New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1870. First edition, first printing as per the BAL with only two pages of ads at rear beginning with The New "Household Edition" of Bayard Taylor's Writings. vi, 361, (2, ads with final leaf paged as "3") pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition. Signed by Babitz on the title page. ix, 211, (1) pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light foxing to top edge in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing. A collection of short stories. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition stated, first printing; "About the Authors" page dated August, 1961 at rear. Very Good with a little toning to covers along top edge, fading to red topstain. A 1.5 x 2" piece of the top corner of first blank page has been... More
New York: Harrison Smith and Rabert Haas, 1934. Signed. First edition thus. Bound in publisher's white cloth toned to tan with black and white pictorial onlay illustrated by Ward on the front cover, and title label to spine, lacking the slipcase. Signed by Lynd Ward on the half title page... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1936. First edition, first printing. Signed by Dale Carnegie on the front free end paper and warmly inscribed to a former owner, "To George Chisholm with fond memories of the days when we used to ride the Chisholm trail." Good+ with fading to spine cloth... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1871. First American edition. Complete in two volumes, both dated 1871 on the title pages, with postscript at front of Volume II. Very Good+ with cloth lightly rubbed at extremities and lightly frayed at spine ends. Brief previous owner details inked to front endpapers... More
New York: Random House, 1965. First edition. Copy #348 of a limited 500 signed by Truman Capote. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in gilt and red, in original acetate jacket and paper-covered card slipcase. A Fine copy, with just a small bump to top margin of pages. Near Fine acetate... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1988. 187 pp. Advance uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Bound in publisher's grey printed wraps. Near Fine with faint toning to wraps and several small, light creases to the front panel at the spine joint. Very scarce in this pre-publication format, this classic of... More
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1925. First edition, limited to 600 numbered copies signed by W. B. Yeats, privately printed for subscribers. Publisher's light blue paper covered boards over parchment spine with title label and titles in brown, in un-printed dust jacket with title... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948. First British edition, first printing. Publisher's green cloth binding with silver and red stamping on the spine. Very Good. Lean to binding, cloth foxed, sunned at edges. Edge of page block foxed, small bookseller ticket and former owner name to front endsheet. In a Very Good... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1981. First edition, first printing. Rear free endpaper uncut from pastedown, light bruising to tips, else Near Fine or better. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and several short edge-tears. More
London: Methuen & Co., 1929. First edition, first printing. Fine, with light foxing to prelims and terminals, in a Near Fine, lightly edge-worn dust jacket with minor chipping at the head and a short closed tear at the tail of the front spine joint. A lovely and bright copy. More
New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1959. First edition. 226 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. A little rubbing along bottom edge, else Fine and unmarked, in Very Good dust jacket, a little spine-sunned and foxed with wear at head, rubbing along edges. An attractive copy. More
New York: The Ecco Press, 1977. Inscribed "For William Targ [signed] John Ashbery 4/11/77" on title page. Targ was a well-known editor, best-known for publishing Mario Puzo's The Godfather, as well as the publisher of Targ Editions. Second edition. Near Fine. 63, (1, note about author) pp. Illustrated wraps. An... More
New York: Random House, 1934. First edition. 270 pp. Original gray cloth with black spine and gold band lettered in black, pink topstain. Near Fine with a bit of chipping to gold along edges, bookplate on paste down. In slightly toned and shelf worn dust jacket with a few tape... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First American edition. 372 pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering, red top stain. Very Good+, small nick to front board and bumped corners, in Very Good+ lightly rubbed and worn unclipped dust jacket. A modern classic of horror fiction that inspired a hit film in 1994. More
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1959. First American edition. xii, (5)-215 pp. Black cloth with tan and blue lettering. Fine in a very Near Fine unclipped jacket with very light shelfwear and slight sunning to spine panel. A lovely copy of the Trinidadian writer's first novel. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First edition in a first state jacket priced at $2.00 with Steinbeck facing towards the spine. 123 pp. Reddish orange cloth with black lettering. Near Fine in About Very Good unclipped jacket with chip at head, slightly sunned spine, closed tear to top of... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. First edition, first printing with dated title page. An exquisite copy, bound in publisher's buff/grey cloth stamped in red. Fine, with pages toned, but sharp and clean cloth. In an About Fine dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.75 intact, lightly toned and mildly edge-worn... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition, first printing with dated title page. Bound in publisher's decorated paper covered boards. Very Good or better, with covers showing toning, soiling and rubbing at extremities; small stain to front cover. Pages toned, and lightly thumbed. In a Near Fine dust jacket... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. Near Fine. 179 pp. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Larry McMurtry on the front free endpaper, and inscribed to Jack. Laid in is a note from Jack Walsdorf of Blackwell's, asking McMurtry to "inscribe these book [sic]." Bound in publisher's yellow cloth... More
New York: Signet, 1958. First Signet paperback edition, first printing. Near Fine, with light creases and light surface wear to wraps, spine lightly concave. Pages toned. A nice copy of the first mass market paperback appearance of the classic Beat novel. More
Wichita: Watermark Press, 1990. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine, in a Fine un-clipped dust jacket with faint toning to the spine and faint shelf wear. The author's only novel to be published during his life time. O'Brien committed suicide in 1994, just... More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1973. Signed by Prouty on the title page. First edition, third printing. xvi, 496 pp. Orange cloth with black lettering. Fine in a bright price-clipped dust jacket with a well-rubbed spine panel, a few small closed tears to edges. The former Chief of Special... More
Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1985. First edition. 291 pp. Brick red cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with wear at tips. A very nice copy. More