Dark Carnival ( Author's 1st Book ) by Ray Bradbury, FORMER Owner Inscription, Inner Hinges Title Pg Light Stain Near Top - 1947

Rinehart & Company , 1948. HBDJ, 1948, 1ST EDITION, VG+/VG-, Blue, Black White Dj with Man in Hat on front , Chips & Scuff Extremities & top edge DJ, Back DJ light brown Stains, Dark Blue Cloth lettered & Design in Red on Spine, Interior Nice, tight Clean light FoX, Wear, 273 pgs, Light Soil DJ, 1st edition with the Rinehart logo on the copyright page. Basis for the 1972 Italian film, "Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso," though Woolrich and Edgar Wallace, whose books were the source material, were not listed in the film's credits, Octavo. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Grosset & Dunlap , NY, 1928. HBDJ, in an excellent FACSIMILE DUSTJACKET which replicates the original jacket, 1928, 1st Edition,1st Printing, VG+/Fine, SOLD AS-IS, , Green Emboseed Cloth Lettered in Black, Titles are Nice & Bright , Light Cover Rub, Interior nice tight Clean light FoX, Wear, 261 pgs + 4 pgs of publ. ADS, mild darkening to spine.Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the silent Tod Browning directed film starring Lon Chaney Senior in the first American vampire film. London After Midnight is the most famous of all "lost films" - films which there is no known surviViNG print. Directed by Todd Browning, and starring Chaney in a dual role as Scotland Yard Inspector and his only appearance as a vampire! Illustrated with eight stills reproduced on coated stock inserts. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine.

J. B. Lippincott, Story Press Bk, 1947. HBDJ,1947, stated 1st edition, 1st Printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright Pg, NF+/GOOD, AS-IS, DJ light Creases , Wear & Tiny Chips Tears edges & Extremities NOT Affecting Illustration or Titles on Front or SpineDJ, Small Chips Spine DJ ends affect tiny bit top of W in William, Back DJ Small edge Chips out of Approx 2 X 1 1/4 in. top & tiny Chips Creases bottom edge, Original Grey Cloth Boards with PurpleRed Decorations & Lettering to front & Spine Cvr, Interior nice tight Clean, light FOX, Wear, 310 pgs, DJ protected in Clear Mylar Brodart .The William Irish novel about betrayal was made into two films: 1969 saw Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid" and the lesser known 2001 "Original Sin". First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

MODERN LIBRARY, 1929 HBDJ, UNDATED 1929, NOT A 1ST BUT EARLY REPRINT, VG+/GOOD+, The list of titles on the inside of the dust jacket is correct for a 1929 edition., 217 pages; approx. 4 x 6.5 IN. 150 TITLES ON BACK OF DJ WITH PRE ZIPCODE DJ with 95 cents, Lite Soil Fox to DJ, Tiny chips tears DJ Extremities, Green cloth with Bright gold Gilt ,Interior clean with few FOX Stains, TINY CHIPS TOP SPINE DJ, Light green Topstain ,by authors such as ,Daniel De Foe, Bulwer-Lytton and Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, and The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling, Some real American ghosts ,In BEIGE & GREEN LINE AT TOP & BTM front PRINTED DJ . Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Mcgraw Hill New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. Purple & black Design Endpapers tiny Tape Residue , usual XLibrary indications with few small stamps POCKET Back endpaper, Notation inside front fly leaf and tiny ink stain at bottom same page. HBDJ,1966. 1st Edition THUS, VG-/VG, AS-IS, Pictorial Cloth. Usual XLibrary indications with few small stamps Pocket Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 7.25 x 10.25 in. Bound in Beige grey cloth printed with Poe design in black and Titles with tape residue edges . Sewn binding tight. Appears clean and bright, though tapemarks may be found on close inspection. corners sharp, minor rubbing to extremities. Lightly circulated ex-library book with signifiers including discreet inkstamps, pocket on backEndpaper, Internally almost clean and bright. Dust jacket with portrait of Poe on back panel is clean, Library call number in ink on spine, , 32 unnumbered pages, Interior basically Nice, tight Light Wear Fox, DJ Protected Clear mylar, , ,in Color… Read More

Rinehart & Company , 1948. HBDJ, 1948, 1ST EDITION, VG+/VG-, Blue, Black White Dj with Man in Hat on front , Chips & Scuff Extremities & top edge DJ, Back DJ light brown Stains, Dark Blue Cloth lettered & Design in Red on Spine, Interior Nice, tight Clean light FoX, Wear, 273 pgs, Light Soil DJ, 1st edition with the Rinehart logo on the copyright page. Basis for the 1972 Italian film, "Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso," though Woolrich and Edgar Wallace, whose books were the source material, were not listed in the film's credits, Octavo. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Grosset & Dunlap , NY, 1928. HBDJ, in an excellent FACSIMILE DUSTJACKET which replicates the original jacket, 1928, 1st Edition,1st Printing, VG+/Fine, SOLD AS-IS, , Green Emboseed Cloth Lettered in Black, Titles are Nice & Bright , Light Cover Rub, Interior nice tight Clean light FoX, Wear, 261 pgs + 4 pgs of publ. ADS, mild darkening to spine.Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the silent Tod Browning directed film starring Lon Chaney Senior in the first American vampire film. London After Midnight is the most famous of all "lost films" - films which there is no known surviViNG print. Directed by Todd Browning, and starring Chaney in a dual role as Scotland Yard Inspector and his only appearance as a vampire! Illustrated with eight stills reproduced on coated stock inserts. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine.

J. B. Lippincott, Story Press Bk, 1947. HBDJ,1947, stated 1st edition, 1st Printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright Pg, NF+/GOOD, AS-IS, DJ light Creases , Wear & Tiny Chips Tears edges & Extremities NOT Affecting Illustration or Titles on Front or SpineDJ, Small Chips Spine DJ ends affect tiny bit top of W in William, Back DJ Small edge Chips out of Approx 2 X 1 1/4 in. top & tiny Chips Creases bottom edge, Original Grey Cloth Boards with PurpleRed Decorations & Lettering to front & Spine Cvr, Interior nice tight Clean, light FOX, Wear, 310 pgs, DJ protected in Clear Mylar Brodart .The William Irish novel about betrayal was made into two films: 1969 saw Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid" and the lesser known 2001 "Original Sin". First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

MODERN LIBRARY, 1929 HBDJ, UNDATED 1929, NOT A 1ST BUT EARLY REPRINT, VG+/GOOD+, The list of titles on the inside of the dust jacket is correct for a 1929 edition., 217 pages; approx. 4 x 6.5 IN. 150 TITLES ON BACK OF DJ WITH PRE ZIPCODE DJ with 95 cents, Lite Soil Fox to DJ, Tiny chips tears DJ Extremities, Green cloth with Bright gold Gilt ,Interior clean with few FOX Stains, TINY CHIPS TOP SPINE DJ, Light green Topstain ,by authors such as ,Daniel De Foe, Bulwer-Lytton and Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, and The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling, Some real American ghosts ,In BEIGE & GREEN LINE AT TOP & BTM front PRINTED DJ . Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Mcgraw Hill New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. Purple & black Design Endpapers tiny Tape Residue , usual XLibrary indications with few small stamps POCKET Back endpaper, Notation inside front fly leaf and tiny ink stain at bottom same page. HBDJ,1966. 1st Edition THUS, VG-/VG, AS-IS, Pictorial Cloth. Usual XLibrary indications with few small stamps Pocket Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 7.25 x 10.25 in. Bound in Beige grey cloth printed with Poe design in black and Titles with tape residue edges . Sewn binding tight. Appears clean and bright, though tapemarks may be found on close inspection. corners sharp, minor rubbing to extremities. Lightly circulated ex-library book with signifiers including discreet inkstamps, pocket on backEndpaper, Internally almost clean and bright. Dust jacket with portrait of Poe on back panel is clean, Library call number in ink on spine, , 32 unnumbered pages, Interior basically Nice, tight Light Wear Fox, DJ Protected Clear mylar, , ,in Color… Read More