Reading: Sutton and Sons, 1950. Second edition. Signed by Martin A. F. Sutton on the front free end paper, warmly inscribed to a previous owner. About Very Good, with light must odor to pages. Binding slightly sunken and a bit pulled. Top edge of page block foxed. Cloth a bit... More
London: The St. Catherine Press, 1937. First edition. Very Good, lacking jacket. Leather binding lightly scuffed and lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends. Gilt stamping on spine remains sharp and bright. End sheets foxed, pages toned and occasionally foxed or thumbed. Faded tide mark to edge of page block... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. First edition, first printing. Very Good with fading to boards at top and bottom edges, and a small ding to the edge of the bottom board. Previous owner birthday gift inscription to front free end paper. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Pale wraps printed in brown. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. Very Good with staining, creasing and wear to wraps. Small chip to the rear cover, joints worn at ends. Pages toned, with several corners creased. States "First American Edition" on... More
New Orleans: Harmanson, 1938. 96 pp. First edition, third printing. Signed by the author, inscribed to a previous owner. Very Good, with light creasing to front cover. Stain to bottom edge of pages, which is heavier at the rear and front cover, and is less pronounced toward the middle pages... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition, limited issue; Copy number 214 of 245 numbered copies [of a total edition of 305] signed by Ludwig Bemelmans. Bound "in the draperies of a famous New York hotel," in publisher's black slip case with gold title band, hand numbered 214 on... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1938. First edition stated, first printing. very Good, with light uneven discoloring to cloth at spine and rear cover, creases to decorative silver foil band at spine. Paste downs offset from binder's glue, small sticker removal from rear paste down. States first edition. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1984. Signed. First edition, first printing. Signed by Tom Robbins on the front free end paper. Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with light wear at extremities, light rubbing and a small scuff to the front panel near the flap fold. A nice copy. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1966. First American edition, first printing. Good+, with light lean to spine, light foxing to covers and edge of page block, pages toned. In a Good+ dust jacket with publisher's price intact, foxing to flaps and blank verso, edge wear with several short... More
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. Signed. Multi-colored letterpress sheets in heavy stock card wraps with cork lined front cover. First edition, first printing and one of 777 copies. Full page holograph doodle from Bukowski, signed and dated October 10, 1963, with star burst flourishes with the word "poems" staggered around... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First American edition, first printing. Very Good. Cloth lightly and unevenly faded; spine cloth dulled and with several small stains. Previous owner bookplate to front paste down, and very faint evidence of a bookplate removal on the front free end paper. Pages toned. Top... More
Boston: Ben Burk, 1935. First edition, first printing. Good. Cloth finish rubbed at extremities, frayingto corners and spine ends, rubbing to stamping. Edge of page block soiled, paged thumbed and toned with several check marks to margins and occasional stains. The first printing of the recipe guide which would become... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1996. First American Edition, First Printing with complete number line on the copyright page. Near Fine with light edge wear, remainder dot to bottom edge of pages, else a very sharp and crisp copy. In a Near Fine with jacket with light edge wear, light rubbing... More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First edition, first printing of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe, printed on pp. 143 under the pseudonym "Quarles." Half bound in contemporary leather binding over yellow cloth. Soiling and staining to cloth, with exposure to moisture evident to rear cover; leather rubbed at... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. First edition, first printing. Very Good in publisher's olive green cloth. Cloth toned at spine, lightly rubbed at edges, faint evidence of contact with water to bottom edge. Light lean to binding. Two tasteful owner book plates to front end sheet. Pages lightly toned, light scratches... More
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1972. Limited edition; copy #1766 of 5000. Near Fine, with light toning and light foxing to cloth, light rubbing to title stamping on spine. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's price intact, toning to spine, light soiling and light rubbing at extremities. Complete... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition, first printing. Very Good, with fading to cloth on spine and edges; light wear at corners and spine ends, a small abrasion to the top edge and small scuff to the top of the spine, light indentations to rear cover. Previous owner... More
New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855. First edition. 464pp. with four pages of advertisements at rear. Original brown cloth with a bit of professional restoration to edges, lettered in gilt, with original yellow endpapers. Illustrated. Gilt a bit rubbed and oxidized, head and tail cloth worn away... More
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1926. First edition. x, 284pp. Navy ribbed cloth with gilt stamping. An internally clean, bright copy with slightly tender but fully intact binding, else Near Fine with slightly sunned spine cloth, light wear at foot and head. No dust jacket. Former owner's name written on... More
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott and Co. First edition. 156pp. Gray cloth with green stamping on front board, white spine lettering. Near Fine in About Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with some small stains on the front panel, edge-rubbing. The first appearance of the O. Henry Prize-winning collection of... More
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1931. First edition. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with worn tips and gift inscription on ffep, in Good+ dust jacket that is chipped along edges, price-clipped, and a bit soiled but not too bad overall. The founder of Planned Parenthood's memoir about... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1873. New edition, limited to 1,500 copies signed by John Ruskin at the end of the preface. Three volumes bound in vellum with elaborate gilt stamping to spine and edges, decorative leather title labels to spine. Vellum is toned, soiled and marked, spines darkened. Inner... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. 288 pp. First American edition, with publisher's misattribution on the title page "by the Author of Jane Eyre." An early rebind with grey cloth over black leather spine and tips, with leather showing recent restoration and rubbing at edges. Inner hinges exposed, though binding... More
