Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. Third printing. Signed by Ansel Adams on a bookplate mounted on the front free paper. [vi], 28 [text] pp. with 116 black and white photographic plates. Bound in publisher's maroon buckram cloth over blue linen with spine lettered in gilt. Oblong folio.Near Fine with..... More
Philadelphia: John McGill White & Co., 1897. First edition. 263 pp. with photo frontis. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with a few small areas of biopredation to cloth, spine faintly sunned, edges faintly foxed and a little stained. The author was an important African American..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1989. Oversize color reproduction of Nuremberg apothecary and botanist Basilius Besler's beautiful 1613 work Hortus Eystettensis, describing the plants of the garden of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstatt in Bavaria. 542 pp. Bound in publisher's creme cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near..... More
Prague: Tiskem A Nakladem Noviny, 1944. First edition. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's boards with black cloth backstrip. About Very Good with tear and fraying to a spot on the spine, boards slightly bowed, former owner's stamp on a few pages. A wordless graphic novel about the life of Jesus with..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1962. First American edition, first printing in second issue jacket with "i a" on back panel. 174 pp. Bound in publisher's two-toned boards with green spine lettering. Near Fine with wear to front free endpaper, in a Very Good unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket, rubbed, worn at..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. First American edition. Signed by Jorge Luis Borges on the series half title; scholar and translator Robert Lima's copy. Lima wrote the first critical work on Borges in English. Rare black-and-white press photo of Borges from 1967 laid in; "Return to Bob Lima" written..... More
Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1959. Sixth printing. Signed by William F. Buckley, Jr. on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the former owner, Portland lawyer Ridgway "Dick" K. Fowley, Jr. xvi, 240pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth-affect with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with light wear at..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 2018. First edition, deluxe limited issue published simultaneously with the trade edition. Number 354 of 500 copies, signed by Kate Bush. Bound in publisher's original red paper-covered boards over beige spine cloth lettered in gilt; housed in publisher's crimson paper solander case, with matching numbered facsimile..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911. First edition. lii, 172 pp. Bound in publisher's drab green binding beautifully decorated in black Art Nouveau motifs with illustrated paper panel at center, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, and three color plates. Very Good+ with slight fading to spine and rubbing..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, [1884]. Early American edition. (One of 14 English language editions identified by George Monteiro in his review of the book in Luso-Brazilian Review; perhaps the third American edition reprinting the British first edition, which was also the first English language edition.) [vi], xvi, 60..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1964. First edition. xiv, 394 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with white lettering. Fine in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, a little scuffed at foot, else Fine. An excellent copy. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First edition. xii, 332 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with spine lean, foxing to top and fore edges, slight waviness to pages, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, toned with age and lightly worn, unclipped (21s net). A posthumously-published collection..... More
New York: Kailas Press, 1931. First edition. Signed by J.C. Chatterji on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Freyer with the compliments of the scribe New York Feb. 1931 > [signed] Jagadish Ch. Chatterji." 75 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good+..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Eldridge Cleaver on the front free endpaper and inscribed "To Gitelle, at a P+F [Peace and Freedom Party] meeting. Best Wishes for the future. [signed] Eldridge Cleaver 3-26-68" xvi, 210, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in white..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Eldridge Cleaver on the front free endpaper with date 10-2-68 and inscribed "For Jack Jones, in Absentia. All Power to the People." xvi, 210, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in white and green. Very Good..... More
San Francisco, California: The Arion Press, 2017. Limited edition. One of 326 copies, signed by artist Joel Shapiro at colophon. Scroll measuring 13½"x50", comprised of glued sheets of handmade paper from China's Red Star Paper Company printed by letterpress, wound on aluminum spool with book cloth wrapper, housed in a...... More
Asheville, NC: 1210th Weather Squadron, 1965. A scarce pamphlet documenting the United States Air Force's new IBM 707-III that it purchased from the Department of Agriculture in 1965. Likely printed in a very limited quantity as the introduction is signed by the department director, James R. DeCoster. 18 pp. Original..... More
New York: The Greenfield Review Press, 1974. First American edition, nonillustrated variant cover in a slightly smaller format than the illustrated variant, priority unknown. xvi, 42 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+, faint erased pencil mark to front wrap, slight soiling to wraps, a little foxing to fore edge..... More
New York: The Greenfield Review Press, 1974. First American edition, illustrated variant cover in a slightly larger format than the nonillustrated variant, priority unknown. xvi, 42 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Near Fine, lightly shelf worn. Rare. The second book in English by the celebrated Palestinian national poet. This variant..... More
Pasadena: Upton Sinclair, 1920. First edition, copy #20 of a limited issue of 500 copies signed by Eugene Debs on limitation mounted on rear paste down. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with oxidation to gilt stamping with some rubbing to lettering on the spine, slight lean to binding..... More
Pasadena, CA: Upton Sinclair, 1920. First edition, copy #389 of a limited issue of 500 copies signed by Eugene Debs on limitation mounted on rear paste down. [ii], 99, [3], [7 ads] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine, hinge starting at front, rear upper corner bumped..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. First American edition.Signed by Dougal Dixon on the title page. 124 pp. Bound in publisher's tan paper-covered boards lettered in brown. Front free endpaper corner-clipped, else Fine in a toned and lightly shelf-worn dust jacket; ($17.95) price sticker over price on front flap. An..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. First edition. Signed by co-author Horace R. Cayton, Jr. on the front free endpaper. xxxiv, 809 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gray and yellow stamping to spine. Very Good with light red pencil notation by former owner to paste down and a few underlines..... More
San Francisco, CA: The Arion Press, 2008. Limited edition. #80 of limited 275 copies. Bound in publisher's brick-red Japanese cloth with etchings set into windows on the front and back covers, gray paper spine label. Housed in the publisher's brick-red Japanese cloth over gray paper slipcase with gray paper spine..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1941. First edition. Copy 566 of 998 numbered copies. xxx, (2), 350pp. Original cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with foxing to fore edge in About Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, a few stains near foot, slightly soiled, small tear..... More