New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. First and limited edition, copy number 1,499 of 1,500 signed by Pablo Picasso. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards. Heavy Foxing to pages, else Near Fine, in tattered glassine wrapper and slipcase, which is in pieces and lacking several panels. Illustrated by Picasso..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874. First edition. 278 pp. with most pages printed in bicolumnar format. Bound in publisher's brown pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers. About Very Good with wear and a little staining to cloth, spine sunned, small stain to top edge intruding into inner margins of..... More
Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947. First edition. [vi], 270 pp. Gray stapled wraps. Near Fine with slight toning to wraps and contents, slight bump to upper corner, tiny tear to back wrap. Brian Niiya writes of this book in Densho Encylopedia: "The stated goal of the..... More
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1984. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by Stephen King on the front free endpaper, his name inside a thought bubble. Fine, in a Near Fine lightly shelf-worn dust jacket. A fantastic copy of the first book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, signed..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. First edition. (First printing with dated title page.) [vi], 184 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in brown and turquoise. Near Fine, with slightly bumped corners, lacking dust jacket. A Newbery Award-winning novel, which was inspired by the true story of Juana Maria, a...... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1960. First American edition. 252 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine stamping. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a little foxing and wear, price-clipped. An important work by the Spanish philosopher best-known for his work The Revolt of the..... More
London: The Olympia Press, 1971. First British edition. xxxvi, [2], 52 pp. Illustrated wraps. Very Good with wear along edges, faint stains to front wrap. A radical feminist manifesto. Its author became famous when she nonfatally shot Pop artist Andy Warhol in 1968. More
Paris: Fryam Press, 1936. First edition. Near Fine with light spine creases, light waviness to wrap, slight storage odor to pages. A rare cocktail guide by Frank Meier, a legendary bartender at the Ritz Bar. More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition, first printing. First issue with title page printed in red and blue, dated 1843 in Roman numerals; half title and verso of title page printed in blue; "Stave I" on page [1]. 166pp. Finely bound in full red morocco, with raised bands. Near..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, third printing with four pages of ads at rear, printed on wove paper. (Garrison A.1.2.c) Bound in publisher's red ribbed cloth stamped in gilt, and ruled in blind on the front cover, top edge gilt. [vi], 533, [1], [4, ads] pp. Near..... More
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. Signed limited first edition, copy number 44 only 350 copies (327 of which were offered for sale) signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and writer of the text Julia Peterkin. Printed by letter press and with 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure plates..... More
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark red ribbed cloth with titles stamped in black. Near Fine with light rubbing at tips, trivial toning to the spine and a bump to the fore-edge of the rear board. In a Very Good dust jacket..... More
New York: Harmony Books, 1980. Advance uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Bound in publisher's original blue wraps pritned in black. Near Fine with light towning to wraps, light foxing to textblock edge and pages toned. A rare format of the humorous sci-fi cult classic. More
Boston: Christian Scientist Publishing Company, 1875. First edition, first printing of the founding text of Christian Science. Bound in publisher's original black cloth decorated in blind and titled in gilt on the spine with orange silk page markers and errata slip tipped-in at rear and an original printed receipt for..... More
Meriden, CT: The Ralston Society, 1937. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth stamped in gilt, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Spine cloth faintly faded, and with a scratch toward the top end. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities. Pages toned and with several scuffs to preliminary pages..... More
New York: Arthur A Levine Books / Scholastic Press, 1998. Rare Advance Reader's Edition sent to reviewers and book industry figures before publication of the first American edition. Illustrated wraps. Near Fine or better with just trivial touches of wear to the wraps and faint foxing to the textblock edge..... More
Berkeley: Peace & Freedom Party, 1968. Fifteen of the first seventeen issues of a tabloid produced by the leftwing, Black Panther Party-affiliated Peace & Freedom Party. First issue signed by Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale, whose run for Oakland mayor was covered in that issue. A nearly complete run..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. An important association copy, signed and inscribed by the artist. First edition, first printing. Limited issue; copy 92 of 100 numbered copies, with an original drawing by Miguel Covarrubias. Beneath the drawing Covarrubias has warmly inscribed, "To Frank Crowninshield to whom this book owes..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1935. First edition, first printing. Signed by Zora Neale Hurston on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's orange cloth stamped in brown. Near Fine with slight softening to spine ends, toning to pages, former owner name and date written on front paste down. In..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1969. First edition. xi, 372 pp. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket with a hint of shelf wear, with the rare paper belly band with a small faint stain. A superb copy. A cult classic of paranormal philosophy that challenges..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1971. First edition. Signed by Anton Szandor LaVey and inscribed on the title page. A review copy with publisher's slip and black and white photograph of the author laid in. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with red and green lettering to the spine, and..... More
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989. First edition. [xxviii], 155 pp. Publisher's brown cloth and black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An excellent copy. Poetry from the ouevre of the African American writer who was killed in 1968 on a subway platform by a...... More
New York: Random House, 1965. First edition. Copy #372 of a limited 500 signed by Truman Capote. Bound in publisher's original black cloth binding stamped in gilt and red. Fine, in a lightly rubbed original acetate jacket, in a Near Fine original slipcase with light wear and a small price..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1969. First edition. 256 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with silver spine lettering. Very Good with foxing to edges and prelims, boards a little stained, former owner's name on front free endpaper, in Very Good+ spine-sunned, price-clipped dust jacket. The first book in the Flashman series..... More
Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1927. First American edition. Two volumes in four. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, map endpapers. With 126 illustrations and 17 plans. Vol. I: xiv, 266; [iv], 267-518 pp. Volume II: xv, [i], 212; [iv], 213-443 pp. A...... More