Cannon Fodder
Rochester, Kent: Hangman Books, 1988. First edition in English. 85 pp. Stiff brown wraps. Fine. An uncommon translation of the French author's partial manuscript Casse-pipe, co-translated by Thee Headcoats frontman Childish. More
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Crowds & Power
London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. First British edition. 495 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Foxed edges, else Fine in a bright, crisp example of the dust jacket, price-clipped with a little foxing. A classic, highly poetic examination of the crowd dynamic as it manifests in society and the..... More
Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles
New York: Hill & Wang, 1988. First American edition. Signed by Christopher Hitchens on title page, inscribed to former owner (whose name is on half-title) and dated February 2, 2003. 137 pp. Original gray cloth. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with small tear down back panel near head, else Near..... More
Orientalism
New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. First edition. xi, [3], 368, [2] pp. Original navy cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with slightly bowed front board, faint stain on fore edge, a hint of foxing to edges, in Near Fine dust jacket with a little shelf wear and faint sunning to..... More
Residence on Earth
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1946. First British edition, produced by New Directions in the US for export to the British Empire as mentioned on slip mounted to copyright page, price sticker (in pounds) on front flap. 205 pp. Original black cloth with red lettering. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust..... More
Large Mycology Photograph Archive Depicting Fungi & Mushroom Hunters
[Hanover, NH; Duchesnay, Quebec; Gatlinburg, TN, Mellenockett, ME, et al.]: [no publisher], 1937. Large archive of 114 mycology-related photographs depicting mushroom specimens, as well as group portraits and candid snapshots of foragers in the woods. Silver gelatin images, unbound: four 4” x 5” group photographs labeled on versos (Hanover, NH..... More
Photograph and Marketing Archive of White's Pit Stop, a Custom Drag Racing & Motorcycle Shop
[Chicago Area]: [no publisher]. [Chicago]: [ca. 1970s]. A large archive documenting motorcycle and custom car culture, centering around White's Pit Stop, a Chicago-area auto retailer, and its sister store Chopper Corner. Containing roughly 175 unbound original photographs, varying in size, including roughly 75 8" x 10" prints and 100 snapshots..... More
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1920. First American edition, first printing. xiii, [1], 168 pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with worn head and foot cloth, a few scuffs and faint stains as well, edge-rubbing, lettering dulled, former owner's name written on front free endpaper. Text free..... More
"He Runs Flying Saucer Headquarters" This week in The Saturday Evening Post (March 10, 1956)
[New York]: The Saturday Evening Post, 1956. Single sheet, 10.5" x 13.5," printed on thick stock in pink and black. A Near Fine example with typical age-toning, slightly bumped corners. A vintage UFO-themed magazine stand lobby card for The Post of March 10, 1956, which reads, "'Eyewitness reports' from travelers..... More
The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the whole of The Book of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant and a new coda, The Higher Keys
New York: Atheneum, 1982. First edition. [viii], 560, [4] pp. Original black cloth, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in red, red topstain. Near Fine with small stain dot to top edge, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with tiny tear near head, some light rubbing and edge wear. Erratum..... More
The Remembered Present: A Biological Theory of Consciousness
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1989. Signed by Gerald Edelman and inscribed to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould. From Gould's personal library. First edition. xx, [2], 240 pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A signed work by the co-winner of the Nobel..... More
The Toys of Peace
London & New York: John Lane The Bodley Head & John Lane Company, 1919. First edition, first issue, trimmed variant. xxiv, 303 pp. Original mauve cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained gray, fore and bottom edges trimmed. Near Fine with a little soiling..... More
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and Complex
New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1994. Signed by Murray Gell-Mann, "The Top Quark," on title page in the year of publication, inscribed to former owners. First edition. xviii, 392 pp. Illustrated boards. Fine in Near Fine clear dust jacket with typical light rubbing and cloudiness. A popular work by..... More
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885. 1885, 1886. First edition, both volumes in deluxe bindings of half morocco over gilt-ruled cloth decorated with gilt medallions on front and back boards, six-paneled gilt-tooled spine and marbled edges. Two volumes. 584; 647, [1] pp.Frontisportait of Grant in both volumes with..... More
The Jungle Book
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. Reprint of the uniform edition. Signed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page. Bound in publisher's red cloth decorated in gilt; lacking a dust jacket. Very Good with light lean to binding, fading to spine, softening to spine ends and rubbing to cloth at extremities..... More
Totem (26 Issues of the Lincoln High School, Seattle, Washington Publication)
Seattle: The Students of Lincoln High School, 1911-1914. 26 WWI-era issues staple bound and generally 24-30 pp. Published monthly during the school year, often for seven issues. Very Good+ overall with a little rubbing to wraps, contents generally clean and bright. A few notations in easily erasable pencil. By..... More
The Works of William Shakespear
Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1743-1744. Quarto. First edition of Hanmer's six volume set; first edition thus. Bound in contemporary speckled boards ruled in gilt, spines very neatly rebacked. Binding lightly rubbed and worn, though solid; corners softened and instances of leather lifting from boards. Previous ownership bookplates and notations..... More
"Epitaphs" by Countee Cullen in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume XXVI, Number IV, July 1925
Chicago: Harriet Monroe, 1925. Glassine jacket signed by Countee Cullen in blue ink. His poem, "Epitaphs," is on p. 204. Two months earlier he had won a $100 award from Poetry's editor for "the general promise and quality" of his work. [2], 177-234, [4] pp. Volume XXVI, Number IV; July..... More
Rosa Parks: My Story
New York: Dial Books, 1992. Signed by Rosa Parks on the half title in blue ink. 192 pp. Quarter purple cloth and maroon paper covered boards. First edition, second printing. A Very Good copy with foxed edges in an unclipped dust jacket with some chips along top edge, slightly sunned..... More
The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction
Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1990. First edition in first issue jacket with folds slightly off. Signed by Tim O'Brien on the half-title. [xiv], 273 pp. Original black paper-covered boards with black cloth backstrip, lettered in gilt. Near Fine with former owner's name on front free endpaper, slight lean..... More
California: From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco, A Study of American Character
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1886. First edition. xv, [1], 513, [1], [12, ads] pp. with color folding map of California at front. Original dark pebbled cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Very Good+ with light edge-rubbing to cloth, bookplate and former owner's name on front free endpaper. A nice..... More
YEAH: A Satiric Excursion Published At Will (Issues 1 & 2)
New York: The Birth Press, 1961, 1962. Issues 1 and 2 of the satiric poetry/literary magazine edited by poet, Fug, and provocateur Tuli Kupferberg. Near Fine with light rubbing to wraps, more so to the second issue. The anarchic spirit of the '60s is on display on this periodical its..... More
Selected Poems
Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker, 1944. First edition. Signed by August Derleth on half-title, inscribed to former owner and dated 3/11/47. x, 235 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket, toned with age, worn at tips. Poetry by the founder of Arkham House..... More
The Phantom of the Opera
New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911. First American edition, first printing; lacking Braunworth & Co. slug at bottom of the copyright page. Very Good, with general wear, dust soiling and wear to textblock top edge, toning and thumbing to pages, front and rear inner hinge exposed. All plates present. More
Watership Down
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Richard Adams on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Very Good with light shelf wear, foxing to spine cloth and textblock top edge. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light soiling and..... More