Geneva: Comite International de la Croix-Rouge, 1885. First edition of this early annual report of the International Red Cross. A presentation copy, signed by Clara Barton and warmly inscribed "To Senator Preston U. Plumb of Kansas, from a friend who honors him, Clara Barton, President of the American National Red..... More

Philadelphia: Black Opals, 1928. First edition, limited issues. Number 235 of 250 copies and Number 153 of 200 copies printed. 20; 20 pp. Bound in publisher's respective yellow and orange printed wraps, with black and white illustrations. Ownership inscription of Black Opal contributor, stage director, playwright and actress Gertrude Parthenia..... More

Los Angeles: Laugh Literary, 1969. Vol. 1 Issue 1. Limited edition. Signed on verso of front cover in sharpie by Charles Bukowski, Neeli Cherkovski (twice, once as alias "Fred Dyer"), Harold Norse, and what must have been a very drunk Steve Richmond. Small illustration that appears to be a combined..... More

Washington, D.C. American Rockety Association, 1949. Volume 1, Number 1. Special Issue. Winter 1949. Containing a commentary entitled "The Science of Science-Fiction" by John W. Campbell and an article on Time For Fantasy. Original stapled wraps. Near Fine. Light toning and light wear. With original blank subscription card laid in..... More

London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1945. First edition. 7, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's side-stapled self-wrappers. Very Good with slight oxidation to staples, light toning and foxing to covers. Horizontal fold and light creasing with some spots of soiling. A scarce pamphlet on the first views of the British parliamentary..... More

Published for the American Physical Society, 1923. First edition of Arthur Compton's Nobel Prize-winning paper on the "Compton Effect." Pp. [483]-584. Complete issue, bound without wraps in green cloth with leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, small bumped to edge of upper boards, else Fine. Contains a paper by..... More

New York: Laurence J. Gomme, 1917. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy signed by S. Foster Damon on the front free endpaper and inscribed: "To Uncle Sharp. These pin-feathers from S. Foster Damon. December 25, 1917." Also featuring the work of E. Estlin [E. E.] Cummings, J. R. Dos Passos..... More

New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1922. April 1922 issue of The Crisis, the official publication of the NAACP. 43 pp, illustrated in black and white. Staple bound in publisher's printed wraps with front cover illustrated by Dubois' daughter, Yolande DuBois. Very Good. Wraps with wear..... More

New York: Allen Glasser, 1932, 1933. Six of the nine issues of the first "true" science fiction fanzine. Volume I, Numbers 4 - 9, running from April-May 1932 to Winter 1933. Each of the first five issues consists of four to nine mimeographed sheets of typing paper printed both sides..... More

London: Faber and Faber for the AIDS Crisis Trust, 1991. First edition, deluxe limited issue. Number 120 of a limited 250 copies signed by the contributors. Twenty-six writers contribute to this AIDS fundraiser, edited by Stephen Spender and with drawings by David Hockney. Signed by Hockney and Spender, and also..... More

New York: Aspen Magazine, 1966. First edition. Bound in publisher's white glazed cardboard box with five pamphlets and one flex-disc plastic phonograph record. Complete. Contents Fine in a Very Good+ cardboard box with light rubbing, slight toning and abrasions from previous tape repair at bottom corner of upper lid. Included..... More

[Athol, MA]: W. Paul Cook, 1920. First edition. 56-73, 20-48 pp. Bound in publisher's slate blue side-stapled wraps lettered in black. Near Fine. A fantastic copy. This marks the first appearance of Lovecraft's most common recurring Dream Cycle character, Randolph Carter, featured on p. 41-48 in the short story The..... More

Athol, MA: W. Paul Cook, 1927. An association copy of the first and only issue of the legendary amateur periodical published by W. Paul Cook. Provenance: Vincent Starrett's copy with his name written on the first page. Starrett, who corresponded with Lovecraft, had short stories published in the earliest issues..... More