Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First edition. viii, [2], 587 pp. Original black cloth and paper-covered boards, spine titled in gilt. Near Fine with remainder mark on bottom edge, light rubbing, gift inscription on front free endpaper, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf... More about Roots
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's brick-red cloth with titles stamped in black and white on the spine. Near Fine, with faint traces of rubbing at corners and spine ends, pages toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, with... More about Where the Red Fern Grows
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1944. First edition, first printing. Signed by Erle Stanley Gardner and inscribed to a former owner in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red. Very Good, with cloth lightly scuffed and rubbed, spine ends softened, pages toned. In a.... More about The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with title label to spine. Very Good+ with fading to spine, light softening to spine ends, pages toned. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with a blank verso and publisher's original price... More about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
London: Faber and Faber, 1975. Advance uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Bound in publisher's blue wraps printed in black with review slip laid in. From the library of Irish writer Francis Stuart, with presentation inscription on the half-title from Ted Hickey reading, "For Francis Stuart from Ted Hickey... More about North
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red, with gilt lettering on spine; publisher's monogram on rear cover, bound without ads. Very Good. Lean to binding. Cloth lightly rubbed, offsetting to endsheets. A late Victorian-era science fiction novel, written by W.... More about A Crystal Age
New York: New Directions, 1967. Signed limited first edition. One of a limited 110 unnumbered copies signed by Ezra Pound. Printed by Andrew Hoyem and Robert Grabhorn in San Francisco, and bound in publisher's tan linen cloth over blue paper-covered boards with errata slip tipped in at rear; in publisher's... More about Redondillas, or Something of That Sort
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's mauve cloth with black and purple spine decorations; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good or better, with a lean to binding, fading to spine cloth, light rubbing at extremities, bumped corners and previous owner details to front paste... More about Down and Out in Paris and London
Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone, 1900. First edition. (Title page dated 1900, issue without ads like LOC copy noted in Russo p. 36) Original buckram. [viii], 218, [1] pp. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, else Fine. No jacket. A great copy. A follow-up to the author's popular collectionFables in Slang. More about More Fables
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1927. First American edition. 300 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in black. Very Good + with discoloration to spine, blank ex libris design to paste down, slight wave to text, bookseller's ticket to rear paste down. In rare example of the pictorial dust jacket... More about The Baby Grand and Other Stories
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 about The Fairy Books: Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive and...
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1999. Signed by the Maya Angelou. Leather-bound with gold accents, silk end papers and ribbon marker. Laid in is a certificate of authenticity from Easton Press, as well as a note from the publisher about the book and unused Easton Press bookplate. Near Fine, with... More about I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First edition, first issue. Signed by Mahlon Blaine, whose illustrations appear on the the dust jacket, endsheets and title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine. Cloth lightly sunned through jacket at spine, and along top and bottom... More about To a God Unknown
New York: Wynwood Press, 1989. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Grisham in the year of publication, and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Good. Lean to binding. Creasing to backstrip and rubbing to spine lettering, dust-soiling to textblock edge, pages toned. In a Good, edge-worn... More about A Time to Kill
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. First edition stated, first printing with "K-Q" code on copyright page. Publisher's beige cloth binding stamped in dark red. Very Good, with light scuffing and faint staining to cloth, corners softened, front inner hinge slightly pulled, small bookseller ticket to front pastedown, pages toned... More about Little Town on the Prairie
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995. Complete in nine volumes. Collector's edition bound in genuine red leather, decoratively stamped in gilt, with silken endpapers and ribbon placeholder. Near Fine, with faint shelf wear. A beautiful set. More about Little House on the Prairie (9 Volume Set
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1968. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with light shelf wear and a small production error affercting the bottom gutter of several rear pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, lightly toned and edge-worn. An uncommon first edition. More about Mash
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition, first printing. Near Fine or better, with light bruising to spine ends. Toning to pages. Offsetting from images onto adjacent pages and from black endsheets onto adjacent blanks. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear, and offsetting... More about Madman's Drum
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition, first printing, first issue text. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine or better, with a small, faint scuff to the spine and faint bruising to spine ends. Rear pages bumped. An unusually nice copy, with... More about Look Homeward, Angel
New York: The Viking Press, 1953. First edition, first printing, first state with orange topstain. Bound in publisher's grey and black cloth with decorations and titles stamped in orange. Fine, with corners lightly bumped, in a Near Fine first state dust jacket with publisher's original price of $4.50 and advert... More about The Adventures of Augie March
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's beige cloth stamped in dark blue. Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear and toning to blank verso. A stunning copy. One would be hard-pressed to find a nicer example of this... More about Honey in the Horn
New York: Covici Friede, 1929. Signed limited edition. Copy 204 of 225 numbered copies of The Victory Edition, signed by Radclyffe Hall and with a specially designed title page by S. A. Jacobs. Two volumes bound in publisher's blue paper over beige cloth covered boards, stamped in silver, lacking the... More about The Well of Loneliness
Cleveland, OH: The Ralston Society, 1946. Copyright page lists 1946, though title pages are dated 1937. Complete in 8 volumes, each containing two lessons, bound in publisher's red decorated in blind with titles in gilt, decorated in blind with titles in gilt. Volumes range from Good to Very Good, with... More about The Law of Success
Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific Press, 1935. First edition, first printing. Bound in original hand-painted tapa-cloth with titles in black on upper board. Fine. Small paper label residue to front and rear paste downs, and toning to endsheets. An early book by Tom Blake, who is often considered to be... More about Hawaiian Surfboard
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First edition, first printing; text in the original French language. Bound in publisher's original salmon cloth, with the "flying crow" on page 63. Near Fine, with light rubbing to cloth at corners, spine ends and along bottom edge. Offsetting to pastedowns from binder's glue... More about Le Petit Prince