Authors starting with A from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

London: Macmillan, 1932. First Edition. A little foxed; near fine in dust jacket. ... more information

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980. First Edition. Owner’s signature on the front free endpaper; near fine in dust jacket. Basis for the Spielberg film of the same title. The “accomplishments” of this forger and con man seem so modest, perhaps naive, in this era of Madoff and big financial bailouts. ... more information

Ithaca, New York: privately printed, 1941. First Edition, thus. One of 275 numbered and signed copies. The prospectus and a typed letter submitting the book to Publisher’s Weekly, signed by the artist, are tipped in at the colophon page. Bookplate; near fine. With: The City of Carcassoone by Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. Wood Engravings by Elfriede Abbe. Manchester Center, Vermont: privately printed, 1988. First Edition, thus. One of 99 numbered copies signed by the artist. Near fine. With: History of ... more information

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1954. First Edition of the author’s first book. A fine copy in a dust jacket with minute wear and very slight spine fading. ... more information

First Edition. Original wrappers. One of only fifty large paper copies. Near fine. ... more information

First Edition. Original wrappers. Near fine; inscribed to Nathan Bengis by the Borough Librarian of Marylebone; a letter regarding the exhibition to Bengis is laid in. ... more information

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with two small pieces of tape inside the top of the spine. ... more information

New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. First Edition. Near fine in a very good, chipped dust jacket. ... more information

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1939. First Edition. Publisher’s dark blue cloth; a very good plus copy in a very good minus dust jacket with some chips, tears, and splitting along the flap folds. ... more information

New York: Appleton, 1910. First Edition. The copyright indicates 1909 and also notes that it was published in December, 1909, but it appears that 1910 is correct regarding its publication. Furthermore, the end of the printed text indicates a first printing. Partially unopened; small number label inside the front cover; a little bumped; near fine. ... more information

New York: Longmans, Green, 1928. First Edition. Some cover spotting; very good in dust jacket. Inscribed by Abbott in 1928. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Near fine in a lightly used dust jacket. ... more information

Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1836. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; contemporary inscription; minor foxing; very good. ... more information

New York: Morrow, 1963. First American Edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. A thriller, like the later and more successful The Day of the Jackal, based on a plot to kill De Gaulle. ... more information

Los Angeles: Arthur Whipple, 1935. First Edition. One of 350 copies. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author; fine in dust jacket. ... more information

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1949. First Edition; spiral bound wrappers; edge wear; minor spotting; wrappers detached. Signed by Adams. His photographs are exceptionally well reproduced in this publication. ... more information

No place of publication. Two framed modern chromolithographs reproducing Adams’s famous golfing scenes, “A Difficult Bunker,” and “The Putting Green.” Plate lines 17.5” x 25,” each professionally matted, framed and glazed. Some staining to “A Difficult Bunker,” otherwise very good with occasional frame wear. ... more information

New York: Harmony Books, 1980-1992. First American Editions of the so-called “trilogy,” which comprised five books; the above; The Restaurant at the end of the Universe; Life, The Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless. All five are in fine or very near fine condition in dust jackets, and each is signed by the author. ... more information

New York: Doubleday, Page, 1905. First Edition. Illustrated by A.B. Frost. Back hinge cracked; very good. ... more information

New York: Crown, 1957. First Edition. Very good in a price-clipped dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author to Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Kovacs, “To Eadie [sic] & Ernie- my pretty sister & comic-in-law- with love & kisses, Pal Joey.” ... more information