Signed and Limited Edition Fiction

Wright, Richard. Black Boy. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Blue cloth in dust-jacket; small chip from upper edge of front panel. First edition, inscribed by Wright on front endpaper. — Sackville-West, Victoria. Constantinople Eight Poems. London: The Complete Press, 1915. Printed wrappers, worn. First edition, author presentation dated May, 1915, with ANS signed Vita Nicholson laid in. — Porter, Katherine Anne. Flowering Judas. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1930. Cloth-backed boards with printed yellow blurb band. First Edition, 1 of 600 copies. — Miller, Arthur. After the Fall. New York: Viking, 1964. Tan buckram with glassine jacket and card slipcase. First Edition, 1 of 500 copies signed by Miller. — Mann, Thomas. The Beloved Returns. New York: Knopf, 1940. Cloth-backed boards in printed cream jacket and gray card slipcase; fading to jacket and case. First Edition. 31 of 385 copies signed by Mann. — A sketch of My Life. Paris: Harrison, 1930. Gilt vellum-backed brown boards in gray jacket and gray card slipcase; minor wear to case. XXXI of 75 copies on Japan Vellum signed by Mann. — Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. 2 vols. Cloth-backed boards in blue card slipcase; slipcase worn. 722 of 795 copies signed by Dreiser.



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