Search Results: Authors starting with S from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

BELLARION, Houghton Mifflin, 1926, first American edition, a bright vg+ copy in like full wrap-around pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear.

THE SWORD OF ISLAM, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939, first edition, just about fine in vg+/near fine bright full color wrap-around dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. An historical novel of Genoa in the 16th century.

THE URBINIAN, Houghton - Mifflin, ( ca. 1925 ), first edition., some wear to the bottom section of the spine, else a vg+ copy in wraps. Apparently an advance copy of a portion of the then soon to be relased THE BANNER OF THE BULL.

THE HOUNDS OF GOD, Houghton-Mifflin, 1928, first edition, a very good plus copy in a bright just about vg full color pictorial wrap-around dust-wrapper with some light wear, tear and chipping. A story of love and romance during the time of the destruction of the Spanish Armada.

SIGHTBLINDER'S STORY, Tor, 1987, first edition., fine in wraps and dust-wrapper. Uncorrected proof. The Second Book of Lost Swords.

BROTHER BERSERKER, MacDonald, 1969, first English edition & first hard-cover edition, near fine in vg+ dust-wrapper save for some rubbing to the rear dust-wrapper panel. BERSERKER #2.

WOUNDHEALER'S STORY, SIGHTBLINDER'S STORY, Tor, 1986 & 1987 respectively, first edition, fine in wraps. Uncorrected proofs. The First & second Book of Lost Swords; Along with THE FACE OF APOLLO & ARIADNE'S WEB, Tor, 1998 & 2000 respectively, first edition, fine in wraps. Uncorrected proofs. The First & second Book of The Gods; Along with SHIVA IN STEEL, Tor, 1998, first edition., fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof; Along with THE ARRIVAL, Tor, 1999, first edition., fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof. The first novel of Gene Roddenberry's EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT series. All six for ----

SEANCE FOR A VAMPIRE, Tor, 1994, first edition., fine in wraps. Uncorrected proof.

MORE SHIRES & PROVINCES, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1928, first edition, front cover exhibits a bit of bowing and soil, else a just about fine copy bound in full vellum without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/200 copies in this deluxe binding with marbled end-papers, t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt and gold-gilt stamping, rules and/or lettering to the front cover and spine. SIGNED by both author and artist with 16 full color, full page plates. Fox hunting through the British countryside.

O THE CHIMNEYS SELECTED POEMS, INCLUDING THE VERSE PLAY, ELI, The Jewish Publication Society of America / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967, first edition, just about fine in like dust-wrapper. The first book in English by the 1966 Nobel Prize co-winner in Literature.

NO SIGNPOSTS IN THE SEA, Doubleday, 1961, first edition, a bright vg+/near fine copy in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and shallow chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities.

The Moon and the Planets, Paul Hamlyn Ltd., 1957, first edition, fine in color designed cloth and vg full color wrap-around pictorial cloth with some wear and tear. Profusely illustrated in both color and black & white by Ludek Pesek.

HEALTH AND STRENGTH FOR GIRLS, D. Lathrop, 1884, first edition, some slight soil to the covers, else a tight vg+ copy. Quite scarce. 

Samuel Clossy M.D. THE EXISTING WORKS WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, INCLUDING A FASCIMILE REPRINT OF OBSERVATIONS ON SOME OF THE PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY, Hafner Publishing Company, 1967, first edition, fine without dust-wrapper as issued. 1/2,000 copies. INSCRIBED by the author to the former premier Walt Whitman collector, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg and his wife.

MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN, Atheneum, 1987, first edition., fine in wraps. Advance readng copy. Filmed in 1992.

MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN, Atheneum, 1987, first edition, as new in dust-wrapper. Recently a hollywood film.

THE WOODCUT OF TO-DAY AT HOME AND ABROAD, The Studio Lt., 1927, first edition., slight wear to the head of the spine, else a tight vg+ copy. Profusely illustrated along with 8 full color tipped in plates. Contribu- tions by everybody.

TATTOO THE WICKED CROSS, Grove Press, 1967, first edition, fine in dust-wrapper. A novel of prison life in California. The authors first book.

BLUE MELODY in Cosmopolitan Magazine for September, 1948, first edition, just about fine in full color pictorial wraps. Also contains I'LL GIVE YOU SOME ADVICE by P. G. Wodehouse & MY BIGGEST THRILL IN SPORTS by Joe Dimaggio. (It was this very publication that drove Salinger to declare that all his future short stories would appear in the New Yorker as the editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine changed the authors original title without his permission.)

LAST DAY OF THE LAST FURLOUGH" in The Saturday Evening Post of July 15, 1944, first edition, a very good plus to near fine copy in pictorial wraps. The first appearance in print of this early Salinger story. Also contains the first installment of REMEMBERED DEATH (SPARKLING CYANIDE) by Agatha Christie, BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA by S. J. Perelman, et.al.