Memoirs Of Hecate County

New York: L. C. Page & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. [1959]. 1st New & Revised. Hardcover. This is the first edition of a heavily revised earlier version from 1942. Blue cloth over boards is clean and has very minimal wear. Corners sharp. Gilt lettering on spine is slightly faded, but still very clear.… Read more about this item

London: W. H. Allen, 1951 First UK edition, first printing. Publisher’s yellow cloth, titles in blue to spine; original blue dust jacket designed by Peter Rudland, lettered in white and yellow. Book with a hint of toning to pages, else fine; near fine unclipped dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends and top edge of front panel, and a… Read more about this item

Boston: L. C. Page & Co, 1959. Revised. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Small hardbound volume in dustwrapper. A new, extensively revised edition of Wilson's minor classic. Originally published in the 1940's, a volume containing six long stories. 447 pp. His story, The Princess With The Golden Hair was banned from publication for a period of time by the… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 338pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition that was quite controversial book at the time of its publication being banned for obscenity. With the ban being upheld by the US Supreme Court, it wasn't published again in the US until 1959; this time legally. Square, tight and clean throughout with little… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1946 First edition, first printing. Publisher’s green cloth with gilt decoration to front board, titles in gilt to spine, frontispiece photograph of Hecate statue; original gray and green dust jacket with titles in white. Near fine with light toning to cloth edges and pages, dusty top edge of text block, and some dimming to spine… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in about fine dust jacket with a very faint stain on the rear panel. A very crisp copy. A book that was the subject of some controversy, at the center of a legal battle over censorship that reached the United States Supreme Court. The New York… Read more about this item

New York : Doubleday & Co., 1946. First edition. Wilson's celebrated collection of short stories of the "lost generation" - "the adventures of an egoist among the bedeviled". Banned on first publication. Post 8vo (21cm). [xii],338,[ii]pp. Frontispiece. Original green cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good copy in the original grey, green and white dust-jacket - lightly tanned… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Owner name on front fly, binding slightly cocked with a modestly sunned spine, very good or better in a toned and price-clipped, about very good dust jacket with small chips and tears, and three interior tape repairs. Laid in is a mimeographed letter from Womrath Bookshops… Read more about this item

New York: L. C. Page, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A new, revised edition. Red cloth cover. Near fine with spine ends lightly bumped in very good dustwrapper with spine and edges browned, small nicks on spine ends.

London: W.H. Allen, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. First British edition. Octavo. 388pp. Pages edges, endpapers and spine all foxed, spine cocked, thus good only, lacking the dustwrapper.

London: W H Allen. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. ND. First UK edition of Wilson's acclaimed novel banned in the US Published with his revisions and thus, as noted on the jacket, "the only authentic and unexpurgated version. available". In VG+, clean crisp and bright order throughout. Smart pale yellow cloth with crisp blue titling to spine. VG… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. An unusually fresh copy of this imaginative work of fiction by the well-known critic. Not a particularly uncommon book, but cheaply manufactured, and in better than usual condition.

New York, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Collection of 6 stories drawn from the author's experiences of the pseudonymous Hecate County, the "bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air," Some of the stories originally… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday & Co., 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1946 Doubleday FIRST edition of Wilson's most famous series of stories linked into this wonderful book. This book is in VG?G+ codnition. The HB has bright green boards with only very mild sunning to the spine. There is a bit of wear at… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. First edition stated.of this 338 pp series of interrelated chronicles about a group of suburbanites of the "Lost" generation. A clean very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper.

Doubleday and Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($2.50 price intact). Published by Doubleday, 1946. Octavo. Green cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very little… Read more about this item

London: W. H. Allen, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First English edition. Slight foxing on endpapers and page edges, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny nicks and tears, small soil mark on the cover, and a couple faint drink rings on the rear panel.

New York: L. C. Page, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A new, revised edition. Blue cloth cover. Near fine with 4mm dent on rear cover on bottom edge in very good dustwrapper with spine faded and small nick on bottom rear panel edge concurrent with dent on book.

Doubleday and Company, 1946. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Doubleday and Company; Garden City, 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. A Very Good, green cloth binding with gilt ornate design on front board and gilt lettering and ornate design on spine, binding sturdy and intact, trace handling marks, spine buckram starting to separate from backing material, bit of age… Read more about this item

New York: L.C. Page, 1959. Revised ed (5th reissue with changes warranting a new copyright). Fine in VG d.j. (spine lightly faded). Revised ed (5th reissue with changes warranting a new copyright). [xii], 447p. Gilt-titled blue cloth.