London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. First edition, first printing. First issue with "Bouverie St" on the illustrated title page; with the farmyard frontispiece and tissue guard. Complete with 12 color plates. Bound in contemporary half-leather over marbled paper, with short split at top of front joint, glue-strengthened from the inner..... More
![The Cynic's Word Book [The Devil's Dictionary]. Ambrose Bierce](/pictures/thumb/180225008_1.jpg?v=1519609513)
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First edition, first printing, first state with no frontispiece. Very Good. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, soiled and with rubbing to decorative stamping. Front and rear inner hinge cracked but binding remains solid. Pages toned, lightly soiled. A satirical dictionary which Bierce worked..... 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
[New York]: [Privately published by Dan Burley], 1944. First edition. Bound in publisher's organge wraps printed in black with "Copyright by Dan Burley" rubber stamp to front cover. A fragile copy. Good with general wear, loss at base of spine and tear along bottom front joint; joints tender. Light staining..... 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 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 with rubbing along spine, staple rusted, faint crease to back wrap upper corner. A WWII-era African American slang dictionary..... More
The Hague: Mouton & Co. Publishers, 1957. First edition, first printing. Original pale blue wraps printed in dark blue. Very Good with toning to wraps at spine and edges, light soiling, light wear at joints. Corners bumped. Previous owner name to first page, and ink notations to text to a...... 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
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1959. First edition, board issue. (One of only 80 such copies for libraries, issued alongside 735 wrappered copies. Joshi 54.) 54pp. Near Fine with a few light stains to boards. Ex libris bookplate of author and Arkham House co-founder Donald Wandrei laid in. A stopper for..... More
London: Printed by Geo. James, and sold by Maurice Atkins, 1712. First edition in English. [x], 218, [2, Instructions to Binders] pp. with 32 folding plates after designs by Alexandre Le Blond. Full contemporary paneled calf, red spine label lettered in gilt. Very Good with all plates present and in..... 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
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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
San Fransisco: El. Curtis Hocker, 1941. 155 pp. Spiral bound stiff printed wraps. First edition, stated. Very Good. Wraps show toning, edge tears to yapped edges at rear, pages lightly toned and with a short tear to the "Memoranda" page at rear. Very scarce. More
Rutherford, NJ. Medical Economics, Inc., 1947. First edition. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light shelf wear, toning to pages. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light soiling, light crimping and light shelf wear. The first edition of the widely-used reference commonly referred to..... 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
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: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First edition, fourth issue. Signed by Roger Tory Peterson and generically inscribed on the dedication page. Bound in publisher's green pebbled cloth stamped in silver; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good with light general wear to binding. Foxing to endsheets. Pages toned and lightly..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert L. Ripley and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original grayish-green cloth stamped in red; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light fading to spine, light rubbing to extremities..... 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: S. Converse, Printed by Hezekiah Howe, New Haven, 1828. First edition, first printing. Complete in two volumes. Contemporary mottled calf with black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, with the "Additions and Corrections" leaf bound at the end of Volume II; November 28 Advertisement absent, as is nearly..... More
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by T. Cadell, 1768. First Edition. xix, [1], 169, [7] pp. With three folding copper-plate engravings. Tree calf rebacked in modern leather retaining earlier morocco lettering piece, gilt-rolled edges. Very Good+ with some rubbing, staining and a few scuffs to calf; contents generally..... More