New York: Brentano's, 1929. First American edition. xviii, 225 pp. Publisher's crimson cloth lettered in black. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped, with a few small chips to edges and a closed tear to the front panel, a little toning. Really an attractive example of the jacket designed..... More
Evanston, IL: Regency, 1962. First Edition. 157 pp. Very Good with small nick in front cover, light wear. The corrupt "world of the sensational negro press" is explored by African-American novelist and former newspaperman Clarence Cooper Jr. in this paperback original, with the front cover tagline "They Lived On The..... More
New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1967. First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Signed by author diagonally on front free endpaper. [viii], 248 pp. Gray cloth with reddish orange spine lettering. Near Fine with slight curve to back board, small spot on top edge slightly abraided, in Near..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1980. First edition. Inscribed on paste down to evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, signed by author. xvi, [2], 262 pp. Brown cloth with blue lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A nice association between two evolutionary biologists affiliated with Harvard. Darlington was called by..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by author as Richard Hooker on the title page with quote marks around his name; Richard Hooker is the pseudonym of Dr. Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. Near Fine, with light edge wear, toning to spine ends, small evidence..... More
(Midlothian, Texas): Midlothian Mirror, (1966). First edition, one of 500 numbered signed copies. Inscribed by Jones to former owner on limitation page, dated 11/11/1980. 188, [3, index], [1] pp. Original three quarter black leather with blue cloth sides, lettered in gilt. A Fine copy with slightly bumped top edge, slight..... More
Waldport, Oregon: Untide Press, 1945 [1946]. First edition, likely second impression. (According to Morgan the first and second impressions are identical. All but roughly 30 copies of the first impression were scrapped due to a printing mishap.) [35] pp. Heavy black wraps with slick white label wrapped around fold. A...... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Signed by Adolph Reed on the title page, warmly inscribed to former owner. x, [iv], 282 pp. Black cloth with copper lettering on spine. Second printing of the first edition. Slightly bumped corners, hinge at title page a bit overopened (perhaps during signing), else..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1971. First edition. 288pp. Black cloth in gilt lettering. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with unfaded spine panel, a little rubbed here and there with two miniscule stain dots to front panel. A nice first of the Last Exit to Brooklyn author's most difficult..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company / Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First trade edition. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards over darker blue spine cloth. Good, with oily stain and damage to rear cover, else light soiling and surface wear to covers. Previous owner bookplate to inside of front..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First Edition, Seventh Printing. Signed on the half title page by Kurt Vonnegut, with a self-portrait and inscription to previous owner reading "For Barbara R---, who found this book discarded by the library of Rice University." This book is NOT an ex-library copy, and there..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Very Good with some rubbing to stamping, sunning and foxing to cloth, faint storage odor to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with is toned and a...... More