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Wigston, Leicestershire: Stribling Press, (1999). Hardcover. First edition. Quarter morocco gilt and cloth. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. Copy number 54 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author. More
Catalog 231 contains 233 modern first editions, all from a single owner collection. Included are books from Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, John Steinbeck, and more!
Download PDF of Modern First EditionsWigston, Leicestershire: Stribling Press, (1999). Hardcover. First edition. Quarter morocco gilt and cloth. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. Copy number 54 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1942. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in else near fine dustwrapper. A nice copy of this wartime book. More
New York: Viking, 1950. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with typical sunning to the orange portion of the spine and touch of wear at the crown. More
New York: Viking Press, 1945. Hardcover. First edition in buff-colored, first issue binding (as opposed to the later and much more common yellow binding). Fine in about fine dustwrapper with just a touch of rubbing and tiny tear at rear flap fold. A very nice copy of a deceptively uncommon..... More
Zürich: Steinberg Verlag, 1945. Hardcover. First German edition. Cheap paper a little age-toned else fine in lightly rubbed else fine dustwrapper. Publisher's catalog laid in. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in price-clipped else very near fine dustwrapper with very faint toning at the spine. Basis for the 1955 Kazan film starring James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, and Jo Van Fleet, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. A...... More
New York: The Viking Press, (1939). Hardcover. First edition. Slight scrape on rear fly, else near fine in modestly spine-toned, very good or better first state dustwrapper with a little rubbing and a few faint spots on the spine. A nice copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of an Oklahoma..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1938. Hardcover. First edition. About fine in very good price-clipped dustwrapper with moderate rubbing and scuffing with very small nicks and tears. A presentable copy. More
New York: Viking Press, 1938. Hardcover. First edition. A little toning in the gutters, else fine in fine dustwrapper with very light rubbing. A lovely copy. More
New York: Covici Friede, 1937. Hardcover. First edition, first issue. Fine in bright and very near fine first issue dustwrapper with one internally repair short tear on the front panel near the top spine fold. A lovely copy of this poignant, classic novella of two Depression-era drifters whose dreams of..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1958. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Dispatches from Steinbeck's war journalism. More
New York: Viking Press, 1948. Hardcover. First edition. Pictures by Robert Capa. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. A very nice copy and scarce thus. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine, very slightly rubbed dustwrapper. A much nicer than usual copy. More
New York: Covici Friede, (1933). Hardcover. First edition, second issue with title page a cancel. Fine in very good or better second issue dustwrapper with a few tiny tears, one resulting in a small crease at the bottom of the front panel. A novel about a California farmer's mystical obsession..... More
New York: Viking Press, (1962). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper that is a little spine-toned. Steinbeck hits the road with his dog in a modified pickup truck, traversing 40 states. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Winner of the National Book Award. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Winner of the National Book Award. Not an uncommon book, but scarce in fine condition. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Author's first book. A lovely copy. More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1951). Hardcover. First edition. A little sunning at the edges of the boards, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with some slight age-toning at the spine. A very nice copy of the author's first book. More
Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Co., 1897. Hardcover. First trade edition, with single-location imprint. Illustrated by Dan Beard, A.B. Frost, B.W. Clinedinst, and others. Blue cloth gilt with applied paper illustration. Former owner's penciled contemporary signature, a nice near fine copy with slight rubbing and wear. Gilt is bright, and though..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with the slightest of age-toning. Inscribed on the title page to Stuart Wright, publisher of the Palaemon Press: "For Stuart Wright with best wishes, Anne Tyler." A very nice association copy of the author's fourth..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Hardcover. First edition. A bit of rubbing at the bottom of the boards and erasure on front fly (presumably removing the seemingly inevitable remainder mark usually located there) thus near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a light crease and tiny spot to the..... More
Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewert, 1992. Softcover. First edition, wrappered issue. Fine in very slightly sunned near fine dustwrapper. One of 60 numbered copies bound in wrappers and Signed by the author; there were also 40 copies bound in boards. Tyler's scarcest title. More