![Item #31413 The Clam Shell [Signed and inscribed]. Mary Lee Settle](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First US Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 255,[1]pp. Publisher's price-clipped illustrated dust jacket with author photo to back panel. Boards quarter bound in olive cloth and black paper. Blue endsheets. Jacket generally scuffed and rubbed with spine sunned and margins toned. Spine ends and joint ends..... More
New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 217pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($6.95). Boards quarter bound in black and khaki paper with blind and silver stamping. Jacket toned with bumping, rubbing, and minor creasing at margins as well as minor scuffing and soiling to..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. First UK Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 253pp. Publisher's cream illustrated dust jacket with price intact (£1.75p/35s). Boards full bound in magenta cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Red endsheets. Dust jacket toned, creased, and lightly torn at margins with bumping to extremities. Spine sunned and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 289pp. Lacking dust jacket. Boards full bound in burnt orange cloth with black stamping. Fore-edge deckled. Generally dust soiled, rubbed, bumped, scuffed with corners and spine ends worn. Spine creased, scratched, and sunned and binding cocked but firm. Page..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 352pp. Fourteen (14) plates present at text block middle. Lacking dust jacket. Boards full bound in black cloth with gilt stamping. Generally scuffed, rubbed, and dust soiled, with wear at corners and spine ends. Spine gilt lightly rubbed away..... More
Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc./ Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. First US Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 308pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in black cloth with red stamping. Generally dust soiled, lightly scuffed, bumped and rubbed at extremities. Page edges lightly soiled, scratched, and toned. Minor foxing..... More
New York: Random House, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo. 768 pp. Illustrated second-state dust jacket price-clipped and lacking "Reichl" to front. Cream colored cloth stamped in red and black with dark brown topstain. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with a few closed tears and mild smudging..... More
New York: William Drentell, 1995. Limited First Edition, numbered 47 of 100 on colophon at rear. 12mo (18cm); [ii],71pp. Publisher's orange cloth with white spine label. Boards are bright and sharp. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Craig Kinosian's translation of Bernhard's 1978 Der Stimmenimitator. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 275pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in oatmeal cloth with red stamping. Boards foxed and dust soiled with bumping to spine ends and corners. Erased pencil to first free endsheet and minor toning to pages..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 308pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in teal cloth with navy stamping and Red Badge Detective illustrated endsheets. Fore-edge deckled. Board corners and spine ends rubbed and bumped; dust soiled with brief pencil to front cover. Minor..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 260pp. No dust jacket. Red cloth bound boards with black stamping. Minor scratches, dust soiling and bumping to corners and spine ends. Edges and pages lightly toned. Foxing to endsheets. A Very Good or better copy of this..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 192pp. Boards full bound in orange cloth with black stamping to spine inside publisher's cream dust jacket with price intact (10/6). Toning, scuffing, bumping, and creasing to dust jacket. Board corners and spine ends bumped and boards bowing up at..... More
New York: Willam Morrow and Company, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 284pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in burgundy cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Fore-edge deckled. Generally dust soiled and bumped at all extremities with scratches with damp staining and water rings from the book's second life..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. First US Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 304pp. Publisher's black cloth-bound boards with red stamping in publisher's salmon illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket generally dust soiled, chipped, rubbed, and worn with all corners clipped. Spine darkened and ends show minor loss. Abrasion to top..... More
London: Mandrake Press, 1929. First Mandrake Edition Limited to 550 copies of which this is no. 265. Large quarto (29cm.); publisher's limp green gilt-embossed pictorial parchment, all edges gilt; xlix,[1],160pp.; twenty (20) leaves of full-color plates (collated complete), additional color vignettes at the head of each chapter. Parchment rather soiled..... More
![Item #31357 Mila 18 [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Leon Uris](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31357.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733159030)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1961. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],539pp. Moderate wear and light chipping to jacket margins, spine panel darkened with closed tear at crown slightly touching text, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ex libris to front pastedown, else..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 95 pages. Printed dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket worn along edges with mild creasing and a few short tears with neat repairs to verso; general smudging. Boards bowed along fore-edge; edgeworn. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Still..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1943]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket retaining original price, illustrated endpapers; 207pp.; illus. by the author throughout. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including tiny chips at spine crown briefly touching text, cloth a bit rubbed and corners bumped, contemporary ownership signature..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial green cloth; [10],308pp. Corners and spine ends bumped and lightly scuffed, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good and sound copy, albeit lacking the rare dust jacket. Locked room (well, hotel) detective novel featuring five..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth stamped in dark blue, decorative endpapers; [6],254pp. Boards a bit soiled and scuffed at margins, spine significantly toned, bottom textblock edge damp stained, textblock uniformly toned; a Good to Very Good copy overall of one of..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies signed by Curry at colophon, of which this is no. 559. Octavo; publisher's full blind-embossed sheep, gilt-lettered spine, all edges stained brown, in original cork-patterned paper-covered slipcase; xiii,[1],170pp.; two-toned frontispiece, nineteen (19) plates, most double-paged. Very light wear..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1954]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black dust jacket retaining original price ($5.00); vii,[1],281pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins with small chips at spine ends not quite touching text, corners bumped, else a Very Good, sound copy. Scarce first edition of the American..... More
New York: Arbor House, 1987. First Trade Edition. Signed by Samuel Delany with a brief inscription, though with a different pen, to previous owner at half title. Octavo. 310 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth over blue paper-covered boards with spine stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly worn and..... More
London: Headline, 1996. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 249pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact (£16.99). Boards full bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Dust jacket lightly scratched, rubbed, and bumped with creasing to margins. Board corners mostly sharp with minor bumping to spine ends and..... More
London: Headline, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 249pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact (£16.99). Boards full bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and bumped with toning to top margin. Board corners sharp with minor bumping to spine ends and toning..... More