Sauk City: Arkham House, 1963. First edition, early printing bound with headband and tailband. Near Fine, with light mottling to cloth and previous owner name to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine second state dust jacket priced at $6.50, with toning and faint rubbing at the extremities. A nice... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. Limited edition; Number 819 of 1,500 copies signed by Lynd Ward. Complete in five volumes bound in publisher's black cloth with spine labels lettered in gilt, in publisher's black slipcase. Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase which has a repaired joint, light bumping... More
London: David Nutt, 1913. First edition, first printing, first issue binding of Frost's first published book. Bound in publisher's bronze pebbled cloth over boards, with titles stamped on the upper board in gilt. Very Good or better, with boards lightly sunned, and lightly worn at the tips. Pages toned, previous... More
London: John Lehmann Ltd, 1949. First British edition, first impression. 112 pp. Original green cloth with black title label, gilt spine lettering. Good with some marginal notes and underlines in pencil and ink, foxing to edges, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel wear and some small... More
London: John Lehmann Ltd, 1948. First British edition, first impression. 95 pp. Original blue cloth with black title label, gilt spine lettering. Good+ with some marginal notes and underlines in easily erasable pencil, foxing to edges, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear and some small edge chips and... More
New York: HarperCollins, 1993. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's white paper-covered boards with black cloth spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with edge wear to top of boards. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, with light shelf wear... More
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959. First American edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Near Fine, with faint edge wear, bumped corners, pages toned, small tape stain to front paste down and correspondingly to front dust jacket flap. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First edition stated, first printing. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering over paper covered boards, red top stain. Very Good with some wear and mottling to covers, light stains to bottom edge of textblock, and previous owner bookplate to front paste down. In a.... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1944. First edition, first printing. Near Fine, with foxing and toning to cloth at top edge, pages toned, lightly foxed at textblock edge, previous owner name to front free endpaper, and with small, light staining to one page. In a Fair dust jacket with... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Signed by Cleaver on front free endpaper in ink, inscribed to former owner "at SSC" [probably the Socialist Scholar's Conference], "All Power to the People," dated October 2, 1968. Former owner's name written in red pencil above that. xv, 210, (1, Note About Author) pp. Original... More
(Los Angeles?): Unknown. 4 1/2" x 4 1/4" colored pictorial wrappers shaped and colored like a clam, staplebound. [12] pp. An illustrated promotional pamphlet advertising San Francisco (and later Los Angeles) restaurant Bernstein's world-famous Coo-Coo Clams from Coo-Coo Cove; they were popular at the Los Angeles location. Perhaps published in... More
London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. Second edition. viii, 303 (1); viii, 324, (4, ads) pp. Original illustrated brown cloth with gilt-lettered spines, gilt topstain, yellow endpapers with publisher's ads. Complete in two volumes. An unsophisticated set that's essentially Very Good with rubbing, wear and fraying to head... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. First American edition, twenty-fourth printing. Three volumes. OED itself complete in two Fine volumes in Near Fine slipcase with Bausch and Lomb magnifying glass (in original box) in drawer of slipcase. Fine third volume, a supplement, in Fine slipcase. Plastic opening tabs included. An... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Signed by Alice Walker on title page in black ink. First edition. (Full letter line BCDE on copyright page.) 245 pp. Original purple cloth backstrip over cream paper-covered boards, spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with small purple stamp of Ukiah Research Institute on... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1967. First edition. 210 pp. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with tape stains to boards, small stain to fore edge, in Very Good+ unclipped jacket with a little offsetting to verso from tape, small dampstain to front flap. The African-American author's... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1963. First British edition. 223 pp. Black cloth with silver and red lettering on spine. Near Fine with tiny nick in spine in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, slightly worn at head and tail, closed tear in top of back panel, verso lightly foxed along folds... More
Mount Vernon, New York: Walpole Printing Office, 1941. First edition, second issue. Number 235 of a limited 295 copies, unsigned. Bound in publisher's black cloth over boards, with red and gold title labels on upper board and spine. Very Good or better, with spine and edges faded, several small scuffs... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Frost on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. Reinscribed beneath Frost's signature to another owner, whose address label has been pasted nearby. Bound in publisher's green cloth over boards, stamped in dark green and... More
Everett, PA: Visionary Publishing Co, 1936. First edition. 158 pp. Currey's first binding of black cloth, front and spine lettered in silver with upper and lower case lettering. Fine with typical curl to spine but lettering sharp, none of the rubbing often seen with this book, faint dust soil to... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1957. First American edition. vi, (1), 248 pp. Original blue cloth with red title band, gilt lettering. Near Fine with slightly dulled spine, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, slightly chipped and rubbed. A nice copy. Peter France writes in The Oxford Guide to Literature... More
New York: New Directions, 1984. First American edition, cloth issue. 121 pp. Original blue paper-covered boards with cream cloth backstrip, spine lettered in blue. Near Fine with toning along top edge, in unclipped dust jacket with very little wear but toned, else Near Fine. Lectures on world literature by the... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1962. First edition, first issue. (Priced at 18 N.F. on back cover. Maynard and Miles A6a. ) 183 pp. Original green wrappers printed in black. A Near Fine copy, lacking dust jacket. Light shelf wear, two faint indents to back cover. A nice copy. More
Philadelphia: A. Waldie, 1837. First American Edition. x, 407, [1, Pathological Index] pp. Period half calf and marbled boards with newer morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to edges of boards, light foxing to endpapers and prelims, former owner's name written in pencil on blank page... More
? B/G Sandwich Shops, 1924. A single pictorial sheet (12.5" x 7.5") with a rounded top flap, folded a total of four times and illustrated in black, orange and blue, to create a postcard with space for stamp in corner. Very Good with light evidence of erased penciled address and... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2001. First British edition, first impression. (Correct first in the English language as well.) Signed by Sebald on title page. 415 pp. Maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. A truly Fine, unread copy in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A superb copy of the German writer's final novel... More