New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946. Signed limited first edition. Number 31 of a limited 250 copies, signed by E. E. Cummings. In publisher's original red and black cloth stamped in gilt, about Fine. In blue unprinted textured jacket--Firmage describes this being issued with a glassine jacket, hence this..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. First edition, first printing. [x], 323, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's pale red cloth stamped in red and lettered in gilt. Very Good with dulled and rubbed spine, dampstain to back board, faint tidemark along top edge, offsetting to paste down..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1923. First edition, British issue. Bound in publisher's original grey paper-covered boards stamped in darker grey over Japan vellum spine stamped in gilt. Forty-eight leaves with mounted text printed in black, blue and green and 48 leaves with mounted full-page color plates. About..... More
San Francisco: United Farm Workers of America, [1974]. Single sheet. 8.5" x 11".Folded in thirds for mailing with return address and postage paid stamped on verso with Berkeley address written in pen. Good+ with light wear along edges, small interior hole, two creased tears, a few pinholes. Light dampstain visible..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. A review copy of the first edition, first printing, with publisher's slip laid in. Bound in publisher's original crimson and cream-colored cloth with crimson spine lettering and topstain. Near Fine with small faint smudge to front cover visible in raking light, small number inked..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light staining to topstain, and light stains to front cover visible in raking light, wrinkle to cloth on rear cover, light edge wear..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth boards with spine lettered in red and gilt. Near Fine with slight sunning to upper edge, former owner inscription to the front free endpaper and pages lightly toned. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust..... More
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, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Toning to pages. Jacket is lightly worn, lightly creased and lightly stained along..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jane Addams and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original brick red cloth stamped in gilt with illustrated onlay to upper board. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear to..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First printing of the second edition; the first edition was published in 1936 by The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Bound in publisher's brown cloth lettered in black. Near fine with very slight lean to binding, former owner inscription to verso of front..... More
New York / London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. First edition, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original ocher paper-covered boards with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with slight edge wear, light foxing to textblock..... More
New York: Afred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth boards stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light toning to pages and corner creases to the last two leaves. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning and light edge wear, a...... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in silver Near Fine with light lean to binding, a thin strip of sunning to top and bottom edge of boards, light spotting to top of textblock edge and..... More
[Berkeley?]: [No Publisher], [1972?]. A small collection of five materials relating to a group about which we can find no information, The Friends of Ruth Schwartz. Insofar as it existed it appears to have come from Berkeley, CA circa 1972 and to have originated in a detourned image of a...... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Peter S. Beagle on the title page. Bound in publisher's blue paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in blue gilt and purple. Near Fine with light rubbing to spine lettering, light bumping to bottom edge of boards..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with spine lettered in red and red topstain; lacking the dust jacket. Very good with lean to binding, uneven fading and some spots to cloth with light fraying at the spine ends. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. First edition. Signed by Victor Gruen on front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner in the year of publication. 368 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth blue and gilt stamping. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with wear along top edge, two tiny..... More
Mokelumne, CA: Health Research, [1980]. [v], 1-11, 12a, 12-59, 7 pp. Bound in publisher's side-stapled yellow wraps. Reprint, publisher's ads at rear dated January 1980. Contains some underlining and checkmarks in margins in pencil, else Very Good. A long essay by one of the better-known 20th century proponents of hollow..... More
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou / A Lamplighter Book, 1978. First edition, first printing. 150, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps with black and white author photo on the front cover taken by Rosemary Klemfuss. Very Good with light wear, creased spine, foxing to edges.The fictionalized memoir of juvenile delinquency and heroin..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First edition, first printing. Signed by William Peter Blatty on the page facing the title page, inscribed to former owner. [viii,] 340, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's original glazed red maroon cloth boards over maroon spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904. First edition, first printing of Booker T. Washington's sequel to Up From Slavery in the exceedingly scarce dust jacket. Bound in publisher's ribbed maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight oxidation to gilt lettering and several hinged throughout slightly..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. West Indian-born journalist and Black Power activist Hubert Harrison's signed and extensively annotated copy of a work by a white historian of the "Imperial school" on the close of World War I and its implications for Africa and other colonized lands. The book's author..... More
Washington, D.C. Judd & Detweiler, 1883. First edition. Signed by Alexander Crummell on the front wrap in ink, inscribed to former owner (name unclear) and initialed A.C. 36 pp. Stringbound in plain wrappers as issued. Near Fine, a little toned and foxed with age, faint crease to front wrap, small..... More
Washington, D.C. The American Negro Academy, 1898. First edition. 19 pp. Staplebound in publisher's orangish pink wrappers. Good with detached wraps, fragile and chipped along edges; staples rusted, small marginal stain to a number of pages. The third publication of the American Negro Academy, with two addresses by minister Alexander..... More
