New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. First edition, first printing. An association copy signed by Jane Addams to University of Chicago Professor Charles E. Merriam. A fellow Chicago reformer, Merriam was a leader in organizing nation-wide research in the social sciences, serving as President of the American Political Science Association..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1945. Signed by Eric Ambler to film director Roy Ward Baker, dated August 16, 1946. Ambler was Baker's superior in the British army at the time, shortly thereafter penning the screenplay for his first feature, The October Man. They would collaborate in 1958 on the..... More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. First edition. Signed by Karel Appel and inscribed to Allen [Ginsberg], who co-authored the text to this book. Inscribed "To Allen with love from Karel / to make a new book 'The Dragon' soon." Bound in publisher's original blue cloth blindstamped on upper board and..... 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
San Francisco: Cranium Presss / Or, 1966. Signed by Richard Brautigan on verso of front wrap, inscribed to writer Floyd Salas on his birthday (one day early, actually) in San Francisco, Jan. 23, 1971. Publisher's red printed wraps, hand-sewn string binding. Second Edition. Very Good, small stain to front wrap..... More
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Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937. First edition in English. Bound in publisher's tan printed wraps, Near Fine with toning and light creases. Laid in are two typed signed letters from the translator sent at the suggestion of Martin Buber to his close friend, activist and education progressive Elisabeth Rotten..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. First edition. A fantastic association copy signed by Frances Hodgson Burnett, best-known for her children's classic novel, The Secret Garden, and inscribed on a preliminary blank, to "Mary Mapes Dodge from F.H.B." Dodge was an influential American children's author, best known for her novel..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. First edition. Signed by John Cage on verso of front free endpaper. The copy of Ihab Hassan with his signature, as well, to paste down. His marginal brackets and checks occasionally throughout text; a list of his notes with corresponding page numbers is written..... More
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1965. Association copy. First edition, first printing in supplied first issue dust jacket, unclipped with small tear in top of front panel, slightly edge-worn and spine-sunned, Very Good overall. x, 251 pp. Original navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. A few small stains in text. Pioneering Dutch..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. First edition. Signed by Francis Crick, inscribed to evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, "For Stephen Jay Gould / Best wishes, Francis Crick." xiv, 317, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and paper-covered boards. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An excellent association between the..... More
London: The O.T.O., 1939. First edition. Signed by Aleister Crowley and inscribed to Ralph Shirley on the front free end paper. Shirley was the editor of The Occult Review. Bound in publisher's brown cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt, with frontis portrait of Crowley. Very Good. Cloth faded and soiled, scratch..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. Reprint. An association copy, signed by Roald Dahl on the front free end paper in black marker, and further inscribed "To John" by both Jeremy Irons and Sam Irons on the front free end paper. Jeremy Irons is a British Oscar-winning actor, who, with his son..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Signed. First edition, first printing. A fantastic association copy linking two titans of evolutionary biology, inscribed by Theodosius Dobzhansky "To Stephen Jay Gould with compliments and reminiscences of the conference of the American Academy May 24, 1974." Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket..... More
New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, 1977. Signed by Larry Eigner in pencil and inscribed to John Martin, publisher of Black Sparrow Press, and his wife Barbara, who designed the press's books. Eigner had a severe palsy that made writing by hand difficult; typing wasn't much easier, he used only his..... More
London: The Egoist Ltd., 1917. First edition. 40 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps printed in black. From the library of Modernist poet and publisher John Rodker, with laid in typed correspondence between Rodker's daughter Joan and a British bookseller regarding the sale of some of Rodker's books, with an..... More
Paris: Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934. First edition. Complete in five volumes, each one of 800 numbered copies on Navarre paper. Publisher's variously-colored wraps, housed in a custom slipcase. Text in French. Near Fine with slightly rubbed and shelfworn wraps, repairs to spines, faint crease to front wrap of third volume..... More
New York: Adelphi Company, 1934. First edition. Signed and inscribed to United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone by Irving Fisher, Frederic Delano (President, Stable Money Association), and James Rand (Chairman, Committee for the Nation) on a limitation slip tipped in on the front pastdown. Justice Stone's ownership..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. First edition, first printing, first issue. An association copy, signed by Robert Frost and warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper to his longtime friend Charles Oliphant, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Methuen, Massachusetts. The first issue errors are present and..... More
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923. First trade edition, first printing. An important presentation association copy signed and inscribed by Robert Frost with a quotation from the title poem: "'How high I'd thrust the peaks in summer snow/ To tap the upper sky and draw a flow/ Of frosty..... More
[np]: [No Publisher], 1995(?). A presentation set with three volumes signed by Gajdusek and inscribed in 1995 to evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, with an inscribed 8" x 11" sheet listing the volumes (apparently a fraction of the voluminous journals of the author) laid in. A Year in the Middle..... More
Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Social Sciences Research Centre, 1956. Presentation copy of the first edition. (Printed three years before its American debut.) (viii), 162, (1) pp. Original stiff wraps. Laid in slip on U.S. Government stationary (interestingly enough), dated "5. Nov" and typed "Dear Dr. von Mering: Thanks for the..... More
New York: Signet Books, 1962. First paperback edition. Signed by John Howard Griffin to his publisher: "For Kurt, With warmest regards, John, Oct. 1962." [ii], 157, [3] pp. Illustrated wraps. Near fine bright copy with just a hint of handling. From the library of Dr. Kurt Enoch (1895-1982), a noted..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. Advance uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Bound in publisher's blue wraps printed in black with review slip laid in. From the library of Irish writer Francis Stuart, with presentation inscription on the half-title from Ted Hickey reading, "For Francis Stuart from Ted Hickey..... More
New York: Something Else Press, 1964. First edition. Association copy signed by both Dick Higgins and Nam June Paik, two major figures in the interdisciplinary avant garde Fluxus movement. First gifted and inscribed "for Paik by dick" on the front free endpaper, dated October 21, 1964; then inscribed to another..... More
New York: Basic Books, 1995. First edition, first printing. A lovely association copy, signed and inscribed by Douglas R. Hofstadter to Stephen Jay Gould and his family, "To Steve, Deborah, Jesse and Ethan with much fondness from Doug April, 1985." Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt..... More