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Device

Sometimes called the colophon (which is confusing since this term has an alternate meaning). Referring to the publisher's logo used on the copyright page, especially when it is used to denote a first edition, as it occasionally did for some publishers in the 20th Century (Farrar and Rinehart, Charles Scribner's Sons, G.P. Putnam's Sons, and others). For example, copies of Norman Mailer's first book, The Naked and the Dead, must have the publisher's device on the copyright page, as shown here for this copy from our Catalog 125, in order to be a first edition.

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Cover Image: Psycho by BLOCH, Robert

$850.00

BLOCH, Robert

Psycho

New York: Simon & Schuster 1959. First edition. Pages with the usual uniform browning, a light tape shadow on the rear fly, very good in an attractive, ex-library... more>>

Cover Image: Psycho by BLOCH, Robert

$1,650.00

BLOCH, Robert

Psycho

New York: Simon and Schuster 1959. First edition. Pages with the usual uniform browning, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight rubbing and wear. Basis for... more>>

Cover Image: The Woman Who Was No More by BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac

$1,500.00

BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac

The Woman Who Was No More

New York: Rinehart (1954). First American edition. Page edges browned else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and a few minuscule spots of white... more>>

Cover Image: The Woman Who Was No More by BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac

$2,500.00

BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac

The Woman Who Was No More

New York: Rinehart (1954). First American edition. Page edges browned, else fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a bit of rubbing and one small, internal... more>>

Cover Image: The Woman Who Was No More by BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac

$3,500.00

BOILEAU, Pierre and Thomas Narcejac

The Woman Who Was No More

New York: Rinehart and Company (1954). First American edition. Page edges very slightly browned, still fine in fine dustwrapper. An exceptionally uncommon title, the first... more>>

Cover Image: Colonel Wotherspoon and Other Plays by BRIDIE, James

$150.00

BRIDIE, James

Colonel Wotherspoon and Other Plays

London: Constable & Co 1934. First edition. Owner's name else fine in a price-clipped, very good or better dustwrapper with slight spine-fading. Plays by a... more>>

Cover Image: Roman Comedy: An Impolite Extravaganza by COOK, Whitfield

$150.00

COOK, Whitfield

Roman Comedy: An Impolite Extravaganza

New York: Coward-McCann (1951). First edition. Bottom edges of the boards a little rubbed and bottom corners slightly bumped, a near fine copy in very good plus... more>>

Cover Image: Enter Sir John by DANE, Clemence and Helen Simpson

$750.00

DANE, Clemence and Helen Simpson

Enter Sir John

New York: Cosmopolitan 1928. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Basis for the 1930 Alfred Hitchcock film Murder! with... more>>

Cover Image: Rebecca: A Play in Three Acts by Du MAURIER, Daphne

$1,750.00

Du MAURIER, Daphne

Rebecca: A Play in Three Acts

London: Victor Gollancz 1940. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Light wear, a near fine copy, housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. The play, based on the... more>>

Cover Image: The Skin Game by GALSWORTHY, John

$45.00

GALSWORTHY, John

The Skin Game

New York: Scribner's 1920. First American edition. Neat, contemporary inscription and a little fading to the spine else fine lacking the uncommon dustwrapper.... more>>

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