New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991. First edition. Signed by Alan A. Block, inscribed to historian Douglas Valentine, author of the classic Vietnam War expose The Phoenix Program as well as numerous histories of the DEA and CIA, "Dear Doug, Your books are marvellous. I hope this proves somewhat enlightening..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First edition. [vi], 216, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in white, black topstain. Very Good with light foxing to edges and endpapers, slight lean, former owner's name on paste down written in pencil, in a Very Good dust jacket with wear..... More
New York: Bantam, 1996. First American edition, first printing. [vi], 694, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and boards, spine lettered in silver. Binding error with spine lettering upside down in relation to textblock (or vice-versa), else Very Good+ with light foxing to edges, in Near Fine unclipped dust..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1926. First edition, first printing. xvi, 159 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+, bottom corner bumped, offsetting to endpapers, some finger oiling and a few tiny stains to text, former owner's name on first..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. [x], 348 pp. Bound in second state white card wrappers. Very Good with light wear along edges, faint cup ring to back wrap. Pages free of markings. More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985. First Canadian edition, first printing. Signed by Margaret Atwood and inscribed on the title page. Bound in publisher's original two-toned cloth with white spine lettering. Very Good+ with light wear to spine ends, bump to crown, former owner name to front free endpaper and several..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine lettered in red and black. Near fine with heavy foxing to top of textblock edge and several spots to the fore edge and spine cloth. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket..... More
New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First edition, first printing with statement of "First Edition" on the copyright page (all other issue points are irrelevant). Bound in publisher's original first state red cloth with titles on spine and upper board stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with sunning..... More
[no place]: Esso, 1934. Publisher's stapled wraps. Good, with toning, soiling and wear, some staining. An advertising pamphlet relying upon African American culinary traditions, and prominently featuring a color tinted photograph of two "Aunts" in handkerchiefs in the kitchen. Featuring a variety of Southern staples, interspersed with advertisements ranging from..... More
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou / A Lamplighter Book, 1978. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's wraps with black and white author photo on the front cover taken by Rosemary Klemfuss. Very Good with slight lean to binding, light general wear to covers, foxing primarily to the textblock edge but sporadically..... More
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Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1957. First edition, first printing of one of the Nobel laureate's most enduring works, Endgame, with text in the original French. Signed by Samuel Beckett on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's original printed..... More
New Orleans: B.E. Trice Publishing, 2005. Signed limited edition. From an edition of 325 copies, this one marked "presentation copy" on a slip taped to the exterior of the shirk-wrap. Signed by Cormac McCarthy. As new, still sealed in publisher's shrink-wrap. More
New Orleans: B.E. Trice Publishing, 1998. Signed limited edition, still sealed in publisher's shrink-wrap, as New. Copy number 296 of a limited 325, signed by Cormac McCarthy. The third volume in The Border Trilogy. More
Hollywood, CA: The Cloister Press, 1931. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original stiff wraps. Near Fine with light sunning and toning to wraps, pages lightly thumbed. Generally regarded as the first book devoted to surfing. This instructional pamphlet on bodysurfing was written to address "the pitiful sight of..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938. First edition, first printing. Signed by Daphne du Maurier on a Book Society bookplate with "Rebecca" printed above her name. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light lean to spine, light fading to spine cloth..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. [vi], 124 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Sheet "A Note on the Text" by Esther Calvino, the author's wife, laid in, folded. Very Good+ with light shelf wear, tiny note in ink on front wrap, faint stain..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1984]. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. [xii], 246 pp. Bound in publisher's blue wraps. Near Fine with tiny stain to rear wrap, a little wear at head and tail. Nice shape overall. Uncommon. More
New York: Macmillan, 1965. First edition. (First printing with no additional printings indicated on copyright page and no black deboss spot on rear board.) 415 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black and gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, spine panel a bit sunned, small tear..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First American edition. vi, 278, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's gray boards with turquoise cloth backstrip with gilt stamping, white spine lettering, pink topstain. Tiny former owner's star stamp to front free endpaper, else Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, light wear and..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1967. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original reinforced Spartan red binding stamped in black. Near Fine with light wear, bumping to corners and spine ends, a small spot of rubbing to the top corner of the front free endpaper, and light spotting to the textblock..... More
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1910. Dated 1910, but a later printing. Signed by Beatrix Potter on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards lettered in green with illustrated onlay to upper board. Very Good with glue repair evident to spine along rear joint, lean..... More
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., [nd]. [1941]. Later edition, June 1941 per the printer's imprint on the final page of text. Signed by Beatrix Potter on the half-title page and dated "Feb. 6. 43", Potter died in December of that year. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards..... More
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1909. Early reprint of the author's fourteenth book. Signed by Beatrix Potter on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards lettered in green with illustrated onlay to upper board. Near Fine with foxing to the textblock edges. Laid in is..... More
New York: Thomas Louis Hardin, 1959. First edition. One-thousand two-lined poems, bound in publisher's plain black paper wraps. Good, with spine mostly perished, binding exposed and tender at several hinges but holding, wear to covers and a vertical crease throughout. A renown musician and composer, a busker in New York..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. First edition. (Stated "First printing" on copyright page). 368 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth blue and gilt stamping. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light wear and rubbing, front flap slightly creased, unclipped ($8.50). An attractive copy. The best-known book by..... More