The Same Door by Updike, John - 1959

MaCMILLAN, 1905, 1905. , Blue & White Decorated Cloth of snowy mountains & Sun & trees with some Edge rub & minor Corner Bump edges, , VG-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, 385 pgs, Small ding to spine cvr,HARDBACK NODJ, June 1905, stated 1st edition, 2nd issue ,VG-, interior Nice & Tight relatively Clean, Ever so slight Hinge Starting, VG, AS-IS, NODUSTJACKET,Octavo, Green decorated Cloth Boards with red, Lettered Cover with white & Brown, White & Gold Gilt Lettering on Spine, Minor Cover Rub, Wear, Scuff primarily corners & along Spine & with small external small Chips & Light Tears, Mild Fox, 182 pgs, Publishers Ads in Back, . First Edition. Hard Cover.

Viking Press,NY, 1958. HBDJ ,FOTO LASER COLOR Copy DJ, Stated Fourth Printing, March 1958, 1st Edition, NF-/GOOD, AS-IS, 8 vo, Black Cloth Hardboard Cover lettered in White on Spine & On Front Cvr, A truly near beautiful copy rarely encountered in this nearly superlative condition, The boards are straight and clean with no bumping, tears, shredding, very light soiling . The white lettering is bright and complete. Internally there is no writing, tears, soiling, foxing, or separation light wear FOX ,Front Blank Flyleafs + next 15 pgs small light top Edge Stain blank Margin, 310 PAGES, Foto copy of DJ light Rub wear , Publishers FadedRed Top Stain outer pgs edge, Light Cover Scuff, Tiny Cvr corner tears .Front FOTO LASER COLOR Copy DJ has Colored Abstract Design Block makes it Very Destinctive & Beat !! Front Blank Flyleafs + next 15 pgs small light top Edge Stain blank Margin. First Edition. Hard Cover.

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.

Modern Library, New York,, 1933. HBDJ, 1933, Stated First ML Edition on Copyright pg, VG+/VG, AS-IS, 225 titles MENTIONED ON BACK & Inside DJ with 95 cents per copy; Very Good+ condition with minor fading to spine and light wear and at spine extremities.Solid binding, bright gilt, attractive lightly faded brown topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text.; dust jacket is also Very Good with minimal chipping to spine extremities and corners., 279 pages NO ADS IN BACK, bright cover and gilt; Toledano # 211.1; Style 7 binding in Brown with Bright Gold gilt Streamer Man on front cvr & Titled in Gilt on spine,; Titles on Blue, B/W DJ date from Spring 1933 and are accurate for a First; mild edge wear to DJ with TINY chips to top and bottom edge; TINYchips to head and heel of DJ spine; Small4.25 X 6.75 IN.Interior nice tight clean light Fox Thruout ,It is the central story, that of Melanctha, the Negro girl, which is the most original and compelling of the… Read More

# 140 of 333 numbered copies signed by the author. First printing. Blue cloth with top edge gilt. Jacket has some foxing on the spine; chip at bottom edge of the front panel and tears at bottom of the spine. Slipcase has some sunning and a few scuffs.

1857. 1857 [Hughes, Thomas] SCHOOL DAYS AT RUGBY BY AN OLD BOY Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857 409pp 12pp ads 8vo Embossed brown cloth Moderate scuffing, rubbing on edges, covers Internally sound copy,

London; (1924): Jonathan Cape. First Edition. Octavo. 253pp. The story about a man shattered mentally and physically by war and despairing of life. Nature brings him back step by step to health and vigor. It is the fight of nature against the evil of civilization. Bound in black cloth, paper spine label, some off setting to label, light wear to corners, in decorative unclipped dust jacket lettered and illustrated in black and green, chipping to spine ends and corners, spine darkened, with some toning to edges. A very good copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. First Edition. Original Cloth. As New/No Jacket as Issued. Jonathan Cape, London, 2005. Hardback. Book Condition: As New. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback. Book in in MINT/UNREAD condition. No dustjacket, as issued. Complete with promotional bookband which is also in MINT condition. SIGNED by Julian Barnes shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Alexandria, Va: Cottom and Stewart, 1801. Hardcover. Very Good. Full imprint: "Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, for Robert and John Gray, Alexandria; and for Conrad and Co., Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington City." 2 volumes: 256, 248 p.; 18 cm. 12mo. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on red morocco spine label in second compartment of each volume. Gilt-tooled volume number in fourth compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled decoration in the first, third, and fifth compartments. All page edges yellow. This is the First American edition, after the British 1799 edition. Each volume has a label on the front fixed endpaper indicating that the volumes were given in 1855 to the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College by Samuel M. Dickson (1837-1866) and John W. Cornelius (1835-1894), graduates of the college who became Methodist ministers. Dickinson College Library oval stamp also on front fixed endpapers and embossed… Read More

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.