Modern First Editions

Berlin, Germany: Im Propylaen - Verlag, 1931. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st. ed. 1931 , Hardcover with course tan cloth with gray letters at the spine and cover , 368 page book. This is the first edition of the novel by Erich Maria Ramarque , in German . Remarque's first novel "All Quiet on the Western Front " was a candid account of a soldiers life during the Great War to End War. This being the following novel that deals in the collapse of Germany in 1918 this book and along with Remarque 's other book were baned by the nazi's in 1933. This is a true first edition in the German Language , with an advertisment in the back of Remarque's other book " Im Beften Nichts Neues! " ( All Quiet on The Western Front).Plus two other authors books : Adrienne Thomas and Leonhard Frank. Condition : Fine , with very light bottom edge rubs with some aging , with no dust jacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Barrie & Jenkins [0-214-20137-6] [1975], 1st printing. (Hardcover) 286pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. The lamination of the dust jacket has shrunk causing the jacket to mould itself to the front gutter and also to a lesser extent to the back gutter. (Fiction, Humor).

New York: Bernard Geis, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket with a 4 mm closed tear to lower edge of rear panel. An attractive copy. ; Octavo.

New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, [1932].. Large octavo. Rough woven tan cloth, lettered in blue and orange. A fine copy in equally fine and unusually bright and fresh pictorial dust jacket, with the very slightly chipped and tanned outer glassine wrapper carefully preserved. First edition, first printing, first binding. The first printing consisted of 8500 copies, a relatively small number of which appeared with blue stamping only (a characteristic of the bindings of the later impressions). The error "Jefferson" on p.340 has no bibliographic significance, as it reoccurs in the reprints. PETERSEN A13a. MASSEY 103.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1904. First edition, first printing. Extended version of the poem written in 1888. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1904, first printing in first state binding (BAL 16667). Small 4to., unpaginated. Illustrated with tinted sepia plates by Howard Chandler Christy, decorated endpapers, half-title, title page, and borders by Margaret Armstrong. Olive green cloth with pictorial cover inset, gilt titles and white ornaments. Spine sunned, else very good. An attractive copy. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

New York: Viking, 1994. First U.S. edition / First printing. White cloth spine, ivory paper-covered boards. Fine in a price-clipped, fine dust jacket. Winner of the Pulitzer prize. Winner of the Governor General's Award.

Princeton: Tsimtsum House, 1992. First edition. Trade softcover. Published Princeton, NJ: Tsimtsum House, 1992. 8vo. wrappers, 6" x 8 1/2" xi+199pp. Fine. Scarce.. 1st. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

London: Souvenir Press, 1989. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published London: Souvenir Press, 1989, first printing. Folio, 9" x 12", 124pp., illustrated in color, with 59 humorous cartoons and a glossary on book collecting. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Joan Didion's first novel and first book publication, written at the beginning of her journalistic career while rapidly working her way up the masthead at Vogue. In Run River, she explores her native California with a nostalgia and poignancy that is less characteristic of her later work.
Ivan Obolensky, 1963. First edition. Hardcover, 264 pp. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Blue cloth binding with white lettering to spine. Bright dust jacket is price clipped, small tape reinforcement on verso. Book near fine in very good dust jacket.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition, third printing, in a second printing dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed on front free endpage "For Bill C., With warm regards from an old Navy type." Book and unclipped jacket are fresh and bright with very light wear. The basis for the Otto Preminger film starring John Wayne. 8vo. 510 pp. In protective Mylar.

London: Gollancz. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Joint 1966 Nebula Award winner. The first hardcover and an uncommon book to find, in particular in collectable condition. A fine book, with dealer notes in pencil otherwise internally clean. A fine unclipped jacket, but with a dealer price sticker on the front flap. DJ with Brodart protective cover. Housed in a custom clamshell box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

0 First edition/3rd printing published by Constable, London 1947. VG clean condition. No marks or inscriptions. Very occasional spotting. Red cloth covers have minimal wear with some marking.

0 First Edition/First Printing Published by Chapman & Hall, London 1950. With the very scarce Daily Mail wraparound band. VG clean and tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Occasional spotting. Very clean Blue cloth covers with few dust marks DJ has Wood effect front and Yellow spine & Rear Dustjacket not price clipped. Minor chipping to top of spine. Protected in archive cover.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1993 Signed First UK Edition. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London 1993

Book is fine like new. Dustwrapper is fine like new now protected by a Mylar cover.

'The Night Manager' is the fourteenth espionage novel by John Le Carré and his first post-Cold War novel. The main character Jonathan Pine, a former British soldier, is working as a night manager in different hotels in Egypt and Switzerland and receives one evening secret documents on illegal arms trade from one of his guests. This develops into a thrilling story that ends with a gripping final against arms dealers who have influence in the highest political circles in London.

London: Griffith & Farran, 1884. First English edition. Hard cover half leather. Published London: Griffith & Farran, 1884. 12 mo., 77pp. Bound in brown pebbled leather over burgundy cloth, burgundy and black marbled endpapers. Mild foxing to the last few pages, gentle rub to lower tips, else very good plus in near fine binding. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.