Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press & Harvard University Press, [1965]. Signed by Kevin Lynch on the front free endpaper, inscribed to Donald Schon, a fellow MIT professor whose bookplate is laid in, once attached to front paste down, glue remnant. Schon was a philosopher who invented the concept of..... More
New York: American Publishing Company, 1895. 320, [2] pp. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in black and crimson with gilt spine lettering, floral endpapers. Near Fine with light rubbing, corners slightly bumped. A late 19th century edition of the classic novel, illustrated. More
London: Michael Joseph, 1962. First edition, first printing. In publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; lacking the dust jacket. Fine, with light dust-soiling to top edge of textblock. The Nobel Prize-winning author's best-known novel. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First edition, first printing of the ninth James Bond title. Near Fine with light shelf wear, light lean to binding, foxing to textblock edge and area of abrasion to front free endpaper likely from an eraser. This was the first book to feature Bond's classic nemesis..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First edition, first printing. Gray illustrated cloth with cream lettering on front, gilt spine lettering; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with rubbing and soiling to cloth, worming to textblock edge, hinge at recto of frontispiece slightly exposed and rear inner hinge more so..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1954. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth affect paper over boards, lettered in magenta. Near Fine with light shelf wear, large area of glue residue from bookplate removal on front free endpaper. In a Near Fune unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and..... More
Hartford, CT: Printed by Oliver Steele, 1804. 92 pp + [2] contents. Early edition of the first published book of poetry written by an African-American, originally printed in 1773. Bound in contemporary boards over calf spine. Good. An imperfect copy, with pages browned, occasionally chipped or edge-torn, and with horizontal..... More
London: Heinemann, 1961. Uncorrected proof. Plain pale green wraps. [viii], 282 pp. About Very Good, wraps edge worn and slightly soiled, spine cocked, edges lightly foxed, tiny stain to margin of page 9. An advance copy of an early novel by the author of A Clockwork Orange. More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co, Ltd., 1917. First edition. (Precedes the American edition.) viii, 348 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. Upper tips worn, else Fine with slight oxidization to gilt, offsetting to endpapers, in a Very Good example of the rare dust jacket, with typical wrinkling..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Limited edition. Copy 1182 of 1200 copies signed by artist Lucille Corcos at rear colophon of second volume. xvi, [iv], 308; [vi], 309-484, [2] pp. Publisher's blue boards with red buckram backstrips, stamped in gilt, all edges stained red; housed in original blue..... More
Los Angeles: The Zora Gallery, 1965. First edition. Thick sheets, disbound as issued, housed in white folding portfolio. Near Fine in Very Good+ portfolio, lightly creased. One of a hundred copies of Hirschman's fifth book, printed by John Brandi, text surrounded by reproductions of Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline's work..... More
Chicago: J. Fairbanks & Co., 1879. First edition. 526 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's purple cloth stamped in black and red, lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. Near Fine with worn and slightly frayed head, scuff to front board. An attractive copy, uncommon in such nice shape. One preacher's crusade against the wickedness..... More
San Francisco: The City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1955. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's stapled pages into perfect bound black wraps with yellow card wraparound printed in black. Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and inscribed to owners "Bill and Pat" in the year of publication on the recto of rear..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1846. First edition, first printing. Bound in modern marbled boards over morocco spine lettered in gilt. 279 pp. Engraved folding map linen backed, 1 folding hand-colored lithograph geographical cross-section, 4 folding plates of shells by G. B. Sowerby. Title page, preface and one contents page..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1844. First edition, first printing. Bound in modern marbled boards over morocco spine lettered in gilt. 175 pp. Folding fronticpiece map is linen backed, illustrations in text. Embossed stamp on title and last page appears to from a personal library reading (William [?] H. Brown..... More
New York: Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic Press, 1998. First edition, first printing, all first printing 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. Near Fine, in a...... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1932. First edition, first printing. 280 pp. Bound in publisher's original crimson cloth with bronze stamping; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Light lean to spine. Fading to cloth at spine and unevenly to edges of rear board. Offsetting to endsheets. Previous owner name..... More
Cologne: Taschen, 2015. Signed by David Bowie and Mick Rock, copy #1481 of 1972 copies in the limited first edition. 310 pp. Pictorial boards, housed in original pink box. Fine. Sealed in unopened paper wraps, as new; box opened to photograph contents and reclosed. The early years of glam pioneer..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1936. First edition. xiii, [iii], 320 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with front stamped in blind, spine in gilt. Very Good with light edge wear and rubbing, bump to back board along bottom edge, in the scarce original dust jacket, About Good, large chip at..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. 14, [2] pp. Original tan paper covered boards with blue denim backstrip. First edition. One of 361 numbered copies signed by Bukowski and Crumb. Near Fine with faint foxing to edges, in publisher's unprinted acetate jacket, Very Good with rubbing and light creases at..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth decoratively stamped in black and gilt, with illustrations by George du Maurier. Very Good with significant slant to spine. Cloth rubbed, worn at extremities, with shallow chipping at spine ends. Pages are toned and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition, first printing with "A" and publisher's colophon on the copyright page. 140 pp. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with silver lettering. Very Good with light lean to spine, light fading to cloth and light edge wear. In a Very Good unclipped..... More
London: Macmillan, 1965. First edition. Signed by John Wain on the title page in blue ink, inscribed to former owner. [viii], 50, [2] pp. Publisher's illustrated boards. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A book-length poem by the British author and poet known as one of the Angry Young Men and..... More
New York: Grossman Publishers / Orion Press. First American edition. x, 244 pp. Publisher's patterned paper-covered boards with crimson spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn. An existential novel by the French-Tunisian writer known for his The Colonizer and the Colonized, a pioneering work of postcolonial..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Two volumes, both are first edition (stated), first printings. Volume I is Signed by Julia Child and her husband Paul on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner; Volume II is signed by Julia Child on the half-title page and inscribed to a...... More