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193329615New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1933. Hardcover. First Edition First Printing: with requisite Farrar device present on the copyright page. First Issue: with all points called for by Merle Johnson. 6 x 8.5in. xi. 1224pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Housed in a custom quarter leather over cloth slipcase with internal clamshell folder. VERY GOOD. Shows marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities board text lightly rubbed else Fine/As New. The publisher's syllabus and the message to the publisher are likewise housed in a matching custom quarter leather over cloth slipcase. The message to the publisher etc. is signed by Hervey Allen at the end of the text. The syllabus shows slight shelf rubbing of the edges and a hint of toning else Fine/As New. The message to the publisher is flawless. The slipcases show marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities spine somewhat darkened and with hints of loss. As pictured. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
1931549946London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Publishers Ltd 1931. Very good condition first edition Volume I II and III complete. This edition is limited to nine hundred copies of which this is number 733. Includes five plates and newspaper clipping laid in. Blue cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering to spines and gilt crests to fronts no dust jackets. Page bock heads are gilt edged faces and feet are rough cut. Spines are faded and sunned. Some minor rubbing and handling marks to boards and corners are a little bumped. Page blocks are tanned. Inside pages all very clean and tightly bound. LW. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd Hardcover
1940468268Harmondsworth : Penguin Books 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy bound in red cloth boards with a paper spine label and now showing faint scuffs. Corners joints and endbands slightly rubbed. The original wrappers somewhat foxed are bound in with the spine cover worn mounted on the title page. The text block remains strong: tight and clean with gently age-toned leaves. A well-preserved example overall. Notes; Signed and inscribed by the author. Provenance; Frieda Gumn's copy with her own notes and custom binding. Copious photographs biographical and memorial content relating to the author also loosely inserted and mounted to blanks. Half-title stamped ""Patwa News Agency : Mombasa."" Series; Penguin books ; 287. Physical description; 155 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; World War 1914-1918. Prisoners of war. Personal narratives. Germany. 20th century. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books hardcover
1957140946028New York: The authors & McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc 1957. Near Fine/Near Fine. Seventh printing of the first edition. Signed by Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley on the front pastedown. Thigpen has warmly inscribed and signed the front free endpaper dated June 1 1995 "For Irving Victor a close classmate in medical school. With feelings that do not readily lend themselves to words--I shall never forget your straight level look and the warmth of our last handclasp." Bound in cloth-affect blue and green binding lettered in silver. Near Fine with edge wear light foxing to all edges. In a supplied Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear. <p>The authors' reprint of a famous case study of Eve White a virtuous housewife with multiple personality disorder. This case study would go on to bring awareness to the psychological condition. Later adapted into the Academy Award winning film of the same name featuring Oscar-winner Joanne Woodward David Wayne and Lee J. Cobb. Cleckley's book The Mask of Sanity originally published in 1941 remains a cornerstone of clinical psychopathy. [The authors &] McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc unknown
1936009011Bermuda: Bermuda Trade Development Board 1936. 94pp/illus. First and only edition A publication of the Bermuda Trade Development Board folio number #67 of 2000 copies designed by James Albert Wales and Lorraine Follett and printed by Edward Stern and Company in Philadelphia. The book has 52 illustrations -- watercolors by Adolph Treidler and photographs by David Knudsen F.S. Lincoln and Walter Rutherford each printed one to a page and in excellent condition plus what one might call a rather quaint and dated text. One of the chapters "As a Landscape Architect Sees Bermuda" is by Frederick Law Olmstead. Text Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Limited Numbered Copy. Bermuda Trade Development Board hardcover
1936007590Bermuda: Bermuda Trade Development Board 1936. 94pp/illus. First and only edition A publication of the Bermuda Trade Development Board folio number 1168 of 2000 copies designed by James Albert Wales and Lorraine Follett and printed by Edward Stern and Company in Philadelphia. The book has 52 illustrations -- watercolors by Adolph Treidler and photographs by David Knudsen F.S. Lincoln and Walter Rutherford each printed one to a page and in excellent condition plus what one might call a rather quaint and dated text. One of the chapters "As a Landscape Architect Sees Bermuda" is by Frederick Law Olmstead. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Bermuda Trade Development Board hardcover
1932002745New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1932. Book. Fine in Wraps as Issued. Stapled Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered First Edition. #619/1000 copies printed " for presentation to friends of the author and the publishers". SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on verso of front wrapper "Autograph for Eugene L. Delafield Esq. by Hervey Allen". Delafield was a noted New York book collector 1907-2001 the bulk of whose collection now resides in the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library. Laid in is a 1 page letter signed with the initials "H.A." that reads- "One of the few remaining copies of my first book- newspaper reviews with the exception of the "Weakling" which was printed in El Paso and sold to the troops along the Mexican Border in 1916. As you remember I told you I destroyed perhaps foolishly a few copies that remained in my possession and have been able to get ahold of only one or two since then that turned up in an old trunk. I am not anxious to have this book known as it contains verse written when I was very immature." On the back of this letter in a different hand presumably Delafield's is "written circa 1925". Indeed very few copies of Allen's 1st book survive today and after a promising start as a poet Allen turned to fiction and became best known for his novel "Anthony Adverse" which became a huge best-seller and was made into a memorable movie winning 4 Oscars. Farrar & Rinehart Paperback
19335745New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc 1933. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6 1/8 X 8 3/4 Inches. 1224 PP. First printing with publisher imprint on copyright page. Original price of $3.00 intact on front flap. Original blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt. Signed and inscribed by author on the FFEP. Allen's best known work and the basis for the 1936 film of the same name starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. <br /> <br /> Signed:<br /> "Gene Melton Adams Esq. / Dear Mr. Adams: Lafcadia Hearn I think in / his "Two Years in the Dutch West Indies has some remarks on palm groves that gave me the / idea for my remarks on Gothic architecture in / these pages where I describe the Cathedral at / Burgos in Spain. This just because I know you like Hearn - Hervey Allen / 3/12/35" on the FFEP<br /> <br /> Accompanied by a Typed Letter Signed TLS from Hervey Allen to Mrs. Margaret Elder Dow. Letter dtated February 14 1934 and mentions the controversial reception of Anthony Adverse. Letter fine but for original fold marks. NOTE: Dow was a noted Elisha Kane Kent biographer and an author. Farrar and Rinehart, Inc hardcover
1926057930New York: George H Doran 1926. First Edition . Olive Green Cloth. Near Fine/No Dustjackets. 9 1/2" Tall. Illustrations Throughout. 932 Pp In Two Volumes. Limited "Edgar Allan Poe Shrine Edition" #101 Of 250 Copies. Reported First State With Wineglass On Table In Portrait Of Longfellow.Very Lightly Used Slight Rubbing At Corners Very Slight Fading To Spine Cloth All Gilt Still Bright Cover Gilt Brilliant. Endpapers Aged. No Names Or Marks. <br/> <br/> George H Doran hardcover
1933014938New York CIty: Farrar & Rinehart 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Large thick 8vo. 1244pp. Beautiful First Edition with Rinehart's logo on the copyright page as called for. Bound in publisher's blue cloth over flexible boards with borders and titles in gilt on front board and spine. . Square tight and clean throughout with no foxing and barely a hint of toning Mild surface and edge-wear. Spine gilt mildly dulled. Very well-preserved for such a large book. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket $3.00 has a couple of chips to the spine ends and a few closed edge-tears. Spine and edges toning. Still solid and complete. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase with leather spine labels titled in gilt which is mildly rubbed. Inscribed signed and dated by Allen on the front end-paper in the year of publication "Inscribed to G. Selmer Fougner with the cordial best regards and best wishes of his ever Hervey Allen September 16 1933". Gustav Selmer Fougner 1884-1941 was an author and journalist who wrote for the New York Herald and the New York Sun where he was the chief European correspondent during WWI. He was probably best known however for his wine critic column in the Sun "Along the Wine Trail" as well as his 1941 book "Dining Out In New York". Laid in is publisher's review slip. Also the chemise has a built-in pouch which contains some ephemera about the book news articles etc. including a TLS from the author's secretary regarding a book from another author. A very pretty collectable copy and a great presentation. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
1932002745New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1932. #619/1000 copies printed " for presentation to friends of the author and the publishers". SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on verso of front wrapper ""Autograph for Eugene L. Delafield Esq. by Hervey Allen". Delafield was a noted New York book collector 1907-2001 the bulk of whose collection now resides in the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library. Laid in is a 1 page letter signed with the initials "H.A." that reads- "One of the few remaining copies of my first book- newspaper reviews with the exception of the "Weakling" which was printed in El Paso and sold to the troops along the Mexican Border in 1916. As you remember I told you I destroyed perhaps foolishly a few copies that remained in my possession and have been able to get ahold of only one or two since then that turned up in an old trunk. I am not anxious to have this book known as it contains verse written when I was very immature." On the back of this letter in a different hand presumably Delafield's is "written circa 1925". Indeed very few copies of Allen's 1st book survive today and after a promising start as a poet Allen turned to fiction and became best known for his novel "Anthony Adverse" which became a huge best-seller and was made into a memorable movie winning 4 Oscars. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Fine in Wraps as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. Limited Edition. Farrar & Rinehart Paperback books
192516083JNew York: Harper & Brothers 1925. First Edition First Printing. Signed presentation copy from Hervey Allen to fellow poet Edwin Arlington Robinson three time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Inscribed: “To ‘Brother’ Robinson with best regards Hervey Allenâ€. The word “Brother†in the inscription amusingly refers to the monk like brotherhood Allen and Robinson shared at the McDowell Colony retreat for the arts. Yearly from 1911 to 1934 Edwin Arlington Robinson attended the McDowell Colony where he met and became friends with young poet Hervey Allen who attended and wrote at the Colony in 1921 1922 1923. Some of the poems in this book are the result of those stays. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some tiny chipping and a 2 inch tear to the top of the front spine fold. Hervey Allen went on to write more poetry and historical novels and is best remembered for Anthony Adverse which was made into the 1936 classic film starring Frederic March and Olivia de Havilland. Harper & Brothers unknown books
192516083JNew York: Harper & Brothers 1925. First Edition First Printing. Signed presentation copy from Hervey Allen to fellow poet Edwin Arlington Robinson three time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Inscribed: “To ‘Brother’ Robinson with best regards Hervey Allenâ€. The word “Brother†in the inscription amusingly refers to the monk like brotherhood Allen and Robinson shared at the McDowell Colony retreat for the arts. Yearly from 1911 to 1934 Edwin Arlington Robinson attended the McDowell Colony where he met and became friends with young poet Hervey Allen who attended and wrote at the Colony in 1921 1922 1923. Some of the poems in this book are the result of those stays. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some tiny chipping and a 2 inch tear to the top of the front spine fold. Hervey Allen went on to write more poetry and historical novels and is best remembered for Anthony Adverse which was made into the 1936 classic film starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. Harper & Brothers unknown
1926013078MacMillan. Original navy cloth with gilt titles on spine. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1926. MacMillan hardcover
1933008731Farrar & Rinehart 1933. Book. Fine. Cloth in Box. Presentation By Author. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy in near fine jacket.Small 1/8 chip in crown.1/8 chip lower front heel.Rare Presentation Copy.Review Copy with Yellow Slip Dated June 26 1933. First Edition "Inscribed for G. Selner Fougner EsqWith the coridal regards and best wishes of his ever Hervey Allen September 16 1933." Comes with a Special Made Solander Blue Case. All Reviews Included.Tipped Note From Secretary for another book Dated Jan 1936. Incredible. Gorgeous Presentation. Farrar & Rinehart Hardcover
1933008731Farrar & Rinehart 1933. Book. Fine. Cloth in Box. Presentation By Author. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy in near fine jacket.Small 1/8 chip in crown.1/8 chip lower front heel.Rare Presentation Copy.Review Copy with Yellow Slip Dated June 26 1933. First Edition "Inscribed for G. Selner Fougner EsqWith the coridal regards and best wishes of his ever Hervey Allen September 16 1933." Comes with a Special Made Solander Blue Case. All Reviews Included.Tipped Note From Secretary for another book Dated Jan 1936. Incredible. Gorgeous Presentation. Farrar & Rinehart Hardcover books
193913024New York: The Greystone Press 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Toning to inside dust jacket. Chips and wear to corners and head and heel of spine 1' closed tear to top left side of dust jacket. Housed in custome clamshell box. The Greystone Press hardcover
1926479New York: George H. Doran Company 1926. First Edition First Printing. Publisher's Slate Grey Cloth Red Detailing. Very Good/Very Good. A Very Good Book in a Very Good Dust Jacket Uniformly Clipped by Publisher Price Unaffected Two Dollars Net. Signed by Author with Inscription in Publication Year 1926 by Author on Flyleaf. Book is moderately shelf worn and sunned to extremities. Text block is lightly toned and soiled. Text is unmarked. Binding remains square though somewhat shaken. Front hinge starting with a small split to the gutter between flyleaf and title page. Rear pastedown has a contemporary bookseller sticker affixed. Outstanding Irving Politzer designed dust jacket presents well despite flaws. General shelf wear has caused wrinkling whitening and chipping to extremities. Rear panel has some closed tears along bottom edge. Spine is sunned. Hardcover. Octavo. xii 13-250pp. George H. Doran Company unknown
1938622556New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 369pp. Blue cloth titled in gilt. Some modest wear at the extremities very good in good or better dust jacket with toning and small chips and tears. Inscribed by Hervey Allen to the poet Robert Frost: "Signed with all affection and the deepest of respect for Robert Frost on the occasion of a visit to him and his at Gainesville Florida March 1938. Hervey Allen." An exceptional association. Frost and his wife moved to Gainesville in December 1937 where the poet was lecturing at the University of Florida. Mrs. Frost suffered a heart attack and died on March 20 1938. Allen rushed up from Miami to console Frost who was nearly in a state of collapse. Allen's sympathetic presence was acknowledged by Frost who sent him a note with long quotations from Tennyson partly from In Memoriam closing with the heartfelt sentiment "I shall never forget your coming to me with such sympathy." This copy was almost certainly presented by Allen to Frost on that memorable visit. An outstanding association. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
1909400554A. G. Seiler & Co. 1909 Volume I 1909 853 pp Volume II 1910 909 pp both with B&W illustrations throughout text. Texts are clean and unmarked shaken. Vol I rear hinge cracked. Contemporary owner's name on front endpapers. Dark blue cloth boards are rubbed bumped at extremities. Size: Thick 8 Vo. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. A. G. Seiler & Co. hardcover
1901145590Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1901. First edition of this collection of short stories; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Small octavo original pictorial cloth slip tipped in on the front free endpaper "With the Compliments of the Author." Signed by Gilman on the front free endpaper above the tipped in note. Additionally inscribed by Gilman on the rear pastedown in pencil with her 225 Riverside Drive address and a note to her publisher which she shared with Hervey White possibly in reference to her book 'Concerning Children' "About this size & quality but with paper cover gilt boards from mss. 5000 Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Gilman was an American humanist novelist writer lecturer advocate and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations of utopian feminists. Best known for her semi-autobiographical short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis Gilman has written works on gender and male domination that continue to maintain their relevance in today's society. In very good condition with rubbing and a few small losses to the spine and some toning to the rear panel front and rear pastedown front and rear free endpaper. A unique example. Hervey White was an American novelist poet and community-builder who was one of the original founders of the Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock New York and the radical artists' colony the Maverick known together as the Woodstock Art Colony. In 1915 White planned the first of the Maverick Festivals which included music and theatrical performances and which would inevitably become an annual celebration of wildness and unity until 1931. In popular press and local culture his long hair beard baggy white linens and purple silks are celebrated as the hallmarks of Woodstock's cultural identity. Small, Maynard & Company hardcover
1927185140New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation 1927. Critics lauded it not only for its frank handling of sex but also for its exposé of imperialism First edition otherwise untraced in recent commerce of the first American novel on Indochina. The book's exploration of French colonialism and the titular protagonist's subversion of the colonial order has given it a renewed appeal in the 21st century. Having travelled to Asia as a young man Hervey 1900-1951 wrote novels and scripts set in the region and conceived the story for the 1932 film Shanghai Express. He studied Buddhism for a period in Burma and was friends with the Chinese national figurehead Sun Yat-Sen. Hervey's career was overshadowed by intolerance towards his homosexuality: "Reading his works three of which are now back in print with a biography looming you'll find a discernible gay fingerprint on almost everything he touched" Greene. Octavo. Original black cloth spine and front cover lettered in silver silver roundel on front board. With dust jacket. Silverfishing to cloth tape abrasions on pastedowns webbing exposed at rear inner hinge but holding firm; jacket unclipped spine sunned some chipping two old adhesive tape repairs on verso: a very good copy in very good jacket. Harlan M. Greene "The Multi-Talented Harry Hervey" Gay & Lesbian Review. hardcover
192637232New York: George H. Doran Company 1926. The Shrine Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The Shrine Edition 1926. Limited to 250 copies with this being hand numbered 230 SIGNED by author. A Very Good set in Very Good dust jackets with Good original slipcase. 8vo. 932 pp. in two volumes top edge gilt bound in publishers green cloth with titles in gilt on front covers and spines. with tan dust jackets. Housed in publishers brown paper covered slipcase with paper description pasted on side panel. Jacket spines are tanned with a few small chips/tears; small water stain volume I spine overall light soiling. Cloth is clean gilt is bright. End papers lightly toned. Short gift inscription inside volume II opposite half title page otherwise text appears unmarked. Slipcase has rubbing along edges with some light soiling to pastedown. SCARCE in dust jackets. BAL 7 p. 150. This limited numbered edition of two hundred and fifty copies autographed by the author is especially prepared for the Edgar Allan Poe Shrine Richmond Virginia. <br /> <br /> Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer poet editor and literary critic who became famous for his dark and macabre tales. His work is considered a major influence on American and international literature and he's often credited as the inventor of Gothic Literature. George H. Doran Company hardcover
193313191Farrar & Rhinehart Inc. As New. 1933. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- with a bonus offer-- . Farrar & Rhinehart, Inc. hardcover
1941140945954St. Louis: The C.V. Mosby Company 1941. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Signed by Hervey Cleckley on the front free endpaper inscribed "For Vincent Roberts With kind regards and all good wishes for success in his explorations of personality function along the rubro-spinal tract in the Id and the Super-ego." vi 298 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with light shelf wear a few small stains to the covers; former owner pasted the original dust jacket on the front and rear pastedowns and rear endpaper. Contents toned with scattered foxing. <p>Perhaps the definitive work on psychopathy often generally referred to today as "sociopathy" from an American psychiatrist whose work influenced everything from the films Psycho and The Three Faces of Eve co-writing the book the latter was based on to Hare's Psychopathy Checklist. Documentary filmmaker Erroll Morris has hailed him as "one of the unsung 20th century figures. The C.V. Mosby Company unknown
