First Editions
4th printing; inscribed by Tom Hanks, who starred in the film; dust jacket in protective cover; gray cloth spine over maroon boards; slim crease in spine cloth; bottom of text block lightly foxed with one thumb-sized smudge; binding good; text clean. G/G+
Borderlands Press, 1992. Limited to 750 numbered copies signed by the contributors; this is number 231. Black cloth slipcase; dust jacket protected; blue cloth with gilt lettering; binding tight; text clean and bright. VG/VG
Borderlands Press, 1994. Signed edition limited to 500 copies; this is number 51. Black clolth slipcase; dust jacket protected; binding tight; text clean. VG/VG
Maclay & Associates, 1990. This edition is limited to 750 copies signed by all of the contributors; this is number 566. Black cloth slipcase; no dj as issued; red cloth with silver design and lettering; binding tight; text clean and bright. VG/VG
Arkham House, 1978. 1st edition; dust jacket protected; not price clipped; black cloth; binding tight; top edge lightly foxed. G/G
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was an Irish-British novelist and short story writer, known for her depictions of life during wartime London. She spent her summers in her family’s country home, Bowens Court, which was built in the 1770's by Henry Cole Bowen and was located in Cork, Ireland. In this personal narrative, originally published in 1942, Bowen weaves together three centuries of Irish history with a chronicle of her family.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. 2nd edition in scarce dust jacket with photo by Pat English showing Elizabeth Bowen walking on the lawn at Bowen's Court in Ireland. Dust jacket in protective cover; price not clipped; spine edges lightly chipped; rear cover has light soiling near spine and along top edge; navy blue stamped cloth with gilt lettering and design on spine; endpapers clean; binding tight; text clean and bright. VG/VG-
One of Texas's true renaissance men, Tom Lea (1907-2001) was already a noted artist, muralist, and book illustrator when he published his first novel, The Brave Bulls, in 1949. This suspenseful story of bullfighting in Mexico, elegantly illustrated by the author, spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was hailed by Time magazine as the best first novel of the year. It also won the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, went through numerous reprints and translations, and became a 1951 movie starring Mel Ferrer and Anthony Quinn.
1st edition; title page painting and decorative drawings by author; dust jacket in protective cover; corners worn; head of spine creased; bottom of spine chipped; tear along edge of front flap; red cloth with decoration and lettering in black and gold; illustrated endpapers; endpapers have some foxing; front hinge weak; text clean. G/G-
James M. Cain (1892-1977) was a novelist whose "violent, sexually obsessed, and relentlessly paced melodramas epitomized the “hard-boiled” school of writing that flourished in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s. He was ranked with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as one of the masters of the genre. Three classics of the American screen were made from his novels: Double Indemnity (1936; film 1944), Mildred Pierce (1941; film 1945, TV miniseries 2011), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934; stage version 1936, films 1946, 1981)." [https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-M-Cain].
The Butterfly tells the story of an Appalachian coal miner who has been separated from his family for years; his life is drastically changed and complicated as he seeks revenge when his daughter suddenly appears in his cabin, and he discovers the true identity of her illegitimate child.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. 1st edition. Dust jacket in protective cover; spine edges creased and chipped; beige cloth with green decoration and lettering on cover and spine; binding tight; text bright. G/G
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. The second volume, A Buyer’s Market (1952), finds young Nick Jenkins struggling to establish himself in London. Amid the fever of the 1920s, he attends formal dinners and wild parties; makes his first tentative forays into the worlds of art, culture, and bohemian life; and suffers his first disappointments in love. Old friends come and go, but the paths they once shared are rapidly diverging: Stringham is settling into a life of debauchery and drink, Templer is plunging into the world of business, and Widmerpool, though still a figure of out-of-place grotesquerie, remains unbowed, confident in his own importance and eventual success. A Buyer’s Market is a striking portrait of the pleasures and anxieties of early adulthood, set against a backdrop of London life and culture at one of its most effervescent moments.
1st American Edition. Dust jacket in protective cover; spine edges chipped; red cloth with black title label on spine; former owner's name on ffep; front hinge cracked; text clean. G/G
1st edition; dust jacket protected; spine edges chipped and worn; edges lightly worn; top edge and flap edges tanned; binding good; text clean. G/G