Special Editions and Rare Finds
Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was an American writer, particularly of science fiction; she has been referred to as the "Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter and a writer of crime fiction. An Eye for an Eye has been called a novel of nightmare revenge, and it was adapted for television as Suspicion series episode in 1958.
1st edition; published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company; "A Crime Club selection." Dust jacket in protective mylar cover; 1/2" tear at head of spine and top of front cover; price clipped; black boards with red decoration and lettering on spine; binding tight; text clean and bright. VG/G+
1st printing; stiff silver covers; missing a few of the mechanicals (harmonic accordion, duodecahedron attached to black string and accompanying rubber band; 45 R.P.M. flexi-disc with portrait of Lou Reed on playing surface; balloon); all others are present and working; signature with pop-up castle detached and laid in; covers have some wear. G
William B. Ewert, Publisher, Concord, NY, 1980. Limited edition, no. 48 of 176 copies, signed on colophon; string tied, wrappers. VG+
1st edition, 2nd printing, October 1956. Dust jacket protected; head of spine chipped with loss; bottom front cover creased; blue cloth; binding tight; text clean. G+/G
World Publishing Company, 1957. 1st edition in English, featuring just one signature with increasingly smaller split pages. Cover serves as title page, corners bumped; covers show minor wear, some smudges; binding tight; text clean. G+
With text selected by Helen Dean Fish from the King James Bible. First Edition, second issue with misspelling on spine corrected. Winner of the First Caldecott Award (precedes sticker). Dust jacket protected; head of spine missing 1/4"; edges worn, creased, chipped; price clipped; green cloth with gilt lettering; illustrated endpapers slightly toned; binding tight; text clean. G+/G
Texas Christian University Press, 1979. 5 volumes: Volume I - The Christmas Stories; Volume II - Editors and Writers; Volume III - Tourists and Colonials; Volume IV - Courtship and Marriage; Volume V - Various Stories. Dust jackets in protective covers; volume IV spine slightly faded; black cloth spines over brown cloth; bindings tight; text clean. VG/VG
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. Signed limited edition, no. 373/500. Tan cloth slipcase; dust jacket protected; brown cloth; binding good; text clean. VG/VG
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the novel that established Mordecai Richler as one of the world’s best comic writers. Growing up in the heart of Montreal’s Jewish ghetto, Duddy Kravitz is obsessed with his grandfather’s saying, “A man without land is nothing.” In his relentless pursuit of property and his drive to become a somebody, he will wheel and deal, he will swindle and forge, he will even try making movies. And in spite of the setbacks he suffers, the sacrifices he must make along the way, Duddy never loses faith that his dream is worth the price he must pay. This blistering satire traces the eventful coming-of-age of a cynical dreamer. Amoral, inventive, ruthless, and scheming, Duddy Kravitz is one of the most magnetic anti-heroes in literature, a man who learns the hard way that dreams are never exactly what they seem, even when they do come true.
Little, Brown and Company; An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, 1959. 1st edition. Dust jacket in protective cover; pencil notes on front cover; closed vertical tear from bottom of front cover; spine toned; black cloth with silver lettering on spine; binding tight; some ink underlining and notes in text. Dust jacket art by Leonard Baskin. G/G