Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873 [but actually 1872]. Extremely scarce first American trade edition, previously published by Osgood via subscription only, published in late 1872 with the title page dated to the coming year. viii, 303 pp., printed on speckled wove paper and profusely illustrated with wood engravings.....
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1936. An exceedingly scarce presentation copy of the first English edition printed in England, limited issue signed by James Joyce. One of 100 copies (from a total edition of 1000 copies, this copy unnumbered) printed on mould-made paper and bound in full calf vellum.....
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermaister, 1493. First edition, first printing. Imperial folio, 326 leaves: [20], 266, [6], 267-299, [1]. Text in Latin in two columns, rotunda typface. Illustrated with approximately 1809 woodcuts printed from 645 blocks (Sydney Carlyle Cockerell’s count). Imperial folio, rebound circa 1900 in.....
[New York]: [Dead Language Press], [1962]. First edition. Signed by Jack Smith on verso of front wrap, inscribed to poet Kirby Congdon "To Kirby with choked up strangled emotions...... Jack." [20] pp. Illustrated with 19 gelatin silver contact prints, comprising 18 photographs by Smith mounted on yellow pages, and one.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924. First edition, first printing of the seminal dystopian novel. xiv, [2], 286 pp. Bound in publisher's black ribbed cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with very light wear and soiling to cloth, rubbing to spine gilt; binding square and firm.....
[Various places]: [No Publisher], 1937-1966. A vast archive of correspondence featuring approximately 395 letters, postcards and correspondences from the iconic American author John Steinbeck sent to family members over the course of twenty-nine years. The scope is incredible, spanning from the publication of his masterpiece Of Mice and Men to.....
Athol, MA: W. Paul Cook, 1927. H. P. Lovecraft's own copy of the first and only issue of the legendary amateur periodical published by W. Paul Cook. Lovecraft has penned the title of his contribution, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and the page number, and signed his name on the upper.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition, first printing of Dashiell Hammett’s first novel. Signed by the author on the fly-leaf and inscribed to the Arizona bookseller Billy Greer Hobson: "Keep a notebook and pencil — the story of the other fellows' crime pays. Dashiell Hammett." Hobson's bookplate on.....
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First American edition, utilizing English sheets, first printing of James Joyce's first prose work--a collection of short stories all unified by a common place, depicting Irish middle class. The stories were written while Irish Nationalism was at its peak and the search for a......
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First edition, limited issue. Number 326 of 525 copies signed by Antoine de Saint-Exupery on the limitation page tipped in at front. 94 pp. Bound in publisher's salmon cloth stamped in maroon. Near Fine with light wear to extremities, very slight intermittent dampstaining to.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. A remarkable signed set. Each volume signed by J.R.R. Tolkien in black ink: The Lord of the Rings volumes on their respective half titles, The Hobbit on its half title, for a total of four signatures by the famous British fantasy author. Additionally, a typed.....
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition, first printing with "seep" for the word "sleep" at p. 209. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine blocked in red and blue and blue mask motif to upper board. Near Fine with toning to boards in an unusually Fine unclipped dust.....