Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1945. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good, lightly dust soiled, with some bleeding from the yellow topstain. Toning to pages and offsetting to endsheets. In a very Good unclipped..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1981. First edition, first printing. Signed by Beverly Cleary on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards over beige cloth spine stamped in black. Very Good with light lean to spine, sunning to edges, foxing to..... More
New York: Longmans, Green & Company, 1949. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author Catherine Cate Goblentz and illustrator Janice Holland on the half-title page in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped on dark blue. Near Fine with light shelf wear, light toning to cloth..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Enright on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in yellow. Very Good with some toning and wear to extremities, stain to bottom textblock edge, pages toned and endsheets offset. In a Very Good unclipped..... More
Compton, CA: Public Information Communications Association, 1962. DTL-831. Original pressing in red vinyl. Very Good+ with light wear in Excellent sleeve, corners a little bumped, small sticker scar to MLK's head on front cover. MLK's speech at a civil rights rally at The Zion Hill Baptist Church in Los Angeles..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. Neatly signed by Thomas Wolfe with fountain pen on front free endpaper. [xii], 912 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered and ruled in gilt with green bands. Slight wave to bottom edge of prelims and first few pages, slightly worn tips, else Fine..... More
Edinburgh and London: T.N. Foulis, 1907. First British edition. [ii], xv, [1], 268, [3, ads] pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth with gilt lettering. About Very Good with scratch to spine, lightly rubbed cloth, bumped corners, former owner's occasional marginal notes and underlines in easily-erasable pencil; his name, though, is in..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1935. First edition. Copy of Wayne State University sociologist Frank E. Hartung with his gift inscription to another person on front free endpaper and stamp on title page, a single marginal notation in easily-erasable pencil (presumably his). An annual award at Wayne State has..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition. Signed by Babitz on the title page. ix, [1], 211, [1] pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with thin crease to laminate along back panel. A collection of short stories by the author of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First American edition. xxii, 320, vii, [1] pp. Original red cloth lettered in gilt with black stamping, red topstain. Very Good+ with former owner's ex libris stamp to bottom edge of textblock, small dampstain to top edge near head, in a Very Good dust..... More
Los Angeles: The Holloway School, 1954. First edition. 13 pp. printed on rectos only. Staple bound wraps. Near Fine with slight roll to spine, back wrap a bit sunned and lightly soiled, staples a bit oxidized. An early UFO work by a California minister covering the etheric hypothesis of Meade..... More
Los Angeles: The Holloway School, [1955]. First edition. 15 pp. printed on rectos only. Staple bound wraps. Staples a bit oxidized and slight roll to spine, else Fine. An early UFO work by a California minister with direct messages channeled through the author as well as reports of other contemporary..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1979. First printing of the reissue edition. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page. Fine with touches of wear at corners and spine ends, in an About Fine jacket with light shelf wear. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1979. First printing of the reissue edition. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page. Fine in an About Fine jacket with light toning to the spine and negligible wear. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. First printing of the reissue edition. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page. Near Fine with small soiling to rear cover, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light soiling and light wear, and toning to the spine. More
Hollywood: Harvest Records, 1969. Original pressing. ST-424. Stereo LP in original sleeve. Very Good album with rubbing and a few light scratches in a Near Mint sleeve with light wear at corners. Hear author and poet Richard Brautigan read his idiosyncratic work (including part of Trout Fishing in America) aloud;..... More
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1930. First British edition, and correct first in the English-language. xi, [1], I(a)-I(e), 2-292 pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very Good, lacking the rare dust jacket, with sunned spine, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, some very faint traces..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. Signed by the author, warmly inscribed to evolutionary biologist and writer Stephen Jay Gould, "6/99 For Steve, my teacher, with fond memories & unflagging admiration [signed] Robert Proctor." From the library of Gould. x, 380 pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1992. First edition. Signed by Michael Connelly on title page. [viii], 375 pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket with publisher's rebate band, also Fine. A superb copy of the first Harry Bosch novel. More
London: Penguin Books, 2013. Signed by Morrissey in red sharpie on the front panel of the dust jacket. 362, [2] pp. Original black cloth with white spine lettering. Second printing of the first hardcover edition. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with slight bump to head, else Fine. Publisher's bookmark laid..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1937. First American Edition. x, 160 pp. Navy blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with rubbed spine lettering, spine slightly sunned, name written on title page, slight bump to bottom corner of textblock. Lacking jacket. An important work by the Nobel-winning Italian physicist who created..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1923. First British edition. xiii, [1], 626, [2], 8 pp. Brown cloth with blind stamped front board, gilt lettered spine. A Very Good+ copy with slightly mottled cloth, head and tail a little worn, offsetting to endpapers, nice shape overall. Lacking jacket. The first book..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1936. Second printing of the first edition. Signed by Dylan Thomas on the front free endpaper; front free endpaper also browned from a clipping formerly laid in. Bound in publisher's gray paper-covered boards with spine lettered in dark blue. Covers rubbed at corners..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1954. First edition. Signed by Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and inscribed to a former owner, Louise Evans. University of California professor D.M. Brown, who drove many times over the hills and canyons above Santa Barbara with a septuagenarian Evans-Wentz scouting property on which to build an ashram..... More
