Sailor Off the Bremen and Other Stories

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. 8vo. 21cm x 14cm. Publisher's burgundy cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to black spine label, light bumping to spine ands and some minor edgewear in a clean, handsome dustjacket with some marginal creasing and chipping, a couple of closed tears and some old tape reinforcement to verso. A very attractive copy. 293pp.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House. Very Good. 1939. First American Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Shaw, inscribed: "To Calvin Israel, the young depression stories, with best wishes. First edition author's first book of short stories. Red cloth faintly marked, top edge black. Paper toned, gutters darkened. Nice DJ price intact. Chipping top from panel, spine tip, some along… Read more about this item

Random House, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing stated. Full dark red cloth boards in illustrated dust jacket, 8-1/4" x 5-3/4", 293 pp. One bit of discoloration to top of front board, some minor soiling to verso of DJ, rubbing to rear panel of jacket. The jacket is lovely, original $2.00 price intact. Shaw's first… Read more about this item

New York: Random House,, 1939. His first book of short stories, a fine copy First edition, first printing, of the author's first book of the short stories. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt on black ground, top edge black. With dust jacket. A fine copy in the fresh, sharp jacket.

Jonathan Cape, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1940. First Edition. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, (1939).. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 293, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., light rubbing to the spine ends and faint soiling to the lower wrapper otherwise a very good copy.

New York, NY.: Random House. Very Good. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. This book is hard-bound in red cloth with gilt and black stamping on the spine in a very nice dust jacket with light soiling on the lower panel and light edge-wear. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and generally… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, [1939]. FIRST EDITION. Near fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a few tiny closed edgetears. Attractive copy of this early collection of stories.

London: Cape. Novel set in modern America. Very minor chips / wear to corners of dustwrapper . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1948.

NY, NY: Random House, 1939. 293 pp., red cloth w/ black & gold lettering; Dust jacket in Mylar cover; Book has a little slant to spine; wear to bottom corner of rear board; very slight rubbing to spine; light foxing & a few small brown stains to page edges; endpapers browning, pages slightly; small bookstore label, price sticker & penciled… Read more about this item