The Hague: Mouton & Co. Publishers, 1957. First edition, first issue. 116 pp. Bound in publisher's original blue wraps, binder's error with introduction bound before preface. Very Good with slightly sunned wraps, bottom corner bumped, a single page has marginal notes in ink from former owner headlined "Caveat Lector." Chomsky's..... More
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1965. First edition. 189, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in white and red. Small dampstain to top corner, else Fine, in a Good only dust jacket with dampstaining and a little discoloration, spine panel a little sunned, light wear. The novel of..... More
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, [1860s?]. 19th century reprint. 32 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps, string-bound. Good with dampstaining throughout, chipping to wraps, pencil marks on bottom margin of last page. A Christian juvenile novella generally attributed to Cherokee writer Elias Boudinot, formerly known as Galagina. More
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1953. First edition. 174, [2] pp. Bound in illustrated publisher's wraps. Very Good with rubbing along edges, creasing at gutters, two tiny stains to fore edge. A noir paperback original by an acclaimed American crime writer. More
Berkeley: Point-Blank! 1972. First edition. An as-yet unstapled, unfolded copy of the first issue of the 1970s Bay Area post-Situationist group Point-Blank's journal. 100 pp. Loose 8.5" x 11" sheets. Very Good with staining to what would be back wrap if folded, light stains to table of contents. Illustrated with..... More
Berkeley: Point-Blank! 1973. First edition. [16] pp. Stapled wraps. Very Good+ with foxing and a little staining to front wrap. Uncommon. Bay Area post-Situationist group Point-Blank! looks at wildcat strikes (i.e. strikes without union approval) in industrial Detroit. More
Kalamazoo, MI: Black & Red, [1970]. First edition. 96 pp. Stapled wraps. Very Good+ with light foxing, small stain to front wrap. Reports of how events in May 1968 unfolded in France with the council communist model applied to committees of college students and the proletariat. More
Kalamazoo, MI: Black & Red, 1969. First edition. 20 pp. Stapled wraps. Fine. The most significant American response to Situationism, which would light the way for much of American post-Marxist and anarchist theory of the late 20th century by focusing on everyday life and "the liberation of desire." More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by the poet on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original pale orange cloth stamped in maroon, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to cloth at spine,wear at spine ends and corners, pages toned..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. First edition, first printing with dated title page. Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original cloth. Near Fine, with light wear to corners and spine ends, bookseller ticket to front free endpaper..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. Thirteenth printing. Signed by William Goldman and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth-affect paper-covered boards with spine lettered in white. Near Fine with a slight lean to the binding and a small spot of abrasion to..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. An extremely rare advance proof copy of the first edition. According to Quill and Brush's 2007 Author Price Guide, Faber produced perhaps ten copies in this format and according to bookseller Ken Lopez noting in 1998, there were four known extant copies. Though it's possible..... More
New York: Random House, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by Walter Tevis and warmly inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Published a year before the author's death, signed copies are rather scarce. Bound in publisher's original black paper-covered boards over black cloth spine decorated in white..... More
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Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857. First edition, first printing containing the six suppressed poems: "Les Bijoux", "Le Léthé", "A celle qui est trop gaie", "Lesbos", "Femmes damnées", and "Les Métamorphoses du vampire." With the following issue points: "Feurs" in the headline on pp. 31 and 108; with p. 45..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original illustrated boards. Light edge wear, browning to endsheets from binder's glue, contemporary former owner name and date to verso of front free end paper, else Fine, in an unclipped dust jacket with light dust-soiling, light toning..... More
Boston: Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park, and Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First edition, signed by Ansel Adams on a preliminary blank. In publisher's original spiral-bound stiff white wraps printed in black. Near Fine or better with faint foxing to textblock edges, in a Near Fine dust jacket with a shallow chip..... More
New York: The Century Company, 1912. First edition, first printing. (BAL 14767.) Original dark green cloth with gilt, periwinkle, and royal blue stamping, top edge gilt. About Fine with light wear to covers, front inner hinge slightly exposed and offsetting to title page from tissue guard. All fold-out maps and..... More
Corvallis, OR: Motengator Press, 1983. First edition. 354 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Very Good, corner crease to front wrap. A semi-autobiographical novel of drugs, adult bookshops, and politics by a Corvallis man who would run for governor of Oregon in 1986, a self-described "marijuana-smoking pornographer on a mission..... More
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, [1982]. First edition, first printing, limited issue. Copy #271 of 500 copies signed by Stephen King and illustrator Michael Whelan on the limitation page. 224 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with brown lettering, housed in slipcase. Fine in a bright attractive dust jacket, hint..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First edition. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards with black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in yellow. Light wear along bottom edge, else Fine with clean, bright contents in a Near Fine dust jacket with a little foxing, two closed tears to top of back panel..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2000. 2000 [but later]. Signed by William Golding and inscribed to a former owner. Mass market paperback, bound in publisher's original wraps. Near Fine with trivial shelf wear to wraps. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First edition, first printing. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the first blank page. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Near Fine with slight toning to cloth to spine and edges, to small stains to textblock edge. In a Very Good..... More
Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher and William Francis Gable, 1919. One of 50 numbered copies on Japanese vellum signed by the publisher Thomas Bird Mosher, bound in Japanese vellum boards stamped in gilt. Light edge wear and former owner inscription to a preliminary blank page, else Fine, in a Near..... More
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. First American edition, first printing. [vi], 517 pp. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with white lettering. Very Good with sunned and rubbed spine, cloth rubbed along edges, slight lean. Lacking dust jacket. Lawrence's third novel. More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1842. First edition. xxiv, 512 pp. with folding hand-colored map "Boundaries of Texas" at front. Bound without ads at rear. Noncirculating ex-library copy rebound in 20th century green cloth with gilt lettering, edges speckled. Call number stamped on spine, lib. bookplate on paste down, perforation..... More