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.....
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.....
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.....
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West Kingston, RI & Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1982, 1987, 1991, 1997, 2008, 2008, 2003, 2004, 2004, 2012. [Publisher's Copies]. A signed limited deluxe edition set of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, all matching and uniformly marked Publisher's Copy (PC). All signed by the author and each.....
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.....
London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, first printing of Austen's beloved fourth novel and the last to be published during her short lifetime. [vi], 322; [ii], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [iv], 363, [1, publisher's adverts]. Three volumes uniformly bound in emerald green straight-grain morocco finely tooled and lettered in gilt.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. An absolutely superlative copy of the first British edition, first printing of Orwell's iconic novel. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with maroon lettering to spine. Trace erased pencil to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, still easily Fine with bright cloth and stamping, vivid.....
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......
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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London: The Egoist Ltd., 1917. First edition. 40 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps printed in black. From the library of Modernist poet and publisher John Rodker, with laid in typed correspondence between Rodker's daughter Joan and a British bookseller regarding the sale of some of Rodker's books, with an.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, first printing, American issue. (No ads at rear. As per Garrison later US printings had ads at rear.) [vi], 533 pp. with frontispiece and seven illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's red ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to.....
[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.....