London: Souvenir Press, 1982. First edition. Signed by Elaine Morgan "with best wishes" on bottom corner of front free endpaper. From the library of paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer Stephen Jay Gould, although not marked so. 168 pp. with 8 pages of b/w photos. Black cloth with silver lettering. Very... More about The Aquatic Ape: A Theory of Human Evolution
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1915 or 1916]. Early printing with no date on title page, next volume in series A Raw Youth listed opposite title page as last title and not released yet. (iv), 345 pp. Original gray cloth with gilt lettering. Good with rubbed cloth, worn at head... More about The Insulted and Injured
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First edition. 320 pp. Original maroon cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with slightly dust-soiled edges, tiny stain to page 13, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear and a little chipping along top edge and foot. The first appearance of Chandler's sixth novel, preceding the American edition. More about The Long Good-Bye
New York: Random House, 1940. First edition, copy #203 of 250 in the limited edition signed by Faulkner on colophon. [x], 421 pp. Publisher's three quarter blue cloth, decorative paper boards, gilt topstain, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with some toning and rubbing to decorative paper, light... More about The Hamlet
New York & Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First edition. (Publisher's colophon on copyright page.) xii, [2], 305 pp. Tan cloth with orange lettering. A hint of foxing to cloth, former owner's name on front free endpaper, else Fine with contents free of markings (uncommon in an academic work like... More about The Great Transformation
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1937. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth binding with illustrated onlay to front cover, with image of Handy Mandy and not a first on the spine; pages bound in 16 signatures; in first issue unclipped dust jacket listing 30 titles on the... More about Handy Mandy of Oz
Evanston, IL: Regency, 1962. First Edition. 157 pp. Very Good with small nick in front cover, light wear. The corrupt "world of the sensational negro press" is explored by African-American novelist and former newspaperman Clarence Cooper Jr. in this paperback original, with the front cover tagline "They Lived On The... More about The Dark Messenger
Madison, OH & Hendersonville, NC: The Mother Earth News, 1970-1978. Vol. 1, Issues #1-49. Unbroken run. Numerous fold-out posters, all apparently intact and included. Very Good+ with light occasional foxing, wear and dust-soiling. The previous owner kept these issues in nice shape. This venerable bimonthly "back to the land"... More about The Mother Earth News (The First 49 Issues
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition, American issue. [viii], 368, [7, ads] pp. Green pebbled cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light wear to head and foot, reading smudge to paste down, tiny date written in ink on front free endpaper, small corner crease to prelims, front... More about Incredible Adventures
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First edition, first issue. [vi], 325 pp. Publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in gilt, black topstain. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly worn at extremities, back panel a little dust-soiled, a little sticker remnant on front flap. An attractive copy of an... More about To a God Unknown
Berkeley: Oyez Press, 1975. First edition, one of 125 numbered copies in the signed limited issue. Signed by Transtromer and translator Samuel Charters. Unpaginated. Paper covered boards with green cloth backstrip, title label on spine.No jacket, as issued. A little insecting to boards, slight foxing to spine label, else Fine... More about Baltics
Berkeley: Oyez Press, 1965. First edition. Unpaginated. Wrappers, internally side stapled. Edition of 500 copies printed by Graham Mackintosh, with frontispiece portrait from a photograph by Jim Hatch. Near Fine with light shelf wear. Nice shape overall. More about On Out
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. First edition. Signed by Barry Lopez on title page, inscribed to former owner. [x], 309 pp. Original gray cloth, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with small stamp and erased notes on front free endpaper in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. A signed book by... More about Of Wolves and Men
New York: William Morrow Company, 1955. First edition. viii, [2], 275 [2, ads] pp. Green cloth with black lettering. Tape stains on boards with offsetting to endpapers, else Very Good, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, toned, nick in front panel, spine-sunned, and a little short for book. Another Perry... More about The Case of the Nervous Accomplice
New York: The Experimenter Publications, 1930. First edition. 94 pp. Paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip. About Very Good with rubbing to boards, chipping along edges, interior has a few small stains and closed tears. An uncommon illustrated Prohibition-era book of cocktailiana and humorous verse. More about The Home Bartender's Guide and Song Book
Parma: Franco Maria Ricci, 1972. First edition. #1236 from an edition of 2000 copies. Printed on paper handmade at Fabriano in the Pietro Miliani papermill and bound in silk boards, housed in plain black slipcase. Near Fine with typical sunning to spine cloth, small scratch on back board. More about Erte
Milan: Franco Maria Ricci, 1979. First edition. One of 3,000 numbered copies signed by the publisher on the rear colophon. Original black cloth with gilt lettering, housed in black slipcase with title label. 64 mounted color plates. 187pp. printed on blue handmade Fabriano paper. Fine in Near Fine slipcase. Famous... More about Isadora Duncan
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977. First edition. [xii], 147 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in silver. Fine with a hint of sunning to cloth along top edge, in Near Fine dust jacket with slightly-sunned spine panel, light rubbing. A neat, clean copy of the follow-up to Wright's famous... More about American Hunger
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[Washington]: [no publisher]. [1974-1985]. 88 pp. Ring-bound self-adhesive photo album measuring 11.5" x 11, containing approximately 280 vernacular snapshot photographs and several other pieces of related ephemera. Images date from 1974 to 1985, and are often annotated with captions. Very Good with some general wear. The adhesive is dried on... More about Photo Album]: Vintage Photo Book Documenting the Lives of Two Airedale Terriers
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original cinnamon cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on spine. Near Fine with pages toned, offsetting to endsheets and a small nick to the top edge of the front board. In a Near Fine dust jacket with toning to... More about A Room of One's Own
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1971. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Tom Robbins on the front free end paper. Near Fine, with light edge wear, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear mostly at the spine's extremities. A lovely, signed copy of the the... More about Another Roadside Attraction
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Presentation edition, copy #434 of an unspecified limitation, signed by Charles Lindbergh. Fine, with light bumping to page corners and light browning to bottom edge of textblock. In Near Fine acetate wrapper, lightly rubbed, with several small chips and scuffs. A beautiful copy, signed... More about The Spirit of St. Louis
Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1976. Second edition, one of 2000 printed. Signed by Ed Ruscha on the front free endpaper. Near Fine with light soiling and light toning to wraps. A lovely copy, signed by the photographer. More about Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing, first issue with textual errors present: page 60, line 16 "chatter"; page 119, line 22 "northern"; page 165, line 16 "it's"; page 205, lines 9-10 "sick in tired"; page 211, lines 7-8 "Union Street station." Publisher's dark green cloth binding... More about The Great Gatsby
New York: Grove Press, 1967. First printing of the Grove Press edition. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine, with light rubbing to gilt, previous owner name to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear, light soiling, and a.... More about The Master and Margarita