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NIKOLAI GOGOL. Inscribed to the Thompsons by Nabokov, Vladimir - 1944

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NIKOLAI GOGOL. Inscribed to the Thompsons by Nabokov, Vladimir - 1944

NIKOLAI GOGOL. Inscribed to the Thompsons

by Nabokov, Vladimir

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Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Books, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Books, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, First State with five titles to advertisement page & four titles to rear flap of the Alvin Lustig designed dustwrapper which is also first state with the $1.50 price unclipped. 12mo., [i] + [vi] + 1-174. A very good copy, the spine ev er so slightly darkened with a couple of very small stains at the heel, the dustwrapper a very good & bright example with a narrow 3/16ths bit of loss at the crown. An outstanding copy of Nabokov's extensive & very important early essay of his countryman, as this copy is inscribed by the master & embellished with one of his famous butterfly sketches to his dear friends of over 40 years, the Thompsons: "To Lisbeth and Bertrand with the author's love / Cambridge, Mass / Sept. 1944". The book was published by New Directions, August 15th, 1944 making this a very early inscription. Genuine Nabokov presentations are uncommon especially those of a personal & generous nature. Julian A22.1 Nabokov's distinguished contribution [the fifth] to the Makers Of Modern Literature Series By New Directions. Preceded by works on: Joyce, Woolf, Forster & Lorca.
  • Bookseller TBCL The Book Collection Library CA (CA)
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  • Publisher New Directions Books
  • Place of Publication Norfolk, Connecticut
  • Date Published 1944

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Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies

by WAUGH, EVELYN

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Used - First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some small chips, not affecting illustration or lettering and with ve
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some small chips, not affecting illustration or lettering and with very minor internal archival mends. An observant bibliographically inclined collector of our acquaintance, in comparing this example with another at hand, discovered subtle differences in the titles listed on the back panel. Both jackets were priced at the first edition’s issued price of 7/6 (in pre-paperback days, English publishers generally reduced prices quickly to 3/6), but one ends with Jeffery’s Second Choice, while this example lists Jeffery’s Miss Vell Intervenes and follows with Winder’s Sin-Offering. His research indicates that this would have logically followed the former. It can then be presumed that this is at least a second state of the dust jacket.
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The Grapes of Wrath.

The Grapes of Wrath.

by Steinbeck, John.

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NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. No book is more identified with John Steinbeck than this masterpiece which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and which was the source for the film version directed by John Ford that starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and which won Jane Darwell an Academy Award for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the book was also the source for the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, one of the true high spots of 20th Century literature, jacket designed by Elmer Hader, this is an incredibly scarce Review Copy with review slip from Viking, this is the only review copy seen by this bookseller in more than 50+ years of being involved in all things Steinbeck, see Goldstone & Payne A12a, see Morrow 107. Fine in a jacket with a couple of small tape ghosts from where the review slip was previously affixed, jacket is otherwise clean, bright, and fine.
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Clarence Edward Dutton An Appraisal.
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Clarence Edward Dutton An Appraisal.

by Stegner, Wallace.

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Salt Lake City, University of Utah, n.d. (1935), first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Author's First Book, a legendary rarity, the text is followed by a bibliography of Dutton's writing, the text is a condensation of Stegner's thesis at the State University of Iowa in 1935 (that titled Clarence Edward Dutton, Geologist and Man of Letters), Colberg A1, Colberg indicates two copies found - one belonging to Stegner and one at the Library of Congress, Stegner himself indicated to this bookseller that he owned three copies, one of which went to a noted Stegner collector, one of which his widow, Mary, retained for the family, and one that she gave to a Bay Area bookseller well-associated with the Stegners, Sylvia Asendorf, to whom Mrs. Stegner Inscribed this copy ("Sylvia, thank you for all/your help./Fondly/Mary Stegner"). Minor age to wrappers and two small paper scrapes to rear wrapper, else fine.
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All the Sad Young Men
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All the Sad Young Men

by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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First Edition
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing with no damage to type on pages 38, 90 and 248; in a first state dust jacket with lips unbattered. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in blind on the upper board, and stamped in gilt on the spine. Fine, almost appearing as new, with bright and sharp gilt lettering. Faint wear at corners and bumping to bottom corner of lower board, creating a tiny, corresponding chip to the dust jacket. A breathtaking copy, one would be hard-pressed to find one nicer.
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The Sound and the Fury
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The Sound and the Fury

by Faulkner, William

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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black and white Art Deco style boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and top and bottom edges of covers. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.00 on the rear panel; toning to spine with fading to red print there, light edge wear, light soiling, and erased pencil notation to rear flap corner. A fantastic copy in the scarce first issue dust jacket.
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Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies

by WAUGH, EVELYN

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Used - First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some small chips, not affecting illustration or lettering and with ve
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some small chips, not affecting illustration or lettering and with very minor internal archival mends. An observant bibliographically inclined collector of our acquaintance, in comparing this example with another at hand, discovered subtle differences in the titles listed on the back panel. Both jackets were priced at the first edition’s issued price of 7/6 (in pre-paperback days, English publishers generally reduced prices quickly to 3/6), but one ends with Jeffery’s Second Choice, while this example lists Jeffery’s Miss Vell Intervenes and follows with Winder’s Sin-Offering. His research indicates that this would have logically followed the former. It can then be presumed that this is at least a second state of the dust jacket.
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NZ$29,561.00
The Grapes of Wrath.

The Grapes of Wrath.

by Steinbeck, John.

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Concord, California, United States
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NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. No book is more identified with John Steinbeck than this masterpiece which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and which was the source for the film version directed by John Ford that starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad and which won Jane Darwell an Academy Award for her portrayal of Ma Joad, the book was also the source for the Tony Award-winning Broadway play, one of the true high spots of 20th Century literature, jacket designed by Elmer Hader, this is an incredibly scarce Review Copy with review slip from Viking, this is the only review copy seen by this bookseller in more than 50+ years of being involved in all things Steinbeck, see Goldstone & Payne A12a, see Morrow 107. Fine in a jacket with a couple of small tape ghosts from where the review slip was previously affixed, jacket is otherwise clean, bright, and fine.
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Clarence Edward Dutton An Appraisal.
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Clarence Edward Dutton An Appraisal.

by Stegner, Wallace.

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Salt Lake City, University of Utah, n.d. (1935), first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Author's First Book, a legendary rarity, the text is followed by a bibliography of Dutton's writing, the text is a condensation of Stegner's thesis at the State University of Iowa in 1935 (that titled Clarence Edward Dutton, Geologist and Man of Letters), Colberg A1, Colberg indicates two copies found - one belonging to Stegner and one at the Library of Congress, Stegner himself indicated to this bookseller that he owned three copies, one of which went to a noted Stegner collector, one of which his widow, Mary, retained for the family, and one that she gave to a Bay Area bookseller well-associated with the Stegners, Sylvia Asendorf, to whom Mrs. Stegner Inscribed this copy ("Sylvia, thank you for all/your help./Fondly/Mary Stegner"). Minor age to wrappers and two small paper scrapes to rear wrapper, else fine.
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All the Sad Young Men
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All the Sad Young Men

by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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First Edition
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Unknown
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing with no damage to type on pages 38, 90 and 248; in a first state dust jacket with lips unbattered. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in blind on the upper board, and stamped in gilt on the spine. Fine, almost appearing as new, with bright and sharp gilt lettering. Faint wear at corners and bumping to bottom corner of lower board, creating a tiny, corresponding chip to the dust jacket. A breathtaking copy, one would be hard-pressed to find one nicer.
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The Sound and the Fury
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The Sound and the Fury

by Faulkner, William

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Used - Near Fine
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First Edition
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Unknown
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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black and white Art Deco style boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and top and bottom edges of covers. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.00 on the rear panel; toning to spine with fading to red print there, light edge wear, light soiling, and erased pencil notation to rear flap corner. A fantastic copy in the scarce first issue dust jacket.
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NIKOLAI GOGOL. Inscribed to the Thompsons

NIKOLAI GOGOL. Inscribed to the Thompsons

by Nabokov, Vladimir

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Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions Books, 1944. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author. First edition, First State with five titles to advertisement page & four titles to rear flap of the Alvin Lustig designed dustwrapper which is also first state with the $1.50 price unclipped. 12mo., [i] + [vi] + 1-174. A very good copy, the spine ev er so slightly darkened with a couple of very small stains at the heel, the dustwrapper a very good & bright example with a narrow 3/16ths bit of loss at the crown. An outstanding copy of Nabokov's extensive & very important early essay of his countryman, as this copy is inscribed by the master & embellished with one of his famous butterfly sketches to his dear friends of over 40 years, the Thompsons: "To Lisbeth and Bertrand with the author's love / Cambridge, Mass / Sept. 1944". The book was published by New Directions, August 15th, 1944 making this a very early inscription. Genuine Nabokov presentations are uncommon especially those of a personal &… Read More
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MONKEY AND THE THREE WIZARDS.
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MONKEY AND THE THREE WIZARDS.

by Harris, Peter

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Good
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First U.S. edition
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Hardcover
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9780878881109
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0878881107
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New York: Bradbury Press., 1977. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Michael Foreman. Pictures by Michael Foreman. Translated by Peter Harris. Scarsdale, New York: Bradbury Press, (1977). First U.S. edition. Hardcover, dust jacket. Clothbound. The book is very good with a number on the front free endpaper. The jacket is good only with wear on the edges and missing a few small pieces and a few tears. ISBN: 0878881107.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

by Cohen, Leonard

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New
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Not Issued
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Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC)
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Paperback
ISBN 13
9780802160478
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0802160476
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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WAR STORIES. Poems about Long Ago and Now.

by Nemerov, Howard

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Proof.
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London: University of Chicago Press., 1987. Proof.. Softcover. Near fine. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. Uncorrected proof. Near fine. This copy has the title page for another publication bound in, which is not unusual for this proof. The rest of the book is the proof for this Howard Nemerov title. Softcover.
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And Four To Go
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And Four To Go: A Nero Wolfe Foursome

by Rex Stout

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This book is in very good condition except for the dust jacket. It is in acceptable condition THe dust Jacket is worn, torn and fading. The previous owner's name is written at the top of the first page.Four Nero Wolfe novels in miniature, published in book form for the first time. Christmas Party, Easter Parade, Fourth of July Picnic and Murder is no Joke. There is a marking on the first page.
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole

Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole

by Engle, Joanna

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None Issued
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First Edition
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Paperback
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9780394856438
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0394856430
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Mudlark

The Mudlark

by Bonnett, Theodore

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Used-very good
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Good-
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Hardcover
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Doubleday & Co., 1949. Used-very good. Hard Bound
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Shadow of Night: A Novel
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Shadow of Night: A Novel

by Deborah Harkness

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Used - Near Fine
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Near Fine
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First
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780670023486
ISBN 10
0670023485
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Black boards with gold writing on spine; author's initials embossed in gold on front board. Top and bottom of book spine rumpled; illustrations on inside of front and back board. Very slight shelf wear to top and bottom of dust jacket spine; pages and binding still look in excellent condition. Cover price of $28.95 and 0712 on front dust jacket flap. Viking First Edition; First Printing as indicated by complete number line ending in "1" on copyright page.
The second book in the All Souls trilogy, Harkness' novel "weaves a rich and splendid tapestry of alchemy, magic, and history." Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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The Plays Of Eugene O'Neill (Three Volume Set)
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The Plays Of Eugene O'Neill (Three Volume Set): Volume I: Strange Interlude, Desire Under The Elms, Lazarus Laughed, The Fountain, The Moon Of The Caribees, Bound East For Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, In The Zone, Ile, Where The Cross Is Made, The Rope, The Dreamy Kid, Before Breakfast, Volume II: Mo

by Eugene O'Neill

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None
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The Random House Lifetime Library
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The books in this multi-volume set are in very good condition. There is almost no wear on all three books in this set. The front, back, spine and cover boards are in very good condition as well as the edges. There is minor bumping on the corners of all three books. The previous owners name is written on the inside of the front cover boards of all three books. The pages of all three books are tanned and yellowed but clear of any markings. This multi-volume set contains the complete plays of Eugene O'Neill.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre

The Treasure Of Sierra Madre

by Traven, B

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No DJ Included
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Large-Print Edition
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Hardcover
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9780786201006
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0786201002
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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Aurora Dawn or, The True History of Andrew Reale
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Aurora Dawn or, The True History of Andrew Reale

by Herman Wouk

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very good
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First edition thus, First printing thus
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Hardcover
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New York: Venture/Simon and Schuster, 1947. FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING THUS. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents the FIRST EDITION of HERMAN WOUK'S very first novel: AURORA DAWN, written during his final year's on a WWII ship in the Pacific fleet. Later on, Wouk would win the Pulitzer Prize for CAINE MUTINY, and his WIND'S OF WAR would become a famous television mini-series. Many other novelists, publishers and historians have called Wouk "an American Tolstoy." The 1947 date on the copyright page matches the 1947 on the title page, making this a FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING THUS. 5 1/2" x 8 1/8", 241 pages, with the ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Overall book is NEAR FINE. Pages = FINE: old price on first fep, light staining from glue on front reverse cover and first and last fep's, else very clear, tight, sharp, no additional marks. Cover (blue cloth boards with gold gilt design and "H W" on front, gold gilt… Read More
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