London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1950. First edition. xii, 399 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in an unclipped dust jacket with a chip at the head and associated tear, scuff, smaller chip at bottom corner of back panel. A posthumous work by Gurdjieff's pupil, rare in..... More
New York: [Self-published], 1962. First edition, second issue with four-letter words struck out. Fears of this San Francisco concert promo booklet harming him in his obscenity trial led comedian Lenny Bruce to have copies destroyed, most that weren't (like this one) had certain four-letter struck out to render them innocuous..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First trade edition. 141 pp. Purple cloth gilt and metallic purple lettering. Near Fine with a little foxing to edges in a Very Good+ dust jacket, a little rubbed with a small closed tear in the top of the front panel. A nice copy..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. (First printing with title page dated "1940.") [iv], 356 pp. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in crimson. A Fine copy, with bright unmarked contents, sharp lettering. An excellent example of the author's debut novel, widely regarded as her best..... More
New York: Blaisdell Publishing Company, 1962. First edition. xiii, 236 (2) pp. Dark navy cloth lettered and ruled in gilt, including all six cards in pouch at rear. Near Fine in a lightly worn, sunned, stained, and foxed dust jacket, About Very Good. A nice copy of an early fusion..... More
London: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition, British issue. Signed by Algernon Blackwood on the front free endpaper in colored pencil "S.A.B. from A." It appears that the final initial, "B," of his name may have been erased; an impression of a penciled date of 1914 below that is visible..... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1938. First edition. Original black cloth with spine label. Near Fine with a little wear to spine ends, former owner's name on front free endpaper, in About Good original dust jacket with a triangular chip in the top of the front panel, a...... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1950. First edition. [viii], 299 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth, lacking the dust jacket. First edition. Very Good with sunned spine and edges of front board, stains to front board, internally clean and bright. Lacking dust jacket. The Talented Mr. Ripley author's first novel..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885 & 1886. First edition. Bound in the rarest publisher's deluxe binding of full black morocco, thought to be done mainly as a presentation to select people. Two octavo volumes, elaborately decorated in blind and tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers with inner dentelle..... More
New York: New Directions, 1947. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner with "Lots of luck!" Former owner's name and date (1966) written on paste down. 166 pp. Publisher's illustrated boards. Seventh printing of the first edition. A Very Good+ copy, lacking the dust..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. First trade edition, first printing; preceded by a signed limited edition of 300 copies. Publisher's brown boards with black cloth backstrip. Very Good with slightly shaken binding, worn tips, former owner's name written on fore and top edges, bookstore stamp on front free..... More
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. First edition. xv, [1], 607 pp. Original purple cloth with green lettering. Very Good with faintly stained fore edge, former owner's name on front free endpaper. A few stains to contents, heaviest to pp. 17 and 18. In an unclipped..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1957. First American edition. vi, (1), 248 pp. Original blue cloth with red title band, gilt lettering. First American edition. Near Fine with slight sunning to spine, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a few tiny..... More
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. Signed by Jim Tully on front free endpaper with inscription on the front free endpaper. 336 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with slight lean to spine, rubbed tips, small tear to bottom edge of front free endpaper, small..... More
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1935. Signed first edition. [vii], 245 pp. Pinkish red cloth with navy lettering. Fair or a little better, lacking jacket, with staining to cloth, spine sunned, front corner chewed, front and rear hinges repaired with glue, some marginal pinpricks and creased corners. With a lengthy inscription..... More
New York: New Directions, 1949. First American edition, first printing. 318 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with black and blue spine stamping. A Near Fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. Small notation to front free endpaper, offsetting to endpapers. A very straight, clean copy. More
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841. First edition, first printing. Finely bound in early 20th-century full leather, spine heavily gilt decorated and with raised bands, wide turn-ins with dentelle. Near Fine with rubbing to joints, previous owner bookplate to front pastedown and several marginal marks. More
New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1887. First edition in English of the German philosopher's study of the industrial working class in Victorian England. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth over bevel-edged boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint rubbing to cloth at extremities, and a small..... More
Columbus: Golden Goose Press, 1952. First edition. Unpaginated. Stiff white wraps in fragile attached clear textured jacket. Near Fine with a tiny hole and tear to the thin clear wraps, corners a bit bumped. Includes staplebound publisher's trade list. The Black Mountain poet's first book. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. Original dark green cloth, title on spine blocked in black with gilt lettering. Second printing of the first edition. David Riesman's copy of his own book with his numerous marginal corrections in pencil, presumably for a possible Modern Library reprinting of the book mentioned..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. First American edition. Book Club edition. (An oddity of modern firsts in that the book club edition is the first US edition. Dated 1945 on title page. Follows the British edition earlier the same year.) [viii], 351 pp. Publisher's red cloth with black lettering..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Three volumes bound in early-to-mid 20th-century half-leather over marbled boards. Near Fine with leather lightly scuffed and rubbed, spines sunned. Former owner bookplate to front pastedowns. Longfellow's translation, originally published in 1867, was the first American translation of Dante's Italian narrative..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926. First edition. Copy number 233 of a limited 327, signed by Ramsaye and Thomas A. Edison. Large paper copy, bound in publisher's original blue cloth ruled in blind and stamped in gilt; copies of this limited edition were also bound in half-leather. Near Fine..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth ruled in blind with spine titled in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with cloth lightly soiled and edge-worn. Evidence of bookplate removal from front pastedown and previous owner name to front free endpaper..... More
[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1950s-1990s. A three-ring binder of photographs of Tennessee Williams and people and places related to his work, compiled by fan Jackie Koenig over many years. The majority, 40 to be exact, are publicity photos of Williams himself; four of these are signed by Williams. These show..... More