New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First edition. Copy number 78 of 515 signed by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Bound in publisher's paper covered boards over beige cloth spine with title label printed in black; lacking the slipcase. Near Fine with toning to spine and edges of boards, covers lightly..... More
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1952. [but ca. 1970-85]. 184 pp. Reprint. Signed by E. B. White and inscribed to former owners Jane and Bill Langton on the half-title page. Jane was a children's book author whose 1981 novel The Fledgling received a Newbery Honor, just as White..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1964. First British edition.196 pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in white. Fine with age-toned pages in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with small crease and closed tear to front panel, a few scratches to spine panel, light wear. A follow-up to Notes of a Native Son..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1983. First edition. (Precedes the American edition by two years.) 64 pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with tiny stain to front gutter, else Fine. A book of poetry by the African American expatriate author. More
New York: The Dial Press, [1977]. First American edition. Fine in Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. An attractive copy of an uncommon children's book by the African American expatriate author best-known for his essays on race and the novel Go Tell It On the Mountain. More
Lawndale, CA: SST Pubs, 1982. First edition; copy number 221, hand-numbered by Raymond Pettibon on the front cover in red ink. Illustrated stapled wraps. Very Good with light shelf wear. More
Lawndale, CA: SST Pubs, 1983. First edition; copy number 170 of 500 (unstated) copies, hand-numbered by Raymond Pettibon on the front cover in red ink. Illustrated stapled wraps. Very Good with light soiling, faint toning and light shelf wear. More
Lawndale, CA: SST Pubs, 1983. First edition; copy number 39 of 50, hand-numbered by Raymond Pettibon on the front cover in red ink. Illustrated stapled wraps. Very Good with light shelf wear and toning. Light fading to printing on cover, likely occurring during production. More
Lawndale, CA: SST Publications, 1988. First edition; copy number 39 of 50, hand-numbered by Raymond Pettibon on the front cover in red ink. Illustrated stapled wraps. Very Good with light shelf wear and toning. Light fading to printing on cover, likely occurring during production. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by David Ogilvy on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light fading to cloth at spine and edges, pages toned, small label appendage to page 207. In a...... More
New York: Communications Company, 1968. First edition. Published simultaneously by the Artists Workshop Press in Ann Arbor, with no known priority. 10pp including covers. Side-staples wrappers. Very Good. Tape ghost to rear cover, some light edge wear, thumbing and toning. Two holograph corrections to #1, and penned beneath letter #12..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's original white fleur-de-lis patterned cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with the faintest toning to the spine, faint perfume odor to pages and faint foxing to textblock edge. The classic cookbook which propelled Julia Child..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition, first printing with BCDE on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine lettered in red and black. Previous owner name inked on front free endpaper, else Fine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. First British edition. Two volumes, finely bound in blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Spines sunned, slight lean to Volume I. Contents toned, sporadically foxed, lightly stained and corner-creased. The two first impressions are indistinguishable, lacking any imprint to distinguish them apart. The first was..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Books, 1982. Advance reading copy of the first edition, signed by Charles Bukowski on the title page. Perfect bound in stiff off-white wraps with review slip mounted on front cover. 283pp. Near Fine, with some faint offsetting to binder's glue surrounding review slip. Foxing to top..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1853. First edition, first printing. Finely bound by [William Thomas Jennings] Worsfold, in late 19th or early 20th-century half leather over marbled boards, with all edges gilt. The former copy of author Edmund William Gosse with his bookplate to the front free endpaper; bookplate of Scottish..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1976. First edition. (Published in the UK a year before the American edition.) 96 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in bright unclipped dust jacket, small wear spot at foot, else Fine. An attractive copy of an uncommon children's book by the African American..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1969. First British edition. 132 pp. Original brown cloth lettered in white. Near Fine, edges a bit dust-soiled, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with line of rubbing along front panel, foxing and rubbing to back panel. A play..... More
Seacaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1987. Signed by Meir Kahane on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner "With love of Israel." 324 pp. Original cloth. Second printing of the first edition. Near Fine with age-toned contents and light rubbing along bottom edge, in Near Fine dust jacket with light..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1945. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good, lightly dust soiled, with some bleeding from the yellow topstain. Toning to pages and offsetting to endsheets. In a very Good unclipped..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1981. First edition, first printing. Signed by Beverly Cleary on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards over beige cloth spine stamped in black. Very Good with light lean to spine, sunning to edges, foxing to..... More
New York: Longmans, Green & Company, 1949. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author Catherine Cate Goblentz and illustrator Janice Holland on the half-title page in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped on dark blue. Near Fine with light shelf wear, light toning to cloth..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Enright on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in yellow. Very Good with some toning and wear to extremities, stain to bottom textblock edge, pages toned and endsheets offset. In a Very Good unclipped..... More
Compton, CA: Public Information Communications Association, 1962. DTL-831. Original pressing in red vinyl. Very Good+ with light wear in Excellent sleeve, corners a little bumped, small sticker scar to MLK's head on front cover. MLK's speech at a civil rights rally at The Zion Hill Baptist Church in Los Angeles..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. Neatly signed by Thomas Wolfe with fountain pen on front free endpaper. [xii], 912 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered and ruled in gilt with green bands. Slight wave to bottom edge of prelims and first few pages, slightly worn tips, else Fine..... More