The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien - 1984

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a dust jacket with minor wear, else fine. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The scarcest of Welch's novels, especially in nice condition.

Chapman & Hall, London, 1942. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 255pp. Publisher's original oatmeal cloth, lettered in blue at the spine and with the blue top edge stain, resulting in just a fraction of bleeding to the upper margin of a single text leaf. The binding just a fraction cocked and with some fairly light fox spotting throughout. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Very good in lightly rubbed, marked and chipped yet still very crisp price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's sixth novel, detailing the early months of the Second World War, written in July 1941 following Waugh's return home after the evacuation of Crete, and with a printed dedication to Randolph Churchill who was instrumental in Waugh's wartime commission. Davis, Doyle &c xvii..

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.

Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A., published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers 1912. First Edition. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Douglas Duer, illustrator. 335 pp. plus 4 pages of advertisements at back. Text is clean and unmarked but tanned, typical of the paper used in 1912. Light foxing on front free endpapers and title page. Previous owner's attribution stamped on front pastedown. A Western novel about a Mormon woman defending her ranch and the period conflicts between Mormons and Gentiles near the the southern Utah border as written by a classic American writer.

Toronto: Little, Brown Canada: 1995. Signed by Richard Ford on the title page. First Canadian edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, brown paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize and the Pen Faulkner Award. Highly praised and much anticipated sequel to The Sportswriter. Selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review for their 10 Best Books of 1995 List.

NY: Pantheon. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Top corners bumped, jacket grubby and has . several chips, one small water spot to jacket at center of spine.. [1951]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Yellow boards with title stamped in various fonts in black on front. Black cloth spine with title stamped in yellow. A comic classic of modern Irish literature, first published in England in 1939. Though Graham Greene championed the novel (his Pantheon front jacket blurb trumpets "A book in a thousand...in the line of Ulysses and Tristram Shandy." ) , and later book blurbs quote Dylan Thomas' mini-book review: "This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." ) , it was initially not a hot seller. All of the unsold first edition copies were destroyed during World War II bombings. At Swim-Two-Birds appears on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels list, The Modern Library Reader's List of 100 best novels, and The Guardian's list of… Read More

Southern Living Gallery/ The Southern Classics Library, 1984. SCARCE in current commerce. Fine, as issued. Privately printed for members of The Southern Classics Library, printed by Kingsport Press, bound by Sherwood Bindery Division of the Kingsport Press in genuine leather with brass-die stamping in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled end papers. Cover stampings and design by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer. . Limited Edition. Leather. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Tan cloth hardcover with brown lettering to spine and front; no jacket; 534 pages; revised edition (stated so on last page of text.) Very good minus condition: spine a little toned and cocked; slight stain on front; a red square printed on front is faded; hinges strong; ownership stamp and a bookshop label inside back; outer edges of text block are toned; a few page corners creased. New plastic protective jacket. .

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page -"Miss Marian Willoughby with the regards of Thornton Wilder, Lafayette, May 1933". First Issue, with three points at ps. 186, 196, and 202. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, toning at end pages, slight rubbing at corners of decorative cloth covers. The first novel by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy.

London: Macmillan, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 1st Printing.