London: Rex Collings, 1972. Signed. First edition, first printing. Warmly inscribed by the author "To dear Janet, with much love, Richard Adams, December 1974." Very Good, lean and reading crease to spine, bumping to foot, light rubbing to cloth at extremities, endpapers foxed, previous owner name (Janet Vernon Hall) to..... More
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1964-1968. First edition, first printing set of the children's fantasy series. Complete in five clothbound volumes. Final volume, The High King, signed by Lloyd Alexander with brief inscription, dated 1984. Signed bookmark about Alexander's work laid in as well. Near Fine in Very Good..... More
London: John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd., [1911]. First edition. Very Good with gift inscription on title page dated "Xmas '10," suggesting a 1910 publication date. 320 pp. Blue cloth with pictorial paper inlay, green, black and gilt stamping; plain edges. Pictorial frontispiece and color plate at p. 240, apparently..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's olive green cloth with elaborate gilt stamping; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good or better with light lean to binding, toning and light wear to cloth, light fraying at corners and spine ends. Related clippings..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight toning to spine, extremities lightly bumped and small ink spot to lower joint. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown. In a Very Good original dust jacket with..... More
London: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition, British issue. Signed by Algernon Blackwood on the front free endpaper in colored pencil "S.A.B. from A." It appears that the final initial, "B," of his name may have been erased; an impression of a penciled date of 1914 below that is visible..... More
Buenos Aires: Emece Editores, 1961. Signed by Jorge Luis Borges, inscribed to Robert Lima, an American translator and scholar who wrote the first critical work in English on Borges. 176 pp. Bound in publisher's green wraps. In Spanish. Very Good with rubbing and light wear to wraps, spine creased, slight..... 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
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc., 1969. First American edition. Review copy. Signed by Jorge Luis Borges on the half title in blue ink, inscribed around that by the translator, Norman Thomas di Giovanni in the year of publication, to scholar and translator Robert Lima. Lima wrote the first..... More
New York: McClurg & Co., 1918. First edition. (Stated "Published, April, 1918" on copyright page with dated title page.) [x], 350, [4] pp. Publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt. Some reading wear and slight soiling, else Near Fine with bright gilt, binding a bit shaken, former owner's name on..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1914. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt on upper board and spine, no acorn at imprint; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with slight lean to binding. Spine cloth slightly faded, gilt lettering a bit dulled on the..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1914. First edition, first printing with publisher's two-line imprint on copyright page printed in Olde English, in Currey B binding with acorn at the foot of the spine. Signed by Edgar Rice Burroughs on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap. 1914 [but later]. Reprint. Signed by Edgar Rice Burroughs and inscribed to a former owner on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in black. Very Good with light staining, soiling and wear to cloth, fading to spine. Light worming..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1920. First edition. [x], 428 pp. Original grayish green cloth with purple lettering. About Very Good with light wear, cracked hinges, textblock fallen. No jacket. The seventh Tarzan novel, featuring dastardly German villains. More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. First edition, first printing with "wade" for "wabe" on page 21. Bound in full polished red calf by Zaehnsdorf. Very Good with some rubbing to bextremities, sunning to spine, bookplate to front paste down and toning to pages. With black and white illustrations by John..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. First and only edition; later issue with white endsheets, consisting of remaindered sheets put into covers perhaps as late as 1931. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with fading/mottling to cloth, contents toned and with several hinges slightly exposed. In a...... More
London: Constable & Company, 1917. First edition. Original cloth-back boards, paper spine label with red lettering. Near Fine with foxing to edges, a few reading smudges. A few pages unopened. A British Catholic poet's only published foray into fantastical fiction, often described as poetic, overwrought, and slightly reminiscent of Tolkien..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First edition in English, first printing. Publisher's white cloth stamped with floral pattern, repeated on edges and endsheets, title page printed in red and black. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and faded, spine creased and worn at the ends. Lean to binding. Front inner hinge exposed..... More
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. First edition. Copy #309 0f 500 copies. Signed by author on preface in bold black ink and by illustrator on frontispiece. 322 pp. Original gilt-ruled half vellum and orange cloth with leather spine label lettered in gilt, gilt top stain, marbled endpapers. Very Good, lacking..... 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: Collins, 1960. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with light wear, light foxing and a few light stains to pages, former owner name effaced from front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with some light..... More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition, first printing. Signed by William Goldman facing the title page, inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine lettered in red and black. Fine, with a stray ink mark to verso of front free endpaper. In a Near Fine..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2000. 2000 [but later]. Signed by William Golding and inscribed to a former owner. Mass market paperback, bound in publisher's original wraps. Near Fine with trivial shelf wear to wraps. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine lettered in red and black. Near Fine with light bruising to cloth at spine ends, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear to spine ends, light general wear and..... More
Orlando: Harcourt Inc., 1973. Signed by William Goldman on the title page and from the author's personal collection with his estate's rubber stamp to the half-title page. Reprint. Bound in publisher's original paper boards over red paper-covered spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket..... More