Devil Daniel Webster, First Edition (13 results)

black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xiii+240p. fiction. novels. short stories. horror stories. ghost stories. (anonymous) doctor faustus. anonymous (countess kathleen o'shea). anonymous (the printer's devil). fernan caballero (the devil's mother in law). charles baudelaire (the generous gambler). richard garnett (madam lucifer). anatole france (lucifer). the devil and the old man. the devil in a nunnery, a medieval tale. ~ Collected in Devilish Doings are twenty tales by some of the world's most famous writers, as well as by anonymous storytellers, who have dabbled with the Dark One. The usual suspects are here as well as the unexpected. Niccolo Machiavelli~the famed author of that most diabolical political treatise, The Prince~is here with "Belphagor," his only work of fiction. That master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, contributes "Bon~Bon" and Washington Irving, the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," is here with "The Devil and Tom Walker," another timeless tale of Gothic Americana. J. Sheridan Le Fanu, the Victorian era's greatest writer of the supernatural and the author of "Carmilla," is represented by "Sir Dominick's Bargain," a masterful retelling of an old Irish legend. The Russian short story writer Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol is here with "St. John's Eve," a classic tale of peasant~folk bedevilment. Among the unexpected are offerings by the great English authors Charles Dickens~"The Devil and Mr. Chips"~and William Makepeace Thackeray~"The Painter's Bargain" ~who are better known for their realistic novels. This volume concludes with a story by Stephen Vincent Benet, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" a modern masterpiece of infernal soul~selling that proves Satan is alive and well in the literature of the twentieth century. Whether one believes in the Devil or not, Devilish Doings is a fun collection that will delight anyone with a yen for tales of wonder and bedevilment.

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: About Fine. First Edition Thus. First Acting Edition, First Printing. About Fine in stapled pale blue wrappers, slight toning to spine. 38pp. Q17404.

Near very good condition in a good dust jacket. The pale blue cloth boards remain clean and well-preserved, with only slight edge wear and a touch of rubbing at the spine ends. Binding tight and square; text block clean and unmarked. Endpapers show uniform toning but no writing or bookplates. The illustrated jacket (stated Third Large Printing, priced $1.00) exhibits noticeable wear along folds and extremities, including small chips at the spine ends, several short closed tears, and scattered surface rubbing; the spine panel is moderately rubbed with small losses not affecting legibility. Rear panel shows foxing and age spotting typical of this title. Farrar & Rinehart's trade edition of Stephen Vincent Benét's classic tale, illustrated throughout by Harold Denison in bold, expressive line drawings. Originally appearing in The Saturday Evening Post, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" quickly became one of the defining American literary fables of the twentieth century, blending folklore, political symbolism, and moral drama. This early reprint, produced the same year as the first trade edition (1937), retains the original layout and illustrations and remains an appealing example of Benét's enduringly popular story in its period format.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Edited + Introduction by Townsend Ludington. Pretty much as new from 1999, just been sitting on the shelf, unread, for a quarter century. Unique, wide-ranging collection includes selections from John Brown's Body and Western Star, both of which earned Benet the Pulitzer Prize. Why is there no major literary bio of this dude?

Eichenberg, Fritz (illustrator). 1st ed. Tall 8vo, green cloth with gilt titling over printed paper-covered boards, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg. Privately printed for the Friends of Kingsport Press with their notice laid in one of 1475 unnumbered copies. Fine, no previous owner's marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Light edgewear and a few short tears to jacket. ; Illustrated by Harold Denison, has the "FR" symbol on the copyright page, dust jacket now in a clear protector. ; 61 pages.

HARDBACK GREY. Condition: Fair. JACKET: TORN DJ. HAROLD DENISON (illustrator). FIRST EDITION. dj torn verticaly at spine, princeton antiques book plate on inside of front cover, black and white illustrations DATE PUBLISHED: 1937 EDITION: FIRST EDITION 61.

Paperback. first edition thus. very good -fine, reading crease paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Near fine hardcover, red boards, black lettering. Spine ends slightly soft, pages lightly toned, no writing or marks. Jacket poor but present, pieces missing, not price-clipped. 78 pages. M05742.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. illustrated By Harold Denison (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original red buckram, fine, with original glassine, missing one chip, good. In ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S slipcase. One of 700 copies SIGNED by both Benet and Denison. By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Green cloth.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. Bound in gray cloth, stamped in navy blue, in matching, illustrated dust jacket that maintains the original $1.00 price. Tiny eraser sized chip to top of dust jacket spine. Previous owner's neat bookplate to front pastedown. Toning to endsheets. Overall, a very nice first edition of this rather scarce book Basis for the film of the same name that had Walter Huston in the starring role.

First Edition. *** GREAT ASSOCIATION COPY *** THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER, Farrar & Rinehart, 1937, first edition (third printing), very slight wear to the base of the spine and lower fore edge corner tips, else a tight near fine copy in a vg pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and three very modest chips. Illustrated by Harold Denison. Inscribed by the author "To my friend Willard Wright -for whom even Dan was no match -S V Benet." This reference no doubt is to Willard Wright's own fictional character, Philo Vance, as Mr Wright wrote many detective novels under the pseudonym of S.S. Van Dine. Source book for the film of the same name (originally released for some strange reason as ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY allegedly to avoid confusion with another film released by RKO that year, The Devil and Miss Jones). Walter Huston's role in this film as Scratch, aka The Devil, is precious. Especially the very last scene !!!