London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1951. First British edition, first printing. (Published in the United States as The Origins of Totalitarianism the same year.) xvi, 477 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light soiling to edges, worn tips, in a Fair dust jacket, chipped..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. First edition. Signed by Bret Easton Ellis on the title page. 208 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and boards with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with grease-penciled number on front free ednpaper, light wear, in Fine dust jacket. The American Psycho author's first..... More
New York: The Orion Press, 1965. First American edition. xxx, 153, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with white spine lettering. Near Fine in an unsunned Near Fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, price intact ($4.50). Rare. The rare first US appearance of a key work in the nascent field..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First edition. 282 pp. Bound in publisher's red and blue cloth with black spine lettering. Light foxing to edges, else Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, spine panel slightly toned, faint small stain to verso, unclipped. An attractive copy. The influential..... More
New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., 1933. First edition. xviii, [ii], 301 pp. with 32 photographs. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with red lettering. Near Fine with light wear, cloth slightly grubby, in an unfaded dust jacket, price-clipped, slightly short for book, wear along fore edge, tape repairs on..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First edition. xvi, [ii], 450; viii, [451]-984 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Slightly musty smell, else Fine in bright Near Fine dust jackets, lightly worn, new price stickers on front flaps. An attractive set. A major two-volume biography..... More
Collins Harvill, 1967. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with faint foxing to textblock edge and front free endpaper, light rubbing to spine ends. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning and light..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First edition, first printing, first state, preceding the British edition. Lacking the publisher's monogram on the copyright page and with "help" on page 257, line 4. Very Good+ with slight darkening to spine, light wear to cloth at extremities. Pages lightly toned, several..... More
Washington, D.C. Corporate Press, 1958. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Mame Mason Higgins, who served as the executive secretary for the National Council of Negro Women. Original publisher's stiff orange wraps printed in black, with black plastic comb binding. Very Good with soiling and wear, some marking..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. Signed limited first edition preceding the first trade edition; copy 137 of 300 numbered copies signed by E. E. Cummings. Printed on rag paper, bound in publisher's blue cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt with top edges stained yellow, lacking the..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Early reprint. Bound in publisher's ivory cloth over green cloth backstrip tamped in gilt. Near Fine. Light soiling and light toning to cloth. Charcoal pencil marking to front free end paper. Pages toned. A bright and sharp example, in a much nicer state than most copies..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Early reprint with 1892 on title page (the first was 1891). Bound in publisher's grey cloth over bevel-edged boards stamped in gilt. Very Good with soiling, toning, and rubbing, glue repair evident at front and rear inner hinge; hinge after ffep exposed. Pages toned. More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. First edition, first printing of the classic Harlem Renaissance novel. Extremely rare, signed by Jean Toomer and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper, "To Fay De Frantz with warm regards for one who feels so warmly about this book and..... More
New Orleans: Paper Chase Press, 1995. First edition. Signed by Art Bell on his Nevada desert-themed bookplate mounted to front free endpaper. Gift inscription above that, slightly bumped corners, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. 176 pp. Publisher's navy cloth lettered in gilt. The autobiography of the original host of..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1920. First American edition. x, 262 pp. Bound in publisher's navy ribbed cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with spots of heavy foxing to fore and top edges that's intruding into margins of text, in a jacket with similar foxing to front panel..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. First edition. 263 pp. Bound in publisher's light green cloth with red lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($3.95). An attractive, unread copy. A science fiction novel first titled The Fisherman in its magazine appearance in Analog. More
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1912. First edition. [viii],306, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering, portrait illustration. Near Fine with very light wear to portrait, a few tiny stains on spine, wear at foot, gift inscription written on front free endpaper. Binding sturdy. Lacking dust jacket..... More
New York: ESP-Disk, 1966. Signed by Sun Ra on the front sleeve on the right side margin in blue ink, inscribed "To Dana, Dawn and Jodi from Sun Ra." Original pressing with "156 Fifth Avenue" address on the back cover. ESP-DISK 1017 Stereo LP. Fair album, with deep scratches to..... More
Helmond, Netherlands: Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Groninger Museum, 1986. First edition. 60 pp. Oblong. Bound in publisher's wraps. Text in Dutch and English. Near Fine with light shelf wear. Rare, no copies located in OCLC WorldCat. A very early catalogue of the work of Afrofuturist artist and hip hop musician Rammellzee featuring..... More
Brooklyn, NY: Kingston Imperial, 2021. First edition. Signed by T-Pain on the title page. 139, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's leatherette with gilt lettering, rear cover label. Fine. A book of cocktails by singer/rapper T-Pain (stage name of Faheem Rasheed Najm), who had series of hits and was featured on..... More
New York: Mahlon Day, 1837. Second edition. [2], 257-260, [3]-253 pp. (index, i.e. pages 257-260 bound following title page). Bound in publisher's diapered reddish purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. A completely unsophisticated copy in wonderful shape for an American imprint of its age. Tight binding. Stain to front board..... More
Washington, D.C. Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936. First edition. [iv], 142 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wrappers. Very Good, light wear, corner creases to front and rear wraps (the latter extending to the last few pages of text), faint penciled name on front wrap, light tidemark to upper corner..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1966. First American edition, first printing. An advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 243pp. Original black cloth with silver and gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with lean to binding and toning to pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a scrape..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. Signed limited first edition. Copy number 848 of a limited 1,500 signed by Robert Frost. Bound in publisher's brown linen cloth with gilt spine lettered blocked in black. Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase with light wear. A very nice copy, signed by..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Terry Pratchett and inscribed to a former owner on the contents page. Bound in publisher's original green cloth-affect paper boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear to corners and spine ends, former owner..... More