Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Ads dated September 1854; no priority as per BAL 20106. Map has faint S.W. Chandler & Bro. imprint. 357, 8 [ads] pp. with map facing p. 307. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, original yellow endpapers. A Fine copy with.....
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou, 1978. First edition, first printing. A fantastic association copy, signed by Jim Carrol, inscribed to poets Ted Berrigan and his wife Alice Notley on the half-title page, "To Ted + Alice, 'I'll be right there'... All my love, Jim 10/7/78." Berrigan was a central figure in the.....
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1969. The World Publishing Company, 1969. First edition, first printing with number line reading 1-5 on copyright page, and A3450 code on rear. A Fine, bright copy with a faint lean to the spine. In first issue dust jacket with the top.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Ads dated September 1854; no priority as per BAL 20106. Map has faint S.W. Chandler & Bro. imprint. 357, 8 [ads] pp. with map facing p. 307. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, original yellow endpapers. A Fine copy with.....
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black and white Art Deco style boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and top and bottom edges of covers. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket.....
Belfast, Ireland: Simms and McIntyre, 1846. First English language edition of The Count of Monte Cristo, preceding the slightly more common London edition of Chapman & Hall with an anonymous translator. Also the first Irish edition. 19th century polished calf with marbled-paper sides, ruled and decorated in gilt with raised.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American edition. Inscribed by Ambler to Norman Nolan on page facing title page at the Mystery Writers of America awards (Ambler won the Grand Master award) in New York, April 25, 1975. From the Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction. [xiv], 281, [1].....
New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First edition. Signed in the year following publication by author on front free endpaper, inscribed to Bruce Lane and dated 26 Feb 1951. 253 pp. Original red cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with tiny stain dot to fore edge, light edge rubbing, in Very.....
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1982. One of only 15 hors de commerce copies matching the limited edition of 150. Signed by artist on the title-page and the printer, Andrew Hoyem, on the colophon. [64] pp. Illustrated with 29 woodblock prints. 11.5" x 15.25" Uncovered oak boards decorated with lightning-bolt.....
New York: Random House, 1958. First edition, first printing. Signed by Truman Capote on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's canary yellow cloth with gilt titles blocked in black on the spine. Near Fine with spine stamping rubbed, backstrip faintly creased and pages toned. In a Near Fine.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Uncorrected galley proofs of the first edition. 136 unbound sheets printed on rectos only plus one final blank sheet; without illustrations. Textual pages dated 23.11.87 at tops; question marks in the heading of the Contents page indicate no printer had been appointed yet; chapter pages on.....
New York: The Century Company, 1912. First edition, first printing. (BAL 14767.) x, 284 pp. Original dark green cloth with gilt, periwinkle, and royal blue stamping, top edge gilt. A Fine copy with few spots of light rubbing to front board, offsetting to title page from tissue guard. All fold-out.....