New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955-1991. Volumes 1-9 complete. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, spines stamped in gilt and red. First edition. (First printings with the earlier volumes all lacking additional printing statements and the latter few having complete number lines.) Near Fine overall, a few bookseller pencil notations..... More
Berkeley: [np], 1997. First edition, limited issue signed by press co-founder Hawley on rear limitation page, copy #47 of 50 such copies. 29, (2) pp. Offwhite jacket over stapled plain brown wraps. Fine in Fine jacket. An excellent copy of a bibliography of influential Northern California poetry publisher Oyez. More
Philadelphia: T. Wardle, 1836. First American edition, from the thirteenth English edition, corrected. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind, with titles in gilt on the spines. Very Good. Cloth faded and lightly worn at the spine ends. Pages heavily foxed, marginal tear to pp. 195..... More
[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1939. Revised edition. The second edition of the pocket dictionary of African American slang attributed to the famous Cotton Club orchestra leader. It has been billed as "the first dictionary published by a Black person," but more accurately it is one of the first lexicons of..... More
[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1939. Revised edition. The second edition of the pocket dictionary of African American slang attributed to the famous Cotton Club orchestra leader. It has been billed as "the first dictionary published by a Black person," but more accurately it is one of the first lexicons of..... More
[New York]: Cab Calloway Inc., 1944. First edition thus; the third of Calloway's dictionaries, basically a third edition of his Cat-ologue.) 16 pp. 2.75" x 4.4" Stapled wraps. Sticker from furniture store to front cover, else Near Fine. A WWII-era African American slang dictionary issued by the famous Cotton Club..... More
[New York]: Cab Calloway Inc., 1944. First thus. (The third of Calloway's dictionaries, basically a third edition of his Cat-ologue.) 16 pp. 2.75" x 4.4" Stapled wraps. A Near Fine copy, staple rusted, very slight rubbing along spine. Attractive and bright with very little wear. A WWII-era African American slang..... 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
The Hague: Mouton & Co. Publishers, 1957. [1961]. No additional printings listed, but recto of rear cover shows a list of publisher's titles dating up until 1961, suggesting either unbound sheets of the first printing were bound into later issue/variant wraps, or possibly this is a later printing. Original pale..... More
Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1989. Signed by author on card tipped in to verso of front wrap, dated October 13, 1989; invitation from author and wife also tipped-in below that. First edition. Near Fine in custom slipcase with leather spine label lettered in gilt. An examination of the..... More
London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934. First edition, first printing. viii, 856 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red, with black topstain, issued without a dust jacket. Very Good+ with rubbing to cloth along edges, worn at head and tail, small bookplate to front free endpaper..... More
San Francisco & Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller Inc., 1981. A one-of-a-kind archive of pre-publication materials for Daniel J. H. Levack's bibliography of the works of science fiction visionary Philip K. Dick. Near Fine overall with little wear beyond typical aging, offsetting, and fading to some of the contents, which were not..... More
London: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1926. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with boards ruled in blind. Very Good. Cloth streaked in raking light, lightly rubbed at extremities. Light staining to textblock edge. Previous owner gift inscription to front free endpaper and..... More
London: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1926. First edition, first printing. Bound in near-contemporary half-leather over cloth, recently rebacked. Very Good. Several small edge tears to pages, light foxing to prelims and terminals, light worming to textblock edge. A style guide to British English usage, pronunciation and writing, colloquially referred..... More
London: Oxford at the Claredon Press, 1926. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with boards ruled in blind; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good or better with light rubbing to cloth and wear at corners and spine ends, endsheets foxed, pages toned..... More
London: Sheed & Ward, 1931. First edition. One of 500 unnumbered copies signed by Eric Gill & Rene Hague on colophon. American typographer and book designer Jackson Burke's copy with his bookplate on paste down. 121 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine in uncommon..... More
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London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858. xxxii, 750 pp. First edition, first printing. Bound in twentieth-century quarter morocco; bound without ads. Sunning to spine, rubbing or light scuffing to rear cover. Contents toned, with occasional and discrete markings from previous owner and several leaves repaired. The very first publication..... More
London: Routledge Kegan Paul, 1982. First edition. 199 pp. Original gray cloth lettered in green. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An excellent copy. More
Lowville, NY: Published and Sections Prepared by the Author. Twelve volumes of 14, lacking volumes 9 & 14. In publisher's original green cloth slipcases decorated in blind and lettered in gilt and black with clasps and chemise holding text bound in original wrappers and unbound cards with wood specimens of..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1923. First edition. xliv, 724 pp. Bound in publisher's limp maroon leatherette with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with light creasing to spine, corners slightly bumped, a few light stains to edges, pages toned with age. A very nice copy with bright gilt, text free of..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1923. First edition. xliv, 724 pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Good with L-shaped tear in cloth at head, tiny piece of tape on verso, faint tape stains on front and back boards. Cloth mottled, especially on back board, a little edge-worn. A few..... More
[Los Angeles]: [No Publisher], [1940]. A scarce early index of science-fiction fanzines (Imag-Index) its supplement, and four issues of yearbooks, bound together. [3], 71; [4, Supplement]; 19 [Yearbook of 1938], unpaginated [1939 Yearbook]; [2], [32],[4] [1940 Yearbook]; unpaginted [1941 Yearbook] pp. Bound in custom green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More
Washington, D.C. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908. First edition. Large folio, measuring approximately 18.5" x 24.25". Ex-library copy rebound in drab gray cloth with typical stamps on endpapers and edges; small circular stamps on versos (not rectos) of maps, though, which is nice, as the maps and seismograms present very..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970. First edition, first printing. Signed by both William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former owners. Bound in publisher's original ocher cloth boards with gilt spine titles blocked in maroon. Near Fine with slight residue to..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner, 1937. First edition. 130, [2] pp. with fold-out chart at front. Bound in publisher's paper covered boards with green cloth backstrip, paper title label. A Very Good copy with slightly foxed and rubbed boards, small corner chip to spine label. Tiny edge tear to..... More