Literature from Abaculus Books

The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs Illustrated 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.

Rex Lee Night Flyer by Thomson Burtis Frontispiece. 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.

The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks 240 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.

The Wood Beyond The World by William Morris Facsimile of the 1894 Kelmscott Press edition. 261 pages. 8vo, paperback, printed in black and red. New York: Viking, (1972). 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.

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.

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.

Under the War Flags of 1861: A Romance of the South Pickard, William Lowndes 372 pages. 8vo, brown cloth. Louisville: Chas. T. Dearing, 1895. First edition. Cloth on spine rubbed and shows discoloration, covers rubbed and stained, corners gently bumped, some page corners creased. Contents complete, binding tight. 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.

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 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.

Sapphira and the Slave Girl Cather, Willa 295 pages. 8vo, cloth. New York: Knopf, 1940. Ex-library (pocket inside front cover, number on spine, stamp on copyright page and bottom of text block), otherwise clean. An attractive, crisp, very good(+) copy.

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.

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

Sleeping Where I Fall Coyote, Peter 367 pages. 8vo, paper wrappers. New York: Counterpoint, (1999). First paperback edition. A very good(+) 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.

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.

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.… Read more about this item

60 pages. 12mo, paperback. Belmont: Fearon-Pitman, (1977). A very good(+) copy.