Search Results: Our Government by James M Cain

New York: Knopf, 1930. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, gray cloth, very good, no jacket, author's first book. Apparently influenced by reading Mencken. Light wear to binding, light tanning to pages.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Internally clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 241 pages. In Good plus condition and lacking issued dust jacket. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with black lettering on spine. Light soiling on spine with slight fading to text. Minor staining on front cover with more severe staining on back cover. Rubbing to corners and edges of spine. Spine slightly cocked. Texblock uncut with age toning throughout. Slight foxing on free endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Shelved under front counter. First book by classic author. 1374640. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1930-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 7x5x1. Bound in publisher's grey cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Gift inscription on fep, otherwise clean, unmarked pages. XII, 242 p.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. (xii), 241, (1) pp. Original gray cloth with navy lettering. Near Fine with slightly pilled cloth, a little dust-soiling. Lacks dust jacket. The crime author's first book, a series of fictional characters' dialogues on the nature of the American government.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Second printing. Slightly cocked spine, spotting on endpapers, page edges and boards, thus very good in a good only dust jacket with shallow loss at the crown, not affecting text, splitting at the folds, and toning. Cain's first book, a collection of "dialogues" or short pieces on politics and government that Cain wrote as reportage for various newspapers, and that display the concise but gritty style that eventually made it into his fiction.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good second-issue jacket, unclipped ($2.50), chipped at the top inch of the spine and extending onto the back panel, generally toned. Grey cloth, toned at the spine with black ink lettering. Square and firmly bound with a dark grey top stain, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, clean internally. Cain's political commentary about "what manner of men it is whom you as a taxpayer support.

OUR GOVERNMENT, Knopf, 1930, first edition, spine a bit faded, a little browning to areas of rear cover, else a vg/vg+ copy in a near vg dust-wrapper save for the top 1/8 inch of the dust-wrapper spine absent and a wrap-around piece measuring 1/2 inch by 1/4 inch at the upper left corner of the front dust-wrapper panel also missing. The authors first book. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper.

New York: Knopf, 1930. First edition. The hard-boiled mystery writer's first regularly published book, essays of sorts in a series of imagined dialogues on the workings and non-workings of government. Octavo gray cloth boards stamped in black (or perhaps dark blue) on front and spine, publisher's logo blindstamped on back board; in first-issue dust jacket with dollar sign on front. Top edge stain faded and lightly foxed otherwise near fine in good or better dust jacket with toning, moderate chipping, some soiling and general wear, A scarce book, scarcer still in any jacket much less this first-issue one.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy in A Near Fine Jacket First End Paper Clipped First Edition 1930/1930 Very Scarce in First Issue Jacket Cain's Rare First Book.Scarce in This Condition Excellent Fresh Copy.$2.50 on Flap..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. About fine in attractive, very good example of the first issue dustwrapper decorated with dollar signs (versus the second issue jacket with a bloated plutocrat on the front panel) with some older professional restoration. Inscribed by the author: "To Charlie, J.M.C." Cain's first book, a collection of "dialogues" or short pieces on politics and government that Cain wrote as reportage for various newspapers, and that display the concise but gritty style that eventually made it into his fiction. Despite some benign neglect of this title by collectors because it leans towards non-fiction, nice copies and especially signed copies, are exceptionally uncommon.