This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/24/2025
Group of Six First Trade Editions, All Signed or Inscribed. [V.p., 20th century]. 8vos. Publisher's bindings, all but one in dust jackets (some jackets price-clipped). Some general wear, soiling, some hinges, gutters cracking, some ownership markings, some chipping, tears to jackets. Generally very good or better. Titles include: Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts (inscribed on the title-page), The Triumph by John Kenneth Galbraith (signed on the ffep.), The Great American Novel by Philip Roth (signed on the title-page), Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins (signed on the half-title, in later slipcase), The Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter (signed on the title-page, with an original photo of Carter signing copies of this novel laid-in), Mater Coronata by Edmund Clarence Stedman (inscribed with a fragment of a poem on the ffep., no jacket) Cogan's Trade is the basis of the film, Killing them Softly (2012, directed by Andrew Dominik), starring Brad Pitt.