New Arrivals
A Raisin in the Sun
New York: Random House, 1959. First edition, first printing. Original tan half cloth with paper-covered boards and mounted photo of actor Sidney Poitier. Several small, nearly imperceptible streaks to front cover, perhaps excess binder's glue, still Fine. In a Near Fine in correct unclipped dust jacket ($2.95) with slight toning..... More
Archive of a New Orleans Private Detective Agency 1952-1957
New Orleans: Fremeaux & Curry, Investigators, 1952-1957. A large collection of various documents relating to investigations by the New Orleans-based firm of Fremeaux & Curry, Investigators and their operators, loosely housed in an orange bradbound folder labeled "G.S. Curry". Includes reports on the various investigations with detailed records of surveillance..... More
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First edition. 57, [5] pp. Illustrated boards. Near Fine with slight toning to boards, light shelf wear, in an unclipped dust jacket with toning along top of front panel, wear along spine, which is a little dulled, Very Good+. A nice copy of..... More
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Boston: Geo. M. Smith & Co., 1873. First American edition, second and usual issue lacking "The End" on page 303; preceded in America by the Osgood issue, of which all but an estimated 30 copies were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire of 1872. Very Good. Cloth lightly worn, shallow..... More
Mat Brown: Recollections of a Sleeping-Car Porter
Detroit: [Self-published], 1901. Probable first edition. 53 pp. with photo frontis of the author. Brown wraps over stapled contents. Very Good+ with faint stain to front wrap, some rubbing and offsetting to back wrap, slightly bumped corners, faint creasing to terminals. A scarce African American novella with a...... More
Leaves of Grass with Autobiography
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1900. 496 pp. with two fold-out facsimile manuscript pages. Green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt and black, top edge gilt. Some neat underlines and marginal notations in ink and pencil, else Very Good with slightly bumped corners. An early posthumous edition of Whitman's masterwork. More
The DiMaggio Albums
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First edition. Copy number 438 of a limited 700 signed by Joe DiMaggio. Two volumes bound in full dark blue leather with spines stamped in gilt; in publisher's dark blue cloth slipcase with pinstriped embroidered Yankees logo onlay on front, and DiMaggio's number (five)..... More
Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa
Chicago: The Swallow Press Inc., 1971. First American edition. x, 170 pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black. About Very Good with faint tidemark on front board, a few marginal tic marks towards front, reading smudges, small stain to fore edge, in a Good sunned, lightly dampstained, and rubbed..... More
Martin Luther King at Zion Hill (LP Album)
Los Angeles: Dootone Records / Public Information Communications Association, 1962. DTL-831. Second pressing in black vinyl. NM vinyl in VG+ sleeve with bumped corners, a little rubbing. Generic inner sleeve. MLK's speech at a civil rights rally at The Zion Hill Baptist Church in Los Angeles, June 17, 1962. Some..... More
The Great March to Freedom: Rev. Martin Luther King Speaks, Detroit June 23, 1963 (Original Press LP)
Detroit: Gordy, 1963. Gordy 906. Original pressing. Near Mint in EX cover, a little soiled and toned, with original Gordy inner sleeve showcasing Motown soul acts of the day, age toned and foxed. Music journalist Ian McCann recently wrote of this album: Dr. King’s dazzling and deeply moving words..... More
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
New York: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original slick black cloth with white spine lettering. Very Good or better with light lean to binding and light wear. In a Very Good price-clipped first state dust jacket with a white border around the photograph on..... More
Black Man in America: An Interview with James Baldwin (Original LP)
Cambridge, MA: Credo, 1962. Original pressing. Credo 1. Good+ album with some light scratching and rubbing, former owner's name written on label, in Good sleeve, edge-worn, with former owner's name and Shakespeare poem penned on front cover, vowels in author's name filled in; back cover a little stained and creased..... More
Spacecraft News: Published for and in the Interests of Those Who are Helping Bring About the New Age (Vol. 1 No. 1)
Clarksburg, WV: Gray Barker, [1966]. Vol. 1, No. 1. 8 pp. About Very Good, 8.5" x 11" sheets toned with age and folded down middle, as issued; a few short tears along edges, small staple hole in top margins of pages. Former owner's address with postmark on rear cover. The..... More
The Deep End
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1952. First edition. 220 pp. Original cloth with silver stamping. Very Good+ with rubbing along edges, small stain to front board, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, bright and attractive with light edge wear. Uncommon in such nice shape. A crime novel about a...... More
Courses: No Credit No Blame No Balm
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1968. First edition. Unpaginated. Limp suede over rough-cut paper. Faint crease to front free endpaper, else Fine, suede edges a little irregularly cut. One of approximately 50 copies of the vanished Beat poet's scarcest work. More
The Alchemist
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. First edition, first printing. Signed by Paolo Coelho on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's dark blue paper-covered boards over dark blue spine cloth lettered in silver. Several early page gathering slightly protrude beyond front board by a few millimeters..... More
Ogilvy on Advertising
London: Pan Books, 1983. First British edition. (Apparently there was no hardcover issue in the UK.) Signed by David Ogilvy on first page in upper right corner, next to a number of signatures by European businessmen. 224 pp. Stiff wraps. Very Good with foxing to versos of wraps and edges..... More
Slaughterhouse-Five
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Very Good with some rubbing to stamping, sunning and foxing to cloth, faint storage odor to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with is toned and a...... More
The Pink Dress
Doubleday & Company, 1959. Bound in publisher's blue boards stamped in darker blue and pink. Near Fine with light wear at spine ends, foxing to textblock edge, toning to endsheets, and crease to several pages at rear. In a Very Good dust jacket, price clipped though with revised price on..... More
Our Mutual Friend
London: Chapman and Hall, 1854. 1854-1855. Twenty issues bound into 19 parts, as issued. In publisher's green wraps printed in black. First edition. First state of No. 1, with no printer's imprint at bottom of front wrapper. All slips and ad pages present as per Hatton & Cleaver with the..... More
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. First edition, later issue with publisher's imprint on spine 1/8" type and textual changes to pages 325 and 327. Signed by Kate Douglas Wiggin and inscribed on the front free endpaper quoting the last three lines of text, "'God Bless Aunt Miranda; God bless..... More
Little Dorrit
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1855-1857. First edition, in the original parts. Twenty issues bound into 19 parts, as issued. First issue, using the character name "Riguard" in No. XV; errata slip in XVI correcting the errors. Plates 21 and 22 in No. 11 are probably the more detailed plates mentioned..... More
Oliver Twist
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. First issue with Boz listed as the author on all title pages, and with the Fireside plate as the final plate in Volume III. [i-iv], [1]2-331[1, blank[, [4 ads]; [i-iv], [1]2-307[308]; [i-iv], [1]2-315[316] (no half-title called for in Vol. III.). Twenty-four inserted plates by..... More
Lord Peter Views the Body
London: Victor Gollancz, 1928. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in red; lacking the dust jacket. Cloth lightly rubbed at joints, spine lettering lightly rubbed. Small stain to fore edge. Front inner hinge slightly exposed; offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. A nice..... More