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The Accidental Bookseller
Specializing in Uncommon Copies of Interesting Books
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Sherwood, Robert E. There Shall Be No Night
$300.00
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940. First edition with Scribner’s “A”. Â Winner of 1941 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a play about Finland’s invasion by the Soviet Union.
A signed presentation copy inscribed “from Madeline’s husband” to Gwendola Hurlock, sister of the book’s dedicatee and Sherwood’s wife, Madeline Hurlock, a silent film actress.  Dated December, 1940.
Spine leaning, tanning to front and rear gutters, brief marks to the rear board — a solid very good or better copy in a very good rubbed dust wrapper with a few small, shallow chips.
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Hugely influential SF novel, 1st edition
Miller, Walter M, Jr A Canticle for Leibowitz
$1,994.16 *
* estimated currency conversionVG-/VG- 1st print 1st ed 1959 Lippincott hardback, price-clipped DJ in mylar. Some tape residue marks to corners of fly-leaf and rear end-paper due to previous jacket protection, small tear to top front corner of jacket spine with a little edge-wear to jacket, a little darkening to inside jacket spine, very scarce to find a first printing in this condition otherwise. One of our ‘Indispensables’ catalogue.
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Signed first edition of Anderson’s second novel
Anderson, Sherwood Marching Men
$200.00John Lane Company, New York, 1917. First Edition. Author’s second novel. Signed by the author without inscription to the half-title. From the library of noted Delaware book collector John Stuart Groves with his small leather bookplate on the front paste down. Ghost mark from bookplate to front free endpaper, Gotham Book Mart label rear pastedown. Gilt spine title a little dulled; spine slightly faded, tiny snag to top spine, spine and rear cover a little marked. A pleasingly well preserved, tight, and attractive copy. Very good indeed in facsimile dust wrapper.
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
Evelyn Waugh A Handful of Dust
$200.00Under The Covers Antique And Vintage Books
New York; Farrar & Rinehart, [1934]. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING WITH LOGO ON COPYRIGHT PAGE. 8vo. Very good. Hardcover. Lacks dust jacket. Orange cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Fading to spine. Bumping to spine ends and corners. Inscription to previous owner on front free end paper. Light foxing and browning to end pages. Binding is tight. 308 pages.
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Signed first edition of Toomer's Essentials
Toomer, Jean Essentials
$1,200.00Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1931. First edition. Edition limited to a thousand copies, this one numbered 254 and signed by Toomer; Additionally inscribed ‘from Jean & Marjory … Christmas 1951″, assumed in Toomer’s hand; 64 pages plus a foreword. Item #21698 Cloth bound in near very good condition; A couple small stains to cover label and light stain to top 1/8″ inch of pages.
Offered for Sale by: By The Way Books
