James M Cain, Signed (62 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Signed by Pronzini on the title page. Age toning to the page edges and dust jacket flaps. Stories originally published in pulp magazines and not anthologized previously. ; 203 pages; Signed by Editor.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition Thus. (Hard Case Crime-Sept. 2012). SIGNED by Charles Ardai (wrote afterwords) on a bookplate affixed to front end page. DJ mylar protected. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. SIGNED By Contributor.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED and inscribed by editor Roy Hoopes on bookplate decal on ffep. $14.95 price on DJ flap. Also includes laid-in the original 1981 review from New York Times Book review.

Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. 287pp. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, the friend and authorized biographer of James M. Cain, Roy Hoopes, on the title page. FINE/AS NEW in Fine/As New dust jacket. Both the book and dust jacket are completely free of all use and wear of any kind. As pictured.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Book has minor wear. SIGNED by Mickey Spillane and Ed Gorman. A nice copy. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Bound. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. First printing of Cain's previously uncollected short fiction stories. Flat-signed and inscribed by James M. Cain's personal authorized biographer and editor - Roy Hoopes. Only flaw: faint pencil erasure on rear end flap. NO other flaws - NO other markings throughout - NO rem mark or ex-lib. NOT a Book Club edition. DJ has light shelf-scuffing and is price-clipped otherwise Fine condition. Photos avail upon request. Signed by Editor.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). First. 233 pages. 8vo, black cloth-backed purple boards with gold spine lettering, d.w. (lightly rubbed, small ink stain at rear). New York: The Dial Press, 1965. First Edition. Light wear at head/tail. Inscribed by the author at front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

Hardcover. First printing. Octavo, 220 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is black with blue and red print. Dust jacket in mylar, edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners. Price unclipped: "7.95". Boards in red cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners, lightly cocked spine, smudge to front bottom edge. Inscribed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1371073. FP New Rockville Stock.

First edition. Softcover. 18 pages. An opera based on Cain's classic novel, commissioned by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Music by Stephen Paulus and libretto by Colin Graham. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Signed by both Paulus and Graham on the title page and very uncommon as such.

Halbleinen. Condition: Zufriedenstellend. deutsche Erstausgabe. dem unsignierten Buch liegt eine Karte bei signiert von dem amerikanischen Schriftsteller James Mallahan Cain (1892-1977) . Der Kriminalautor schuf u.a. den Klassiker " Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt " . Viele seiner Romane wurden verfilmt, u.a. von Billy Wilder, Lucino Visconti und Anthony Mann. leichte Gebrauchspuren, Bibliotheksstempel, div. Beilagen. with card signed by author. Size: 8�. Buch.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on a index card affixed to front end page (signature only). DJ lightly rubbed with light fade to spine: $7.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. . Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Inscribed by Cain on the front flyleaf. Dust jacket edgeworn.

No. 1445. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / With warmest regards / James M. Cain / Hyattsville, MD / October 13, 1957." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of Signet Books and a publisher whose desire was to bring great literature and genre fiction out of the libraries and into the hands of readers. A tremendous association. Basis for the 1956 film noir, "Slightly Scarlet," directed by Allan Dwan. Some waviness to the binding due to exposure to moisture at the rear, resulting in some dampstaining to the rear panel and page edges. Overall Very Good in wrappers.

Condition: Near Fine. Single sheet, single-sided typed letter 8. 5" X 11" with Cain's handwritten corrections. Cain's personal stationery. November 27, 1975. To H. N. Swanson, literary agent. First line reads "Dear Swanie: I had a reason for asking you what I did: I'm getting ready to die, trying to put my affairs in order." Signed "JIm" in black ink. Two vertical folds, one horizontal fold. Staple hole in left corner. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author Manuscripts and paper collectibles.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED (inscribed) by James M. Cain on front end page to American Musicologist and critic and fellow resident of Hyattsville MD Mr. French Crawford Smith. Attached to rear pastedown is a signed typed letter, dated March 1962, from Dial Press Publicity Director Virginia Riffaterre to Mr. Smith saying that the copy is a advance copy of the novel and that Mr. Cain asked her to send it to him. Mr. Smith's bookplate is affixed to front pastedown. $4.50 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ("Jim") in blue fountain pen ink on James M. Cain, 6707 44th Avenue, Hyattsville, Maryland letterhead, May 12, 1963. 1 page, 4to, To Hollywood agent H.N. Swanson: James inquires about B. Traven�s book "The Treasure of Sierra Madre." "I've been asked by the Time Reading Program to do a preface for their reissue of The Treasure of the Serra Madre, and write to ask: a) Has a picture ever been made of this book? and b) Have you heard anything I ought to know about, in regard to the author, B. Traven?." James M. Cain (1892-1977), American author, probably best remembered for "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1934), filmed in 1946, and "Mildred Pierce" (1941), filmed in 1945, starring Joan Crawford. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. INSCRIBED on front endpaper. Near fine with spine ends bumped, minor rubbing along the edges, and a few small marks of soiling to the spine. In a very good or better dust jacket with a touch of soiling and rubbing, and shallow chipping to spine ends and corners, but otherwise minimal wear.

First edition. Fourth edition of the paperback original, as rack-size Avon 768. The printing history on the copyright page of this edition treats all four Avon editions, and the second printing of the second edition, as successive printings of the same edition, though each of the editions has a different publisher's number and different cover art. As a result, this fourth edition copy is identified as the "Fifth Printing. March, 1957." Using the printing dates in this copy, it is possible to reconstruct the correct early publishing history of SINFUL WOMAN, as follows: Avon Monthly Novel #1. First edition, in digest-size wraps .Oct 1947 Avon 174. Second edition (first rack-size), with new cover art . Sep 1948 Avon 174. Second printing, same cover . Mar 1949 Avon 599. Third edition (rack-size), with new cover art . July 1954 Avon 768. Fourth edition (rack-size), with new cover art . March 1957 In anticipation of this fourth edition, Cain signed a new contract with Avon on 29 June 1956, giving Avon exclusive rights for three more years to publish and sell paperbound editions of Sinful Woman for no more than 25 cents a copy. The next such edition had to be published within one year of the new agreement, which provided for Cain to receive a $500 advance on signing and another $500 on publication of the next edition. As Cain's biographer Roy Hoopes tells it, Cain was desperate for money at this point in his career, and the $1000 advance from Avon (on a title that they had already been selling for almost ten years) must have seemed a great windfall. One of the two (or perhaps three?) master copies of this contract, signed in ink by Cain, by Avon's executive V.P. Joseph Mann, and by someone from Cain's literary agents, Harold Ober Associates, is included with our VG+ copy of Avon 768, whose publication in March of '57 met the contract's one-year deadline with a couple of months to spare. The document, in fine condition, is on a 5pp standard Avon contract form, with particulars as to the selling price, royalty amounts, first publication date, advance payments etc. entered on a manual typewriter with a black ribbon and initialed in ink by Cain and Mann (six times each). Given that the publishers seem to have viewed Avon 768 as the fifth printing of a title they had been selling for almost ten years, this new contract, providing for advances equal to those that Cain had received when the manuscript was first delivered to Avon in 1947, should be of interest both to Cain collectors and to vintage-paperback aficionados. With the related fourth-edition copy of Sinful Woman. Sylvia is in Reno, waiting for her divorce from Baron Victor "Vicki" Adlerkreutz to be finalized. By ending her marriage to Vicki, she'll also finally free herself from a film contract with Vicki's buddy, second-rate film director Dmitri Spiro. Her plans are falling into place, and then Sylvia learns that Vicki plans to remarry immediately . marry a woman who would undo the plan Sylvia has worked years to put into place! Shortly thereafter, Vicki is dead and Sylvia is trying to protect someone.

No. 811. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / 'Long may they weave." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of Signet Books and a publisher whose desire was to bring great literature and genre fiction out of the libraries and into the hands of readers. A tremendous association. Near Fine in wrappers. A very attractive copy.

Unbound. One-page Typed Letter Signed and dated August 15, 1953 on Cain's Hyattsville, Maryland stationery to his publisher, William Cole of Knopf. Folds from being mailed and initialed by Cole for his file, else fine. The letter references a review of Cain's novel *Galatea* and a missed opportunity to be interviewed by *The New York Times Book Review*: "I have suspected for some time I am not in good standing with this highly perplexing outfit, and you were probably saved a turn-down." A nice letter boldly Signed by Cain.

Hardcover. First edition. SIGNED. 232pp. Octavo [19 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title and ornamentation on the spine, and the author's initials embossed on the front cover. Very good, with light rubbing at the spine ends and corners, and a slight forward lean to the spine. With the dust jacket, designed by Harry Roth, in very good condition. The extremities are lightly rubbed and chipped, and the rear panel and the flaps are mildly darkened. The accompanying black cloth covered slipcase is in very good condition, with moderate rubbing to the surface and subtle fraying of the cloth at the head and tail. Sharp copy of this western by the author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice." Inscribed by James M. Cain on the front free endsheet.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY JAMES M. CAIN. Inscribed to a friend and dated Dec. 21, 1947 Hollywood, Calif. in acknowledgement for help on his book The Moth. 165pp. Bound in tan cloth stamped in green, spine ruled and lettered in green. Owner's embossed stamp ob FEP; a clean bright copy in unclipped dust jacket with just a trace of wear at extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First thus of this omnibus edition, signed by Cain on the ffep. Very good book with some shelf wear at spine ends and corner tips. Jacket has 1" triangular chip from head of spine, chipping at heel and corners, and a tear to top edge of inner rear flap. Good. Very scarce signed copy of the author's most prominent work(s).

Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Cain on the obverse of the page listing his previously published books. Minimal shelfwear, mostly at corners, beginning toning on pastedown gutters, light green topstain with few small rubs, small raised area of cloth on front panel (appears to be due to binding glue under cloth); dustjacket with chipped spine ends and wear at corners, toning mostly at folds and flap topedges, wear on the rear panel spine fold. Altogether, a tight and still bright copy in Very Good condition in a Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. SIGNED by author on front endpaper. Near fine with two tiny specks of soiling along the hinge of the front board. In a near fine dust jacket with one 1/4" chip to the top of the spine and otherwise minor wear to spine ends and corners.

No. 1152. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / Another in a series which I hope will ever grow longer and longer / James M. Cain / Hyattsville, MD / August 22, 1954." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of Signet Books and a publisher whose desire was to bring great literature and genre fiction out of the libraries and into the hands of readers. A tremendous association. Near Fine in wrappers. A very attractive copy.

Cain refers to author John O'Hara (1905-70) as well as to Judge John Sirica, remembered as the Watergate judge who ordered President Nixon to turn in his White House tapes over to the Senate committee. Cain writes, "In re THE CHRISTMAS SPEERT[sic], the piece I suspect of being O'Hara's first in New York: I reprinted it on the Christmas Page, December 25, of the New York World, 1929, as I pin down by the following recollection: I was in touch with the big money at the time, so I could have produced a play, and on the basis of this piece sent for O'Hara to try and persuade him to write it.I invited him down to the apartment.in October 1929, on East Nineteenth Street.my wife Elina wasn't there." He explains why the meeting had to take place only in 1929 and continues. "O'Hara seemed surprised at my admiration for the piece, indifferent to my idea, and utterly indifferent to me. He was not the easiest person to like, being quite cold in his manner, even at age 24.I do not think I was alone in that reaction to him. He wasn't noted for his charm. But on paper I was, and still am, his potato." One holograph correction in this last paragraph. Signed, "Jim." He continues in a postscript mentioning Judge Sirica. "Now to mooch something off you, since I take it you're partly Italian: This judge we have here, who has his name pronounced SirIca -- Shouldn't that be SIRica?.on the basis of operatic Italian, which I'm fairly loaded with." Cain replies to Prof. Bruccoli, Professor of English, Univ. of South Carolina who sent a copy of a typed letter from O'Hara to Cain, undated. In the letter, O'Hara asks Cain for money. Bruccoli writes to Cain in full at the bottom of the copy of O'Hara's letter. "Dear Mr. Cain - This [O'Hara's letter] may jiggle your flow of recollection." John O'hara is perhaps best remembered for his novels, "Butterfield, 8" (1935) and "Pal Joey," (1940). Fine in literary association.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first thus. INSCRIBED FIRST THUS edition. Inscribed by author. Book near fine, very light foxing on foredge. Dust jacket very good, price-clipped, tanning, couple of closed tears.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Second printing. With a presentation inscription from the author reading "To Miss Hortense Alden--That she may be enabled to cast her ballot more intelligently at the next election, James M. Cain." Spine darkened with a faint dampstain on the covers but certainly very good in the d/w which is chipped and worn. Signed by Author(s).

No. 759. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / With my best congratulations on a job well-done / James M. Cain / Hyattsville, MD / December 26, 1949." From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a letter of provenance included. Kurt Enoch was the founder of Signet Books and a publisher whose desire was to bring great literature and genre fiction out of the libraries and into the hands of readers. A tremendous association. This edition comprises two Cain novellas: "Everybody Does It" (originally titled "Career in C Major") and "The Embezzler." Both were originally published in the 1944 collection, "Three of a Kind." This edition was the first under the new collected title, "Everybody Does It." Near Fine in wrappers. A very attractive copy.