New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1942. Advance copy of the first American edition, perfect bound in dust jacket with flaps. Very Good with lean and light creases to spine, indentations to front wrap, binding a little over-opened at front cover with a short split at the tail. The American..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Advance uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Bound in publisher's plastic comb bound wraps, lacking the rear cover. Good. A good majority of the binding's teeth are broken, and the front cover is detached and torn along the top half. Pages toned. A...... More
New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First edition, first printing. Bound in contemporary or near-contemporary half blue cloth over maroon cloth boards, with printed title label to spine. Very Good with light marking to covers, spine darkened, light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown..... More
New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911. First edition, first printing; lacking Braunworth & Co. slug at bottom of the copyright page. Very Good, lacking dust jacket. Cloth a little soiled and darkened, lightly worn at corners and spine ends; bookseller stamp to front pastedown, owner name to front free endpaper..... More
New Orleans: Francois Mignon, 1956. First edition. Publisher's original yellow plastic comb-bound wraps printed in brown. Near Fine or better with just light rubbing to wraps, but perhaps as nice a copy as one could find. A book co-authored by Francois Mignon and the renown African-American folk artist Clementine Hunter..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. Eighth printing. Signed by Roald Dahl on the title page. In publisher's original grey cloth-affect binding with titles in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with some light edge wear, bumping and light toning to covers, front free endpaper bound down with front pastedown in binder's..... More
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. First edition, first printing. Signed by Paolo Coelho on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's dark blue paper-covered boards over dark blue spine cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with light rubbing to covers and spine ends, in a Very..... More
London: Macmillan and Company, 1933. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth elaborately decorated in blind on the upper board and in gilt on spine. Several areas of discoloration/rubbing to cloth and foxing to endsheets, else Near fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge..... More
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. First edition, first printing; one of 650 copies of the first issue. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, sunning to spine ends and along top edge and pages toned. In a Very Good..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. (First printing with dated title page.) [iv], 356 pp. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in brown. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, edges a little scuffed, in an About Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine panel, wear..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First edition. (Stated "First Printing" on copyright page.) [viii], 326 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth, blue spine lettering. Very Good, cloth rubbed along edges, former owner's name on paste down (next to bookplate) and title page, typical toning to pages, lacking dust jacket..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition. (First printing with publisher's colophon and "A" on copyright page.) [viii], 295 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Tiny stain on front board, else Fine in Very Good dust jacket, toned along edges, worn at tips, tiny chip..... More
Tournai, Belgium: Casterman, 1973. First edition. Signed by Jean Baudrillard on the front free endpaper, inscribed to J.P. Mayer (1903-1992) Professor Emeritus at Reading University, "Pour Peter Mayer, tres cordialement, J. Baudrillard. 148 pp. Wraps. In French. Near Fine with light reading wear. The French postmodern philosopher's critique of Karl..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First edition. 56 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Foxing to top edge, else Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, toned, with small closed tear in top of front panel, small stain at head, unclipped. The Irish poet's second book. More
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1971. First edition. Signed by Iceberg Slim on the first page in red sharpie, "My best wishes to Chuck + his rib, Sandy [signed] Iceberg Slim (R. Beck." 248, [1], [7, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with creased and slightly leaning spine, light..... More
Washington, DC [actually Healdsburg, CA]: Zephyrus Image / National Endowment for the Domestic Arts, 1977. First edition. Publisher's stringbound stiff wraps, housed in original printed envelope. [20] pp. Near Fine with typical offsetting to endpapers, in Very Good+ envelope with toning and light wear. Uncommon. The author's first publication..... More
London: Day and Son, 1856. First edition of this beautiful repository of design samples from around the world and one of the finest color printed books of its era. Large folio measuring 15 x 22.5 inches, bound in publisher's original brown half morocco over dark green cloth boards, with Egyptianate..... More
Burbank: Saticoy Productions, Warner Bros. 1972. First edition. Signed by co-author and celebrated director Peter Bogdanovich on title page in blue ink. One of only two copies bound for Bogdanovich by the studio. [1], 113 pp. printed on rectos only, photocopy of original typescript. Bound in full brown cloth, gilt..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. First edition. [vi], 284 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth, spine lettering almost completely effaced but looks like it was originally yellow, black topstain. A Good+ copy with aforementioned rubbed-off lettering, tiny hole in spine, cloth a little soiled, rear hinge cracked..... More
Washington, DC: Off Our Backs Collective, 1970-1979. Vol. 1 Nos. 1-5, [8] -24; Vol. II, Nos. 1-4, 6, 8-10; Vol. III 1-4, 6-12; Vol. IV Nos 1-12; Vol. V 1-4, 6-11 (includes misnumbered "Vol. IV No. 3" which is actually third number of this volume); Vol. VI Nos. 1-10; Vol..... More
New York: Basic Systems Incorporated, 1966. First edition, first printing. Signed by Bobby Fischer on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner; beneath Fischer's inscription is what appears to be the signature of the owner written over his workplace's rubber stamp. Bound in publisher's printed laminated boards..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First American edition. [x], 629; [v], [630]-1181 pp. Two volumes bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, illustrations mounted on front boards, blue topstains; housed in publisher's slipcase. Very Good with rear hinge of Vol. I cracked but holding, corner crease to..... More
Irvine, CA: Suntup Editions, 2021. Artist Gift Edition. One of 1,000 copies thus signed by artist Jim Burns. 328, [4] pp. Full cloth smyth sewn binding with two-hits foil stamping over cloth boards, in foil stamped dust jacket, housed in die cut silver paper covered slipcase. A Fine copy. In..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First edition. [xii], 186, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, toned with a small dampstain to front panel, spine panel darkened, offsetting to front flap from a laid in sheet of..... More
New York: The Penguin Press, 2014. First deluxe edition, first printing. This is one of an unspecified number of copies sold pre-publication by the publisher where the laid in small poster poem, "A Little Black and White Dog," is signed by Mary Oliver. Bound in original full red cloth stamped..... More