Desirable unsigned first edition book: Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara. First edition, first printing (with quotation credit tipped to dedication page). NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. Hardcover with later-issue dust jacket (with "Recent Fiction" on rear panel but no price on front flap), 5.75 x 8.25, 301 pages. Book condition: VG/VG, with foxing to margins of the first few pages, light stains and edgewear to dust jacket, and small splits at flaps and corners of the dust jacket.