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W.H. Allen. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1951. Hardback. Dust jacket is edgeworn with small areas of loss to corners and upper/lower spine, black ink marks to edges of front, price clipped; boards are clean, gilt titling faded and darkened, corners sharp; binding is tight except joint exposed between pp48.9; pages are unmarked aside from previous owner's ink signature on front endpaper, previous seller's bookplate on front pastedown. ; 5.25 x 1 x 8 inches; 191 pages .

New York: The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Very good in a good plus dust jacket; Book shows rubbing of spine/panels, dust jacket shows rubbing, tearing on edges.

First edition first printing of this collection of short crime stories. Some of the collected are: That Evenin' Sun Do Down by William Faulkner, The Chink and the Child by Thomas Burke, The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy, The Guilty Party by O. Henry. 21 stories in total. There is a 2 inch semi closed tear to the dustjacket's rear panel bottom edge. Price clipped otherwise in very good / good condition.

Garden City Ny: Garden City Publishing, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Ix, 337 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Edition Stated. Book Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Former Owner's Inscription Dated In 1947. Dust Jacket With Light Usage, Price Inked Out, A Few Minute Losses At Edges, Slight Browning To Spine Panel. [No Comparably Lurid Volume Of "Horrid Economic Crimes" Because , Well, Almost Everyone In Commerce And Government And Academia Would Find That Objectionable.]

NY:: Harmony Books,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0517545535 . With an introduction by John Fowles. Translated from the German by Jill Sutcliffe. First printing thus. Near fine in a near fine (age toning to flap edges) dust jacket.; 250 pages .

New York: Viking Press, 1928. First Thus. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's cloth in light tan decorative dust jacket printed in brown and orange; [6],187pp.; frontispiece and decorations throughout. Jacket extremities gently rubbed, small chip at spine crown, spine a bit toned, else Near Fine in Very Good or better jacket. "A New York Theatre Guild Production" - upper jacket panel. A modern adaptation of Jonson's 17th-c. comedy; this version was later adapted for George Antheil's 1953 opera.

New York: Viking Press, 1931. First American Edition. First printing. 12mo. Yellow cloth, titled in maroon on spine with color pictorial vignette to front cover; dark green topstain; 121pp. Light soiling to cloth, else a straight, tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 on front flap), lightly soiled but generally bright and unfaded, Very Good+. Zweig's controversial novella, originally published in the Viennese newspaper Neue Freie Presse in 1922. The story, filled with Freudian references, deals with the romantic obsession of an abortionist with one of his patients, leading finally to her death and his suicide – almost needless to say, this was hardly the drink of choice for Americans in the Great Depression; the print run must have been small and sales smaller still, as today the book is unexpectedly scarce in commerce, and rarely found in nice condition.