Desperation. (signed limited). by King, Stephen - 1996

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.

Peter Nevill Limited. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1949. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 426 pages: 6 x 8 in.: 1.8: Signed by Author: KB#010205: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (Algernon Blackwood) under his photograph frontispiece. No dustjacket included. Boards are dark green with gilt lettering on spine; corners are lightly bumped and spine is slightly cocked. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except for prior owner's name at top of front flyleaf), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Collects twenty-two short stories: The Doll * Running Wolf * The Little Beggar * The Occupant of the Room * The Man Whom the Trees Loved * The Valley of the Beasts * The South Wind * The Man Who Was Milligan * The Trod * The Terror of the Twins * The Deferred Appointment * Accessory Before the Fact * The Glamour of the Snow *The House of the Past * The Decoy * The Tradition * The Touch of Pan *… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, 1961. Stated First edition. hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo. Quarter red cloth and black boards, with gilt lettering. 337 pages. An Advance Review Copy in promotional dust-jacket. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. Spine [blank] and flap folds of dust-jacket are slightly toned, with a tiny chip at spine tail. A Fine copy in special dust-jacket of Yates' first novel.

Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1940; First Edition; 8vo, 471 pages; publisher’s beige cloth; black spine titles over a red field. Hemingway’s dramatic semi-autobiographical tale of fate, courage, and death in the Spanish Civil War, released to considerable critical acclaim and recommended for the 1941 Pulitzer prize, though none was awarded that year. Source of the 1943 Oscar nominated film directed by Sam Wood starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Hemingway dedicated the book to comrade, paramour, and energetic war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whom he married the following year. Very Good, pastedown margins lightly tanned, clean, crisp, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. Second issue dust jacket with photographer Lloyd Arnold’s credit beneath the rear panel photo, publisher’s price of $2.75, and Henry Seidel Canby blurb on front flap. Arnold was chief photographer for the Sun Valley Company and its Idaho… Read More

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1964. First Russian Book Edition. 351,[1] pp., with several in-text illustrations. Cloth-backed pictorial paper over boards. Early Russian ink inscription and inkstamp on rear pastedown. A few small scribbles in blue ink on covers and ink stains on cloth. Edges of boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked. Contents lightly toned, but surprisingly fresh for the quality of the paper. A good copy. The pirated first Russian book edition, after a 1963 appearance in the periodical INOSTRANAYA LITERATURA ("Foreign Literature") and a 1964 special separate issue of ROMAN-GAZETA ("Novel as Newspaper"). Like other books by foreign authors published in the USSR at the time, this edition is a piracy, with no royalties paid to the author. Nevertheless, it was a major undertaking, engaging major Russian literary talents of the day, with the still-authoritative translation by Nora Gal (1912-1991) and Raisa Oblonskaya (1924-2010), an introduction by celebrated literary critic Raisa Orlova… Read More

This used paperback book is in very good condition. The pages are clean and neat. The binding is tight. The boards are clean inside and out.

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.

Peter Nevill Limited. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1949. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 426 pages: 6 x 8 in.: 1.8: Signed by Author: KB#010205: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (Algernon Blackwood) under his photograph frontispiece. No dustjacket included. Boards are dark green with gilt lettering on spine; corners are lightly bumped and spine is slightly cocked. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except for prior owner's name at top of front flyleaf), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Collects twenty-two short stories: The Doll * Running Wolf * The Little Beggar * The Occupant of the Room * The Man Whom the Trees Loved * The Valley of the Beasts * The South Wind * The Man Who Was Milligan * The Trod * The Terror of the Twins * The Deferred Appointment * Accessory Before the Fact * The Glamour of the Snow *The House of the Past * The Decoy * The Tradition * The Touch of Pan *… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, 1961. Stated First edition. hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo. Quarter red cloth and black boards, with gilt lettering. 337 pages. An Advance Review Copy in promotional dust-jacket. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. Spine [blank] and flap folds of dust-jacket are slightly toned, with a tiny chip at spine tail. A Fine copy in special dust-jacket of Yates' first novel.

Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1940; First Edition; 8vo, 471 pages; publisher’s beige cloth; black spine titles over a red field. Hemingway’s dramatic semi-autobiographical tale of fate, courage, and death in the Spanish Civil War, released to considerable critical acclaim and recommended for the 1941 Pulitzer prize, though none was awarded that year. Source of the 1943 Oscar nominated film directed by Sam Wood starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Hemingway dedicated the book to comrade, paramour, and energetic war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whom he married the following year. Very Good, pastedown margins lightly tanned, clean, crisp, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. Second issue dust jacket with photographer Lloyd Arnold’s credit beneath the rear panel photo, publisher’s price of $2.75, and Henry Seidel Canby blurb on front flap. Arnold was chief photographer for the Sun Valley Company and its Idaho… Read More