Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1999. First edition. Signed by Robert Crumb in pencil on publisher's bookplate on front free endpaper, copy #272 of 400 thus. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. The doodles and sketches of America's most famous underground comix artist, the seventh..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition, limited issue. Copy "F" of an unspecified number of lettered copies that are not mentioned on the colophon, signed by Ludwig Bemelmans. [ii],192 pp. Bound "in the draperies of a famous New York hotel," in publisher's black slip case with gold title..... More
New York: The Century Company, 1912. First edition, first printing. x, 284 pp. 32 full page plates from photographs by Huber, Taber, Le Conte and the Pillsbury Picture Co.; 3 folding maps. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with gilt, periwinkle, and royal blue stamping, top edge gilt. Slight bump..... More
New York: Basic Books, [1980]. Signed by Douglas R. Hofstadter on the title page. xxi, [1], 777 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Twelfth printing of the first edition.Very Good with a few small stains to edges, binding shaken, in a Very Good dust jacket..... More
London: Printed by Turnbull & Spears for J. M. Dent at Aldine House, 1893-1894. First Beardsley edition. Complete in two volumes each measuring 9.25" x 7.5". Finely bound by Birdsall in gilt-ruled and elaborately ornamented midnight blue levant with arts & crafts gilt-tooled faery vignettes on green, red, and orange..... More
New York: Philomel, 1986. First American edition, first printing. 351 pp. Bound in publisher's gray boards with red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Near Fine with miniscule stain to front board, in Near Fine first state dust jacket with small dimple in front gutter, wear at tips, hint of sunning..... More
Chicago: Self-published, 1911. First edition. 142 pp. with author portrait. Bound in publisher's pebbled cloth with black printed titles. A Good copy, with rubbing and strips of wear to cloth, flaking along spine, front hinge starting. Tidemark along fore edge intruding into margins of some pages; some light stains, former..... More
[Los Angeles?]: Al Jadid, 1992. First edition. Signed by Mahmoud Darwish on the front free endpaper in blue ink. Bound in publisher's wraps with red belly band that is loose on back wrap. In the original Arabic. Very Good+ with light bumping along top edge, slight crease to front wrap..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960. First edition. Signed by Herman Kahn on front free endpaper, inscribed "To Geri, If and when you read it please don't expose it-- i.e. [illegible] were estimated with great care (see note on page 626) [signed] Herman." xx, 651 pp. Bound in publisher's..... More
Montreal: Published for McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1956. First edition, first printing. Signed by Leonard Cohen on the front free endpaper in black ink. 79 pp. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with slight dust-soiling to edges, former owner's name written..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ursula K. Le Guin on the front free endpaper. [viii], 184 pp. Bound in publisher's green boards and blue cloth backstrip, gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($4.95). A superb copy. This Locus award-winning science..... More
Buffalo, NY: The Courier Lithograph Co., [1880s]. Chromolithograph portrait print of 19th century American stage actress Bertha Welby (1844-1917). Single-sided, measuring 11" x 14". Very Good, with two small dark spots, one of which at first looks like a beauty mark on Welby's face; bit of foxing visible on verso..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986. First American edition. 880 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in silver. Fine in an unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, else Fine. The Russian author's suppressed masterwork, which has been compared to Tolstoy's War & Peace. More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First edition, limited issue. Signed by Countee Cullen on the colophon at front, copy 124 of 128. xiii, 111 pp. Bound in publisher's quarter cloth, silver title label, internal bookmark. Near Fine with wear to title label and some glue staining around it..... More
Buffalo, NY: Punk Magazine Inc., 1973. The second issue of Buffalo's Punk Magazine-- a predecessor of the much better-known New York City periodical with the same name by two years. 20 pp. Tabloid format newspaper. Very Good with horizontal fold, evenly toned, diagonal closed edge tear on first two leaves..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1925. First American edition. 215 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth binding, stamped in gilt to upper board and spine. Very Near Fine, gilt a little rubbed, spine slightly dulled, lacking dust jacket. A very handsome and bright copy. The first book of Hemingway's..... More
New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1930. First English language edition. (First printing with statement of "First edition" on copyright page; most copies purporting to be firsts lack this.) [x], 448, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with brown stamping. Near Fine with slight soiling to cloth, hint of..... More
New York: The Penguin Press, 2012. First edition, first printing. Signed by Mary Oliver on title page. [xiv], 82 pp. Bound in publisher's dark gray cloth with silver lettering. Gift inscription on half title, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. An attractive copy. More
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1845. First edition. 156 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with slight foxing to the fragile wraps and edges, light wear and slight lean to spine. Still, in remarkable shape for a paperback from the mid-19th century with sturdy binding. One of the major works by..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1945. First American edition, sixth printing. Signed by F. A. Hayek on the front free end paper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's dark aqua cloth with spine stamped in gilt. A touch of wear to the corners, several markings to..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First edition. 317 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black lettering, red topstain. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with rubbing along edges, tips worn, light stain near head to verso, bookseller ticket on rear flap, unclipped ($4.95). More
New York: The Dial Press, 1968. First edition. x, 348 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with purple lettering on spine. Very Good+ with small coffee stains to front board and bottom edge, tiny ink stain to fore edge, bumped corners, in a Very Good edge-worn dust jacket, a few..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1967. First edition of Raymond Carver's first book publication, in a short story anthology. Signed twice by Carver, a presentation copy inscribed to his sister-in-law, Bonna Rose "Jerry" Burk, with a short signed letter on an index card to her laid in, in the year of..... More
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1936. First edition. Signed by Jim Tully on front free endpaper, inscribed "To Arthur and Hazel This novel of bruisers and battles by their friend Jim Tully[,] Tall Timber North Hollywood California 1938." [vi], 248 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in black. Very Good..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First edition. Signed by A.I. Bezzerides on the title page. [vi], 233 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with crimson lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, worn along edges, tiny chip to top of back panel, small piece of archival mending tissue on..... More