New York: G.P. Putnam and Son, 1869. First edition. 470 pp. with tissue-guarded frontispiece. Publisher's pebbled green cloth with gilt lettering, gray endpapers. A Fine copy with light wear to head and tail cloth, small stain on front free endpaper. An uncommon neat, clean copy of an illustrated European travelogue..... More
[no place]: The Pullman Company, 1952. First edition. Brad-bound printed sheets in black leatherette covers stamped in silver. Near Fine with toning to pages and light wear to front cover. A fantastic copy of this guidebook produced for the largely African-American staff of the Pullman Company. While not Pullman's first..... More
London: Longmans, 1959. First edition of the author's first publication in book form. Signed by Wilfred Thesiger on the title page. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt; map present in pocket at rear. Very Good with tanning to spine and light stain to foot..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with a light musty odor, several light spots of foxing and light fading to top and bottom edges of covers. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, light rubbing and virtually no fading to the..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with a slight lean to the binding and the usual thin strips of sunning along the top and bottom edges of the covers, in a...... More
New York: Random House, 1971. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Bound in publisher's original blue wraps pritned in black labeled "Uncorrected Page Proof" on the top of the front cover. Near Fine with the author's last name handwritten in red ink to the spine and bottom textblock edge;..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition. [x], 206 pp. Bound in publisher's gray blindstamped boards with black cloth backstrip, lettered in silver. Very Good+ with sunning along top edge of boards, name written on front free end paper, very slight lean, in a spine-sunned dust jacket, unclipped, lightly worn..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first printing. Signed by Hunter S. Thompson on the title page and inscribed, "Jack /- here's This: thanks for keeping me posted on my buddies over the yrs. - HST." Bound in publisher's black cloth spine over black paper covered boards decorated in..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1983. First edition, first printing. An association copy signed by Hunter S. Thompson on the half-title page using his nickname "Flood" and inscribed to his neighbor and close friend for decades, Monty, "To the Admral for reasons that need not be disguised at this time. [signed]..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ralph Steadman on the title page. Bound in publisher's original printed wraps. Near Fine with a tiny chip to the crown of the spine and pages mildly tanned. Tales of drugs, marathon running, real estate, greed, and fishing in..... More
[Oklahoma City]: Works Progress Administration in the State of Oklahoma, 1938. First edition. Stapled orange pictorial wraps with clear spiderweb tissue guards. Illustrated. Very Good condition overall. Small chip to upper corner of front cover and another on back cover that effects the tissue-guard. Cover worn at bottom staple. In..... More
New York: George Dearborn and Co., Adlard and Saunders; J. & H.G. Langley, 1838. 1838, 1840. First American edition of both volumes in publisher's original cloth; the first and second volumes were published separately. Two volumes, xxx, 464; xx, 355 pp. Very Good. Darkening to cloth at gutters. Volume I...... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1835. Two volumes. First edition in English of Part I of this extremely important and influential analysis of American democracy, complete as issued; Part II of Democracy in America was not published until five years later in 1840. Bound in older three-quarter polished calf over marbled..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1829 & 1832. First edition. Complete in two volumes, bound in late 19th century brown morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. xxx, [4], 806; xxxii, [2], 791 pp. Map and all plates present. Good+ overall, both are noncirculating ex-library copies with call numbers written..... More
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, Publishers, 1924. First edition. 336 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+. No jacket. Gilt lettering mostly strong. Fraying to cloth at tips. A few dog-eared pages and a production crease or two. A great hobo narrative that has aged quite well..... More
London: Macmillan & Company Ltd., 1869. First edition. Complete in two volumes. xxiii, 478, [2], 53, [3]; [iv], 524 pp. With two frontispieces, six engraved plates, nine maps (two folding and tinted), and 43 text illustrations. Tissue guards present. Publisher's ads at the end of first volume dated May 1869..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1852. Second edition. In publisher's original dark brown cloth, with spine rebacked and corners touched up. Very Good. Lacking the color frontis. Previous owner bookplate to front paste down, light foxing throughout. Phillips, p.397. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First American edition. [x], 629; [v], [630]-1181 pp. Two volumes bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, illustrations mounted on front boards, blue topstains; housed in publisher's slipcase. Very Good with rear hinge of Vol. I cracked but holding, corner crease to..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Tom Wolfe on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's white cloth with titles stamped in metallic multi-colors on the spine. Very Good with some foxing and soiling to covers, textblock edge and endsheets. In a very Good unclipped..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by Tom Wolfe on the first blank page. Bound in publisher's grey stamped in metallic silver, red and blue. Near Fine with light bump to top of spine at front corner, former owner inscription to first blank page and..... More
London: Wishart & Company, 1931. First edition, second printing. Signed by Jack B. Yeats and inscribed to a former owner in Dublin. Very Good with cloth sunned at spine and edges. Previous owner bookplate and bookseller rubber-stamp to front paste down. Pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket..... More