp. Illus. Association Copy. Inscribed by Irving Stettner (Publisher/Illustrator) to close friend who played an important role in the publication of the book. Author is the chairman of the Henry Miller Society of Japan and author of D.H. Lawrence and Henry.....
Madrid: 1971. Wraps. Offprint or reprint from Arbor, nums. 309-310, Sept.-Oct. 1971. 8vo, [10] pp. Inscribed and signed by the author to poet Keith Wilson. A bit sunned, edgeworn, bumped at head of spine and corners with small tear at head of spine.
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1999. Illustrated Boards. Square 4to, 304 pp., illustrated throughout including several color plates. Boards very slightly bowed, otherwise Fine. A study of literary maps. Great illustrations.
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1906. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 56pp +4pp. ads.Number 2 of "Little Journeys to homes of Great Lovers." Light crease on front cover. This volume retells to story of Balzac and Madame Hanska.
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1906. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 26pp +8pp ads. Number 3 of "Little Journeys to Homes of Great Lovers". This volume concerns the story of Dante and Beatrice. Very Good in wraps.
London: Smith, Elder, 1882. New Edition. Cloth. 12mo, 268 pp. Spine slightly cocked, covers handled, bumped and worn at edges and corners including small tears at head of spine, binding a bit tender, previous owner name and book plate, small illustration mounted to rear pastedown, pages tanned but unmarked.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. First edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, 303 pp. Slight lean to spine, head and heel of spine and corners of boards lightly bumped with crown slightly pulled, page edges tanned, tiny spot to fore-edge.
New York: Harper & Brothers. Later printing. Cloth. 8vo, 322 pp. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped, covers dustsoiled with some rippling to cloth, page edges tanned, top edge dusty, discoloration to endpapers, book plate.
Wesleyan University Press, 1988. First edition. Cloth. 8vo, 194 pp. Previous owner's book plate, otherwise Fine.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 503pp. First Printing. Cloth. Autobiography of one of Cuba's greatest writers. 3'' light scratch on rear panel of dj, otherwise fine copy in unclipped jacket.