New York: Grove Press, 1962. First American edition, first printing in second issue jacket with "i a" on back panel. 174 pp. Bound in publisher's two-toned boards with green spine lettering. Near Fine with wear to front free endpaper, in a Very Good unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket, rubbed, worn at..... More
London: Souvenir Press, 1965. First edition, first impression. 224 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with dulled and faded spine panel, toning along front panel, unclipped (18s net). The British comic book heroine's uncommon first appearance in book form... More
London: Walter Scott, 1894. First thus. viii, 376, [16] pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth gilt stamping. Near Fine, tips lightly worn, foxing to edges, gift bookplate on paste down, a few marginal pencil marks. An attractive copy. Leo Tolstoy's major statement of his philosophy of anarchist nonviolence, rooted in..... More
Ft. Eustis, VA: Ordnance Department, Army Service Forces, 1946. Complete in three volumes, all "Reproduced by Technical Information Branch, BUAER, Navy Department," marked "Restricted.". [1], 572; [1], 573-1147; [2], 1149-1762 pp. printed on rectos only, in March 1946. Along with related documents Index to Volume I, II, II, [1], 98..... More
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, successors to Carey & Co., 1839 [but actually 1838]. First American edition with first state ad at front of first volume. [ii ads and publisher's notice], iv, [13-]14-224; iv [3]-196, [16 catalogue] pp. Bound in publisher's brown boards with red calico-texture quarter cloth, paper spine label..... More
London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1937. First edition, first printing in correct dust jacket priced at 7'6 net. [viii], 307, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with red lettering and topstain. Very Good+ with slightly toned and foxed cloth, former owner's name on front free endpaper, offsetting to endpapers, in the..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. First edition, first printing of the author's best-known work. Bound in publisher's original green cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint lean to binding, slight area of sunning to foot, and slight discoloration to rear cover. Former owner name to front free..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First edition, #26 of only 100 copies in the limited issue signed by Marie Curie. 242 pp. Bound in publisher's original blue paper covered boards over black cloth spine lettered and rule and gilt. Good with soiling, light staining and wear to covers, sunning..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First American edition, lettered copy ("P") printed on blue paper and handbound in boards by Earle Gray. One of 26 lettered copies and 100 numbered copies in this limitation. 170, [2] pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket. More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960. First edition. Signed by Herman Kahn on front free endpaper. xx, 651 pp. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt, ruled in black. Near Fine with light wear, bookplate remnants on front paste down, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. An..... More
Mexico City: El Libro Libre, 1942. First edition. 468, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's boards with orange and brown lettering. Main text in German; front flap text in English, rear flap in Spanish. Very Good+ with toning to boards, creasing vertically along spine, light edge wear, poet William Matchett's copy..... More
Frankfurt: Georg Heinrich Oehrling, 1708. First edition in German. [4], 153 pp. With 50 half-page engraved emblematic illustrations. Bound in period vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good, normal discoloration to vellum; old ink notes in German on front endpaper and in margin of title page, expected modest foxing and..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. First edition. (All first printing points present: stated "First Printing" on copyright page, no mention of later publisher Angriff Press, full page count, does not state "First published in 1966 by" on title page.) xii, 1348 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924. First edition. [vi], 308 pp. Bound in publisher's dark gray cloth with red stamping. Very Good+, lightly worn, corner crease to p. 179. Lacking jacket. Uncommon. The author was a Kentucky journalist, Hollywood screenwriter, and novelist. More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First edition. [viii], 422 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth and patterned boards, spine lettered in gilt, orange topstain. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with small stain to spine panel, lightly worn. A British author's second novel about a young..... More
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1952. First edition, first printing. Signed and briefly inscribed by Raymond F. Jones on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original pin-striped paper boards over green spine cloth lettered in silver and yellow. Near Fine with slight tanning to edges of covers, foxing to textblock edges..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. First edition stated, first printing of one of the most iconic novels to come out of the twentieth century. [vi], 277 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Slight rubbing to gilt at rear edge of spine, otherwise Fine. In..... More
[No Place]: [Tony Sansone?], [1937?]. Portfolio housing 20 nude photos of Italian-American bodybuilder Tony Sansone, erotic photos for a gay audience. His mentor Charles Atlas called him "The Most Beautiful Man in America." Fine photos, slightly toned with age, in a Very Good portfolio with wear and a little creasing..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2004-2014. All 12 volumes in the Folio Society reprints of the rainbow Fairy Book series. As new, sealed in unopened, original shrinkwrap. Fine cloth volumes in slipcases. A beloved, illustrated collection of fairy tales from around the world. More
New York: Lippincott & Crowell Publishers, 1980. First edition, first printing. Signed by Patricia Highsmith on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's original red boards over red cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine, with a tiny spot to the front board, in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1972. Limited edition signed by Pearl S. Buck. Number 988 of 1,000 copies. Bound in publisher's blue marbled paper covered boards over white leatherette spine, with titles in gilt. [vi], 316 pp. Near Fine. A lovely copy of a limited edition specially bound in..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and upper board; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Lean to binding, cloth lightly worn at the extremities and spine toned. Pages toned and heavily foxed at textblock edge, prelims and..... More
Paris: Mercure de France, 1896. First edition of the play which opened the door for Dadaism, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd. In contemporary marbled paper boards over vellum spine with titles neatly hand-painted in red and black; with original front and rear wraps bound in. Very Good with..... More
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1967. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with light creases to spine, light wear and light soiling to wraps and heavy toning to pages as expected, but on the whole a very bright and sharp example. The best-known account of..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing. Signed by John A. Lomax with a lengthy inscription to a previous owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's coarse ochre cloth stamped in red. Near Fine with bottom corner bumped, non-authorial former owner gift inscription to half-title page..... More