Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Salesman's dummy of the first volume of The Autograph Edition of the Novels and Stories of Willa Cather. See Crane AA1. The contents consists of a frontis portrait, title, dedication, contents pages and four pages of text, followed by a blank book. Prospectus laid in. This.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition, limited issue, number 502 of 520 numbered copies, signed by Cather. Crane A22.a.i.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1957). First edition. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1931). First trade edition. Petersen A9.2a. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. First edition. BAL 5696; Wright I, 941; American Imprints 55631. A picaresque tale about a young man who becomes peripherally involved in a number of crimes and misdeeds in New York and London in the early 19th century. Sydney Clifton, one of several novels.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First edition. BAL 6465, state 1, binding 1; Wright III, 2077. The first American novel to take a serious look at life in that uniquely American urban innovation, the skyscraper, and “the first important American novel with city life at its theme” - Andrews.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. First edition. BAL 7918; Wright III, 2620. ¶ Hearn’s first novel and his only major work of fiction set in Louisiana, where he resided for almost ten years. Chita is set on idyllic Last Island in the Gulf of Mexico and tells the tragic.....
London: Macmillan, 1884. First English edition. Edel & Laurence A24b; noted under BAL 10569. Tales set in London, Boston and New York.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. First English edition. Noted under BAL 11143. ¶ The second book by Caroline Kirkland (1801-1865), a collection of sketches about the life of raising a family on the Michigan frontier, where she moved to from New York in 1837.
New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839. First edition. BAL 11139; Wright I, 1583; Sabin 37991. ¶ The first book by Caroline Kirkland, an interesting realistic novel based on her first-hand experience of pioneer life with her husband and six children in a remote Michigan village. She.....
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. First edition. BAL 11241, state A with the title leaf a cancel; Wright II, 1507. The first book and only work of fiction by poet and musician Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), a novel set in Tennessee before and during the Civil War, which uses the.....
New York: The Century Co., 1913. First edition. BAL 11946, printing 1; Smith, American Fiction 1901-1925; L-445. Jack London's autobiographical novel, whose main character is named for the famous English folk song - "John Barleycorn" - and like his English namesake, struggles with alcohol.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First edition, one of 125 specially bound copies, signed by Morris and with an original photograph by him used as the frontispiece. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. First edition. BAL 14808, first printing; Wright III, 3888. A local color novel set in the moutains of Tennessee by the prolific and popular middle Tennessee author, Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922), who wrote the majority of her work under the pseudonym Charles Egbert.....
New York: Random House, (1969). First edition, limited issue, number 75 of 200 numbered copies signed by O'Hara. ¶ From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.
Trenton: Published by D. Fenton . . . L. Deare, Printer, N. Brunswick, 1811. First edition, one of two issues. American Bibliography 51124; Sabin 56732; Clark, Travels in the Old South, II: 110; Felcone, Printing in New Jersey 1786-1876, 1188. The wildly fantastic autobiographical narrative of Andrew Oehler, who writes.....
New York: Random House, (1967). First edition, limited issue, number 279 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Styron.
Hartford: Printed by Peter E. Gleason, 1816. Second American edition; the first was published in Walpole, New Hampshire in 1797. BAL 20738; Wright I, 2629; American Bibliography 39136. ¶ An interesting novel by playwright, poet and jurist Royall Tyler (1757-1826), the story of American physician Updike Underhill who signs on.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947. First edition. ¶ Gore Vidal's second novel. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.