About Schmidt by Begley, Louis - 1996

[i-x]+390 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with gilt "SL" and tilt title to cover and author's name in black rectangles on spine in original first state, black over blue, jacket. (Pastore page 273) First edition. 10,000 copies of the black on blue dust jacket were printed. It is a warm human story, a story of people everyone knows, of a community anyone could live in. There is none of the deliberate out of scale characterization that makes one feel -- at times -- that he is mainly a satirist. There is the inescapable sense of familiarity in characters, in situations, in background, that made Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith and Dodsworth live as household words. It is a story of marriage, the focus on Judge Timberlane and the lovely, somewhat unstable young wife, Jinny, who alternately stimulated his passion, his worship, his jealousy. But it is too the story of a community, of various types of people, patterns of marriage -- a story of an average… Read More

Inscribed on front end page, "To Anne B. (last name): in happy recollection of a lonely Sunday afternoon in -Honolulu- Sincerely, Louis Cochran Santa Monica 3-11-1960 States First Edition 1955. Book Near Fine, Dust Jacket Good. Top spine worn with small rips, same with corners. Bottom edge worn badly and missing about 1/4" from the back side of the spine and narrowing to the middle of front cover. A couple of tears backside (no pieces missing).

Vancouver: Vancouver Writers Fest, 2012. Book. Near Fine. French Flaps. Signed by Author(s). First Printing of the First Edition. Essentially fine, with miniscule traces of wear to extremities of affixed wraps. Signed by MacLeod on the title page. An exceptional copy..

1942 Condition fine ;dust cover near fineMenasha, WI: Limited Editions Club, 1942. hardcover. As New in a near fine slip case. 320 pages. Introduction and notes by Carl Van Doren; designed by Will Ransom. Illustrated with reproductions of watercolors by John Steuart Curry. $100.00. The Heritage Sandglass issue slipped in,

DAW, 2017-10-03. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 101x34x147. Signed. SIGNED BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS! A brand new 9th printing in gorgeous unread condition. Please note that I have several of these so your signature may vary slightly from the one shown in my photos. Very heavy: international buyers please request a shipping quote prior to purchase. Signed by author.

ix+337+[6 ad] pages with color frontispiece. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover and black outline of dogs with London in black to cover. (Sisson page 94; BAL 11973) First edition, first state with 13024 published.Jerry of the Islands was initially published in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 became a British protectorate. The hero of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a brother of dog named Michael, about whom London wrote another novel. In the preface, Jack London tells about the ship Minota on which he traveled and which wrecked in the Solomon Islands. Captain Kellar of Eugenie ship rescued Jack London after the shipwreck but later died by the hands of the cannibals. London mentions a letter that he received from C. M. Woodford, the Resident Commissioner of the British Solomons. In this letter, Woodford… Read More

Chicago: McClurg, 1906. First edition, first printing. Hard cover. Published Chicago: McClurg, 1906. First printing, November 3, 1906. Small 8vo., 5 1/2" x 8." 78 pages. Multi color Persian pattern paper covered boards, title page printed in red and black. Mild starting of the outer paper covered hinges, but covers strong and tight, little shelfwear to the edges and tips, slight age toning to the paper, but a very nice copy. Very good.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Maroon cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Books Critics Circle Award. 2013 Winner of the $100,000.00 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, given for lifetime achievement.

Vancouver: Vancouver Writers Fest, 2012. Book. Near Fine. French Flaps. Signed by Author(s). First Printing of the First Edition. Essentially fine, with miniscule traces of wear to extremities of affixed wraps. Signed by MacLeod on the title page. An exceptional copy..

1942 Condition fine ;dust cover near fineMenasha, WI: Limited Editions Club, 1942. hardcover. As New in a near fine slip case. 320 pages. Introduction and notes by Carl Van Doren; designed by Will Ransom. Illustrated with reproductions of watercolors by John Steuart Curry. $100.00. The Heritage Sandglass issue slipped in,