Bogota, Columbia: Editorial Oveja Negra, 1985. First Colombian edition. 473 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with black spine lettering. Very Good+ with bump to fore edge, light shelf wear, in Near Fine dust jacket, slightly rubbed with tiny chip to top of front flap. The Spanish language first of GGM's novel..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. First edition, first printing. Signed by Margaret Bourke-White on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with black stamping. Very Good. Toning to spine. Front inner hinge exposed and pages toned. The photographer's first book, a travelogue of a trip to the..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935. First American edition, limited issue; one of 750 deluxe copies quarter-bound in pigskin over maroon cloth, in dust jacket and slipcase. Near Fine with toning to spine and light rubbing to spine ends. Endsheets foxed, pages lightly toned. Dust jacket is toned at..... More
St. Paul, Minn. West Publishing Co. First edition. In publisher's tan leather binding with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, blindstamped alphabet and rule to boards. Very Good. Leather lightly worn, and stains at bottom edge of spine and rear cover, offsetting to endsheets, previous owner name to title..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1938. First edition stated, first printing. Very Good with spine faded, lightly worn at ends and with a light vertical ridge. Offsetting to endsheets, previous owner name to front free end paper and pages toned. A lovely copy, lacking the dust jacket. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by Kahlil Gibran on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with lean to binding. Spine slightly worn at ends. Cloth sunned at spine and top edge of..... More
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou / A Lamplighter Book, 1978. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's wraps with black and white author photo on the front cover taken by Rosemary Klemfuss. Near Fine with light rubbing to wraps, mainly at the joints. Several very light reading creases to the spine. A...... More
Long Island, NY: Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, 1953. First edition. xvi, 301 pp. Original maroon cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Near Fine with slightly sunned spine, light wear. This volume contains the first publication of the landmark paper "The Structure of DNA" by Watson and Crick (pages..... More
Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2004. First American edition, trade issue. 192 pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gray. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An attractive copy. Autobiographical essays by the Japanese photographer with his choice of photos. More
Belfast, Ireland: Simms and McIntyre, 1846. First English language edition of The Count of Monte Cristo, preceding the slightly more common London edition of Chapman & Hall with an anonymous translator. Also the first Irish edition. 19th century polished calf with marbled-paper sides, ruled and decorated in gilt with raised..... More
New York: Random House, 1957. First edition, first printing. Publisher's cloth green cloth, with gilt stamping and title blocked in black on the spine. Near Fine. Spine lightly leaning and lightly concave, bottom page corners lightly bumped and light creases to early pages. In a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped..... More
New York: Random House, 1935. Limited edition. Copy 63 of only 250 signed by composer George Gershwin, lyricist Ira Gershwin, author of the original novel and the play itself Dubose Heyward, and director Rouben Mamoulian. [xii], 559, [3] pp. Publisher's full red morocco, titles blindstamped on spine, lacking labels on..... More
New York: James F. Carr & Robert S. Wilson, 1964. First edition. Signed by Wieners on copyright page and inscribed, "To my Friends only a generation ago." 72 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in rare original unprinted jacket, torn and chipped, Fair. The poet's second book. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. First edition. 284 pp. Original white cloth with blue and gilt stamping. Near Fine with small bump to fore edge, tiny stain to front free endpaper, in Near Fine dust jacket with wear at head and tail, hint of rubbing. An attractive copy of..... More
Washington, D.C. / Covelo, CA: Island Press / Shearwater Books, 1994. First edition. Signed by E.O. Wilson on title page; flyer from 2004 Penn State author event laid in, presumably signed there. xii, [ii], 380 pp. Publisher's brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very God+ with slightly fallen textblock..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First edition. [iv], 310 pp. Slick black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in a completely unsophisticated, unclipped dust jacket with a lovely unfaded spine panel (all too often found sunned), small chips at extremities, some abrasions to back panel, Very Good+. A strong..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First edition. Signed by Jane Goodall on title page. xx, [ii], 297 pp. Original gray cloth, lettered in green and black. Very Good+ with age-toned pages, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, a few small stains on endpapers and flaps from tape; unclipped..... More
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First edition. 28, [2] pp. Original blue wraps. Spine a bit sunned, else Fine and unread. An excellent copy of a collection by cult classic poet, with illustrations by his wife, Ginny. More
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First edition. 32 pp. Original green wraps. Sunning and a few tiny stains droplets to spine, else Fine. A lovely copy of one of the late Southern poet's hardest to find collections, with illustrations by his wife, Ginny. More
Bensenville, IL: Mimeo Press, 1965. First edition. (One of 500 copies. Krumhansl #17.) Unpaginated. Stapled wraps. Slight sunning to spine, hint of foxing along bottom edge, else Fine. A very clean, bright copy of Bukowski's uncommon first prose work, introducing his alter ego, Henry Chinaski. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1957. First Edition. 234 pp. Navy cloth with blue and white spine lettering. Near Fine with former owner's name written on front free endpaper, light wear, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, head worn, a few abrasions on verso from removed tape. The author's first..... More
New York: Random House, 1959. First edition. [xiv], 142 pp. Original tan half cloth with paper-covered boards and mounted photo of actor Sidney Poitier. Near Fine in correct unclipped dust jacket ($2.95) with slight chipping at head, rubbing, and a little toning to spine panel, Very Good+. An attractive copy..... More
San Francisco: Last Gasp Eco-funnies Co, 1971. First edition. Black and white photo illustrated wraps. 48 pp., including covers. Printed on rectos only. Staples a bit rusted, else Fine and unread. An attractive copy. A souvenir celebration of the Haight Ashbury performance troupe that anticipated many facets of glam rock..... More
