Appointment in Samarra by O'Hara, John

1925. 1925 Lawrence, DH REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF A PORCUPINE Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925 #423/925cc 240pp 8vo Oatmeal cloth backed/marbled paper-covered boards Faint tanning on spine, else fine bright unflawed, probably unread copy Cardboard slipcase present but in pieces.

Hutchinson, 1961. First UK edition-first impression. Hardcover. Very good/No Dj cover. VGC plus.Hutchinson,1961.First UK edition-first impression.Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,two small nicks and scratch on the edges of the cover and spine)in VGC, no Dj cover.Nice and clean pages with a couple of small foxing marks and nick on the outer edges,two small foxing marks and a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC plus for its age with light shelf wear.487pp including Author's note.A collectable and scarce first edition but without the Dj cover.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Quarter calf with gilt spine decorations and paper labels (expert contemporary replacements) and red marbled paper over boards. viii, 405pp; iv, 378pp; viii, 430pp. Frontispieces, marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Faint edgewear and scuffed marbled paper, though internally white, bright and near fine. A tight, quite handsome early printing of this English classic in a classy custom binding of the period; Ticknor and Fields first published "School Days at Rugby" in 1857 and "Tom Brown at Oxford" in 1861. From the library of Wisconsin civic leader JAMES M. LYNCH, chief clerk at the Adjutant General's Office during the Civil War, appointed quartermaster general in 1865. He boldly signs the inner flyleaf of the first volume in brown ink, dating it "Milwaukee, Wis. / Oct. 31, 1865." Inner flyleaf of the second volume ("Part First" of the 2-volume "Tom Brown at Oxford")… Read More

New York: Viking, 1992. Signed in gold ink and dated 1992 by Ken Kesey. First edition / First printing. White cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

New York: Viking, 1975. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Gold printed wrappers. Fine. Pulitzer Prize Winner.

London: Navarre Society 1924. (Hardcover) 359pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. A signed fine binding in 3 / 4 green Morocco with marbled boards, the spine with raised bands and tooled in gilt. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, and full-page and vignette illustrations. A handsome book. Edited with introduction by F.J. Harvey Darton. Illustrations by Philip Hagreen. . Suitable as a gift. Binding by Zaehnsdorf. Translated by William Adlington. (Fiction).

New York::: Scribners,,, 1969... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with previous owner sticker removed from the flyleaf in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. These five works grew, of course, out of Hemingway's considerable experience of the Spanish war as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance and as a participant in filming "The Spanish Earth." More specifically, they grew from adventures in and around besieged Madrid--particularly in the Hotel Florida and in a bar called Chicote's. The book is unified, then, in time, place, and action. It is unified even more by the dominating presence of the author, who is to be found alive on every page. That presence slants the focus, but also gives the book its sharp distinction. This is immediate, unmistakable Hemingway. This collection contains Hemingway's play "The Fifth Column", and the four stories "The Denunciation", The Butterfly and the Tank", "Night Before Battle" and "Under the Ridge". Despite his fascination… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1980. Signed on the title page by the author. First British edition / First printing. Brown paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket. The author's first book.

New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1950. First U.S. edition / First printing. Sienna printed wrappers. Light toning to spine, mild soiling to rear wrapper, near fine. Clean tight copy.