New York: Rivercross Publishing, Inc, 1997. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the author, dated 11/30/97. A fictitious book about a professional gambler and con artist that likes to make bets on the golf course - until he falls in love. The author's first novel. Green paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. In green dust jacket with dark green title to spine and front panels. Minor dampstaining to top edges of jacket. Minor wear to edges of jacket. 202 pages. LIT/072718. Very Good / Very Good. More

London: William Heinemann, (1915). Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in green cloth boards with black title to spine and front board. Browning to edges of boards, else bright. Bookplate of Hugh Roberts Parrish to front pastedown. Browning to end pages, else the interior is clean. Remnants of dust jacket included (rear panel, both inner flaps, lacks spine and front panel). 348 pages. LIT/071508. Very Good / Good-. More

New York: The Grolier Club, 2000. Hardcover. Number 207 of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author. This is the catalog for an exhibition held at The Grolier Club of books from the collection of William Butler Yeats scholar, Marion W. Witt, that Gatch expanded and built to include printed works by Yeats's father, brother and sisters. The catalog provides descriptions of all oIf the works exhibited, and has eleven color plates. Bound in gray cloth with tan cloth spine with a white title label. Printed in Founder's Caslon Type on Mohawk Ticonderoga paper at The Stinehour Press. In near fine condition. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. v-vii, 82 pages + unnumbered plates. BOB/122723. Near Fine. More

New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, 1891. Paperback. VERY SCARCE. According to the Dime Novel Bibliography website, Robert Grant (1852-1940) was the author of this novel that was published as part of the Ledger Library series of inexpensive paperbacks published by Robert Bonner's Sons. Wikipedia lists Robert Grant (1852-1940) as an American writer and a jurist who received the first Ph.D. in English granted by Harvard in 1876 and a law degree in 1879. Grant was a prolific novelist who first novel was published in 1880 and last novel was published in 1931. The Carletons is not listed in Wikipedia's partial bibliography, but other facts between the two websites match. At the same time as he wrote, Grant was a probate court judge. He was named by Massachusetts' Governor to serve on an Advisory Committee to review the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti to assess whether the trial had been fair. Obviously, a busy and interesting personage. 8vo. Beige paper wraps with red title and illustration to front wrapper and black title to spine. Minor soiling and browning to wraps as well as minor chipping to edges. Minor browning to edges of pages though text and illustrations remains clean and bright. 309 pages + ads. Literature. LIT/062311. Very Good. More

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 1878. Hardcover. Henry Gréville was the pen name of Alice Marie Céleste Durand (1842-1902), a French writer. She was the daughter of a professor and accompanied him to St. Petersburg, where she studied languages and science. There she married Émile Durand, a French law professor. They returned to France in 1872. Gréville initially published novels in St. Petersburg journals. She continued to write in France, with the novels Dosia (1876) and L'Expiation de Savéli (1876), depicting Russian society. This copy is the English translation of L'Expiation de Savéli, published in the United States in 1878. VERY SCARCE. Small 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and black title to spine. Minor darkening to spine and minor chipping to spine ends. Interior hinges are starting but binding remains very tight. Text is clean and bright. 206 pp.+catalogue and ads at rear. Literature. LIT2/321. Very Good. More

New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1895. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Very good- in green cloth covered boards with gilt title and lovely floral illustrations to front board and gilt title to spine. Soiling and light wear to boards and spine. Bumping to corners and spine ends. Interior is clean and bright with frontis. Crack to rear interior hinge though binding remains tight. spine slightly rolled. 425 pages + ads. Literature. LIT411101. Very Good -. More

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1941. First American Edition, Advance Copy. Paperback. First American Edition, Advance Copy. VERY SCARCE. James Hanley (1897-1985) was a British writer who was from a seafaring family and spent several years at sea himself. Hanley's brother was the novelist Gerald Hanley. Hanley published his first novel, Drift, in 1930, and his novels and short stories before World War II focused on seamen and their families. This included Boy (1931), about a young man who goes to sea and is sexually abused by his fellow sailors. Boy became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was published in its 2nd edition with what was perceived as a sexually provocative cover. The Ocean is a novel from Hanley's days of writing about seafaring. It is the story of the shipwreck of the Aurora, from which one lifeboat got away, with one sailor, 4 passengers, and a dead body on board. The sailor's biggest fear is not the ocean, but the potential loss of nerve of his inexperienced passengers. They fought a battle with endless quiet and "the immensity of the ocean, to which there seemed no end, no beginning." But in the distance loomed hope. How does the story end?

The novel was initially published in England in 1941 by Faber and Faber. This is an advance copy of the first American edition, also published in 1941. The advance copy has the planned dust jacket included over plain paper wraps without the eventual hard cover. The spine is worn and cracked in places and is skewed. There is minor damp-staining to the rear panel of the dust jacket, and some spotting on the rear endpaper. Pages are yellowed but clean and clear. An unusual find. LIT/091124. Very Good / Very Good. More

New York: Carleton, 1873. Hardcover. Marion Harland was the pseudonym used by Mary Virginia Terhune (nee Hawes) who was born in Virginia. She wrote of novels, short stories, biographies, travelogues, cookbooks, and domestic manuals over seven decades. Her early writing was during the period that straddled the Civil War, and this is reflected in her writing. Although she was born in Virginia, she moved with her husband, a minister, to Newark, New Jersey in 1859, and she spent most of the rest on her life in the North. Her first novel, Alone (1854), was privately published when she was twenty-four. Her earlier novels portrayed Virginia as an idyllic place, and its inhabitants as paragons of virtue and conduct, coexisting peacefully in a near utopia. A later novel, Sunnybank (1866), describes the many privations and dangers of wartime Virginia, and begins to explore the conflicts in Southern society at that time. This novel, originally published in 1857, prior to the Civil War and her move to New Jersey, fits into her early outlook. Octavo. In original purple cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Spine faded to brown. Rubbing and bumping to corners, spine ends and hinges. Glue along exterior hinges. Minor rolling to spine. Gift inscription to Front free end page. Fading to edges of purple end pages. Minor yellowing to interior though text remains clean and bright. 450 pages. Literature. LIT2/2262. Good. More

Akron, Ohio: The Superior Printing Co., No Date. Paperback. SCARCE. Very good in illustrated paper wraps with blue title to front wrapper and to spine. Creasing to spine and slight wrinkling at front hinge. Tear to title page where it appears to have adhered to the front wrapper. Browning to pages but nice copy overall. Literature. LIT3/12050. Very Good. More

New York: Knopf, 1926. Hardcover. Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954) was an American writer known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy. He published over a dozen novels and several collections of short stories between 1914 and 1934. 8vo. Blue cloth covered board with gilt title to spine. Minor bumping to edges and slight fading to spine. Slight toning to interior though text is clean and bright. White illustrated dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Minor browning and soiling to dust jacket and a few small chips to the edges. 328 pages. Literature. LIT2/8211. Very Good / Very Good. More

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. Hardcover. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) was an American writer and poet who was also a trained and practicing physician. He was the father of the famed associate justice of the Supreme Court, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Holmes,Sr. was considered one of the fireside poets, along with Longfellow, Whittier, and others. One of his most famous works, "Old Ironsides", spurred the preservation of the USS Constitution. Although primarily known as a poet, Holmes also wrote medical books, essays, novels, and memoirs. This memoir of John Lothrop Motley was written at the request of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Motley (1814-1877) was himself an American author and a diplomat. He is known for his two works on the Netherlands: The Rise of the Dutch Republic and the History of the United Netherlands. He served as US Minister to Austria during the Lincoln administration and is credited with helping to prevent European intervention to support the Confederacy. In his introductory note, Holmes alludes to this memoir as dealing with "controversies that the Society could not feel called to enter." Octavo. Green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Light bumping to spine ends. Previous owner's decorative bookplate to front paste down. Else is clean and bright. Includes frontis with intact tissue guard. Literature. LIT209291. Very Good. More

London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1896. Hardcover. Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921) was an English author and poet best known for writing the A.J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief in Victorian England. The Raffles series has been the subject of film and television adaptations. Hornung was married to the sister of his friend, Arthur Conan Doyle, and was also a friend of Oscar Wilde. For health reasons, he spent two years in Australia as a teen, and this influenced much of his writing. The Rogue's March is about the Australian convict transport system. The title of this book was taken from a convict's letter in which he writes: As for the chain-gangs, you oft-times hear them jingling half-a-mile away and 'tis nigh all the music we get, a kind of Rogue's March, to remind us where we are and why we came." First edition of a scarce early Hornung title. Bound in original tan-yellow cloth with gilt title to spine. Title, author, and flower design in black on front cover. Minor rubbing to boards and small dark stain to spine. A few spots of foxing to first and last few pages, browning to a few interior pages and to fore-edge, else very clean. 431 pages plus several pages of ads. LIT/4103. Very Good. More