8vo. Original green-stamped grey cloth; publisher’s dust jacket (some rubbing to folds and extremities). Provenance: Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. (presentation bookplate to Phillips Exeter Academy with their discharge stamp). FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHER ALFRED A. KNOPF JR.’S COPY. Alfred A. Knopf Jr.’s father, Alfred A. Knopf, was the founder of Alfred A. Knopf publishing house. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION.
[With:] Our Government. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. FIRST EDITION OF CAIN’S FIRST WORK. -- Love’s Lovely Counterfeit. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. FIRST EDITION. -- For Men Only: A Collection of Short Stories. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1944. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 493 of 500 copies. Edited by James Cain, and including works by Hemingway, Maugham, Fitzgerald, London, and Conan Doyle. – Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all 8vo, all in original cloth and dust jackets, condition generally very good.