BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books
THE MALTESE FALCON
Hammett, Dashiell First edition: Review copy with promotional material laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket (mild age-toning). Trade issue based on the deluxe Arion Press edition as designed by Andrew Hoyem with forty-seven photographs of late 1920's period San Francisco. Attractively bound in grey cloth with a silver-stamped falcon illustration; one-quarter black cloth spine with tiles stamped in silver; San Francisco city map endpapers. The quintessential hard-boiled novel, inventive, authentic, brilliantly written, with a brand of stark slangy poetry and high comedy that somehow met all the pulp requirements and yet effortlessly rose above them and burrowed deep beneath them.-
- $50
FAST CURVE
Kent, Justin First edition. Fine; in a nearly fine illustrated dust jacket with minor edge wear. "About half this book is game description as two teams fight for a major league pennant. The rest is pornographic."--McCue. A nice copy of this scarce sex novel with a lesbian theme. Kenneth Johnson was an African-American author who wrote other sex novels published under the Kent pseudonym.-
- $85
BUDDENBROOKS
Mann, Thomas New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First U.S. edition. Two volume set. Black cloth with dark red titles, red and black decorated endpapers; in illustrated dust jackets. Professional black dye restoration to the lower spine of volume I, and rear cover and lower spine of volume II, else a near fine set; in age-toned dust jackets with mild edge wear, tiny shallow chips missing from the spine ends and flap fold corners. The dust jackets are very good plus and approach near fine with the original price ($5.00 net) on the lower front flaps. Thomas Mann received the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature based primarily on his first novel, Buddenbrooks (first published in German in 1901).-
- $500
THE GREAT ALL-STAR ANIMAL LEAGUE BALL GAME
Starrett, Vincent With illustrations by Kurt Wiese New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1953). First edition. Pictorial yellow hardcover binding. A near fine copy; in a very good plus, price-clipped illustrated dust jacket with several short edge tears, minor spine edge chipping, and mild edge wear to the dust jacket. Tall octavo. Unpaginated [53 pages]. Illustrated with whimsical drawings by Kurt Wiese. "A game of barnyard v. forest animals won when a donkey kicks a grand-slam homer."--McCue, Page 104. SCARCE baseball juvenile picturebook!-
- $150
RED WAR
Philips, Judson P. and Thomas M. Johnson First edition. Red cloth with spine titles and decoration; in an original dust jacket. Faint stain to the upper page edges, several scratches to the front cover, fading to the lower spine, else a very good copy; in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Judson Philips scarce first novel is a "Near Future" thriller with a Communist conspirator who tried to conquer the world. Judson Pentecost Philips (1903 1989) was an American writer who wrote more than 100 mystery and detective novels under the pseudonyms Hugh Pentecost and Philip Owen, as well as under his own name. As Judson Philips, he also wrote numerous pulp sports novels in the 1930s.-
- $125
INDIAN COUNTRY “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
Johnson, Dorothy M. First edition: Hardcover issue (H-29). Near fine in yellow cloth with dark red spine titles; in very good, price-clipped dust jacket that is mildly shelfworn with a tear to the front panel near the spine. A collection of nine American frontier stories including: "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "A Man Called Horse" which were script sources for two excellent films. Dorothy Marie Johnson (1905 1984) was an American author best known for her Western fiction. In 1957 she received the Western Writers of American Spur Award for one of her short stories.-
- $175
PEEKSKILL: USA: A Personal Experience
Fast, Howard First edition: Limited edition of 500 specially bound and numbered copies: SIGNED by Howard Fast, Paul Robeson, and William L [orenzo]. Patterson. This is copy #133. Mild foxing to the page edges, faint tanning to the endsheets, else near fine in gilt-stamped brown cloth (a minor crimp to the spine crown); in a near fine white lettered brown dust jacket with minor edge wear and nicks. Octavo. 127 pages. In 1949, Paul Robeson was to give a fourth concert in Westchester County, New York in support of civil rights for the Civil Rights Congress (1946-1956). Due to Robeson's strong vocal support for a pro-trade union, his civil rights activism, known communist affiliations, and his verbal attacks aimed at the Ku Klux Klan; anti-communist race riots broke out focusing on concert attending African-Americans and Jews. In this SCARCE hardcover book Howard Fast gives a full and detailed eyewitness account of the Peekskill incidents. Occasionally, copies of this limited edition are offered for sale but we note no recent copies that have been SIGNED by all three. The African-American activist, William L. Patterson evidently did not SIGN all copies.-
- $750
Studio Image Three: The Process of the Idea: THE WORLD OF SYD MEAD
Mead, Syd First edition. Oblong large quarto (11 1/2" by 16 1/2") Staple bound green and white slick wraps. Minor nicks and creases to the corner tips, else near fine. The third (and last) addition to the studio images portfolio series brings together some of the finest full color and conceptual sketches of Syd Mead's long and illustrious career. 36 pages are bound to delight and fascinate all who view them. From a futuristic speed boat race set in Tokyo harbor (100 years in the future) to a golf course and clubhouse. Conceptual sketches include futuristic spaceships and space concepts: including drawings for an early version of "Princess of Mars", ideas for "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "Aliens", and other film, television and amusement projects.-
- $150
TRACY’S TIGER
Saroyan, William First edition (stated). Black cloth with gilt spine titles, illustrated endpapers. A fine, tight copy; in a very good plus dust jacket with minor edge wear and a tiny hole to the somewhat faded spine. Dust jacket art and internal drawings by Henry Koerner. A charming short fantasy novel featuring a young man, Thomas Tracy, who has an invisible tiger as a constant companion. Thomas falls in love with a young lady who also has an invisible tiger. On his first visit to Laura's home, Tracy makes a irreversible mistake and her tiger becomes visible and is soon hunted down on the streets of New York by a compassionate police officer. Adapted into a two-act musical in 2007 for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A SCARCE FANTASY NOVEL!-
- $65
THE MIRROR OF NIGHT
Lannes, Roberta First edition, first printing: One of 500 (of 850) copies in trade paper. This copy is SIGNED by the author. Near fine in glossy black wraps with titles printed in red. Stoker nominated collection of reprinted and original horror stories and novelettes. Non-Introduction by Harlan Ellison.-
- $25
THE ZAMORANO PRESS AND THE BOTICA: California’s First Medical Book
Moes, Robert J. First edition, limited to 300 copies. Quarto. Fine in textured cloth, with gilt-stamped spine, cover embossed with vignette of a Ramage Press--used by Zamorano in 1838 to print the BOTICA GENERAL DE LOS REMEDIOS ESPERIMENTADOS. With facsimile of the BOTICA tucked into a pocket on the front pastedown. Study of this publishing milestone which--though unimportant from a medical standpoint-nevertheless has historical and sociological significance. In a handsome production decorated with reproductions of Zamorano's signature and self-portrait.-
- $35
REMINISCENCES OF A STOCK OPERATOR
Lefevre, Edwin (1991). Twelfth printing: Trade paperback. Some fading--primarily to spine, else near fine, in textured red wraps illustrated with a satirical cartoon to the front and rear covers. These highly observant memoirs have become classic stock market tales offering timeless lessons about the ups-and-downs and inner workings of the market. Lefevre exposes the processes he used to make various decisions. 299 pages.-
- $8
THE MASTER MYSTERY
Small, Austin J[ames]. First edition. Black cloth with titles in red; lacking the dust jacket. Mild age-toning to the spine, faint foxing to the endsheets, else a very good copy. "Why was it that nothing red could be kept in Gairlie Castle? Red flowers, red vases, red match boxes, lipstick, all vanished with lightning rapidity. Then the famous Gairlie collection of rubies disappeared from Lady Gairlie's dressing table--and three strange murders followed the theft. Scotland Yard set its keenest man-hunter on the mystery. yet he was baffled until the case reached a denouement ingenious, startling, yet perfectly believable."--Publisher's blurb. An uncommon Crime Club publication.-
- $50
THE NECESSARY CORPSE
Woodthorpe, R[alph].C[arter]. First U.S. edition. Coarse green cloth with titles, publisher's device and spine lettering in white; lacking the dust jacket. Rubbing along the spine, faint mottling to the endsheets, else a very good, clean copy. Nicholas Slade, author, scholar and amateur detective, makes his second appearance in this thriller. Very scarce Crime Club entry.-
- $50
NEW DIMENSIONS: Science Fiction: Number 7
Silverberg, Robert; editor First edition, first printing. Tanned glue stains to the pastedown endpapers and the front endpaper, else a very good copy with no further markings; in a near fine dust jacket with internal tanned glue staining to the flaps (with slight bleed through). Collects 12 original stories by George Eklund, Marta Randall, Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop, Phyllis and Alex Eisenstein, J.A. Lawrence, John Shirley, Barry N. Malzberg, Felix C. Gotschalk, Gregory Benford, A.A. Attanasio, Henry-Luc Planchat and Fritz Leiber. SCARCE entry in Robert Silverberg's annual collection of science fiction.-
- $25
THE MAGIC OF SHAMANISM: The Healing Power of the Shamanic Journey
Baghramian, Arvick First edition. Fine in a fine, colorfully illustrated dust jacket. Octavo; 234 pages; References and Index. A few color plates. "The Magic of Shamanism is designed to meet the needs of a range of readers. It is suitable for people who know nothing about shamanism and are interested in learning more, as well as for those with a basic grounding in the subject who wish to gain a deeper and richer understanding of its scope and use in therapeutic practice. It also aims to meet the needs of therapists wishing to broaden their horizons to a new, yet ancient, form of therapy that is capable of astonishing results within professional practice."--Publisher's blurb.-
- $50
CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization; 1920-1941
Davis, Eric First edition, first printing. Handsomely bound, this quality book production has sturdy deep inner and outer hinges, taupe end-papers, acid-free paper, quality woven brown linen binding, sewn binding, yellow headband and tail-band, and clear, easy-on-the-eye Lonotron Bembo type. A timeless economic/political international historical study of acclaimed renown, this work was re-issued in its entirety in a modern binding in 2016. Davis examines the near East, Egypt, British colonialist, Arabs, world market forces, Egyptian class structure, the Egyptian Nationalist movement, and describes the first purely Arab bank and its place in Egypt between the two world wars. He focuses on the political and economic forces at work in efforts to industrialize underdeveloped nations. This reveals the causes of the rise and fall of one of the first multi-national corporations in the Third World and illuminates inter-Arab political and economic cooperation during the 1920s and 1930s. Fine in brown linen with silver embossed titles to the spine; in a fine printed, taupe dust jacket. Octavo; 232 pages; tables; footnotes; bibliography; index.-
- $35
DON’T COME CRYING TO ME
Ard, William First edition. Bookplate to the pastedown endpaper, mild foxing to the internal gutters and shelf edges, text tanned a bit, as usual, else a very good plus copy; in an illustrated dust jacket (design by Phil J. Fiorello) that is edge worn with a short closed tear to the lower rear panel, and shows some spine fading and nicks. Ard's unique series detective, Timothy Dane, here juggles the fate of his most unusual client: an unborn child at the epicenter of a fiercely fought paternity suit.-
- $45
THE ROOT OF HIS EVIL
Ard, William First edition. Slight crease to the rear cover, else near fine (with pages subject, as usual, to tanning; and just a hint of wear to the black cloth edges) in like dust jacket that shows only traces of wear. A nice copy. The ninth Dane novel finds the hard-hitting, soft-hearted PI guardian to a hundred thousand dollars in cold cash and to a luscious nightclub dancer. Set in New York and Florida.-
- $50
WITH CHILD
King, Laurie R. (1996). First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine in a photo-pictorial dust jacket. The third Kate Martinelli mystery by the author of A GRAVE TALENT and TO PLAY THE FOOL. Kate agrees to care for a twelve-year-old girl and takes her to Washington state where the girl disappears in a rural area in which a serial killer resides. SIGNED by the author!-
- $20
THE EIGHT CIRCLE
Ellin, Stanley First edition thus, first printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket cover art by Carolyn Hartmann. Photographic reprint of the original 1958 first edition with the addition of an introduction by Otto Penzler. An attractive edition in blue cloth with marbled endpapers and silver spine titles and dagger device. Winner of Mystery Writers of America Edgar award for best novel of 1958.-
- $25
THE ITALIAN SECRETARY: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Carr, Caleb First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. For the first time, the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has commissioned an author to write a new Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson adventures. Carr, author of THE ALIENIST, blends English historical details into the detecting mystery.-
- $15
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA
Vanneman, Alan First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The debut novel by the short story writer and film journalist features Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson traveling from England to the exotic locales of Egypt, India, and Singapore in a hunt for Harat, the giant rat who oppressed the people of Bada.-
- $20