Steinbeck, John.
Tokyo, Nan'un-do Co., Ltd., 1986, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. With its covering dust jacket featuring a picture of a very young John Steinbeck aboard his red pony with his sister, Mary, edited and with notes by Kiyoshi Nakayama, it includes His Father, The Summer Before, How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson, Reunion at the Quiet Hotel, The Miracle of Tepayac, The Gifts of Iban, and The Time the Wolves Ate the Vice-Principal, with photo illustrations and Japanese annotations (the stories are all in English), Nakayama also provides commentary. Fine in a near fine jacket.
Various.
NY, Charles Scriber's Sons, 1896, first edition. 10 volumes, each devoted to a specific country -- Scotland (J. M. Barrie, R. L. Stevenson, etc.), Ireland (Jane Barlow, etc.), Africa (A. Conan Doyle, etc.), France (Wilkie Collins, R. L. Stevenson, etc.), The Orient (Rudyard Kipling, etc.), London (J. M. Barrie, etc.), England (Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, etc.), Italy (Anthony Trollope, etc.), Germany (R. L. Stevenson, Ouida, etc.), The Sea (W. Clark Russell, etc.), each volume with a frontispiece photo portrait with tissue guard. Very good.
Pyle, Ernie.
NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1179 in this important series, this was his last book of war reporting, with a note at the end that Pyle was killed by a machine gun bullet in April 1945 while in the Pacific Theater - after already reporting on the war and the common soldier during the fighting in Africa, Italy, and D-day in the European Theater, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is the first of the very scarce upright/vertical format ASEs and is probably the best edition of this book. Clean very good.
Marsh, Ngaio.
NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1269 in this important series, a mystery novel with a theatrical setting by this woman writer from New Zealand, with a list of characters at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format . Fair.
Bellamann, Henry.
NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. E-150 in this important series, a novel and source for the film, condensed, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, scarce. Solid very good.
NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 703 in this important series, Steinbeck's second book, a short story collection that some consider his best book, Goldstone & Payne A2k, Morrow 18, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Near fine, especially scarce in this condition.
Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1984, first edition. Full leather, title, author, and decor in gilt, AEG, ribbon place marker, illustrated by Daniel Maffia, with an editor's note and a special message from Oates, Signed by her. Fine.
Bosrton, Houghton, Mifflin, 1883, first edition. Full leather, AEG, this is Vol. III, illustrated, with a biographical sketch by Octavius B. Frothingham, frontispiece illustration of Longfellow, this NOT a print-on-demand abominationF. Ink 1935 gift inscription and a previous owner's name, very good.
NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 703 in this important series, Steinbeck's second book, a short story collection that some consider his best book, Goldstone & Payne A2k, Morrow 18, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.
NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-5 in this important series, a novel by Steinbeck that is a minor (or not so minor) masterpiece which disguises its themes of death and loneliness with a layer of humor, Goldstone & Payne A22f, not recorded by Morrow, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Some general wear and a crease, very good.
Gallup, Buffalo Medicine Books, 1991, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. First trade edition, one of 1,000 copies, this copy Signed by Bulow, also Signed by Tony Hillerman who offers the foreword and Navajo artist Ernest Franklin who illustrates the book, Bulow provides his own introduction, with notes and a bibliography at the end, this copy also with an original color illustration of a magnificent elk, Signed by Franklin. Fine.
Lausanne, Edita, 1966, first edition. Full leather, subtitled "Being a Nineteenth Century Journey through the most Picturesque Portions of North America, Reconstructed from Accounts by European Visitors; the Whole Embellished with Watercolour Drawings and Engravings of the Period," passages from the French, German, and Italian languages translated by D. B. Tubbs, preface by Jobe, includes a map of the United States and its territories in 1857, includes many tipped in color plates. Very good.
