Java Head by Hergesheimer Joseph, First Edition (9 results)

New York: Knopf, 1919. First edition (trade). Original red cloth, spine gilt darkened. Ownership signature dated March 7, 1919. A few light water spots to covers, else a Very Good copy.

1st. ed. v.g. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

8vo. [4], 320 pp. Numerous text illustrations and decorations by W.A. Dwiggins, type entirely reset. Pumpkin-coloured cloth, gilt illustration & decoration to spine, gilt lettering, w/ d.j. cover art by Dwiggins (minor dustsoiling, edgewear, slight rubbing), still NF/VG copy, from the library of Alice Brown Powell (1882-1971), who was responsible for naming the historic "Deepwood" home in Salem, OR, named after a favorite children's book by Albert Bigelow Paine, with her signature on ffep. First edition, thus, of this historical novel set during the Clipper Ship tea trade between Salem, Mass. and China newly redesigned and with illustrations by William Addison Dwiggins (1880-1956), type designer, calligrapher and book designer.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. D-102 in this important series, a novel of Salem, MA, with a note about the author at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is one of the important and scarce D-Day ASE issues. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf New York 1923 1st Popular Edition 2nd printing. stated, purple cloth covered boards with stamped black decoration and borzoi in yellow oval on cover, gilt titles and black decoration on spine Borzoi stamp on bottom of back cover, decorated endpapers, clean and unmarked.

HERGESHEIMER, Joseph. JAVA HEAD. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1922. 16mo., patterned boards, with paper spine label. First Edition thus. Very Good (litte wear head of spine, bookplate). $75.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First trade edition. Spine lettering dull, a very good plus copy lacking the dustwrapper. Briefly Inscribed by the author at a later date.

First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original printed wrappers. Nautical and drug theme novel of "the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era," set in the city of Salem, Massachusetts and involving an aristocratic Manchu woman, riches of the East Indies, and the purchase, allure, and use of a case of opium. Very Good, lower spine end lacking lower inch and half of wraps, modest edge wear.

HERGESHEIMER, Joseph. Java Head. Orig. cloth, paper label on spine. New York: Knopf, 1919. First edition. One of 100 copies signed by the author. A very good copy. Signed.