Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection

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LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Elmer Gantry. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in orange; original dust j...

LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Dodsworth. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929.8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in orange; original dust jack...

[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)]. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln...Expressions of Condolence and Sympathy Inspired by These Events. Washington...

[LITERATURE - 20th CENTURY]. A group of 4 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising: CONNELL, Evan S. Jr. Mr. Bridge. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. -- NICHOLS...

[LITERATURE - 20th CENTURY]. A group of 5 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising: MCGUANE, Thomas. Ninety-Two in the Shade. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux...

[LITERATURE - 20th CENTURY]. A group of 5 works, comprising:BUTLER, Robert Olen. The Alleys of Eden. New York: Horizon Press, 1981. FIRST EDITION....

[LITEARTURE - AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS]. A group of 5 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:BUTLER, Robert Olen. Sun Dogs. New York: Horizon Press, 1982. FIRST ...

[LITERATURE - CONTEMPORARY]. A group of 5 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising: SETH, Vikram. An Equal Music. Wigston, Leicestershire: Stribling Press, 1999...

[LITERATURE - FANTASY]. A group of 4 works, comprising:TOLKIEN, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. 3 ...

[LITERATURE IN FILM]. A group of 4 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising: KESSELRING, Joseph. Arsenic and Old Lace. New York: Random House, 1941. FIRST EDITI...

[LITERATURE IN FILM]. A group of 5 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:HERLIHY, James Leo. Midnight Cowboy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965. FIRST EDITION...

LIVINGSTONE, David (1813-1873). Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857.8vo (212 x 135 mm). With folding hand...

MAILER, Norman (1923-2007). Marilyn. A Biography. [New York]: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1973.4to. Illustrated with color and black-and-white reprodu...

[MAILER, Norman (1923-2007)]. A group of 5 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising: Barbary Shore. London: Jonathan Cape. 1952. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SIGNED B...

[MAILER, Norman (1923-2007)]. A group of 4 FIRST EDITIONS by Mailer, comprising: Barbary Shore. New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Co., Inc, 1951. D...

[MAILER, Norman (1923-2007)]. A group of 5 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising: The Naked and the Dead. New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1...

MANN, Thomas (1875-1955). Buddenbrooks. Berlin: S. Fischer, [1919]. 2 vols, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and title-page (minor spotting on a few lea...

MCMURTRY, Larry (b. 1936). Terms of Endearment. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.8vo. Original brown cloth-backed boards (bottom edge of boards ...

MCMURTRY, Larry (b. 1936). A group of FIRST EDITIIONS by McMurtry, comprising:Horseman Pass By. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. -- Leaving Chey...

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891).  Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynes...

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. London: John Murray, 1847.8vo. Frontispiece map. (Lacking 16pp. p...

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847.8vo. Half-title printed in red,...

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Redburn: His First Voyage. New York: Harper, 1849.8vo. (Some spotting throughout.) Original publisher's purple cloth...

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). White Jacket; or the World in a Man-of-War. New York: Harper, 1850.8vo. 6pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Som...

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick; or, the Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851.8vo. 6pp. publisher's advertisements at end. (Some spott...

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Pierre; or, the Ambiguities. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852.8vo. (Some spotting, mostly marginal dampstain to sev...

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1855.8vo. (A few pale stains.) 20th-century half blu...

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). The Piazza Tales. New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856.12mo.  7pp. publisher's advertisements at end. 20th-century leather ...

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866.8vo. (Some light chipping or short marginal ...

[MORRISON, Toni (1931-2019).] A Group of 3 FIRST EDITIONS SIGNED BY MORRISON, comprising:Tar Baby. 1981. -- Beloved. 1987. -- Jazz. 1992. -- Toget...

NABOKOV, Vladimir (1899-1977). Lolita. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955.2 volumes, 8vo. Original green printed wrappers (extremities lightly rubbed,...

[NATURAL HISTORY & TRAVEL]. A group of 5 works, comprising: LYTTON, Edward George Earle Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton. Last Days of Pompeii. London: Ri...

NORRIS, Frank (1870-1902). McTeague: A Story of San Francisco. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. 8vo (195 x 130mm). Original publisher's re...

O'BRIEN, Tim (b. 1946). Northern Lights. London: Marion Boyars, 1975. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver on spine; original...

O'CONNOR, Flannery (1925-1964). Wise Blood. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952. 8vo. Original yellow cloth; original dust jacket (price-clipped, a fe...

O'NEILL, Eugene (1888-1953). Strange Interlude. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928.4to. Original publisher's vellum leather lettering-piece gilt, un...

[ORWELL, George (1903-1950) - AMERICAN EDITIONS]. A group of 3 works, comprising: Animal Farm. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. FIRST ...

[PHOTOBOOK]. FEINSTEIN, Barry (1931-2011). Real Moments: Bob Dylan. Surrey: Genesis Publications Ltd., 2009.4to. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT of Bo...

[PHOTOBOOKS]. LEIBOVITZ, Annie (b. 1949). A group of 3 works by Leibovitz, comprising: Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990. New York: Harper Collins, 1991. ...

[PHOTOBOOKS]. MANN, Sally (b. 1951).  At Twelve. Portraits of Young Women. New York: Aperture, 1988.Folio. Numerous photographic reproductions. Or...

[PHOTOBOOKS & ARTISTS' BOOKS]. A group of 7 photobooks and artists' books, comprising:  BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret and Sean Callahan, editor. The Phot...

[POLITICS - WORLD LEADERS]. A group of 3 works, comprising:TUTU, Desmond. The Rainbow People of God. The Making of a Peaceful Revolution. New York...

PUZO, Mario (1920-1999). The Godfather. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.8vo. Original gilt-decorated two-toned cloth; dust jacket (some very mi...

PYNCHON, Thomas (b. 1937). V. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1963.8vo. Half-title. Original printed wrappers, top edge stained blue ...

PYNCHON, Thomas (b. 1937). V. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1963.8vo. Half-title. Original publisher's blind- and silver-stamped la...

PYNCHON, Thomas (b. 1937). The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966.8vo. Original yellow cloth-backed gray p...

RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953). The Yearling. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.8vo. Numerous illustrations by Edward Shenton. Origin...

ROBBINS, Tom (b. 1932). Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.8vo. Cloth-backed blue cloth stamped in blue, top edge...

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. New York: Scholastic Press, 2000. 8vo. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth gilt, illustrat...

ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. New York: Scholastic, 2002. Later American edition, with number sequence starting with 60 o...

SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.8vo. Original black cloth; original presumed first is...

SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). Franny and Zooey. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961.8vo. Original cloth (minor spotting to sheet edges); origin...

SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771-1832). Ivanhoe. Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Co. and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820.3 volumes, 8vo (182 x 115 m...

SILLITOE, Alan (1928-2010). Saturday Night & Sunday Morning. London: W. H. Allen, 1958.8vo. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; original pict...

STANLEY, Henry Morton, Sir (1841-1904). In Darkest Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.2 volumes, 8vo (220 x 146 mm). Portrait frontis...

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Cup of Gold. New York: McBride, 1929.8vo. Original yellow cloth lettered in black (endpapers renewed, spine slightly ...

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). The Pastures of Heaven. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. 8vo. Original publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth,...

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). To A God Unknown. New York: Robert Ballou, 1933.8vo. Original green cloth gilt-lettered on spine (spine slightly lean...

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici-Friede, 1935. 8vo. Illustrated by Ruth Gannett. Original pictorial wrappers by Ruth G...

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici-Friede, 1936.8vo. Original orange cloth printed in black and red, top edge staine...

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