New York: Harry N. Adams, [1966]. Warmly inscribed by author to composer and music professor Isaac Nemiroff and his wife on third page along margin. First edition. 341, [1] pp. Publisher's brown burlap lettered in pale orange. Very Good with rubbing along edges, boards exposed at tips, head and tail... More about Assemblage, Environments & Happenings
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. 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. Very Good with cloth foxed and soiled; spine toned with wear at the... More about Frankenstein
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Youngstown, Ohio: [no publisher]. [ca 1980s]. 40 pp. A vintage photo album consisting of over 300 Polaroids and other images on Kodak paper, of vintage and antique dolls, representing the inventory of a rural Ohio doll seller. Images are often annotated, The majority include annotations about the doll, whether it... More about Photo Album]: Vintage and Antique Doll Seller's Inventory
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First edition. ix, 397, [2] pp. Black cloth decorated in blue, red, and gilt, red topstain. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, edge-worn, rubbed at foot with small dampstain there visible on verso, small creased tear to back panel bottom corner. The... More about The Algiers Motel Incident
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984. Uncorrected page proof of the first English-language edition. [x], 220 pp. Yellow wraps. Very Good, wraps toned and a little rubbed. A Soviet science fiction anthology, scarce in this advance format. More about Aliens, Travelers, and Other Strangers
Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer Productions, 2008. First edition. Inscribed to former owner by witness Ed Hoffman on title page, also signed by authors in year of publication. xii, 233 pp. Wraps. Near Fine. The account of Virgil "Ed" Hoffman, eyewitness to the Dallas 1963 assassination of President John F.... More about Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President Kennedy
Paris: Fortune Press, [1930]. Limited edition. Copy #560 of 1,200. xvi, 243 pp. Original dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with a little wear at head, rubbing to cloth. Lacking jacket. An illustrated edition of the book first published in Latin in 1591 detailing the gruesome suffering of Christian martyrs. More about Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs
New York: Harcourt Brace and Howe, 1920. First edition. [x], 276 pp. Original navy cloth with green lettering. Near Fine with very slight lean and shelf wear. A lovely copy of the African-American author and activist's memoir. More about Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
London: Searchlight Books, 1941. First edition. 127 pp. Original cloth, green spine lettering. Near Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with toning to spine panel and top edge, light wear, Very Good+. A nice copy. Three great essays by Orwell: "England Your England," "Shopkeepers at War," and "The English Revolution." More about The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1974. First edition. 192 pp. Original red cloth and blue paper covered boards. Near Fine with sunning along top edge, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with a few small scratches to front panel, small tear to back panel near head. A political thriller... More about Six Days of the Condor
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1930. First American edition. xii, 186 pp. Crimson ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with former owner's name stamped on paste down and front free endpaper, bottom edge a little rubbed, in Very Good dust jacket, slightly soiled, worn at tips, price clipped... More about The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
San Francisco: City Lights, 1964. First edition. (Paperback original. No additional printings on copyright page or back cover, price of $1.25 as per Cook's City Lights Books: A Descriptive Bibliography.) 74 pp. #19 of the The Pocket Poets Series. Wraps. Good overall, wraps toned, front wrap and prelims have faint... More about Lunch Poems
New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First American edition. [iv], 316 pp. Publisher's cloth, green endpapers, black topstain. About Very Good with spine lettering rubbed off, as is typical; some sunning to cloth, wear at head, former owner's name on front free endpaper, vintage bookseller's ticket to rear... More about The Man Within
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Lowell and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's plum-colored cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with faint rubbing at the tips, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with... More about Life Studies
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First edition, cloth issue. Inscribed by James Merill on title page to former owner, author name crossed out, in Atlanta, dated 1978. [vi], 136 pp. Gray cloth with silver spine lettering. Near Fine with a little foxing to fore edge, small scuff to front board, in... More about Divine Comedies
New York: The Dial Press, 1956. First edition. 248 pp. Original paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip, silver spine lettering. Near Fine with slightly bumped tips, in fairly bright unclipped dust jacket with small stain to spine panel, light wear at extremities. A nice copy of James Baldwin's second... More about Giovanni's Room
London: Scribners, 1990. First edition. Signed by author on half title. [vi], 186 pp. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. The fourth book in the Factory series and the British crime author's best-known work, a cult classic for its grit and violence. More about I Was Dora Suarez
New York: Arbor House, 1985. Inscribed by James Farmer to former owner on half title in red ink, dated 5-17-85. [xii], 370 pp. Original cloth and paper covered boards. First edition, second printing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A signed copy of the Civil Rights activist's memoir; he began the... More about Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Advance reading copy, preceding the first edition. 443 pp. Wraps. Very Good+ with toning to wraps, concavity to spine, light edge wear, rear endpaper has initials in light crayon. The rare advance issue for book reviewers and publishing industry figures of Heller's first novel. More about Catch-22
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Complete 26 volume set. Uniform gray cloth with paper spine labels. Very Good, lacking jackets. Former owner's name to front free endpapers, light soiling to cloth. Vol. X spine dampstained. Vol. XXIII title label has Nigger of the Narcissus crossed out... More about Complete Works (26 Volume Set
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First edition. viii, [2], 587 pp. Original black cloth and paper-covered boards, spine titled in gilt. Near Fine with remainder mark on bottom edge, light rubbing, gift inscription on front free endpaper, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf... More about Roots
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's brick-red cloth with titles stamped in black and white on the spine. Near Fine, with faint traces of rubbing at corners and spine ends, pages toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, with... More about Where the Red Fern Grows
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1944. First edition, first printing. Signed by Erle Stanley Gardner and inscribed to a former owner in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red. Very Good, with cloth lightly scuffed and rubbed, spine ends softened, pages toned. In a.... More about The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with title label to spine. Very Good+ with fading to spine, light softening to spine ends, pages toned. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with a blank verso and publisher's original price... More about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. Advance uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Bound in publisher's blue wraps printed in black with review slip laid in. From the library of Irish writer Francis Stuart, with presentation inscription on the half-title from Ted Hickey reading, "For Francis Stuart from Ted Hickey... More about North