New York: Bantam Books, 1984. First edition. [x], 342 pp. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards over dark blue cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. First edition. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket with only the slightest hint of shelf wear. Perhaps the author's most famous work, uncommon in such excellent condition. More
New York: Avon, 1971. First edition, paperback issue. 220 pp. Wraps. Very Good with lightly edge-worn wraps, creased spine, pages toned with age. The Church of Satan founder's follow-up to The Satanic Bible. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page. Bound in publisher's original cloth. Near Fine with faint fading to spine cloth, owner name and date to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. First British edition, first printing, preceded by two German-language editions published in 1912 and 1924. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in gilt and top edges stained black. Near Fine with light wear to spine ends, light spotting to bottom edge of text..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's orange heavily stamped in blue, white and gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing to spine ends, else very sharp, in a Near Fine dust jacket with soiling and edge wear, with chipping along the top edge. Scarce..... More
New York: [No Publisher], 1926. Notecard signed by French surgeon and biologist Dr. Alexis Carel inscribed "to a small [?] boy" in New York, dated June 5, 1926, mounted to cardboard underneath an article about him winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1912 with a photograph. Cardboard..... More
[New York]: [self published], 1985. First edition, first printing. Signed by Keith Haring in black marker on the front cover. Bound in publisher's original stapled white wraps printed in black. Near Fine with faint marking to covers, light shelf wear. The second of the artist's coloring books, the first being..... More
New York: Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards with spine lettered in red. Near Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. A lovely copy. More
Washington, D.C. Corporate Press, 1958. First edition, first printing. Original publisher's stiff orange wraps printed in black, with black plastic comb binding. Very Good with edge wear and toning/soiling to wraps, former owner address label to title page, pages toned. Instead of being arranged by course for the chef, recipes..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First edition, first printing; text in the original French language. Bound in publisher's original salmon cloth, with the "flying crow" on page 63. Near fine with light wear to cloth at spine ends and corners, former owner bookplate to front pate down, offsetting to..... More
Cleveland, OH: Ralston Publishing Co., 1957. Third edition. Sixteen lessons complete in eight volumes, bound in publisher's red cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt. Very Good, a few small stains to cloth, gilt a little rubbing to gilt De Vorss & Co. distributor stamps to title pages. A...... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. First edition. [xii], 263 pp. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black with pictorial inset on front cover, gilt topstain. Very Good with stain spots to front board, light reading wear, slightly bumped corners. A collection of short stories. More
New York: Union of Russian Workers, 1919. An uncommon early 20th century translation from French into Russian of Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread by French anarchist Elisee Reclus. 205, [5] pp. Publisher's black wraps with red lettering. Very Good with bumped corners, light wear to wraps at extremities, contents a...... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. First edition, hardcover issue. 243, [7] pp. Bound in publisher's black and tan cloth with black spine lettering. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with light wear and creasing, very little sunning. A juvenile delinquency novel by the author of Reefer Boy and Tomboy..... More
New York: Dolphin Books / Doubleday, 1987. First edition. xiii, [1], 512 pp. Publisher's cloth and paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt.Near Fine with slightly foxed edges in Very Good dust jacket with light edge wear. A controversial investigatory book linking the Son of Sam murders with Charles Manson and..... More
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1891. First edition. [iv], 139 pp. Publisher's pale pink cloth lettered in crimson. Very Good with sunning to spine cloth, some stains to cloth, small stain to top edge, former owner' name written on front free endpaper. According to a contemporary review, The Annual American..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First edition. xiv, 581 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with crimson stamping and gilt lettering to spine. Near Fine with light edge wear and dust soiling in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with wear at extremities, small sticker scar to spine..... More
Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1928. First edition. 1105; 941; 994 pp. Bound in publisher's very dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering, marbled edges and endpapers. Near Fine with wear to cloth of Vol. I at its extremities, internally bright and great shape. An attractive set of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First edition. xiv, [ii], 315, [3], xii, [4] pp. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering, red topstain. A Fine, unread copy in beautiful Fine unclipped dust jacket with no fading whatsoever, mere hints of toning and shelf wear. Essentially as new. A superb copy..... More
Rutland, VT & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1962. First edition. Ten woodblock or stenciled plates by Hiratsuka Un'Ichi, Maekawa Sempan, Mori Yoshitoshi, and others each signed and numbered by the artist. Copy #453 of 510 copies signed by James Michener. Large folio. Original tri-toned gilt-stamped cloth, housed in sturdy original..... More
Hampton Falls, NH. Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc., 1991. Signed. First edition. Copy number 356 of a limited 1,200 copies (of a total edition of 1,250), signed by Stephen King and illustrator Ned Dameron. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket, in Fine publisher's cloth slipcase which is lightly rubbed. The..... More
New York: New Directions, 1949. First edition, one of a limited 100 copies signed by Thomas Merton on a limitation page. Bound in publisher's original burlap-covered boards with white title label printed in green on upper board and spine, vivid green topstain. Small bookseller ticket and a mother's gift inscription..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with slight fading to spine cloth, light wear to textblock edge and former owner bookplate to front free endpaper, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, light rubbing and an old price sticker..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's teal cloth stamped in silver. A fantastic copy, very sharp and bright, with light wear to the textblock edge, and the bottom corners of pages 463-470 uncut and creased in a binder's error, else Fine in a...... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition, one of a limited 1,500 copies signed by John Steinbeck, of which 750 were for private distribution. Publisher's green cloth binding stamped in gilt and brown. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with rubbing mostly at the joints and light sunning; lacking..... More