1913 The Inn of Tranquillity John Galsworthy Early Scribner Edition Nobel Prize

Early 1913 edition of The Inn of Tranquillity by Nobel Prize-winning author John Galsworthy, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. Original publisher’s cloth binding with gilt lettering. Features a contemporary gift inscription dated June 1914. A thoughtful collection of essays and literary reflections by the celebrated author of The Forsyte Saga. Interior pages remain clean and well preserved. Binding is solid with expected shelf wear and rubbing to the spine and boards consistent with age. An attractive early twentieth-century literary volume for collectors of English literature, Nobel Prize authors, and John Galsworthy works.

Keepers of the Keys: A History of the Popes by Nicolas Cheetham HC/DJ

Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983, hardcover. 3rd printing. Good+ hardcover in VG dust jacket. PO’s name written on front and rear pastedowns. Inside flap of dj is creased. DJ is in a protective mylar cover. “The popes–for better or worse–have epitomized the Church they have watched over, and Sir Nicolas Cheetham has skillfully chartered their lives and times.”–from the dj. Illustrated with b&w plates. 8vo – 7 ¾” to 9 1/2″ tall. 340 pages.

Plum Pudding for Christmas by Virginia Kahl (1956, Hardcover)

Are you having a Plum Pudding for Christmas?. Possible a Plum Pudding Festival?. A hilariously funny book with a charming story that has a moral ending. The illustrations are simple and yet unique. The other two have the very last white page torn off but I assure you from looking at my third copy, it was just a white page.

SCENES FROM LIFE-A Comic Novel by WILLIAM COOPER-1st Edition SUPERB HC w/DJ 1961

The book is titledScenes from Life: A Comic Novel and it was written by WILLIAM COOPER; it was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1961 and is an unstated 1st U. S. Edition copy. The first one finds him supporting himself as a schoolteacher in a provincial town, and here we watch with delight as he coducts and affair and copes with the intensities of his friends.