New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First American edition, first printing. [vi], 389 ;[iv], 359 pp. Complete in two volumes bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in red, lacking slipcase. Near Fine with former owner name written on first blank, bookseller tickets on paste downs, copyright page on Vol..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1944. First edition, second impression. viii, 184 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with light wear and mottling to cloth, bumped corners, pages toned with age. An early printing of the classic critique of socialism and defense of..... More
Paris: YMCA Press, 1967. First edition in book form. 219, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps. Text in Russian. Very Good with small stain to wraps along front joint, a few other faint stains and toning to wraps, wear at head and tail, slight crease and roll to spine..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1964. First edition. Complete in 26 volumes, all bound in publisher's navy cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine, spines a bit sunned, sunning around bookend in back board of Vol. 1, bookend shape to four volumes' cloth, small scratched area on back board of Vol..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Company, 1889-1910. First edition. Andrew Lang's Color Fairy Books, complete in twelve volumes, all first impressions of the first edition: Blue (1889), Red (1890), Green (1892), Yellow (1894), Pink (1897), Grey (1900), Violet (1901), Crimson (1903), Brown (1904), Orange (1906), Olive (1907), Lilac (1910). The volumes..... More
London: T. Payne, B. White, and T. Cadell, 1776. First English edition and the first edition in the English language; translated by William Ellis directly from the Greek. Fireside poet James Russell Lowell's copy, inscribed to him by his friend, American transcendentalist writer and artist C.P. Cranch. Quarto. 8.75 x...... More
Boston: The Page Company, 1920. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original ribbed beige cloth stamped in gilt with illustrated onlay to upper board ruled in blind. Near Fine with light wear to covers and former owner gift inscription to front free endpaper. In a Very Good original dust..... More
Berkeley & San Francisco: North Atlantic Books & Documatica Research, 1992, 2010, 2016. The first three volumes of Vallee's journals. Vols. 1 & 2 are signed on their half title pages. Fine in Near Fine dust jackets, small crease and tear to bottom of front panel of Vol. 1. The..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1931. Seventeenth edition. Signed by W.E.B. Du Bois on the front free endpaper, below a tipped in illustration which is perhaps obscuring evidence of a former bookplate removal. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with spine faded, lightly worn at ends..... More
[no place]: [no publisher], 1941-1961. A collection of 116 vernacular photographs, mostly of the town of Bayocean, Oregon, which was destroyed by coastal erosion. What had been a thriving coastal resort town of 2,000 people (founded in 1906), became a ghost town and then was swallowed up by the sea..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author and signed under his real name, Kenneth Millar on the front free endpaper "For Stretch with admiration and affection, Ken". Stretch was a Santa Barbara neighbor of the author. Bound in publisher's blue boards over red..... More
New York: Twelve, 2007. Signed by Hitchens in ink on the title page. Ticket for a 2010 Portland lecture by the author taped to front free endpaper. 14th printing of the first American edition. 307 pp. Bound in publisher's white cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slightly toned..... More
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1979. First edition, cloth issue. Signed by Vallee on half-title in black ink. viii, 243 pp. Light tan cloth lettered in gilt on spine, issued sans jacket. A Fine copy. Front and back boards are slightly different lengths; spine not at all cocked as the different board..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First edition, first hardcover trade issue. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles stamped in yellow on upper board and spine. Near Fine with corners bumped and pages toned, in a Good unclipped dust jacket, edge-worn, toned, and defective and chipped at the crown with..... More
[Fargo]: N.D. Votes for Women League, [1914 or 1917?]. Small broadside or window sign measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75" printed in black on tan stock slightly thicker than newsprint. Near Fine with minor corner wear. The North Dakota Votes for Women League was organized in 1911 and held their..... More
New York: Scribner, 2014. First edition. Signed by Anthony Doerr on the title page in sharpie. [viii], 531 pp. Publisher's blue boards with powder blue cloth backstrip lettered in blue. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. An excellent copy of the Pulitzer-winning war novel. More
Boston: American Humane Education Society / George T. Angell, [1890]. First American edition. (First printing with Angell's preface). [2], iv, [5]-245, [15] pp. Bound in publisher's buff boards. Very Good+ with light rubbing and foxing to boards, a few small cracks along head and tail, slight lean to spine, toning..... More
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1987. Signed limited first edition; signed by Stephen King and illustrator Phil Hale. An extreme rarity, one of twelve copies reserved for the publisher. Published in an edition of 800 [of 850] numbered copies, there were also 40 copies marked "Author's Copy," 10 reserved..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth boards over red spine cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with light rubbing at edges, pages toned. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light soiling, edge wear, toning, and fading to..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1981. Reprint. Signed by Wilson Rawls and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's leather-affect paper-covered boards with titles tamped in black on the spine. Near Fine with light wear to spine ends, in a Near Fine..... More
New York: Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic Press, 1998. First American edition, second printing. Signed by J. K. Rowling on the verso of the half-title page. Bound in publisher's purple diamond-embossed paper-covered boards over red spine cloth. Near Fine with light edge wear, in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First edition stated, first printing with "A-S" code on copyright page. Publisher's beige cloth binding stamped in grey, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, with light lean to binding, wear to cloth at extremities, toning to pages and offsetting to title page from color..... More
[New York]: Cab Calloway Inc., 1944. First edition thus; the third of Calloway's dictionaries, basically a third edition of his Cat-ologue.) 16 pp. 2.75" x 4.4" Stapled wraps. Sticker from furniture store to front cover, else Near Fine. A WWII-era African American slang dictionary issued by the famous Cotton Club..... More
[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1939. Revised edition. The second edition of the pocket dictionary of African American slang attributed to the famous Cotton Club orchestra leader. It has been billed as "the first dictionary published by a Black person," but more accurately it is one of the first lexicons of..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. Two volumes. First edition, first printing; Hobart and Robbins listed on both copyright pages, title pages lack printing statement as called for. Bound in publisher's original cloth stamped in gilt and decorated in blind; rebacked with cloth relaid. Good with light lean to..... More