Literature from Royal Books, Inc.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1925. Later printing. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author to early film actress Bebe Daniels on the front endpaper: "Mes hommages / to / Bebe Daniels / the world's grandest actress / from / Richard Halliburton / America's swellest author / on Feb 2 1928." Very Good plus with no dust jacket, slightly cocked, with front hinge… Read more about this item

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1924. First UK Edition, preceding all others. The experiences of "Digit," a British tramp living in America after World War I. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Rear board and hinge lightly dampstained, with foxing to the endpapers. Jacket spine and rear panel dampstained, with a small bruise on the front panel, and… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page, with an additional notation of the city where the author lived most of his adult life until his passing in 2020: "Charles Portis / Little Rock." Portis' fourth book, a gentle (and typically thorough) satire of secretive men's organizations… Read more about this item

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Lionel Trilling on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "To Charles / With cheers for his book of next year / Lionel / 7-22-43." Trilling's in-depth study of Forster, the third volume in New Directions' "Makers of Modern Literature" series. Very Good plus… Read more about this item

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1967. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 2021 film directed by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket. Two small cello tape repairs on the verso. A superior example.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1969. First UK Edition, preceding all others. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Basis for Sam Peckinpah's violent 1971 film "Straw Dogs," starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, considered by many to be his finest directorial effort in a career that included many important films. Small creases on the bottom… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Draft script for the 1986 play. Laid in with the script is a typed letter addressed from Patrick James O'Leary to casting agent Paul Kohner, suggesting Kohner's client Peter O'Toole for the title role. Based on Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (1726), about a man's often-comic voyages to fictitious lands. Performed as a one-man show. … Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1944. Limited Edition, one of 750 hand numbered copies (this being No. 739) SIGNED by the author. Good only, lacking the slipcase, with moderate offsetting on the endpapers, crown dampstained, and a partial ring stain on the front board.

Boston: L.C. Page, 1900. First American Edition, preceded by the First Italian Edition published the same year. Originally conceived as the first part in a trilogy entitled "The Novels of the Pomegranate," but the other two books were never completed. Very Good in decorated green cloth, with moderate toning on the spine, rubbed boards, and… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. First Edition. Fictional stories of life on the bum, based on the author's own experiences. Very Good plus, lacking the dust jacket, with a slight lean, bookplate on the front pastedown, and faint splashes on the spine.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904. Second Edition. Limited Edition, one of 425 unnumbered copies. Very Good, lacking the slipcase, with a slight lean, owner bookplate on the front endpaper, and light age toning and a few splashes on the extremities.

New York: Grossman, 1965. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "Dear Harry / 6/16/68 / Love, Dear Rosalyn." Playwright, screenwriter, and pop artist Rosalyn Drexler's first novel. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Faint tidemark on the top edge of the front board. … Read more about this item

San Francisco: Alternate, 1983. First Edition. First Edition in book form, originally serialized in "Drummer" magazine in 1980. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Brian / John Preston." Introduction by "Drummer" editor Robert Payne. Rare. A key publication in late-twentieth-century leather culture, about a young man's search for the perfect master. Preston authored over 30… Read more about this item

New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First Edition. First Edition, one of 699 hand-numbered copies (this being No. 186) SIGNED by the author. Front board slightly warped, else Near Fine, lacking the glassine wrapper, housed in a Very Good plus, lightly rubbed example of the publisher's slipcase.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943. First Edition. First Edition. The eighth of nine books in the Little House series, a 1944 Newbery Honor book. Good, lacking the dust jacket, with boards rubbed and frayed at the corners, front hinge starting, and light foxing and offsetting on the endpapers.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG], 1968. First Edition. First Edition. Tom Wolfe's second book and artistic breakthrough, one of the foundational works of New Journalism. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket. Slight lean, with an owner name on the front endpaper. Dust jacket has a few small scuffs on the front panel… Read more about this item

Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1929. First German Edition, preceded by the First American Edition published by Charles Scribner's Sons two years prior. Text and titles in German. Very Good plus in illustrated cloth boards, lacking the dust jacket, with spine faded and rear board faintly soiled.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1960. First UK Edition. SIGNED on the title page. Basis for the 1962 film directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly dampstained on the rear panel, with a small splash on the front panel, and nicks at the… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: "Happy 90th Birthday! / For Lillian Mowrer / from Jim Elward / (and 'Rebecca')." The third and final novel published by Elward under the Rebecca James pseudonym, following "Storm's End" (1974) and "The House is Dark" (1976). Very Good plus,… Read more about this item

Truro, MA: Pamet Press, 1942. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication to American journalist Edgar Mowrer: "For Edgar Ansel Mowrer / from Polly Boyden / with gratitude because he inspired "the Haughty Heath Hens" p. 82 / Feb. 28, 1942." An unusual, bird-centric, left-wing allegory in… Read more about this item