Search Results: Literature from Abaculus Books

Band of Angels
Warren, Robert Penn
314 pages. 8vo, tan cloth with stamped spine, dust wrapper. New York: Random House, (1955). Book Club edition. Jacket with some small nicks and chips, some light foxing. A very good(+) copy.

The Beasts of Tarzanby Edgar Rice BurroughsIllustrated in black and white by J. Allen St. John. 227 pages + advertisements. 8vo, stamped green cloth, missing dust jacket. New York: A.L. Burt Company, (1916). Early American reprint. Ex-library, cloth frayed at edges, back end page torn, hinges reinforced. Contents clean and complete. A fair copy.

Case and the Dreamer
Sturgeon, Theodore
152 pages. 8vo, blue boards, dust wrapper. Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, (1974). First edition. Dust jacket lightly edge-worn and chipped at top of spine. A near fine copy in a very good wrapper.

The Demeter Star
Oreshnik, A.F.
60 pages. 12mo, paperback. Belmont: Fearon-Pitman, (1977). First edition. A very good(+) copy.

Ema, The Captive
Aira, Cesar
Translated by Chris Andrews. 232 pages. 12mo, paper wrappers. New York: New Directions, (2016). First edition, full number line. Fine.

Fowl Murder: The Mystery of Between the Lines
Lindsay, R. Howard
285 pages. 8vo, red cloth, dust wrapper. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1941. First edition. Dust jacket is slightly worn at edges, trimmed at top and bottom edge, front flap glued inside front cover, ex-library (stamps, pastedown at front end page). A very good(-) copy in a good wrapper.

The Gangster We Are All Looking Forthuy, le thi diem
160 pages. 8vo, grey boards, dust wrapper. New York: Knopf, 2003. First edition. Ex-library, wrappers pasted to pastedowns, pocket pasted to back end page. Signed by the author on title page. A very good(+) copy.

376 pages, stamped orange cloth. New York: Grossett & Dunlap, (1926). Cloth splotched at spine and dampstained at front, end papers have been replaced, page 131/132 is torn and shows some tape residue but remains legible, some sparse light foxing. A very good(-) copy.

Honky
Conley, Dalton
207 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. New York: Vintage Books, (2001). First edition. Two paragraphs highlighted. A very good(+) copy.

Kathleen
by Christopher Morley
Frontispiece. 174 pages. 8vo, cloth backed brown stamped boards. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1920. First edition. Slightly shaken, two pages repaired with archival paper tape at hinge. A very good copy.

The Learning Treeby Gordon Parks240 pages. 12mo, paper wrappers. Greenwich: Fawcett Crest Books, (1963). First edition. Fawcett T1171. Cover photograph by the author. Slight staining to covers, pages slightly warped. A very good copy.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Agee, James and Walker Evans
Illustrated in black and white. With an introduction by John Hersey. 472 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1988). Previous owner's inscription opposite title page. A very good(+) copy.

Lusty Wind for Carolina
Fletcher, Inglis
Edward Moseley 'Pirate Haunted Carolina Shore' end papers. 509 pages. 8vo, gold stamped blue cloth, dust wrapper. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1944). First edition. Wrapper sliced horizontally under title on cover and repaired with paper tape on verso, previous owner's inscription on end page. A near fine copy in a very good wrapper.

The Mercenary Lover
Richards, Lee
190 pages. 12mo, paper wrappers. No place: Chariot Books, (1960). First edition. Sticker damage and remainder mark on front cover. A very good(-) copy.

Midnight Mass
Bowles, Paul
165 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First edition. Dampstaining at top left corner of cover and spine. A very good(+) copy.

Naked Before My Captors
by Bergen F. Newell
159 pages. 12mo, paperback pocket book. Derby, CT: Monarch Books, (1960). First edition. Light shelf wear at edges. Clean and tight. A very good(+) copy.

North to Oak Island
Bromley, Dudley
60 pages. 12mo, paperback. Belmont: Fearon-Pitman, (1977). First edition. A very good(+) copy.

Tall 8vo. 353 pages. Two plates, both with tissue guards. Decorative green cloth, top edge gilt. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Author's Edition. Lightly soiled cloth slightly faded at spine. A very good(+) copy.

The Poems of Longfellow (Modern Library No. 56)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
732 pages. 12mo, brightly printed blue cloth, price-clipped dust wrapper in plastic sleeve. New York: The Modern Library, (no date, c. 1961). Faint crease to top of first pages. A near fine copy.

Rex Lee Night Flyerby Thomson BurtisFrontispiece. 239 pages + advertisements. 8vo, green cloth with orange and black decoration, no jacket. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1929). First edition. With an exquisite bookplate, "Ray Nelson". Cloth discolored at front cover near near spine. A very good copy.