New York: Scribner, 2014. First edition. Signed by Anthony Doerr on blank page at front. [viii], 531 pp. Publisher's blue boards with powder blue cloth backstrip lettered in blue. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with a very tiny spot of wear on front panel, else Fine. The Pulitzer-winning war novel..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1946. First edition. Signed by Saul Alinsky on front free endpaper. Former owner's name written above that with date of Feb 1946. 228 pp. Publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slightly dulled spine lettering, very slight wave to prelims..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1964. First edition. 304 pp. Publisher's black cloth and red paper-covered boards, spine lettered in red. Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with small nick in spine, two small closed tears in edges. Selby's dark masterpiece, which was the basis of the 1989 Uli Edel..... More
New York: Avon, 1977. First edition. (A paperback original.) Signed by the author on the title page. [viii], 246 pp. Publisher's wraps with red stained edges. A Very Good+ copy with uncreased spine, bright wraps, hint of sunning along top edge, slightly shelf rubbed, small ding to front wrap. A...... More
New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First edition, first printing of this science fiction classic. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light staining to cloth, faint reading crease to backstrip. Former owner bookplate to front paste down., pages lightly toned. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1870. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green pebbled cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine stamped in gilt. Near Fine with bumping to corners, light rubbing at extremities, light wear to spine ends and slight darkening to spine. Inner hinges slightly cracked..... More
Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1965. First edition, first printing. One of 700 copies, bound in publisher's printed white printed wrappers, Near Fine, with light toning at edges. Light, uneven toning and a very faint stain to the front cover. Distributor's rubber stamp to copyright page beneath printed text. In publisher's..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First edition, first printing in lovely example of the first issue dust jacket. Illustrated paper-covered boards with gray cloth backstrip. Near Fine with slight toning to covers, tiny area rubbed through at bottom edge of rear board, in a Near Fine dust jacket with..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, first printing, first issue lacking the disclaimer on page x. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with bronze title label printed in black to spine and upper board. Very Good+ with light lean to binding. Covers lightly worn, spine and pages toned..... More
Evanston, IL: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949. First edition, signed limited issue; copy #362 of a 760 signed by Albert Einstein. Bound in publisher's brown morocco-grain cloth over bevel-edged boards, stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight darkening to spine and trivial rubbing to crown. Endsheets faintly browned..... More
London: John Lehmann, 1952. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Paul Bowles and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page, "For Gregory Stephenson [,] inscribed in Tangier on the occasion of his first visit there. 15/VIII/79 [signed] Paul Bowles". Bound in publisher's original pale blue cloth with..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition, first printing. Signed by Haruki Murakami and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's printed blue paper-covered boards. Fine with faint shelf wear, in a Fine unclipped dust jacket with a small crease to the front flap. A superlative copy of..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt, Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket which is faintly soiled and faintly..... More
London: Printed for R. Marriot, and are to be sold by Charles Harper at his Shop London, the next door to the Crown near Sergeants-Inn in Chanery-lane, 1688. 1688. xvi, 1-255, [1], [16]. Fourth edition. Small 8vo, meauring roughly 5.5 x 3.75 inches, with ten engravings in text and two..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1955. First edition, first printing. Warmly inscribed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, and signed again by her on the title page. Bound in publisher's tan paper-covered boards over blue cloth spine. Very Good with some toning and..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1977. First edition, first printing; a review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Signed by Octavia Butler and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original green leatherette boards with blue titles to the spine. Fine, with trivial..... More
Elgin, Illinois: Brethren Publishing House, 1947. First edition, first printing. Signed by William Stafford and inscribed to a former owner on the recto of the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original pale green cloth stamped in gilt, Near Fine with light fading to cloth, in a Near Fine unclipped..... More
New York: Berkeley Publishing Corporation / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. Signed first edition. [vi], 185 pp. Publisher's white cloth with green lettering. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to former owners. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with light toning and edge wear. The second novel..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First edition, first printing. Signed by James Thurber and inscribed to former owners on the verso of the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in black. Good, with light stains to cloth and fading to spine ends, light edge..... More
New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First American edition, all first printings with properly dated title pages and publisher's imprint on all copyright pages. Six volumes. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and black stamping, dark brown endpapers. Near Fine with wear at heads and tails, tips a little rubbed..... More
Xenia, OH: The Aldine Printing House, 1892. First edition. [vi], [I]-III,[1], [7]-304 pp. with frontispiece of the author. Publisher's tan and crimson cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, lettered in gilt; original floral endpapers and gilt topstain. Housed in custom cloth slipcase. A Good copy with mottling and edge-rubbing..... More
Noblesville, IN: Soulcraft, 1950-1951. 35 issues or "discourses" in total, broken run. Discourses #4, 5, 7-17, 20, 21, 26-31, 33-40, 42-47. Publisher's staple-bound wraps. Near Fine overall with light toning, occasional staple rust, a little curling around spines, faint coffee stains to front wraps of discourses #12 and #27; generally..... More
London: The Popular Phrenologist Company, 1896-1904. First edition. Complete in nine volumes with wrappers bound in, bound in three parts. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with bumped corners,offsetting to endpapers, former owner's name on front free endpapers and a few penciled notes to rear paste down, typical..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed and dated by Stephen King on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original red paper-covered boards over black spine cloth stamped in silver and metallic red. Near Fine with light lean to spine, light shelf wear and light..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First edition, first printing. xii, 298 pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering, gilt topstain. A Near Fine copy with bright gilt, a little mottling to cloth, line of sunning to back board. Internally clean and bright, occasional light foxing to photo pages. No..... More