Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's quarter white cloth over bevel-edged boards with green cloth spine, stamped in gilt with Indian pipe stem motif, all edges gilt. Good. Binding slightly askew, cloth heavily foxed, spine lightly faded and edge-worn; former owner name and date to..... More
New York: Greenwillow Press, 1986. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original plum paper-covered boards over blue spine cloth lettered in silver. Fine in an unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. A cult classic which served as the basis for the 2004 Japanese animated fantasy film directed..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First American edition. Bound in publisher's original pale green cloth with spine lettered in navy blue. Near Fine with slight fading to spine, pages toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning, several edge-tears with old tape repairs made to the verso..... More
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. First American edition, first printing in publisher's original second state brown cloth binding. Light bumping to edges of covers, and pages toned, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with the affects of unnecessary tape repairs made to the verso..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957. First edition, first printing. Signed by Thomas Merton and inscribed to former owners on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in gilt. Near Fine with cloth lightly sunned at top and bottom edges, front inner hinge slightly tender, pages..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. First edition, first printing with "(1)" at end of text. Bound in publisher's dark salmon cloth lettered in black, a variant not mentioned by Garrison; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with soling, toning and wear to cloth, with light fraying at head..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by advertising icon David Ogilvy on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with foxing to textblock edge, light toning to page edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, with..... More
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Signed limited first edition. Copy 525 of a limited 800 numbered copies, signed by James Joyce. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with boards decorated in blind. Near Fine with faint rubbing to cloth at spine ends, faint stains to covers and a...... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition, first printing. Hardcover issue bound in publisher's original black paper-covered boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with ding to top edge of upper board, toning and musty odor to pages. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with price..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First edition, first printing. Second issue with Allen Tate's name correctly spelled on the title page, which is a cancel. Bound in publisher's original tan batik paper covered boards over dark blue spine cloth lettered in gilt, with blue topstain. Near Fine with toning..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Thorstein Veblen on the front free endpaper to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original dark green clot ruled in blind with spine titles in gilt. Very good with rubbing to cloth at..... More
Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1942. Volume I. First edition, first printing. Publisher's pale blue paper-covered boards over cloth spine. Very Good with soiling and toning to cloth, edge wear, spotting to textblock edge. Front inner hinge slightly cracked, pages toned with sporadic thumbing and foxing. With Corrigenda sheet laid in..... More
Birmingham, AL: Cather & Brown Books, 1993. First separate edition, #58 of only 100 copies signed by the publisher. [8] pp. Stapled wraps. Fine. Includes single-page card from publisher as well as original mailing envelope, postmarked. An essay by the famous author of To Kill A Mockingbird, originally published in..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First edition. xii, 112 pp. Bound in publisher's patterned boards with title labels. Very Good+ with chipped head, boards a little stained, bookseller's label on front free endpaper, in Good original dust jacket with lower fifth of spine panel gone, darkened spine panel, slightly..... More
New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1994. Signed by Murray Gell-Mann on title page in the year of publication. First edition. Fine in Near Fine clear dust jacket with typical light rubbing and cloudiness, price-clipped. A popular work by the 1969 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition, paperback issue. 98 pp. including wrappers. Near Fine with slightly toned wraps, lightly edge-rubbed. DeCarava had won a 1953 Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph African American life in Harlem. It was a chance meeting on a Manhattan street corner in which..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1956. First edition. [viii], 248 pp. Original boards with black cloth backstrip, silver lettering. Near Fine with a little toning to pages, hint of foxing to paste down, in About Very Good dust jacket with chips at extremities, a few short tears to top of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. First edition. 31 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with green lettering. Near Fine with a little foxing to gutters, former owner's initials stamped on rear endpaper, in Very Good+ dust jacket, spine a little toned, worn at tips, unclipped with different, small pucker to..... More
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1983. Limited edition; number 29 of 500 copies signed by Norman Maclean on the limitation page. viii, 123 pp. Bound in publisher's two-tone cloth with silver titles on the spine with photo onlay to front cover. Fine. Illustrated throughout with photographs by..... More
New York: Basic Books, 1999. First edition. Signed by Steven Pinker on title page, inscribed to former owner. xvi, [iii], 348 pp. Bound in publisher's two-toned paper-covered boards lettered in silver. Near Fine with former owner's name on front free endpaper, small stain on fore edge, in Near Fine unclipped..... More
New York: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2016. Signed by Rupi Kaur on half-title. First hardcover edition. (Follows the 2014 paperback original.) [xx], 196, [8] pp. Original black velvet with white lettering. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A signed copy of the bestselling poet's first book. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Signed by the Neal Stephenson on the title page. Publisher's cream colored stiff wraps printed in black and stamped in metallic red. Very Good, with creasing and rubbing to wraps, soiling to spine. In a trial dust jacket..... More
London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1885. First trade edition. Unpaginated, 24 blank ruled leaves entitled 'Fysshe Stories' to rear. Publisher's full stiff vellum with gilt stamped vignette and lettering.Original printed cloth wallets of cloth on front pastedown, as issued. Ties present, though broken. Very Good with light soiling..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. First edition. 381, [3] pp. Publisher's black cloth with red spine lettering. Near Fine with light wear, former owner's bookplate on paste down, in Fine unclipped dust jacket, a little toned. A mid-'70s look at the African American and Puerto Rican criminal networks the..... More
