San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 1987. A catalogue for a 1987 San Francisco Art Institute show featuring LSD blotter art in an unusual, eye-popping format. Two 12" x 12" double-sided sheets screen printed with neon LSD blotter art designs, and four 8.5" x 11" sheets in pastel colors (containing..... More
Philadelphia: Auerbach, 1973. First edition. [xii], 237 pp. Gray cloth with purple spine lettering. Good+ with slight bowing to front board, former owner's bookplate on front free endpaper, which caused a little wrinkling to page, sharpie marker blot behind it with transfer to following page, book a bit musty. In..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1991. First edition, first printing. Signed by Diana Gabaldon on the title page; additionally a signed bookplate from Bouchercon 2007 is affixed to front free endpaper. [x], 627, [3] pp. Red boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. A little wrinkling to fep from bookplate..... More
Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press & Harvard University Press, 1960. First edition. (First printing with no additional printings indicated on copyright page, which publishers used rather than a first edition statement.) vii, [1], 194 pp. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering. A Fine copy in a Very Good..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. First trade edition. (First printing with date 1918 in roman numerals on bottom of title page; most copies online are later printings without that date.) 519, [1] pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, gilt topstain. A Very Good+ copy with bumped..... More
Santa Monica: MCS Video, 1990. VHS cassette in original turquoise case with double-sided cover art. "Limited First Edition." Copy #45 of only 50 signed by Terence McKenna on the rear panel of the cover. VHS appears to be Fine, unplayed. An unusual multimedia project by the ethnobotanist and author, billed..... More
New York: New Directions, 1949. First American edition, first printing. 318 pp. Publisher's tan cloth, spine stamped in black and blue. Hint of reading wear, else Fine in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, chipped at extremities, a little rubbed and toned, with a tiny stain to the back panel..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First edition. Signed by Warhol in thick black permanent marker vertically on half title page, some offsetting bleeding through to adjacent pages. 241 pp. Bound in publisher's original yellow paper-covered boards over red spine cloth with black and white stamping. Near Fine with light..... More
London: R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1800. First Edition. 14 leaves. Illustrated with engraved dedication leaf with hand-colored vignette and 24 hand-colored aquatint plates, colored by hand, interleaved with the text. Oblong folio (10¼x13¼"). Early green half morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges speckled red. Near Fine with..... More
London: William R. Loftus, 1856. First edition. [iv], 192 pp. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth stamped in gilt and blind, pale yellow endpapers. Very Good with a few light dampstains to cloth, tips bumped and a little worn, edges foxed, contents generally bright. A practical mid-19th century guide to brewing..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First edition, first printing. Signed by Richard Avedon and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's white cloth with spine lettered in gray. Fine, in Fine dust jacket, with faint wear. A fantastic copy. An oversized item..... More
London: Putnam, 1906. First British edition. (Correct first in the English language.) xxii, [ii], 356 pp. Crimson cloth with yellow lettering. Good+ with a few small stain to cloth, foxing to edges, marginal tidemark along fore edge with slight wave, in very rare original dust jacket, chipped at extremities with..... More
New York: The Nonesuch Press, 1930. Nonesuch Press edition. ix, [1], 500, [2]; vi, 549, [1] pp. With 21 color illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, including frontispieces. Full tan morocco, gilt-lettered spine labels, page edges untrimmed, gilt topstains. No. 939 of 1475 total hand-numbered sets printed by Walter Lewis, printer..... More
New York: Interim Books, 1972. Complete in ten stringbound booklets with table of contents page in original slipcase. No. 317 of 500 copies. First edition. Very Good overall with some creasing and toning to slipcase, small light stain to lid; booklets have a little foxing to covers. Includes poems by..... More
London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1931. First British edition, first printing. Signed by W.E.B. Du Bois on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. Very Good with gouge to spine affecting title, rubbing to cloth at extremities. Toning..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. Limited edition of 299 copies [of a total edition of 309] signed by Lynd Ward. Publisher's black cloth binding with pictorial label to front cover and title label on spine, patterned end papers. Near Fine with light wear to cloth and sunning..... More
New York: Beacon, 1958. First edition. 188, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's original wraps. Near Fine with light wear to wraps, narrow dried drip of excess binder's glue to spine. Pages toned. An excellent novel set in the South at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. The publisher rejected..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. Review copy with publisher's ink stamp to front cover. Bound in publisher's original wraps printed in black. Toning and light staining to wraps, erased pencil notation to rear cover. A nice copy of this uncommon..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed paper-covered boards with Vanessa Bell illustration on front cover; all four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell present. Very Good with light rubbing, soiling and toning to covers. Pages toned, with offsetting from woodcuts to adjacent pages. An..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1981. First edition, first printing. Signed by Stephen King and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original paper covered boards over black spine cloth stamped in silver and bronze. Near Fine with some soiling to covers and fraying..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First edition, first printing. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page, twice as the first time he notes his pen was dying, and inscribed to a former owner in friendship, dated the year of publication. Bound in publisher's original green paper-covered boards..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First edition, first printing. Gray illustrated cloth with cream lettering on front, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine. Lean to spine, cloth lightly worn, corner torn from bottom of page 147/148, affecting a word of text on each side and glue repair to rear inner..... More
New York: The Free Press, 1992. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and dated in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's crimson leatherette binding lettered in gilt on the spine. Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket, with some light shelf wear..... More
New York: Charles Webster & Company, 1889. First edition, first printing, first state with an "S" between "The King" on page 59. Lacking "Connecticut" on the cover, but present on title page. Very Good with lean to spine, cloth lightly marked, rubbed at extremities and lightly frayed at spine ends..... More
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1955. First edition. 238 pp. Crimson cloth with gilt lettering and blue stamping to spine. Offsetting to endpapers, else Fine in unclipped dust jacket with slightly toned spine panel, else Fine. An attractive copy of the first volume in the Fairacre series. More