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Condition: Good. Philadelphia, PA: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1951., 1951. Good. - Quarto, 13-1/2 inches high by 10-3 /4 inches wide. Softcover bound in color pictorial wraps. The covers are bumped & soiled with a couple of tiny tears and a piece is torn from the tail of the spine. 144 pages, with illustrations in color and black & white, including numerous pictorial ads. A few page corners are lightly bumped. Good. Among the contents of this issue are "The Good Lion: and "The Faithful Bull", two fables by Ernest Hemingway; "Polynesia" by James A. Michener; "The Telephone and I" by James Thurber; "Ceylon" by Alec Waugh; and Deems Taylor on the best American orchestras.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. art Nouveau Plates and printing; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 30 pages; 1896 Will Bradley, Volume 2, Number one of his highly influential short lived "magazine" of art nouveau focus in the areas od illustration, printing, book arts and design. In original pictorial card stock covers. Covers with chipping and short tears to the yapped edges, rubbing, chipping and fraying to spine edge of the covers. Top edge of the covers with mottle damp/spill stain. Contents sound and generally quite neat with just some trace spotting in the gutters of a few scattered leaves. Printed in black and red on laid paper, with elaborate art noveaue stylerubricated initials, borders and tail pieces and very decorative ads at front and rear. Lacks the color Parrish frontis plate - The clown." Include short illustrated pieces on Wllliam Morris, Maxfield Parrish, Charles Ricketts and the Vale Press and more. Lacking one plate and with general wear. Good only at best.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The Disinherited - Jack Conroy, Inscribed First Edition, Covici Friede Publishers 1933; With nine-line inscription reading: "For Fannie [Shoor?] with very best wishes, Jack Conroy Chicago, Nov. 13. 1938 and let this be a lesson to you: never gamble again." A classic work of 1930's American proletarian fiction by Conroy, drawn from his own working-class upbringing and time spent drifting between jobs in the Midwest acquiring class and revolutionary consciousness. Conroy, known as the Sage of Moberly (Moberly, Missouri) was a leading figure in the proletarian literary movement of the 1930s. He served as editor of the radical leftist magazines Rebel Poet, The Anvil, and The New Anvil from 1931 to 1941 and collaborated with Arna Bontemps on a number of black history and juvenile works through the Illinois Writers Project; Red cloth stamped in black, navy topstain, pp. [2], 1-8, 9-310, [8], in the iconic Murray Levin jacket, priced $2.00; VG book with some minor fraying to spine ends and fore-edge corners, minor spotting to a handful of pages, in a Good jacket with a large chip to spine tail, other chipping to spine head, fore-edge corners, and head of front panel, spine toned, a couple small stains to front panel, discreet tape reinforcement to joints and tears on interiorRIDEOUT pp. 182-185, BLAKE pp. 251, MILES 4984. signed and inscribed by author or artist.

Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Mylar-added. Howard Pyle (illustrator). First Edition Thus Illustrated. 2 Volumes, small 8vos (8" x 5 1/4"), original brown publisher's brown decorative cloth with gold lettering and bands on spine leading into 3 fleurs-de-lis on front cover with fancy title, each vol. illustrated with 13 B&W photogravure portraits of OWH (2 being frontispieces) and 43 B&W plates (with tissue guards & titles) by HOWARD PYLE [20 in Vol. I) & 23 in Vol. II, plus head-&-tail pieces; & in-text illustrations; t.e.g. [top edges gilt], black-coated endpapers; 474 pages overall. Weight: 2 lbs. 9 oz. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809 - 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). Howard Pyle (1853 - 1911) was a prominent American illustrator and author, primarily and continuously admired for his splendid illustrations of books for young people. In 1830, while attending the city's medical college, Holmes wrote two essays detailing life at his boardinghouse. They were published under the title "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" in November 1831 and February 1832 in the New England Magazine. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858) is a collection of Holmes' essays originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858 before being collected in book form. The essays take the form of a chiefly one-sided dialogue between the unnamed Author and the other residents of a New England boarding house who are known only by their profession, location at the table or other defining characteristics. The topics discussed range from the unexpected benefits of old age to the finest place to site a dwelling and comments on the nature of conversation itself. The tone of the book is distinctly Yankee and takes a seriocomic approach to the subject matter. Each essay typically ends with a poem on the theme of the essay. There are also poems ostensibly written by the fictional disputants scattered throughout. FINE SET of this classic of 19th century American literature: tight and clean with very light age-toning. Clean plates. Tissue guards present. Barely any rubbing to the cloth. Bright gilt. Previous owner's bold name on front endpaper of vol. 1. No annotations or marks by previous owners within these handsome illustrated highly "giftable" volumes. BAL 8781 (Binding A). Merle Johnson, High Spots of American Literature.

Hardcover. Octavo, 218 pages. In Good condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Orange and brown spine with a white paper design and black and orange lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$2.00 net", has moderate age-toning, mild wear along the extremities, chipping along the fore corners and edges, a large tear on the rear cover head edge, and chipping along the tail joint corners. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, mild wear along the extremities, and bending along the rear fore corner. Textblock has adhesive staining on the pastedowns and hinges between the end-pages and pastedowns, mild age-toning throughout, mild age-toning along the edges, mild wear along the edges, and blue inking along the head edge. Inscription on the front end-page reading "To Carl, with thanks for [illegible] the [illegible]", signed James M. Cain, dated 'July 6, 1970'. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. James M. Cain was born July 1, 1892 in Annapolis MD. His parents were college-educated children of Irish immigrants, which partially contributed to Cain's grammar and interest in writing. By the age of 13, Cain had rejected the Catholic Church, later in life forming his own view on God. After university, Cain would hold a few different jobs including a school principal and journalist, working for the "Baltimore Sun" and later on magazines "The American Mercury" and "The New Yorker" throughout the roaring 20's. These experiences would help feed into his writing as Cain became a progenitor of hardboiled crime fiction. "Love's Lovely Counterfeit" came about during a hard time in Cain's life. In 1941 Cain was recovering from surgery and in financial distress, and set out to write a novel which could be both novel and movie, the only one written with the goal of becoming a movie in mind. "Love's Lovely Counterfeit" was rejected when initially presented to publishers in 1941 as it flew in the face of the highly patriotic themes favored during that era, being a novel about corruption and violence in the midwest. However, after the success of some of Cain's other novellas, Alfred A. Knopf took an interest and published it in 1942. Initial critical and commercial responses to "Love's Lovely Counterfeit" were mostly negative, most often criticized for feeling like a rushed novel with a third-person perspective which Cain clearly was not comfortable in. Knopf said that within the first year of sales, "Love's Lovely Counterfeit" had only sold 7,500 copies as was basically dead in the water. However, the novel since developed some following and fans, and has been much more well-regarded as the years have gone on. "Love's Lovely Counterfeit" finally saw a film adaptation in 1956, long after Cain had hoped. The film was titled "Slightly Scarlet" and received a mixed critical response, some hailing it as the best of the year, others criticizing it as unrecognizable from the novel it was based on. 1387433. Special Collections. First Edition, First Printing, First State Dust Jacket.