JONES, James (1921-1977). From Here to Eternity. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951.
8vo. Original black cloth (rubbing with minor loss to lettering on spine); first issue dust jacket (some soiling, some rubbing or chipping with minor losses to extremities); with an additional later issue jacket (hole on lower panel affecting letters, some soiling, creasing or chipping).
FIRST TRADE EDITION of Jones' first novel, winner of the 1952 National Book Award for Fiction. In 1953, Fred Zinnemann adapted the novel for a film, starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, and Ernest Borgnine, which one eight Academy Awards in 1954. [With:]
MICHENER, James A. (1907-1997). Hawaii. New York: Random House, 1959. 8vo. Original beige boards, top edge stained blue; original printed dust jacket (price-clipped). FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. -- GRASS, Günter (1927-2015). The Tin Drum. Ralph Manheim, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth stamped in black and gilt, top edge stained black; original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the first novel in Grass's Danzig Trilogy.
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