New York: Bantam, 1996. First American edition. 694pp. Black paper covered boards with silver spine lettering. Very Good with edge-rubbed boards and a few slight scuffs to edges in Very Good+ dust jacket with crease along spine panel, light wear at foot, unclipped ($21.95). The first novel in the wildly-successful fantasy series. More
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1954. First edition. 256pp. [1]. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with some slight bowinge to boards, top and fore edges foxed. In a Very Good unclipped jacket that is a bit edge-chipped and rubbed, front flap creased at price. One of the mysterious B.... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1938. First edition. Very Good with spine lean, a few light stains to cloth, former owner's name stamped on ffep. No jacket. A volume of the soldier poet's memoir. More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First edition. Inscribed in the year of publication to former owner on the dedication page, " To ____, you should see the stories John [Martin] left out! Ah well, these are still socko. Charles Bulkowski 12-26-73" with smoking self-caricature drawn beneath that. Signed by... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. First edition. Signed by Charles Bukowski on the rear limitation page with a small self-caricature and wine jug, the last copy of 400 such numbered copies. 311pp. Fine in original acetate jacket. Krumhansl 100c. More
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1956. First edition. 190pp. [1]. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with a bit of foxing to edges, slight lean, bookseller's stamp on ffep. In price-clipped dust jacket with faint foxing and light edge wear, but no fading and overall better than Very Good+. A.... More
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1950. First edition. xi, 311pp. Original cloth. A few lines underlined in ink on approximately five pages, name and info written on front free endpaper, otherwise book in nice shape. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket chipped along top edge (especially at head)... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1959. First edition, board issue. (One of only 80 such copies for libraries, issued alongside 735 wrappered copies. Joshi 54.) 54pp. Near Fine with a few light stains to boards. Ex libris bookplate of author and Arkham House co-founder Donald Wandrei laid in. Includes handmade plain... More
New York: Random House, 1987. First edition. x, 246pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in Very Good+ unclipped ($19.95) dust jacket, a little rubbed, lightly edge-worn and scratched. The first appareance of the future US president's bestselling business book. More
Yaba: West African Pilot Ltd. (1966). 118pp. Greenish wraps. Photo illustrated. Edition unknown. Good with former owner's name and writing on front cover and ffep, where she wrote "I begged for this book from a friend." Toned wraps, book creased and spine a little rolled, back cover splash stained. An... More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2007. First edition. Signed by Yunus on the title page in black ink. xvii, 261pp. Original cloth. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus' thoughts on capitalism in the 21st century. More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. [vii], 391pp. [1] Original green ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt top edge. First edition,first impression with typographical errors all uncorrected. Very Good or better with a few very light stains to cloth, slight lean and a crease to spine, inner top edge stained... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Thirteenth printing of the first edition. Signed by Munro Leaf on the title page. Good. Boards rubbed and worn at edges, lightly marked, spine cloth foxed and browned. Edge of page block shows foxing and light staining, pages lightly soiled or sporadically stained. Bookseller... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by David Ogilvy on the front free end paper in blue ink. Near Fine with light bump at base of spine and light wear to cloth along bottom edge. Foxing to top edge of page block, and a faint, small... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with a small ink spot to topstain, and several tiny spots to edge of page block. In a Near Fine dust jacket with faint creasing to spine and light wrinkling to rear panel; SBN printed in white on... More
Bensenville, Ill. Open Skull Press, 1966. Saddle-stitch staple bound mauve wraps, printed in black. First edition, and one of only 400 copies. Very Good or better, with faint, uneven sunning to wraps, light stress creases at staples and spine. A ground-breaking work in the micro-genre of dirty old men named... More
Alhambra: The Cunningham Press, 1967. Second Edition. Near Fine with a production error at bottom edge of title page with a chip and creased over flap roughly 2 inches long; tiny abrasion to the rear cover. In a Near Fine glassine wrapper with light toning and a tiny chip to... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 138 pp. + 4 ads. First American edition, first printing; precedes the London edition by four days. Publisher's dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Near Fine, with shallow loss to cloth at spine ends, rubbing at corners, slight darkening to spine... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition, first printing. Somewhat recent full leather binding with gilt tooling and raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled end sheets. Bound without ads and lacking inserted map at page 307. Leather binding lightly rubbed and lightly scuffed. Contents Very Good, pages toned and with... More
London: The Fortune Press, 1942. Second edition. Signed by Dylan Thomas on the front free end paper. Publisher's green cloth spine over green paper-covered boards with "nor" on page 12, and "world" on page 23; pale orange dust jacket printed in red. Near Fine, with light patches of discoloration to... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First American edition, first state (or printing) with bowing hobbit on title page, maps at endsheets in opposite order as per list of illustrations, and Chapter VII heading on page 118 incorrectly listed as Chapter VI. 310pp. Original tan cloth lettered in blue and illustrated... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1970. First edition, limited issue signed by author on tipped-in sheet before title page, copy 179 of 3000 presentation copies. xii, 305pp. Tan cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with former owner's name on ffep, hint of foxing to fore edge. Very Good or... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1963. First British edition. 178pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. Bottom line on copyright page crossed out in black ink by publisher, else Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with small snag at foot. A very nice, bright copy. Food writer MFK Fisher examines... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. First American edition, seventeenth printing. Three volumes. OED itself complete in two Near Fine volumes in lightly worn and scuffed slipcase with magnifying glass in drawer of slipcase, scuffed along top edge. Fine third volume, a supplement, in Fine slipcase. Plastic opening tabs included. More
