[Rarebooks] FS: 13 Books GREATLY DISCOUNTED

[Allington Books]

Greetings to All.
Subject to the terms set forth below, today and tomorrow we offer the 13
below-described works at substantial  discounts:
Dreiser, Theodore
The Financier

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Very Good to Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing, of
Theodore Dreiser great novel, his third book and being the first book in
his famed Trilogy of Desire ("The Financier", "The Titan", and "The
Stoic"). The binding shows rubbing to the bottom corners, some scattered
spotting and the spine shows some light sunning and a tiny surface tear to
the bottom right edge -- a better copy than we usually see. Very good +.
Item #2666

Available for $40.00


Powers, Richard
Prisoner's Dilemma

New York: Beech Tree Books / William Morrow, 2008. First Edition, First
Printing. Hardcover. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (tiny
push to each lower edge of the spine tail -- slight toning to the leaves as
is common with this book) in a Fine dust jacket, of Richard Power's second
novel, the story of a dysfunctional family living in DeKalb County,
Illinois confronting a family crises. Interestingly, DeKalb county is where
barbed wire in its modern form was invented. A Fine copy. Fine / fine

Available for $25


Miller, Joaquin [Miller, Cincinnatus Heine]
Shadows of Shasta

Chicago: Jansen McClurg & Company, 1881. First Edition, First
Printing.Hardcover.
A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's
original green cloth (some rubbing to the spine ends and board corners,
faint splash mark to the front board seen when held at an angle to the
light) with a prior owner's signature and contemporary date of "4.20.1881"
to the title page's upper margin; a work in which Miller excoriated whites
for their treatment of Indians. A Very Good + copy and a better copy than
we typically see. Near fine.

Available for $20


Parker, Robert B.
Introduction to Raymond Chandler's Unknown Thriller: THE SCREENPLAY OF
PLAYBACK

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers.
A Fine copy of Raymond Chandler's Introduction to Raymond Chandler's
Screenplay for Playback, in the Publisher's original lettered wrappers, a
quite slim volume published only for copyright purposes only and not for
general distribution. The movie never was made and Chandler used the movie
title and the main character for a novel which was otherwise quite
different from the screenplay. As this Introdution was issued solely for
copyright purposes, few copies would have been issued. Consequently, copies
are EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Fine.

Available for $20.00


Hillebrand, Rudolph Eberhard; Shkurkin,Vladimir Pavolich [prior owner]
Evangelische Kirchen und Pffarhauser [Protestant Churches and Parsonages
[Signed]

Dresden: Verlag von Gerhard Kuhtmann, 1909. First Edition, First
Printing.Individual
sheets in original case. A Very Good to Very Good + copy of this
documentation of German Churches, housed in the original Publisher's large
portfolio case (with spotting, marking, and general wear to the case),
INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED by Hillebrand as follows: "Seinem verehrten
Freunde herrn Superintendent Vusted Z.T.F. Der Verfasser 12.4.19" [written
by the author / architect in Sutterlin-style which was created by the
Berlin graphic artist L. Sutterlin (1865-1917), who modeled it on the style
of handwriting used the old German Chancery. This style of writing was
taught in German Schools from 1915 to 1941.] Translated to English, the
inscription reads as follows: "His honoured friend mister Superintendent
Vusted Z.T.F. the author 12.4.19". Rudolph Eberhard Hillebrand (1840 -
1924) was a noted German architect, contractor, lecturer in architecture,
educator, city planner and building inspector. This portfolio, measuring
approximately 18" tall x 13" wide, and 1 inch thick (approximately 45.7 x
33 x 2.54 centimeters), contains a section of introductory text and an
index to the illustrations, followed by 60 individual sheets (each
measuring approximately 17" x 12.5 ") presenting photographic plates and
architectural illustrations of Churches in Germany and their components,
each in Very Good or better condition with some foxing to the outer margin
edge. This copy came from the Estate of Russian landscape painter and
muralist Vladimir Pavolich Shkurkin and bears his name stamp to the top of
the title page as well as his bookplate to verso of the case's front panel.
A nice set, having an EXCELLENT PROVENANCE, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUDOLPH
EBERHARD HILLEBRAND. QUITE SCARCE INDEED. [PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy
item and Buyer's shipping cost may exceed that quoted by this site.]. Very
good. Item #2653
Available for $125

Koltanowski, G. [Koltanowski, George]
En Passant: Chess Games and Studies [SIGNED]

Edinburgh: Printed by Morrison and Gibb, 1937. First Edition. Wrappers. A
Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's
original wrappers (some general signs of use and scattered foxing, some
well-done repairs to the spine), in a Very Good + dust jacket (some
well-done repairs, primarily to the spine panel and to the front and rear
panel corners), SIGNED BY G. KOLTANOWSKI on the half-title and there dated
by him "0/2/1938:", the year following publication. George Koltanowski was
a Belgian-born expert player of chess who was Belgian Chess Champion in
1923, 1927, 1930, and 1936 and became Belgium's best chess player, an
International Master and an honorary Grandmaster. An active promoter of
chess, he toured often in order to give exhibitions of simultaneous play,
often playing blindfolded and, survived the Holocaust because he was on a
chess tour -- and was in Guatemala -- when World War II broke out. In 1940,
after seeing Koltanowski giving an exhibition in Cuba, the United States
Consul determined to grant him an American Visa. Prior to that, in
Edinburgh on September 20, 1937 (the place and year of the publication of
this book), Koltanowski set the world's blindfold chess record by playing
34 games simultaneously while blindfolded -- a feat which brought him
worldwide fame. In 1960, he set another record by playing 56 consecutive
blindfold games at ten seconds per move. In short, it was Koltanowski's
love for chess, and his love for giving entertaining exhibitions of it in
order to promote the game, that saved his life. Copies of the book are
quite uncommon to the market, copies in the original dust jacket are
especially difficult to find, copies signed by Koltanowski are quite
scarce, and copies of the book both in the dust jacket and signed by
Koltanowski are as scarce as hen's teeth. AN EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE COPY IN THE
DUST JACKET AND SIGNED BY G. KOLTANOWSKI. Very good / very good +. Item #928
Available for $65
July, Miranda
No One Belongs Here More Than You [Advance Uncorrected Proof -- All Three
Excerpts, Complete with the Band]

New York: Scribner, 2007. First Edition. Wrappers. A Fine Scarce gathering
of the three Advance Uncorrected Proofs, each containing Excerpts from
Miranda July's "No One Belongs Here More Than You" wearing the Publisher's
original labeled rubber band; a collection of short stories by the American
film director, screenwriter, singer, actress, author and artist. The story
collection won the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, an
international literary award presented for the best short story collection
presented between 2005 and 2015. (O'Connor was an Irish writer known for
his mastery of the short story.) Other winners include Yiyun Li (2005),
Haruki Murakami (2006), Jhumpa Lahiri (2007), Jhumpa Lahiri (2011), and
Nathan Englander (2012). Each Excerpt is in bound in a color different from
the others. The book itself was published in multiple colors. Copies of
this Advance Uncorrected Proof in three parts are scarce, and are
exceedingly so when wrapped together in the Publisher's original lettered
rubber band. SCARCE INDEED. Fine. Item #2664
Available for $30

O'Nan, Stewart
In the Walled City [Signed Review Copy of Debut Book]

Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. First Edition,
First Printing. Hardcover. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing
(mildly askew, slight fray to the front board's upper right corner), in a
Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY STEWART O'NAN on the title page; a REVIEW COPY
of O'Nan's DEBUT BOOK (and -- as of the writing of this description -- his
only published collection of short stories) with the Publisher's publicity
letter and slip loosely laid in. The collection won the 1993 Drue Heinz
Literature Prize (a major American literary award for short fiction in the
English language which, in 1993, Tobias Wolff was the Senior Judge on the
panel which selected O'Nan as the Prize winner). Among other tales, "In the
Walled City" contains "Finding Amy", a short story which gave birth to
O'Nan's debut novel "Snow Angels", a work which provided the basis for the
2007 movie of the same name starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale. A
Fine REVIEW COPY, SIGNED BY STEWART O'NAN with the PUBLISHER'S MATERIALS
LOOSELY LAID IN. Fine / fine. Item #1025

Available for $30


Pynchon, Thomas
Mason & Dixon

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987. First Edition, First
Printing.Hardcover.
A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (a gap between the
spine and the page block caused by the page block's heaviness, a bit of
shelf soil to the closed page block's bottom leading edge), in a Fine dust
jacket covered with a Near Fine clear overjacket with the author's name and
the book's title thereon in black; Pynchon's fifth novel, a fictional
account of a collaboration between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in
astronomical and surveying exploits in Cape Colony (a British Colony also
known as "The Cape of Good Hope), Saint Helena (one of the world's most
remote islands), Great Britain, and in the United States along the
Mason-Dixon line (a line surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to
resolve a border dispute involving the British colonies of Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and Delaware) just prior to the beginning of America's
Revolutionary War, a line that has come to represent the border between the
North and the South in the United States. Writing in the New York Times,
Michiko Kakutani described the book as Pynchon's "most emotional and
affecting work in his oeuvre to date" and describes the work as "a
rollicking picaresque tale, filled with songs, jokes, aphorisms and bad
puns, a story populated by talking clocks, petulant automatons, oracles,
ghosts, golems and a giant cheese, as well as a populous cast of humans
with odd, Pynchonesque names." A Near Fine copy. Near fine / fine. Item
#2667

Available for $30


Eliot, T. S.
East Coker

London: Faber and Faber, 1940. First Edition, Second Impression. Wrappers.
A Very Good copy of the first Faber edition, second impression in the
Publisher's original stapled wrappers, a poem which later appeared in
Eliot's "The Four Quartets". T. S. Eliot won the 1948 Nobel Prize in
Literature. A Very Good copy. Very good. Item #2678

Available for $35


Williams, Terry Tempest; Brycelea, Clifford [Illustrations]
Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First Edition, First
Printing.Hardcover.
A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, a
collection of Navajo stories, the author's DEBUT SOLO BOOK, a work which
introduces its readers to the Navajo culture. Of the book, Williams stated:
she was asking the question, “What stories do we tell that evoke a sense of
place?” A Fine copy. Fine / fine. Item #2652

Available for $22


Eliot, T. S.
The Dry Salvages

London: Faber and Faber, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. A
Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's
original stapled wrappers (short split to spine above the top staple), a
poem which later appeared in Eliot's "The Four Quartets". T. S. Eliot won
the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. A Very Good copy. Very good. Item #2676

Available for $20


Eliot, T. S.
Little Gidding

London: Faber and Faber, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. A
Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's
original stapled wrappers, a poem which later appeared in Eliot's "The Four
Quartets". T. S. Eliot won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature. A Very Good
copy. Very good. Item #2677

Available for $20
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