Collection: 20th Century Literature

108 Items
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four
    New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1949 First American edition, published only five days after the British edition. First printing. A fine copy, appearing unread....
  • Pebble in the Sky
    New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950 First edition. First printing. A near fine copy, only with the slightest foxing to the top edge of the outer...
  • Photographs of the Southwest
    Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976 First edition, first printing. A presentation copy with remarkable association, inscribed on the title page to the acclaimed photographer,...
  • Player Piano
    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. First Printing. A fine, crisp copy. In an all but fine, unclipped dust jacket, with only the...
  • Revolt in 2100
    Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1954 First edition. Second printing. A near fine copy but for some wear to the bottom edges of the boards. In a...
  • S is for Space
    New York: Doubleday, 1966 First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. The slightest trace of offsetting to the first free endpaper, otherwise...
  • Smiley’s People
    London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980 First edition.  A fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket, with a crease along front flap and...
  • Stuart Little
    New York, Harper & Brothers, 1945 First edition. First printing, with “10-5,” and “I-U” on the copyright page. A near fine copy just with a...
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
    New York: W.W Norton & Company, 1985 First edition. First printing. In the unclipped first issue dust jacket with two reviews on the rear panel....
  • The Affluent Society
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1958 First edition. First printing. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper: “For C … L. Pawlowski / with...
  • The Beach Boys
    London:  Phoebus, 1978 9 x 12. First edition, later printing. A fine copy in the bright dust jacket. Signed by Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Al...
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities
    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987 First edition. First printing. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper. A fine copy in a...
  • The Bourne Identity
    New York: Richard Marek, 1980 First edition. First printing. Signed by the author on the first free endpaper. A fine copy, in a near fine,...
  • The Cat’s Pajamas
    New York: Harper Collins, 2004 First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 
  • The Da Vinci Code
    New York: Doubleday, 2003 First edition, first printing. A very good + copy. Very slight wear to the boards with a faint ring mark at...
  • The Devil Finds Work
    New York: Dial Press, 1976 First edition. First printing. A little toning only to the dust jacket verso, otherwise a fine copy. An examination of...