The Book of Yaak
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Fine in glossy wrappers, with a review slip laid in. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Fine in glossy wrappers, with a review slip laid in. More
(New York): Lenox Hill Press, 1971. Hardcover. First American edition. Ex-library copy (as Lenox Hill Press usually is) good only with usual markings in a very good dustwrapper with a spine label and wear to the extremities. An American Western by an English author. More
New York: A.L. Burt Company, (1924). Hardcover. Reprint. Near fine with corners lightly bumped, lacking the dustwrapper. More
NY/London: Harper & Brothers, (1922). Hardcover. First edition. Green cloth stamped in mustard. Contemporary owner's gift inscription on front fly, spine cocked, corners bumped, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Romance and adventure in the Texas oil fields. Basis for a 1940 Alfred E. Green film featuring John Garfield, Frances Farmer..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1922). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of very short tears. Wraparound jacket art by W.H.D. Koerner. Romance and adventure in the Texas oil fields. Basis for a 1940 Alfred E. Green film featuring John Garfield, Frances Farmer, and..... More
New York: A.L. Burt, 1913. Hardcover. Reprint. Fine in fine and bright dustwrapper with a tiny chip on the rear panel, and a crease on the spine. A lovely copy. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1913. Hardcover. Advance copy of the first edition in salmon papercovered boards with printed white label mounted on front board. Illustrated by M. Leone Bracker. Lacking the front fly, front hinge starting, spine faded and chipped, light dampstains on boards, a good only copy. Basis..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrations by Harvey T. Dunn. Red cloth stamped in silver and applied printed illustration. Fine. A lovely copy. More
New York: A.L. Burt, c. 1920. Hardcover. Reprint. Near fine in pictorial boards, with a lightly faded spine, light edgewear, lacking a dustwrapper. Beach's first novel. More
New York: McClure Phillips, 1905. Hardcover. First edition. Paint on the spine and some of the front board rubbed away, owner name on the front free endpaper (and offset just a touch on the pastedown), still a solid, very good copy. Beach's first book, a collection of stories with eight..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906 (but probably 1923). Hardcover. Reprint. Some spotting on front board, else near fine in in fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the front panel. Beach's first novel. Basis for several films, most notably the 1942 version with Randolph Scott, Marlene Dietrich, and John..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Hardcover. First edition. Slightly cocked in attractive, though rubbed, illustrated boards with wear the extremities and spot on lower front board very good plus. Beach's first novel. Basis for several films, most notably the 1942 version with Randolph Scott, Marlene Dietrich, and John Wayne..... More
New York: Bantam Crimeline, (1999). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Fine in printed wrappers with cover label. More
New York: Chelsea House, (1933). Hardcover. First edition. A bit of toning on the endpapers, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow chipping at the crown. Mary Reeder, raised on a ranch is a first class cowgirl, but inexperienced outside her ranch, meets a young engineer on a...... More
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1923. Softcover. First edition. Illustrated wraps. [6], 120, [1]pp. A chip to the upper corner of the front wrap, chipping to the spine ends and edges, about very good. No. 23 (from the spine) of "The Lambskin Library of Fiction Worth While," (from the..... More
New York: A.L. Burt, (1933). Hardcover. Reprint. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth. A little soiling on the boards, else near fine in a little spine-sunned else near fine dustwrapper. Jacket art by Sidney Riesenberg. More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1927. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth. Contemporary owner's name, slightly cocked, near fine in a good dustwrapper with several moderate chips and tears. Dandified eastern dude is derided and attacked by cowpokes, fights with everyone in town, but ultimately emerges as a force to reckon..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1928. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth. Pencil owner's name, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with several tiny nicks. More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1928. Hardcover. First edition. Contemporary owner's name, else fine in very good dustwrapper with several small chips and tears. Front flap of the jacket has an ad for the publisher's *Tarzan, King of the Jungle.* Very scarce in jacket. More
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1909. Hardcover. First edition. Decorative illustrated cloth. Owner's name on front pastedown, small crease at the top corner of a few leaves, a little rubbing on the boards, near fine. Western romance set in Texas and the Alamo. More
New York: G. Howard Watt, 1931. Hardcover. First edition. Contemporary owner's name, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with small chips at the crown. Brave men, beautiful and courageous girls, badmen with black souls, etc. Scarce in jacket. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with hardly visible rubbing on the rear panel. More
(London): Robert Hale and Company, (1974). Hardcover. First English edition (and first with this title: published in the U.S. as *Jilly's Canal*). Fine in fine dustwrapper. Fine copies of the first edition are very scarce, apparently most copies went to libraries. More
Boston: Meadow Publishing Company, [1960?]. Softcover. First American edition. Translated by Tita Caistor. Cover by Jay Campbell. Octavo. 378pp. Wrappers with light toning and soil, staples a bit oxidized, a near fine copy. Comrade V arrives at the hacienda, bringing Communist and union-friendly ideas with him. "A South American Western!"..... More