STERN (JAMES) The Heart Less Land, PRESENTATION COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK OF SHORT STORIES, inscribed 'For Alan Steele. James Stern. Dec 1st 1932' on the front free endpaper, dust-jacket (spine toned), Macmillan, 1932; Something Wrong, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page, dust-jacket (split at all edges, soiled with some loss to spine), Secker & Warburg, 1938; idem, another copy, signed on title-page, and later inscription 'For Roger [Senhouse] with love Jimmy Stern 1938 now 1960', and 'Secondly for John Byrne with lover Jimmy Stern now 1972. Roger Senhouse was responsible for the publication of this work', remnants of the dust-jacket, 1938, FIRST EDITIONS; 'The Bank', LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, THIS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'For Eileen Squire from Jimmy Stern June 1932', with a few authorial pencil corrections, publisher's wrappers, [W.H. Smith & Son, 1928]; The Man Who Loved, AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, with pencil annotations, New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1951]; idem, another copy, INSCRIBED TO JOHN BYRNE (1970), 1951, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets; and 3 others by Stern, including the author's copy of the uncorrected proof for the English edition of The Man Who was Loved, 8vo (9) This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing