Albuquerque: Alburquerque Sierra Club, 1984. First edition. Signed by both Edward Abbey and John Nichols on the front wrap. [46] pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Very Good+, faint curl to upper corner of front wrap, faint smudging to Nichols' signature, small stain to rear wrap. Two short pieces by..... 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
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
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First edition, limited issue, #157 of 300 copies signed by Paul Bowles on page following copyright page. 417, [5] pp. Purple cloth backstrip and boards. Bottom edge a little rubbed, else Fine in publisher's unprinted acetate jacket. The chilling, existential short stories of the..... More
Volcano, Hawaii: Dennis McMillan, 1985. First edition. One of 350 copies, signed by introduction writer Newton Baird. 133 pp. Original gray cloth lettered in black. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a hint of rubbing. The third volume of the Frederic Brown in the Detective Pulps series. More
Miami Beach: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1986. First edition. Copy 75 of 400 copies, signed by Willeford. Very slight bump to top board else Fine in Fine dust jacket. An uncommon pairing of Miami Blues author Charles Willeford with seven pulp stories of popular but critically-neglected author Fredric Brown. More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First British edition. 273 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with foxed edges, heaviest at top; some erased penciled notes to endpapers; a little musty. In a toned dust jacket with expert restoration to the spine panel and tips, repaired..... 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
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
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968. First American edition. 222, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth and boards, front board stamped in blind, spine stamped in black. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear. The first collection of the Romanian philosopher's work to be translated into English, uncommon..... More
London: Bertram Rota, 1972. First edition. Copy #220 of 550 copies. 58 pp. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An excellent copy. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. An important association copy, signed and inscribed by the artist. First edition, first printing. Limited issue; copy 92 of 100 numbered copies, with an original drawing by Miguel Covarrubias. Beneath the drawing Covarrubias has warmly inscribed, "To Frank Crowninshield to whom this book owes..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First thus. (First expanded edition, reprinting Crapsey's 1915 debut with additional poems.) 107 pp. Beautifully patterned paper over boards, tan cloth backstrip with paper label. Basically Fine with a little rubbing along bottom and top edges in Very Good+ or better unclipped jacket with..... More
Santa Barbara: Neville, 1990. First edition. One of a limited 50 copies, this one out of series; a presentation copy signed on limitation page by the author and inscribed to bullfighting aficionado Tony Brand. The facing page is inscribed by Barnaby Conrad, who wrote the introduction. Bound in publisher's red..... More
Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker, 1944. First edition. Signed by August Derleth on half-title, inscribed to former owner and dated 3/11/47. x, 235 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket, toned with age, worn at tips. Poetry by the founder of Arkham House..... More
London: Christian Age, 1887. Third British edition. xvi, 454, [2] pp. with twelve plates and a frontispiece. Bound in publisher's green cloth with elaborate black and gilt stamping, black coated endpapers. Very Good+, foxing and dust-soiling to edges, light wear along edges, foxing to prelims, name written on blank at..... 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
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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. First edition. (Letter "A" on copyright page signifying a first printing.) xxiv, 160, 6 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with light wear and a little lean to spine, faint foxing to top edge, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket..... More
New York: Claude Kendall, 1931. First edition. Signed by Charles Fort on the page following the front free endpaper in black ink, inscribed to previous owner. That owner's regifting below. [x], 411 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Very Good with rubbing to spine lettering, slightly bumped corners..... More
Irvine, CA: Suntup Editions, 2022. Artist's edition, signed by artist David Alvarez. Bound in cloth, in pictorial dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Includes promotional bookmark and publisher's padding. A new copy, unread and sealed in original shrinkwrap. One of 1,000 copies. More
New York: Aperture, [1978]. Presentation copy signed by Robert Frank on the half-title, inscribed to former owner "an old book on my 60th Birthday New York City Nov. 9 1984 good luck [signed] Robert Frank." 178, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. First edition, first printing. xxii, 345 pp. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with rear hinge starting. In a rare example of the dust jacket, chipped along edges and reinforced with tape on verso in a few places, spine toned..... More
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1872. Signed by radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison on the blank page following the front free endpaper, warmly inscribed to his friend and neighbor Boston mayor Samuel Crocker Cobb in Roxbury, Jan. 1, 1874. Bound in publisher's green pebbled cloth with gilt spine lettering and..... More
