New York: Harper & Row, 1967. States first American edition. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in red and gilt. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear and light soiling. Stated first edition of the Michael Glenny translation, though Grove Press also published... More about The Master and Margarita
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1929. First edition. Trade issue with navy cloth lettered in silver. Very Good with rubbing to silver, edge wear, rear hinge starting. Lacking jacket. Industrial designer John Vassos' stylish black-and-white paintings of modern American life with text by his wife Ruth. The duo would... More about Contempo: This American Tempo
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1980. First American edition. Signed on title page in multi-colored ink by Hockney, inscribed to Stathis Orphanos, who, along with Ralph Sylvester, founded the Los Angeles publishing house Sylvester & Orphanos in 1972. Postcard for Orphanos' photo show (with a portrait of Hockney) laid... More about Paper Pools
London: Petersburg Press, 1982. First edition. Inscribed to former owner and signed by David Hockney in green and blue marker along red line. Unpaginated. Maroon cloth lettered in white. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a hint of sunning to spine. A collection of color and b/w photos by... More about Photographs
New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1964. First edition, first issue with no errata slip at p. 176. Likely review copy with date stamp on rear flap. [x], 180 pp. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, price-clipped with crease along spine panel, light wear, closed tear to top of back... More about An Education in Georgia: The Integration of Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pebbled brown cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at corners and spine ends, light soiling to yellow coated endsheets, and contents toned and foxed. A beautiful copy, uncommon... More about Notes on Nursing
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition, first printing; one of 750 copies. First state of the American issue, with both the American and UK publisher's imprints at the base of the spine, but retaining the UK title page only listing T. Fisher Unwin. Bound in publisher's buff cloth, with... More about Poems
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. First British edition, fifth impression. Signed by Roald Dahl on the half-title page in black marker. Very Good. Bumped corners, ding to bottom edge of front board. Foxing to textblock edge and pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light fading to the... More about Matilda
New York: HarperCollins, 1974. [but ca. 1990s]. Reprint. Signed by Shel Silverstein on the dedication page with a zig-zag doodle taking up the entire page. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in dark brown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear and light toning. A lovely... More about Where the Sidewalk Ends
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1963. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green paper-covered boards with spine lettered in gilt. Fine, in a Near Fine un-clipped dust jacket with light toning to spine and edges, light soiling and a gentle waviness. The poet's scarce first book, published in... More about No Voyage
New York: Heritage Press, 1946. One of 1000 copies signed by Arthur Szyk, this copy inscribed for Albert A. Cornish. Original full black morocco lettered in gilt, batik-printed board endpapers, housed in matching slipcase. Near Fine with rubbing along spine edges, occasional slight rippling to leaves. In Near Fine slightly... More about Ink & Blood: A Book of Drawings
Fayetteville, Arkansas: Lost Roads, 1979. First edition. 48 pp. Wraps. Near Fine with slight bump along fore edge, hint of foxing. An attractive copy of an uncommon early collection by Carolyn Doris Wright (1949-2016), who took over the publishers Lost Roads after Frank Stanford's death. More about Terrorism
[Flagstaff, AZ]: Arizona Friends of Folklore, [1973]. AFF 33-3. Original pressing. Copy 326 of 500. Vinyl LP in sleeve with 30 page staplebound booklet. Record is Very Good with scratches to Side B, light wear. In Very Good sleeve with wear along spine near head, light toning. Booklet is Fine... More about In An Arizona Town
New York: Random House, 1985. First edition. [ix], 337 pp. Publisher's crimson cloth quarter cloth over red paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, ruled in red. Very Good+ with remainder mark and tiny dampstain to top edge, bottom corners bumped, in unfaded, unclipped dust jacket, Near Fine with light... More about Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
India & New York: James H. Harris, [2001]. First edition, one of a stated total edition of 750 unique copies (but probably much less than that). 94 pp. of oil-marbled paint on heavy black paper. Explanatory text on two labels affixed to pastedowns. 15 ¼" x 15 ¾", marbled boards... More about The Art Book of Hand Marbled Papers
New York: Basic Books, 2002. Signed by Hitchens with his name crossed out, inscribed to former owner. First edition. xii, 211 pp. Original cloth. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. An excellent copy. One iconoclastic British essayist's defense of another. Orwell is famous for his dystopian novels (Animal Farm... More about Why Orwell Matters
London and New York: Ernest Nister & E.P. Dutton and Company, 1896. First edition. Pictorial boards backed in white cloth. Very Good with light staining and soiling to boards, slight crease to both boards as well, contents clean and bright. Gift inscription to front free endpaper in easily-erasable light pencil... More about Daily Resolves
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1965. First edition. [xii], 365 pp. Original cloth. Very Good with slight lean to spine, former owner's bookplates, impression, and stamp to prelims and margin of last page. In Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with shelf wear. A landmark book in the history of American consumer protection. More about Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First American edition. 152 pp. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Foxing to top edge, else Fine in unclipped dust jacket with a little sunning to spine panel, else Fine. An attractive copy of the author's first book. More about On Decoration
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1908. Inscribed "To Mrs Glass[,] This is the one I like best [signed] Emily Post." First edition, second printing. 139 pp. Original white quarter cloth. Good+, lacking jacket, with darkening to spine, cracking along gutters, wear at tips, dampstain to bottom corner and prelims... More about Woven in the Tapestry
Shepherdsville, Kentucky: Victor Publishing Company, 1960. Signed by Barry Goldwater on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. First edition, fourth printing. 123, [1] pp. Original navy cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket, unclipped, spine a bit sunned, edge-rubbed and a little foxed, small... More about The Conscience of a Conservative
Wichita: Watermark Press, 1990. First edition. [vi], 189, [5] pp. Original black cloth lettered in silver. Very Good with scratch in cloth near foot, wear spots to front free endpaper and half title from removed stickers, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. The author's only novel to be published during... More about Leaving Las Vegas
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, second issue with five-line colophon at rear. [xii], 162, [1] pp. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with bookplate on front free endpaper, in Good+ dust jacket with some chips and small tears, tape ghost to front panel. The beloved... More about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First American edition. 198, [1] pp. Publisher's cloth. Very Good+ with bumped corners, slight lean to spine, lightly foxed edges, small bookplate on paste down. In Fine unclipped, un-faded dust jacket. More about Danny: The Champion of the World
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. First printing of the re-issue edition. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page. Near Fine with a spine lean, light wear at corners. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear and publisher's price-over label to front flap. A nice... More about The Doubtful Guest