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
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1990. First edition, first printing. Signed by both Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman on the title page. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, corners bumped and pages tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light general wear. A collaboration between Pratchett and Gaiman..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pebbled black cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at corners and spine ends. Slight crack started at gutter of front free endpaper. Owner names penciled and small owner..... More
London: New English Library, 1972. First NEL hardcover edition. Signed by David Ben-Gurion on the title page. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear, former owner name to front free endpaper, offsetting to free endsheets and light tanning to pages. In a...... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ralph Steadman on the title page. Bound in publisher's original printed wraps. Near Fine with a tiny chip to the crown of the spine and pages mildly tanned. Tales of drugs, marathon running, real estate, greed, and fishing in..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1954. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth affect paper over boards, lettered in magenta. Near Fine with light edge wear to covers, light soiling to front free endpaper, pages tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition, first printing stated. Signed by Kay Thompson and inscribed following the copyright page. Bound in publisher's original blue paper boards stamped in black and silver. Near fine with light toning to spine and edges, light wear at tips. In a Very Good..... More
London: New English Library, 1976. First British edition, a copy intended for export with publication information on the copyright page inked out with a black marker. Signed with a contemporary inscription by Stephen King on the title page. Near Fine with toning to pages, faint creases to front free endpaper..... More
Montreal: Published for McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1956. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with pages tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning, soiling and edge wear with chipping at the corners and spine..... More
San Francisco: Women's Co-operative Printing Office, 1881. First edition, first printing of the second cookbook published in America by an African-American woman and the third to be published by any African-American. Preceded only by the extremely rare A Domestic Cook Book by Mrs. Malinda Russell in 1866. Bound in publisher's..... More
New York: The John Day Publishing Company, 1931. First edition, first printing, first issue with "The John Day Publishing Company, Inc." on copyright page. Error "flees" that was present in the first three printings on p. 100, line 17. [vi], 375, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt..... More
Santa Cruz: Boneset, 1983. First edition. Signed by Nathaniel Mackey on the title page, inscribed to poet Tom Orange. Staplebound wraps. Near Fine with sunning along spine, very slight bump to corners. The award-winning poet's rare second chapbook. Includes eight poems. More
Nyack, NY: The Fellowship of Reconciliation, [1957]. First edition. (One of a reported 250,000 copies in the first and only printing of the first edition. Not one of the reprints with the orangish paper tone printed on the page in a dot matrix.) [16] pp. Bound in publisher's copper staples..... More
New York: The Century Company, 1912. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth with gilt, periwinkle, and royal blue stamping, top edge gilt. Near Fine or better with slight wear to binding and bookplate from former owner to front pastedown. A truly excellent copy. Famous conservationist..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. First edition. 320 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with navy lettering. Very Good with slightly sunned spine, slight lean, rubbing and a little soiling to cloth, name on front free endpaper. Lacking dust jacket. The British novelist's uncommon first novel, which predicted the invention..... 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. A few tiny spots of foxing to top edge, else Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a slightly faded spine..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First American edition, first printing. [xii], 280 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with dark brown stamping. Near Fine with bookseller's stamp to front free endpaper, pages toned with age, offsetting to endpapers, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with wear spot along top..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First edition, first printing. 383 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth boards stamped in gilt. Fine with bright, clean text in a very Near Fine dust jacket with trivial wear at head and tail, thin line of rubbing to front gutter and faint..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1962. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in a darker blue. Near Fine or better, with slight wear to the spine ends, faint stains to the textblock edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. First American edition. (First printing with stated "first American edition" on copyright page.) [iv], 118 pp. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with a little flaking to spine lettering, green Christmas gift stamp on page following..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1988. Signed by Gerald Edelman, inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper. xxii, 371 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Second printing of the first edition. Very Good+ with slight bowing to boards, in a Very Good+ dust jacket, rubbed..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First American edition. (Correct first in the English language as well.) [vi], 245, [3] pp.Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with green cloth backstrip lettered in black. Very Good with bumped corners, rubbing along edges, in a rubbed dust jacket with tiny closed tears along..... More
New York: Random House, 1952. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's two-toned black and beige cloth stamped in white and gray. Very Good with slight musty odor to pages, light rubbing to white stamping on spine, textblock edge spotted and a short tear to the bottom edge of..... More
Concord, CA: Nitty Gritty Books, 1969. First edition. [xii], 210, [1] pp. Publisher's wraps. Good+ with wear along edges, creased spine, slight curling to wraps, dampstain to bottom corner of last few pages. An uncommon soul food cookbook mentioned in Toni Tipton-Martin's The Jemima Code. More