New York: Brentano's, 1916. First thus. (The first American edition of Androcles and an early edition of Pygmalion.) cxxxvii, [1], 224 pp. Original blue cloth with white paper spine label lettered in green and red. A Near Fine copy with a gift inscription on front free endpaper, a very few..... More
London: F.B. Kitto, 1869. First British edition. Inscribed by A.K. Tolstoy to "C. Heath Esq. from his sincere friend the author" on half-title, but not signed. Charles Heath was an English language and literature instructor at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Saint Petersburg, who later became one of the tutors..... More
New York: Street & Smith Publications, 1944. First edition. Vol. XXXII, No. 1. 178 pp. Wraps. A Very Good or better copy with no fading, binding sturdy, light shelf wear, spine slightly rolled and creased, erased pencil line on table of contents page. An uncommon issue of Astounding..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First edition. Review copy with slip and author photo laid in. Signed by Harry Crews on epigraph page at front, where Crews has circled the Flaubert quote about human language and inscribed to the previous owner, "The toughest and truest thing ever said about..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. First British edition. 192 pp. Original red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with a little age-toning to pages, tiny stain to fore edge, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, toning to spine panel and line across top edge of back panel, foot..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1971. First edition. 190 pp. Publisher's reddish orange cloth, spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with a little foxing to edges, in unclipped, unfaded dust jacket with a little curling along top edge, else Fine. An excellent copy of an art-themed crime novel by the writer..... More
Albuquerque: Univesity of New Mexico Press, 1993. Signed limited first edition. Copy #45 of 75 copies signed by the author on limitation page at front. Fine with a hint of bowing to front board in Fine dust jacket. The first full-length collection of short stories, many set in the American..... More
Miami: Pharaoh Production, 1997. First edition. 58 pp. Wraps. A Fine copy. An early work about the famous "goat-sucker" cryptid of the Americas and Caribbean, written and published by the head of the Miami UFO Center. Some black-and-white photos of damage to animals reputedly caused by the monster, their tracks..... More
New York: Redfield & Lindsay, 1837. First edition. viii, 472 pp. Publisher's half leather with black patterened cloth, gilt ruling and lettering, marbled edges and endpapers. Vol. IV compiling 1836 and 1837 articles. Very Good with rubbing and wear to tips, contents toned and a little foxed. Profusely illustrated. Uncommon..... More
Saanichton, BC & Seattle, WA: Cheam Publishing & Hancock House, 1978. First edition. 492 pp. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Foxing to edges, else Near Fine in Very Good edge-rubbed and slightly chipped dust jacket. An investigation into the Bigfoot or Sasquatch phenomenon by one of the most diligent..... More
Wasau & Madison, WI: R.W. Hickey, 1928. First edition. 158 pp. Original dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Presentation bookplate from former owners to college on paste down and gift inscription from a different former owner "from one former lumberjack to another" on front free endpaper, else Fine. In a...... More
Stuttgart: Kosmos, 1950. First edition. 80 pp. Original illustrated wraps. Text in German. Slightly toned spine and a little foxing to edges and back wrap, else Fine and unread with publisher's ad laid in. A neat illustrated paperback. A work that anticipated modern cryptozoology, preceding Bernard Heuvelmans' foundational book..... More
London: Philip Allan, 1930. First edition. (Precedes the American edition by four years.) xii, 291 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, maps on paste downs.Very Good+ with some toning to cloth, light foxing to edges, in a rare example of the pictorial dust jacket, unclipped, but missing a...... More
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Book Company, 1961. First edition. xv, [3], 525 pp. Gray cloth with black spine lettering. Near Fine with bumped corners and slight sucffing, contents very bright. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket designed by the author. Uncommon in an attractive jacket like this with..... More
Pound Ridge, NY: Milford House, 1968. Deluxe limited edition. [xvi], 1173, [1], [22] pp. Original cloth lettered in black, housed in publisher's black slipcase. Near Fine with former owner's bookplate and date on paste down and front free endpaper, house in Near Fine slipcase with worn tips. A profusely-illustrated facsimile..... More
New York: Vantage Press, Inc., 1959. First edition. Photo frontispiece, 140 pp. Gray cloth with black lettering. Near Fine in well-rubbed unclipped dust jacket, chipped at foot, Very Good. An in-depth cryptozoological survey of the survival of the eastern mountain lion. More
New York: Modern Age Books, 1941. First edition. [xii], 305 pp. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in red. A Very Good+ copy with toned pages, light wear, in an attractive example of the uncommon dust jacket, Very Good, unclipped, chipped at extremities, a few tape mends on verso, small area of..... More
London: Neville Spearman, 1977. First British edition. (Also apparently the first hardcover edition.) Signed by Trevor James Constable on front free endpaper. xiii, [1], 411 pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering. About Very Good with faint dampstain to top edges and a little wave to pages, in Good+ dust..... More
New York: James Terry, 1891. First edition. 16, [20] pp. Original stapled wraps. A Good+ copy with edge-chipped and slightly soiled green outer wraps with a few small ink blots, colored pencil underline to author's name on front wrap, foxing and creasing to prelims, corners worn. Rare in the trade..... More
Washington, D.C. Judd & Detweiler, 1910. First edition. Signed by William T. Cox on the front free endpaper with his compliments. Unpaginated. Original grayish green cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with rubbing along bottom edge, a little wear to cloth along edges, tiny stain to back board, light thumbsoiling..... More
New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1992. First edition. Signed by author on title page. xii, 212 pp. Original crimson cloth. Fine in Fine dust jacket with Seattle bookstore signed label on front panel, peeling slightly. An attractive copy. A biology work (not a cryptozoology work but relevant to the..... More
Paris: Editions de la Main Jetee, 1951. First edition. 193, [4] pp. Illustrated wraps. Near Fine, slightly rubbed, partly unopened. An important work on jazz. With lengthy and warm presentation inscription by Heuvelmans to Richard Garnett (his bookplate on verso of front wrapper) "ce dernier vestige de ma folle jeunesse..... More
Jericho, VT: Essence of Vermont, 1999. First edition. 90, [1, ad] pp. Plastic comb binding. Title sticker along comb binding rubbed, else Near Fine. A guide to viewing Champ, the creature that reputedly lives in Lake Champlain, with historical information, a list of "Best Search Dates" for the year, illustrations..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. Advance reading copy of the first English-language edition. Plain wraps with paper label pasted on front wrap announcing "Probable publication date November 1958 / Probable price 35/-". 542 pp. Vertical crease to front wrap, else Near Fine. A scarce survival (pun intended) of a fragile..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961. First edition. viii, 248 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering. Very Good+ with strip of sunning along bottom edge of front board, gift inscription on front free endpaper, in Very Good dust jacket with rubbing along edges, light wear and toning, clipped by publisher..... More