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[LITERATURE]. A group of 14 first editions, including: DREI...

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[LITERATURE]. A group of 14 first editions, including: DREISER, Theodore. Moods Cadenced and Declaimed. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. 8vo. Original black gilt, marbled sides, morocco lettering?piece gilt; original glassine jacket; original card slipcase with printed label (edgewear). LIMITED EDITION, number 341 of 550 copies SIGNED BY DREISER. ?? WOLFE, Thomas. Of Time and the River. New York: Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1935. Original black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket (some chipping or short creases to extremes). FIRST EDITION. ???ALGREN, Nelson. A Walk on the Wild Side. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1956]. 8vo. Original cloth; original unclipped dust jacket (some chipping at edges). FIRST EDITION. ?? NICHOLS, John. The Sterile Cuckoo. New York: David McKay Company, [1965]. 8vo. Original purple cloth; original unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. ???McMURTRY, Larry. Terms of Endearment. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1975]. 8vo. Original cloth?backed boards; original unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy. ?? FOWLES, John. A Maggot. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1985]. Original brown cloth gilt; original unclipped jacket (some tiny edge chips). FIRST EDITION, laid in with a SIGNED BOOKPLATE. ?? And others. All 8vo, all in original cloth and dust jackets, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally very good to near fine.