Special Editions and Rare Finds
New York: The Dancey-Davis Press, [1923]. 4to. La Chauve-Souris (French: The Bat) was a touring company that originated in Moscow and expanded to Paris during the early 1900s. Directed by Nikita Balieff, the revue performed songs, dances, and sketches, and toured the United States and Europe. Colorful wraps, some creases and light wear. Very scarce. G
NY: Rinehart & Co. Inc., 1951. 1st edition; dust jacket protected; edges worn; large vertical crease on both front and rear covers; loss to head of spine; unclipped - original $3.00 price on flap; stain on rear flap and rear free endpaper; black cloth; corners bumped; binding good; text clean. G/G-
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Inscribed by authors on ffep; gift inscription in ink on ffep also; dust jacket protected; edges lightly worn; pictorial cloth; binding good; text clean. G+/G
A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information–no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to one horrifying conclusion--a killer is on the loose and preying on his city. From the master of L.A. noir comes this beautiful and brutal tale of a cop and a criminal squared off in a life and death struggle.
1st edition; published by The Mysterious Press, New York, 1984; "A Lloyd Hopkins Novel of Suspense." Dust jacket in protective mylar cover; light shelf wear; corners chipped; dark green cloth with silver lettering on spine; binding tight; text clean and bright. VG/VG
Groucho Marx's first book! "Included among these essays are his featherbedding campaign against standardization of cots, a defense of bedbugs, and a full chapter on 'The Advantages of Sleeping Alone.' Not only has Groucho made his BEDS; he lies in it. Call him bedroom radical, call him dreamer, call him collect, Groucho's BEDS is the last word on bedroom bedlam, and 'no Marx ever breaks his word-except maybe to an employer, the landlord or a lady" --
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. 1st edition with FR colophon on copyright page; no dust jacket; illustrated boards; edges worn and chipped; corners bumped and worn; binding good, front hinge a little weak; text clean. G
1st edition, 2nd printing. SIGNED by Lawson; facsimile dust-jacket in protective cover; illustrated tan cloth; covers worn and soiled in places; illustrated endpapers; former owner's name in ink on ffep; binding good; text clean. G/G
A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he kept as a teenage tearaway and the uncut past burst in like a blast of raw air.
London: The Harvill Press, 1996; 1st edition; signed by the author; dust jacket and book in very good condition.
Stated first edition; dust jacket protected; edges lightly worn; original price $2.50 on flap; pictorial boards; binding tight; text clean. VG/G+
London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1974. Stapled wraps; covers very lightly soiled; previous owner's name in ink on title page. Very scarce in U.S. VG