New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980. Uncorrected proof, issued before the first edition. Signed by Charles Berlitz on the half-title. [x], 126 pp. White wraps in folded dust jacket. Fine in Near Fine jacket with small tear to foot, unclipped. A rare signed advance copy of the book that introduced..... More
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. Signed by author on first blank, inscribed to former owner in Rome, Italy and dated Nov. 10, '69. First edition. viii, 442 pp. Original pebbled brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. A Near Fine copy with dust-soiling to edges, bit of oxidization to..... More
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010. Signed limited first edition, one of 400 numbered copies. [viii], 151 pp. Original white cloth stamped in black and crimson, crimson endpapers. A Fine copy in clear mylar sleeve that is probably not original. An excellent signed copy of the 2011 Locus and Hugo Award-winner..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1927. First edition. (Preceded the American edition by a few days.) vii, 140 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, slightly chipped at extremities and a little toned. An attractive copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel... More
Princeton, NJ and New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1957. First edition. xi, 170 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with toning around endcap shape on front panel, a few small stains, light wear along top edge. More
New York: New Directions, 1979. First American edition. Signed by Octavio Paz on half-title, inscribed to former owner. [vi], 186 pp. Original brick red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with small creased tear in top of front panel, another in bottom of back panel, basically..... More
[Europe]: [no publisher]. 8" x 10 Parchment-bound album ornately stamped in gilt, containing 39 pages with 36 full page tipped in specimens of dried flowers. Boards lightly bowed, lightly worn; endsheets lightly stained. A fantastic survival, with specimens arranged with pleasing aesthetics. More
[no place]: [no publisher]. [19th Century]. 9.5" x 11.5 Black leather album ornately decorated in blind and stamped in gilt, with beautiful endsheets and all page edges gilt, containing 94 specimens of dried seaweed of various sizes, neatly labeled, mounted on specimen paper and album, with uniform line borders drawn..... More
Los Angeles: Freedom Press, 1977. Second Revised Edition. iv, 66, 58 [reproducing 18 tiny pages per sheet] pp. Oblong wraps. Text in English and German. Very Good+ with small tear near foot, a little foxing to back wrap. An uncommon counterculture edition of radical Freudian psychologist, writer, and inventor Wilhelm..... More
New York: Street & Smith Publications, 1944. First edition. Vol. XXXII, No. 1. 178 pp. Wraps. Magazine over-opened at middle but holding, else Near Fine with clean, bright wraps. An uncommon issue of Astounding Science Fiction containing the story "Deadline" by Cleve Cartmill. Although set on another planet, it apparently..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition. [viii], 311 pp. Original gray cloth with maroon lettering. Near Fine with a little rubbing and foxing along edges, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, rubbed, slightly foxed, and worn along edges. The African American author's final novel. More
Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1982. Warmly inscribed by James Randi on half title to biologist and fellow skeptic Stephen Jay Gould, "To S.J.G. - This is the story of one charlatan - by another -- All best, [signed] Randi Nov./ 85." A pleasant association between two figures within the skeptical movement..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. Second printing of the first edition. 327 pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with slight musty smell and a little dust-soiling to edges, in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips (the largest at the head)..... More
Franklin, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited edition, signed by James Baldwin at front. Tissue guard laid in. [xx], 232 pp. Brown leather lettered in gilt, silk endpapers and satin bookmark. A Fine unread copy, tiny scratch to fore edge. A signed limited edition of the African-American author's first novel..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1945. First edition. (Stated "First Edition M-T" on copyright page.) [viii], 228, [1] pp. Original navy cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Very Good with former owner's private ex libris stamps on front and rear endpapers, spine a little rubbed, in About..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1964. First edition. Navy cloth lettered in gilt. Complete in 26 volumes. Near Fine, with contents bright and free of markings, small gift bookplates on paste downs of each volume, light shelf wear, Vol. 16 back cloth slightly wrinkled from largely invisible dampstain. Faint perfume..... More
New York: Hermitage House, 1950. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt on the spine Vertical tape ghosts to endsheets and slight softening to spine at base, else Fine, in an un-clipped dust jacket with trivial edge wear, faint sunning to the spine and..... More
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1857. Signed "Miss Yonge" by the author on the half-title.Two volumes. vi, 338; vi, 344, [1] pp. Dark navy leather spines lettered in ruled in gilt and paper-covered boards, perhaps original, with brown marbled endpapers. Collection of British Authors. Vol. CCCXCII. Copyright edition. Very Good with slight..... More
New York: Random House, 1987. First edition, first printing. Signed by Trump on the half-title, inscribed to former owner. x, 246 pp. Black paper-covered boards with gilt lettering. Near Fine with slight curve to front board in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. The true first appearance..... More
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854. First octavo edition. Complete in three volumes. 20th century leather with marbled paper, spines lettered in gilt. With all 155 beautiful hand colored plates present. Near Fine with contents generally very bright, some small scratches to spines and light wear along edges, front..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. Signed limited edition, precedes the first trade edition. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in black, green and red, lacking the slipcase. Near Fine with light rubbing and light soiling to cloth, pages thumbed and with light occasional soiling. One of 985 copies signed..... More
London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, second issue. (Page height is 19 cm; p. 297 of Vol. I begins "When" rather than "transmitted"; list of nine titles on verso of title page in Vol. 2 rather than errata. Ads in both volumes dated January, 1871. [Freeman 938.]) Two volumes. viii..... More
Portland, OR: Charles Seluzicki, 1997. First edition. Black cloth over decorative paper boards, housed in a slipcase. Letter "T" of 26 lettered sets containing an extra suite of the six drawings printed on Rives, each of which is signed by the artist. Signed by both poet and artist on colophon..... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985. First edition. Signed by Atwood on the half title page, inscribed to former owner. Owner's gift inscription above that. 324 pp. Original two-toned cloth with white spine lettering. Light wear along edges, Near Fine, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light wear. A...... More
