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A beautiful hardcover edition in very good condition. Boards are clean throughout — navy blue leatherette to the spine and back with a grey coated front board bearing a gold "MT" monogram in script, and a red spine label with gilt lettering and decorative gilt scrollwork. Pages are clean and unmarked with deckle edges throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. The American Claimant and Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain. Nelson Doubleday Inc., Garden City, New York, circa 1980. Published by arrangement with Harper & Row under the S. L. Clemens / Mark Twain trademark. Part of the Nelson Doubleday six-volume collected works of Mark Twain, printed on quality deckle-edge paper. The American Claimant (1892) is a satirical comedy of mistaken identity; Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a darker satire of race and identity set in the antebellum South.

A handsome edition of Jack London's celebrated works. This volume, containing Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, is in new condition. The pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. The deep navy faux leather boards are clean and unmarked, with a gilt-ruled border and central gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. This copy is available to international customers through AbeBooks.com, as Kathrin’s Books currently ships within Canada only.

A fine softcover edition in new condition, with crisp unmarked pages and a perfect binding. This edition is rendered in modern English and is not the unabridged original.

This beautiful edition is in fine condition. The pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked, remaining tight and square in their binding. Edmund Wilson, a close friend of Fitzgerald and a respected literary critic, edited the surviving drafts and notes and published them in 1941 as The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel.

This beautiful first printing softcover edition is in near fine condition, with no marks or tears and only minimal shelf wear. The pages are tight, appear unread, and the book is tight, square, and unmarked.

Mass market paperback in fine condition for the pages and text. No creasing to the spine or page edges. Pages are clean, complete, and entirely unmarked throughout, with some natural fading to tan due to the age of the book. The binding shows significant wear and is coming apart at the spine due to age; while the text block remains complete and intact with no loose or missing pages, this is a meaningful structural issue and the book should be handled gently. Sold accordingly, with this defect clearly disclosed. A Laurel Book, published by Dell Publishing, a division of The Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., New York. This printing dated May 1988. Front cover photograph by Alexander Alland. James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America's foremost writers, born in Harlem, New York, and primarily resident in the south of France in his later years. Baldwin began writing Another Country in Greenwich Village in 1948 and continued working on it in Paris and New York over the following decade, finally completing it in Istanbul in 1962. ISBN 0-440-30200-5.