[np]: [The Author?], 1989. Photocopied typed manuscript dated May 23, 1989, preceding Bill Cooper's cult hit Behold a Pale Horse. 20 pp. Stapled 8.5" x 11" sheets. Printed on rectos only. Near Fine. From the UFO collection of Colonel Wendell Stevens, with stamped addressed envelope to him from well-known contactee..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's orange cloth stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket.Near Fine with small stain to bottom edge of bottom board; lacking the front free endpaper, pages lightly toned else an attractive copy of the African American author's..... More
New York: Random House, 1989. First edition. Signed by Bill McKibben on the front free endpaper. [xii], 226 pp. Publisher's black cloth and paper-covered boards, spine lettered in copper. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with small tear in front panel at bottom corner, "Autographed at the Phoenix Bookstore" sticker..... More
New York: Adelphi Company, 1934. First edition. Signed and inscribed to United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone by Irving Fisher, Frederic Delano (President, Stable Money Association), and James Rand (Chairman, Committee for the Nation) on a limitation slip tipped in on the front pastdown. Justice Stone's ownership..... More
London: Published by the Author, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1841. First edition, first issue with "Frederick" instead of "Zedikiah". Two volumes, bound in publisher's dark green diced grain cloth with title labels to spines with yellow coated endhseets, and illustrations carefully engraved from Catlin's original drawings; errata slip present..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in dark brown. Very Good with faint light wear to cloth at extremities; endsheets offset from binders glue and former owner name written to front free endpaper, pages toned. In a...... More
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original bluish-purple cloth with one leaf of ads before the extra-illustrated title page and frontis, and four leaves of ads inserted after page 448; defective type on pages 226-227 and 230-231; the type on page 436-437 is..... More
New York: Random House, 1983. First American edition in the English language. [6], 264, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards and cloth, spine lettered in metallic blue. Former owner's ex libris emboss on half title, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. A rare fictionalized memoir of a...... More
London: Neville Spearman, 1975. First British edition. (Also the first hardcover edition, following the American paperback original.) 288 pp. Orange cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in neon green dust jacket, tiny chip in center of spine, Near Fine. A Fortean miscellany from American writer John Keel. One of this book's..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 1897. First edition thus, second printing. (Myerson C 6.Ib). 522, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing along edges, small stain to top edge, two former owners' names to paste down. An attractive copy. Includes..... More
[Chicago]: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1953. First edition. Signed by Edgar Guest and Royce Howest on half title. x, 248 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in darker brown and gilt. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with wear at head, light rubbing. A biography of the British-born..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 2001. First edition. Signed by Bell Hooks on the title page, inscribed to former owner. xxvi, 223 pp. Publisher's black paper-covered boards lettered in metallic red. Near Fine with trivial stains to edges, in Fine unclipped dust jacket. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892. First edition, first printing, second state with corrected spelling "Gorgias" on vi. xvii, 1079pp. with 14 pages of ads dated June 1892. Bound in publisher's original brown pebbled cloth with boards ruled in blind and spine stamped in gilt. Good. Cloth rubbed, soiled..... More
New York: Kailas Press, 1931. First edition. Signed by J.C. Chatterji on the front free endpaper, "To Mrs. Freyer with the compliments of the scribe New York Feb. 1931 > [signed] Jagadish Ch. Chatterji." 75 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good+..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. First British edition. 127 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, stamped in maroon and light blue. A Fine copy in the beautifully-designed jacket by Hans Tisdall, first state (not double-sided), Near Fine with a tiny scrape to the spine panel, rubbing along edges, a little dulling..... More
New York and London: George H. Doran and Heinemann, 1922. First edition, first printing, American issue. Bound in publisher's original yellow paper-covered boards with rear cover blank with Whitefriars Press slug at rear following last page of text. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear at edges, slight natural..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition, limited issue. Number 80 of 350 limited copies signed by John Grisham. Bound in publisher's deluxe full charcoal leather binding stamped in gilt, speckled page edges and marbled endsheets. Fine in fine original cloth slipcase, lacking glassine dust wrapper. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Tony Hillerman on the title page, and with an original ink and colored pencil drawing by Native American artist Ernest Franklin, also signed. Bound in publisher's original purple leatherette boards over blue cloth spine lettered in red..... More
Shanghai: The Comacrib Press, 1936. First edition, first printing. Copy number 322 of a limited 1,000 copies. Bound in silk over boards, with two black titles labels to spine stamped in gilt. Near Fine with some toning and wear to silk on spine with some exposure to head and tail..... More
London: Macmilland and Co., 1896. First Hugh Thomson illustrated edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth with elaborate gilt stamping, al ledges gilt. Very Good light lean to spine, cloth faded at spine and worn at extremities. Small vintage bookseller ticket to front pastedown, former owner name and date..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's original patterned red and blue paper over black cloth spine titled in red; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with rubbing to covers with wear heavier at corners, soiling to rear cover; pages toned, former owner..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed paper-covered boards with Vanessa Bell illustration on front cover; all four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell present. Very Good with light rubbing, soiling and toning to covers. Pages toned, with offsetting from woodcuts to adjacent pages, former..... More
Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1962. First Tove Jansson illustrated edition, text in Swedish. Bound in publisher's illustrated paper covered boards over green cloth spine lettered in gilt. Very Good or better with lean to binding, edge wear and uneven sunning. Previous owner name to front free endpaper. Illustrated by the..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First American edition, first state with a bowing hobbit on the title page, and Chapter VII mistakenly titles Chapter VI. Bound in publisher's original buff cloth stamped in blue and red; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with faint lean to spine..... More
np: [Various]. All in Very Good or better condition. One is a duplicate. Sold as a lot. 1. New York: Student Mobilization Committee, [?]. "All U.S. Forces OUT of S.E. Asia NOW! Join the Student Mobilization Committee." Single sheet folded in fourths. 2. New York: Episcopal Peace Fellowship..... More