Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., [1919]. Gray boards, stamped in pale yellow. Frontis and plate. Edges a bit dust-dimmed, otherwise near fine in good, rather chipped, internally mended, stained and worn dust jacket. Later impression of the original edition. "A patriotic midwestern editor fights corrupt business men and politicians as well.....
Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, [ 1973]. Gilt cloth. Fine in faintly edgeworn dust jacket with small nick. First edition of this novel which examines Amish life from a distinctly critical view. It has been suggested that efforts were made to suppress this work after its publication.
New York: Macmillan, 1949. Cloth. Pictorial map endsheets. First edition. 1949 gift inscription at top edge of free endsheet, otherwise a very good copy, in good, but substantially edgeworn and chipped dust jacket.
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1909. Cherry red cloth, elaborately decorated in silver, with color pictorial only on upper cover. Frontis and plates by Harvey T. Dunn. Small Oregon stationary store ticket on front pastedown, spine slightly cocked, some foxing to endsheets, otherwise a very good, bright copy.....
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1909. Cherry red cloth, elaborately decorated in silver, with color pictorial only on upper cover. Frontis and plates by Harvey T. Dunn. Spine slightly cocked and sunned, ownership date and initials on front free endsheet, some patches of mild soiling to cloth; a......
New York: Knopf, 1947. Thick octavo. Gilt cloth. Portrait. First edition of the first volume of Beer's collected stories, edited by Wilson Follett. A trace musty smelling, otherwise very good or better in dust jacket.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. Decorated cloth. Slight darkening along top edge, otherwise very good or better in spine- sunned dust jacket. First edition. "Sardonic sketches of rural life in Ohio, New York and New England" - Hanna. Dedicated to Aline Bernstein.
New York: Knopf, 1928. Large octavo. Polished blue buckram, stamped in silver-gilt. Spine and top edges faded, cloth a bit marked and rubbed, but a good copy, without slipcase. First edition, limited issue. One of two hundred and ten numbered copies printed on rag paper and signed by the author.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Large octavo. Deep bluish-purple vellum over boards, gilt extra, edges untrimmed. Spine inevitably faded, a couple of pencil erasures in corners of endsheet and pastedown, but a very good copy, in artlessly mended slipcase. First edition, limited issue. Copy #38 of 55 numbered copies.....
New York: Vanguard Press, [ 1944]. Cloth. Faint darkening to spine and endsheets, edges a bit dusty marked, otherwise a very good copy, in corner-worn, somewhat rubbed dust jacket with shallow chips at head and toe of spine, a tiny chip at the lower edge of the front panel, and.....
New York: Holt, 1921. Black cloth, stamped in orange. Very good, without dust jacket. First edition of the poet's first novel, "a semi-autobiographical account of the education of a poet, in California and at Yale" - Hanna.
New York: Holt, 1922. Cloth. Frontis and plates. Bookplate, spine extremities worn, else good. First edition of the poet's second novel. Inscribed and signed by the author. "Two young love affairs are nearly wrecked by mistaken pride, wile an old man swallows his to retain his mistress" - Hanna...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937. Gilt cloth. Endsheet gutters slightly darkened, else very nice in lightly soiled dust jacket with minor inner mend at crown of spine. First edition. The special advance issue of the author's first book, in the plain typographic jacket sporting a long blurb by Sinclair.....
New York: Harpers, [1949]. Cloth. Endleaves faintly tanned, but a very good copy in good dust jacket with several small chips and internally mended tears. First edition of the author's first novel, set in the context of the periodical publishing industry.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1944]. Gilt cloth. Fine, in near very good pictorial dust jacket with some short edge tears, a couple with internal mends. First edition of the author's first book, a fictional treatment of an acquaintance gone mad, coupled with a messianic compulsion.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [later than 1927]. Printed cloth. Dusty on all edges, former owner's name on front free endsheet, splashmark on fore-edge, else very good in faintly damp-stained pictorial dust jacket. Grosset & Dunlap reprint, utilizing the` 1927 Doubleday plates. "A Kentucky mountaineer returns from Harvard law school.....
New York: Knopf, 1947. Cloth. First edition. Ink name on endsheet, else a fine copy in good, slightly shelfworn dust jacket with internal mend at crown of spine.
New York: The Viking Press, 1935. Red cloth, paper label. Fine copy in slightly darkened slipcase. First edition. One of 1475 numbered copies (the entire edition). "Exploits of a traveling revivalist in a small Georgia town" - Hanna.
New York: The Viking Press, 1935. Red cloth, paper label. About fine copy, in a fair, darkened, chipped and soiled slipcase. First edition. One of 1475 numbered copies (the entire edition). "Exploits of a traveling revivalist in a small Georgia town" - Hanna.
New York: Viking, 1935. Cloth, leather label, t.e.g. Usual tanning at endsheet gutters, bookplate on pastedown, but otherwise a fine copy, in edgeworn slipcase with surface losses to one corner and rear panel. First edition, limited issue. One of three hundred numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by.....
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [ 1949]. Cloth. First edition. Tips rubbed, else very good in a good, shelfworn and lightly chipped price-clipped, dust jacket with a short internal mend.
New York: Macmillan, 1935. Cloth, with pictorial onlay. First edition, signed (as quite often) on the free endsheet by the author. Transparent, but persistent, tidemark in the gutters of the text block, very faint corresponding signs of damp along spine and adjacent areas, still a sound copy in spine-sunned, lightly.....
New York: Macmillan, 1933. Decorated cloth. Pastedowns tanned, as often, but a very good or better copy in price- clipped pictorial dust jacket (by Vera Block) with three minute chips at tips. First edition. A fictional depiction of the tension between farm life and the attraction of city life in.....
New York: Crown, [1964]. Cloth. Binding slightly faded through jacket, otherwise near fine in like dust jacket. First edition of this novel treating the disruption inflicted on the segregationist psyche after chemistry allows elective blurring of the color lines.
Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1967. viii,232pp. Large octavo. Cloth. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. Near fine in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. An essential reference and fine reading list.
