New York: The Viking Press, 1927. First edition. 103 pp. Publisher's paper-covered boards with black cloth backstrip, paper title label on spine. Near Fine with wear to tips, in rare dust jacket with label, Very Good, a little black staining to front panel, spine panel a but sunned, light edge..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979. First edition. Signed by Richard Rorty on front free endpaper, inscribed under his nickname to former owner, likely fellow Princeton Philosophy professor James Ward Smith, in the year of publication, "For Jim Merry Christmas! [signed] Dick 20/12/79." xvi, 402 pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine..... More
Chicago: Socialistic Publishing Society, 1886. First edition. [ii], 188 pp. Publisher's original pink wraps. Very Good with typical toning and light soiling to wrappers, chip along inner edge of front wrap, some corners of contents lightly creased. Printed at a slight angle. Uncommon. The words of August Spies, Michel..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1994. First edition, first printing. Signed by Mister Rogers on the front free endpaper and inscribed "For a special friend of Pittsburgh Magazine with kindest reguards." Original cloth and paper covered boards. Near Fine with faint bowing to boards in a Near Fine unclipped dust..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First edition. [vi], 305 pp. Publisher's dark navy cloth, front stamped in blind, spine in gilt. A Near Fine copy with a little rubbing to gilt, bottom tips worn, hinges a little free. An attractive copy of the American author's debut novel. More
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1910. First edition. (Precedes the British edition by two days.) x, 326 pp. Publisher's green ribbed cloth stamped in white and gilt. Near Fine with much less rubbing to stamping than usually found, light rubbing along bottom edge of cloth, rear hinge a bit..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. First edition. Association copy signed by Dorothy West on front free endpaper, inscribed to Adelaide M. Cromwell (whose signature is above this), under her married name, Hill: "October 1976. With so much love. Thank you for all the years of your friendship, [signed] Dorothy." Cromwell..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Roter Panther, 1970-1971. Complete run, numbers 1-3 in two issues (the second was issue #2/3). First issue is a single folded sheet, 11 3/4" x 16 3/4", 4pp. Second issue is same size, 6pp. Text in German. Printed in red and black. Very Good, both sheet folded..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with a vibrant red topstain. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear. A fantastic copy of Pecora's account of serving as chief counsel in the Senate hearings..... More
Tubingen: Cotta, 1808. 309 pp. German language. First Edition of the first segment in its complete form, though previously appeared in 1790 as a partial printing, Faust, A Fragment. In an unusual three-quarter early 20th-century art binding with brown marbled paper over metallic patterned cloth. Near Fine. Light working to..... More
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. First edition, first printing. First issue with proper textual errors: "Bamamgwato" for "Bamangwato" on p. 10, line 14; "to let twins to live" for "to let twins live" on p. 122, line 27; and "wrod" instead of "word" on p. 307, line 29, and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition, first printing. Limited issue; copy 75 of 100 numbered copies, each bound with original artwork signed by Miguel Covarrubias. Bound in publisher's black cloth-backed boards with blue sides, with titles stamped in gilt; lacking the slipcase. Illustrated with 56 drawings, some in..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1914. First edition. One of only 595 copies printed and bound at the University Press, Cambridge, MA. xxvi, 151 pp. Original cream-colored paper over boards and white cloth lettered in black; lacking the unprinted dust jacket. Very Good with toning and rubbing to covers. Previous..... More
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University / The Charles Deering Library, 1938. Second printing. Signed by Stefan Zweig in purple ink on the front free end paper. Publisher's patterned red paper covered boards with title labels on spine and upper board. Near Fine with light toning and shelf wear to covers. Signed..... More
London: Macmillan and Company, 1890. First edition, first printing of Frazer's groundbreaking wide-ranging comparative study on mythology and religion. A presentation copy, signed and warmly inscribed to a former owner by James George Frazer on the first blank page of Volume I. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original green cloth..... More
London: J. Nourse & P. Vaillant, 1750. First British edition, and the first edition in the English language of Baron de Montesquieu's pioneering work in comparative law. Bound in recent marbled paper boards over leather spine with raised bands and morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Cigar smoke odor to..... More
New York: Gemor Press, 1945. First Edition. Deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies signed and numbered by Anais Nin at rear colophon, with five color hand-pulled woodblock prints by Ian Hugo tipped in (issued along side a regular edition with a limitation of 1,000 unsigned copies.) Publisher's pink paper covered..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956. First edition, first issue with Lucien Carr listed on the dedication page and a period after Harlem on the rear cover. Publisher's black wraps printed in blue with white wraparound printed in black. Very Good. toning and light soiling to wraps, bottom corner..... More
Boston and Toronto: Atlantic- Little, Brown & Company, 1983. First edition, first printing, hardcover issue. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Either a review copy or publisher's file copy, with publisher's slips tipped into front paste down. viii, 88 pp. Dark bluish green cloth, spine lettered in gilt..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1940. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with spine titles blocked in brown and gilt. Near Fine with light spotting to cloth, foxing to endsheets and vintage bookseller ticket to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, which..... More
[no place]: [none], 1966. [1966]. The correct first edition, self published by the poet. Bound in original printed wraps, not over-printed in blue and verso of the rear free endpaper is blank; this was printed later the same year by Stolen Paper Review Editions and went through various printings under..... More
Minneapolis: North American Tattoo Club, 1979-1981. 22 issues, consecutively running from issue #28-#49. 8.5" x 11" sheets. Contents ranging from 4 pp. to 18 pp. Left margins three-hole punched, else Near Fine. A tattoo newsletter with many black and white photos, beginning with "Neil Grant Tattooing Gregg Allman" of the..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, 1952. First American edition. Publisher's paper-covered boards decorated by Matisse. Very Good with bowing to front board, bottom edge rubbed, contents a little toned. In Near Fine original unclipped dust jacket, bright and attractive with a little wear..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. [xii], 196 pp. Dark grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine.A few faint stains to edges, else Fine in an unsunned Near Fine dust jacket, price inked out, lightly rubbed, crease to bottom of back panel. The author's first account..... More
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou / A Lamplighter Book, 1978. First edition, first printing. 150, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps with black and white author photo on the front cover taken by Rosemary Klemfuss. Very Good, rubbed along edges, creased spine, Marin Poetry Center inkless emboss on front free endpaper. The..... More