Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. x, 257 pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with boards ruled in blind and with spine stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with crease to spine, moderate wear to..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First American edition, first printing, first state ("help" on page 257, line 4), preceding the British edition by one day. [vi], 648. Bound in publisher's emerald green cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light bruising to spine ends and faint foxing to..... More
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Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1937. First Danish edition, fourth printing stated. 384 pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Very Good+ with lean to spine and light wear, toning, soiling, and foxing to wraps. Contemporary ownership signature in pencil to half-title page, light thumbing and occasional foxing to margins, scarcely noticeable; overopened..... More
London: Collins, 1971. Second British edition of the birding book by James Bond, the American ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming took for his iconic spy protagonist. Association copy signed by the author on the half-title page and inscribed to one of the two illustrators: "For Earl Poole in appreciation of..... More
London: International Surrealist Exhibition, 1936. Catalogue of the first International Surrealist Exhibition held in England. Presentation copy inscribed by E.L.T. Mesens to the French art dealer Pierre Loeb on the title page and signed by Mesens and eight other Surrealist artists: Hans Arp, Andre Breton, David Gascoyne, Humphrey Jennings, Jacqueline..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942. First edition, first printing. x, 261pp. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in white. Very Good+ with light wear, a few stains to cloth and to pages 192 and 193. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with wear to extremities, rubbing. The..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1959. First edition, hardbound 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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First edition, first printing. [vi], 271, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in burgundy, burgundy topstain. Near Fine with light wear to extremities and darkening to upper board edges; overopened at fly-leaf. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear..... More
London & Vienna: The International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1922. The first British edition and first English translation of Sigmund Freud's controversial essay introducing the concept of the "death drive," translated from the second German edition. [viii], 90, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960. First edition, first printing. [x], 243 pp. Bound in publisher's red batik-patterned paper-covered boards over gray spine cloth lettered in white and gray, gray topstain. Near Fine with light wear to extremities. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with very light rubbing..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1924. Reprint of second edition. Signed by Robert Frost on the front free endpaper and inscribed to Mary A. Hurd with the full text of his poem "Spring Pools" and the message: "With apologies for having been such a long long time about it..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1961. First edition, first printing. [viii], 337 pp. Bound in publisher's red and black paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with light bruising to spine ends, light foxing to upper edge of textblock, and bookplate to front free endpaper. In an unclipped..... More
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications Limited, 1987, 1992. First edition in 2 volumes. Each volume #1854 of a limited 2,500 copies. Each signed by George Harrison on the limitation page and signed by the illustrator Keith West on a bookplate on the front free endpaper, as issued. Each volume..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989. First edition, first priting. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page and dated "2/96." [x], 373pp. Bound in publisher's light green paper over black cloth spine lettered in metallic green. Near fine with a thin line of toning to bottom..... More
London: Edward Moxon, 1839. First edition. 336; 332; 304pp. Bound in contemporary half green calf, marbled paper over boards, spines ruled and decorated in gilt, morocco title labels, period yellow endpapers. From the library of a contemporary woman reader, with her name and "Christmas. 1842" in a neat hand to..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. First American edition, first printing. x, 381pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with subtle dampstaining to book and jacket with associated instances of transfer from dust jacket to cloth, former owner name to front free endpaper. In..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. First American edition, first printing. [viii], [1]-351; [vii]-324, 8, 4pp. Two volumes, bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth stamped in gilt and decorated in blind. Near Fine with some loss to cloth especially at spine ends, name effaced from front paste downs, previous owner's..... More
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press, 1998. First American edition, first printing, with all points present: embossed purple diamond boards; spine lacking "Year 1" and stating J. K. Rowling; complete number line, first edition statement and "Printed in the U.S.A. 23" on copyright page. Very Good+ with..... More
Seattle, WA: The Washington Equal Suffrage Association, 1909. First edition, first printing. [viii], 256 pp. Bound in publisher's white coated cloth stamped in orange, with banners reading "Votes for Women / Good Things to Eat." Good, with boards splayed, soiling and wear to binding with crack to rear joint at..... More
Seattle, WA: The Washington Equal Suffrage Association, 1909. First edition, first printing. [viii], 256 pp. Bound in publisher's white coated cloth stamped in orange, with banners reading "Votes for Women / Good Things to Eat." Very Good with rubbing and soiling to covers, front inner hinge slightly exposed, foxing to..... More
Seattle, WA: The Washington Equal Suffrage Association, 1909. First edition, first printing. [viii], 256 pp. Bound in publisher's white coated cloth stamped in orange, with banners reading "Votes for Women / Good Things to Eat." Good, with covers soiled, former owner gift inscription to front free end paper. Contents tanned..... More
Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc., 1991. Advance review copy. Bound in publisher's white wraps lettered in black. Fine in shrink wrap. The third title in King's Dark Tower series, nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. A superlative copy of the first edition, first printing. Review copy with publisher's slip tipped to front free endpaper. [iv], 956 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with light wear to cloth and light edge toning;..... More
[Blythe and Cape Town]: [No Publisher], 1909-1913. Youthful sketchbook of William Timlin, the author and illustrator of The Ship that Sailed to Mars. 28 illustrations in a variety of media on tinted crayon paper, several signed by Timlin, contained in a Winsor & Newton 7 x 10 inch sketchbook, beige..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition, signed by the author, as issued by the publisher. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Very Good+ with light lean to spine, light creasing, light general wear and soiling. The late author's magnum-opus, and one of the most..... More