The Circle Game by Margaret Atwood - 1967

New York:: Viking Press,, 1938.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the cloth binding in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities, a tiny chip missing near the head of the spine and a glue bleed through running along the fold of the rear panel. Otherwise a respectable copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck short stories that includes The Chrysanthemums, The White Quail, Flight, The Snake, Breakfast, The Raid, The Harness, The Vigilante, Johnny Bear, The Murder, St. Katy The Virgin, the Complete Red Pony, The Leader of the People. There were only 8000 copies of this title published in the First Edition.

Norfolk, Connecticutt [1945]: New Directions, 1941. First Edition, Second Issue . Smooth Red Cloth. Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. 205 Pp. First Edition. Colophon States A Total Of 1500 Copies Were Printed. Bound In Smooth Red Cloth [749 Copies Were Bound In A Red Burlap Binding In 1941, The Remaining 751 Copies Were Bound In This Smooth Red Cloth Binding And Issued In April 1945]. First Issue [1941] Paper Labels, Printed Text On Front Label Being 2.7 Cm Wide [It Is Believed That Copies With A 3 Cm Width Print Line Were Issued Only With Some 1945 Bindings]. First Issue Dj With Name Correctly Spelled As Nabokov On Cover And Flaps [ A Variant Dj With Spelling "Nabokoff" Was Apparently Printed First, But, Confusingly, Issued Only On The 1945 Issue In Smooth Red Cloth, Probably When The Publisher Ran Out Of Corrected Jackets]. [For A Bibliographic Description See Vnbiblio]. Bright And Fresh, Spine And Cover Labels White And As New. Jacket Is Nearly Complete, Not Price-Clipped [$2.50] And Only… Read More

New York:: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith,, 1931.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good Plus copy in blue cloth binding that shows offsetting of the jacket design to the boards in a Very Good plus, unclipped dustjacket with some darkening and shallow edge wear to the spine along with two closed edge tears on the front panel. "These 13" was published during Faulkner's most productive and important period (1928-32), for his short story career. The stories in These 13 are arranged to present the shared themes and clarified problems, which lead Faulkner in the direction of his next novel Light in August. Of the thirteen stories in this collection, "Victory," "Ad Astra," "All the Dead Pilots," "Crevasse," "A Justice," "Mistral," "Divorce in Naples," and "Carcassonne" are published here for the first time.

New York: Edward Stern & Co., 1908. First Edition, First State 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 287 Pp. First Issue, With Publisher's Name Printed Once On Copyright Page, And Illustrations Listed On Verso Of Contents Page. A Bright, Clean Copy With Just A Touch Of Wear At Tips; Hinges Tight, No Foxing, No Marks, No Damage, All Plates Present, All Pages Square, Illustration On Front Cover Bright, Clean, No Marks And Just A Very Faint Touch Of Wear And With An Almost Invisible 3/4" Damp Spot. This Adult Book Was Later Made Into A 1914 Movie By Baum's Movie Production Company.

Alfred A.Knopf, London and New York, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing), issued five months after the US edition. 8vo. 280pp. Blue smooth-weave cloth lettered in red at the spine with a small black-stamped falcon design to the backstrip and to the upper corner of the front board. Publisher's blue top edge stain, very slightly patchy. Just a trace of light bruising to the spine ends and a touch of very light spotting to the fore edge, with a little further spotting to the half-title, title page, and one or two further preliminary and concluding leaves. Free endpapers lightly browned and a tiny bump to the tips of the two lower corners. A touch of very light soiling to occasional leaf margins and, once or twice, to the text block. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. The first and only full-length novel featuring Hammett's celebrated gumshoe Sam Spade. The print runs of the first US and first UK editions are unknown, but considering the relative… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1916 First printing of the first edition. Dark maroon cloth with gold-lettered binding, 444 pp., with index.
Light rubbing to extremities, a tiny nick to bottom front cover, crown of spine slightly frayed, and faint toning to spine, else book in fine condition. A lovely copy.

NY, Covici Friede, 1937, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This was Steinbeck's first in his experiments in writing plays, and his most successful, the play eventually reached Broadway and starred Wallace Ford as George and Broderick Crawford as Lennie, the play won Steinbeck the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play of the 1937-38 season, Goldstone & Payne A8a, Morrow 73. Aged, else fine in an aged, but clean dust jacket which is at least very good plus.

San Francisco, California: Harvest Press, 1932 First printing of the first edition, limited to only 125 copies. this copy is additionally signed by William Carlos Williams. Original wrappers.

Minor wear/light creasing to cover and faint age-toning to page margins, else in fine condition.

From the collection of California bibliophile, Melba Berry Bennett, with Bennett's bookplate laid-in to front endpaper ( Melba Berry Bennett: was a poet, writer, bibliophile, and recipient of the California Commonwealth Club's Silver Medal in 1966 for the Jeffers' biography).

Muscatine, The Prairie Press, 1938, first edition.. One of just 490 hardcover copies of Stegner's elusive third book, color first letters of each chapter and with the running heads at the side of pages, with red page numbers, this is a great private press production, the book was dedicated to Philip and Margaret Gray, the friends of Stegner who were the models for the characters in his acclaimed novel, Crossing to Safety, Colberg A3. Clean and bright, at least very nearly fine.

NY, Timescape Books, 1981, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Jacket illustrated by Rowena Morrill, rear jacket flap by Ursula Le Guin, this copy Signed by Philip K. Dick, very scarce thus, he died the following year, this is Nit's copy. Fine.