Boulder, CO: Songbird Editions, 1976. First edition, first printing. Signed by Anne Waldman in green ink on the title page, with "for new year 1977" added in holograph at rear copyright page. Publisher's side-stapled wraps, with pages printed on rectos only. Very Good with uneven toning to wraps. Faint waviness... More about Hotel Room
New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. First edition, signed limited issue. Copy #437 of 600 [of an edition of 642] signed by W. B. Yeats on the half title page. Near Fine with slight spine lean, light wear to covers, and fading to purple endsheets. A lovely copy, signed by the Irish author. More about The Winding Stair
New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. First edition, signed limited issue. Copy #42 of 600 [of an edition of 642] signed by W. B. Yeats on the half title page. Near Fine with light wear to cloth, fading to purple endsheets, toning to pages and a small vintage bookseller ticket... More about The Winding Stair
New York / New Orleans: Lyle Stuart, Inc., printed by the Loujon Press, 1965. First edition, first printing from a limited edition of 3,100. Signed by Bukowski in red ink, dated 3-20-65. Self-wraps with wrap-around "belly band." Illustrated by Noel Rockmore. Near Fine, with light rubbing at edges, light toning... More about Crucifix in a Deathhand
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's fugitive blue cloth which has mostly, yet unevenly, faded to green, with titles stamped in gilt. Good. Cloth frayed at corners and spine ends, lightly stained to rear. Pages Staining to endsheets and textblock top edge; corners torn from... More about Swallows and Amazons
London: William Heinemann, 1958. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth a bit worn and soiled, spine lightly sunned and gilt titles faded. Full page non-authorial gift inscription to noted activist and Nigerian politician Obijunwa Wali... More about Things Fall Apart
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904. First edition, first printing. Very Good, bumping at edges, rubbing at extremities and softening to spine ends. Previous owner inscription to front free endpaper, and ding to top of text block affecting several pages. Else a lovely copy with bright gilt. BAL 4950. More about The Heart of Happy Hollow
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's ribbed maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with light rubbing at tips, and recto of frontis soiled. A lovely copy. More about Up From Slavery
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition, first printing, hardcover issue. Signed and inscribed by Langston Hughes on the front free endpaper. Very Good with toning, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, frayed along the edges and toned. DeCarava had won a 1953 Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph African... More about The Sweet Flypaper of Life
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with titles in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Good. Lean to spine. Cloth unevenly faded, foxed and worn at extremities. Previous owner gift inscription to front free endpaper, pages occasionally thumbed. The first... More about The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First Edition stated, first printing with E-K date code on copyright page. Good, lacking the dust jacket. A worn copy with fraying to cloth along the edges, heaviest at the corners and spine ends. Cloth foxed and stained at rear joint. Boards lightly bowed... More about Little House on the Prairie
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Signed limited first edition. One of 510 numbered copies signed by Ernest Hemingway, this being #60. Bound in publisher's white parchment over pale green paper-covered boards; lacking the slipcase. Near Fine, with light foxing and darkening to vellum, with small tear at the foot... More about A Farewell to Arms
London: Faber and Faber, 1928. First illustrated edition, signed limited issue. Copy #58 of a limited 300, signed by Siegfried Sassoon and illustrator William Nicholson. Bound in publisher's decorated vellum, in publisher's glassine and dust jacket. Light bowing to boards, light dust-soiling to top edge, else Fine. In Near Fine... More about Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
St. Louis, Missouri: Printed by A. C. Clayton Printing Co, 1931. First edition, first printing. Good. Cloth soiled and frayed at extremities. Repair to inner front hinge visible from exterior through tear at front bottom joint of cloth. Pages toned, with light sporadic staining, an occasional dog-ear, and fraying to... More about The Joy of Cooking
1933. Precht, Fred A. (1863-1942). Portrait of Daniel De Leon. Oil on canvas measuring roughly 23" x 19" in simple, vintage wooden frame; signed "Precht 1933" at the top right corner, with the logo for the Socialist Labor party painted in the top left corner. Noted on the back side... More about Original Oil Painting of Daniel De Leon, co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World...
Unknown: Unknown, 1972. Six black-and-white photographs, 8" x 10." Possible publicity photos but no identifying marks or information. Photos are in Good or better shape with faint creasing down the middle; the snake photo has a marginal stain, and the tophat publicity photo has a stain that intrudes into the... More about Six 8" x 10" photos of Alice Cooper including two shots of his manager Shep Gordon's...
London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. First edition, first printing. First issue with "Bouverie St" on the illustrated title page; with the farmyard frontispiece. Bound in contemporary half-leather over pebbled cloth, with all edges marbled. Very Good with binding rubbed, previous owner morocco label to front paste down. Front marbled endpaper... More about The Book of Household Management
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First edition. #32 of limited 50 numbered copies with an original painting by Bukowski tipped in, signed by him on the limitation page, and hand bound by Earle Gray. Fine. In original acetate jacket with detached chip to back panel. An important poetry collection... More about Burning in Water Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. 186 pp. Uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut inside a caricature on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's patterned wraps with paper label on front cover; issued in a trial dust jacket, not present here. Very Good, with covers a bit... More about Slaughterhouse Five
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1933. First edition, first printing. [vi], 352 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt paper title labels on spine and front, pictorial zigzag endpaper. Small date written on paste down, front label a little edge worn, else Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with... More about Imitation of Life
New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1967. First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Signed by author diagonally on front free endpaper. [viii], 248 pp. Gray cloth with reddish orange spine lettering. Near Fine with slight curve to back board, small spot on top edge slightly abraided, in Near... More about The Farm
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First edition. Signed by Wendell Berry, inscribed to former owner and dated May 23, 1994. [x], 52 pp. Original cloth and paper-covered boards. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. More about Clearing
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Inscribed by Robert Nozick to evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, and writer Stephen Jay Gould in the year of publication, "June 1997 For Steve, An author of many elegant and stimulating essays-- and one that was extremely helpful to me. Affectionately, [signed] Bob." An unmarked copy... More about Socratic Puzzles
New York: James F. Carr & Robert S. Wilson, 1964. First edition. 72 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in rare original unprinted jacket, toned with a chip to the bottom of the front panel, a few small tears and wear to edges, stray pen mark to... More about Ace of Pentacles
Boston: Good Gay Poets, 1975. First edition. (One of a 1,500 copies in wraps.) Review copy. [x], 204 pp. Wraps. Near Fine with slight bulge in binding from laid in publisher's promotional materials, which are included: ad for Fag Rag, an ad for Good Gay Poets, an anonymous poem "Exorcism... More about Behind the State Capitol or Cincinnati Pike