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
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
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. Signed by Charles Willeford; copy #75 of 400 thus. 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
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
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
New York: Lee Furman, 1937. First American edition. 320 pp. with four pages of b/w photos at front. Bound in orange cloth with black stamping to cloth, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket with rubbing along edges, tiny chip in bottom of front panel, wear along..... 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, 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
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
Hartford, CT: Park Publishing Co., 1881. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1881.) xxiii, [i], 13-516 pp. with tissue-guarded frontispiece, Bound in publisher's terra cotta cloth decorated in blind, with titles in gilt on the spine. Very Good with wear and a little fraying to cloth at head..... 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
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1965. First British edition. 255 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, top edge foxed, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, rubbed and a little worn along edges, slight creasing to top of front panel,unclipped (36 s net). A foundational work..... 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
