Rutherford, NJ. Medical Economics, Inc., 1947. First edition. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light shelf wear, toning to pages. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light soiling, light crimping and light shelf wear. The first edition of the widely-used reference commonly referred to..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First edition, fourth issue. Signed by Roger Tory Peterson and generically inscribed on the dedication page. Bound in publisher's green pebbled cloth stamped in silver; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good with light general wear to binding. Foxing to endsheets. Pages toned and lightly..... More
New York: Covici Friede, 1933. First edition. Copy 1108 of a limited 1381 numbered copies, signed by the author. Publisher's yellow cloth binding stamped in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with spine darkened and worn at ends. Scratching to topstain. Contents toned. The author's stream-of-conscious memoir of his..... More
New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1910. First edition in English, and one of the most important works in Freud's oeuvre. Bound in contemporary black pebbled cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to binding, bumped corners. Contemporary owner name to verso..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in silver. Very Good with cloth rubbed at joints and worn at corners and spine ends, lightly soiled. Front and rear inner hinge exposed. Pages toned especially at edges, contemporary gift inscription to title..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1971. First British edition. Signed by Joan Didion on title page. [vi], 214 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in dust jacket, Very Good+ or better with a tiny closed tear on the top of front panel, a little shelfworn but unfaded. A...... More
Meriden, CT: The Ralston University Press, 1928. First edition. Complete eight volume set bound in light blue variant cloth stamped in dark blue. First edition. Very Good with sunning to spines, light mottling to cloth, heads and tails a little worn and frayed. Scratch to spine of Vol. 1, binding..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1913. First edition, first printing. [iv], 311, [1], 31 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing and dulling to spine; foxing to edges and, sporadically, to contents. Gift inscription dated Nov 1913 on paste down. A few corner-creased pages. The first..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. First edition. Signed by James Churchward on the page preceding the half title, inscribed to reviewer Mrs. C.H. Shivvers. Postmarked envelope from Churchward to Shivvers mounted to preceding verso, single ALS folded and placed inside. Dated May 6, 1930, Churchward describes happily receiving her..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1926. First edition. Signed by the subject, Emile Berliner, and warmly inscribed to clergyman Jason Noble Pierce, Washington D.C., March 26, 1927 on front free endpaper. Beneath that additionally inscribed by the author, Fredric William Wile, to the same Pierce, "the fightin' parson of the..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. Signed by Robinson Jeffers, inscribed to former owner on title page at the author's residence Tor House, Carmel, CA, May 1936. First edition, first printing. Advance review copy with publisher's perforated stamp to title page. 217, [1], [8, ads] pp. Publisher's blue cloth with..... More
New York: Burning Flags Press, 2007. First edition. Signed by photographer Glen E. Friedman on title page in black sharpie; he also drew little quote marks around the title above. Illustrated boards. A Fine copy. No jacket, as issued. Photos of Washington, D.C. independent post-hardcore band Fugazi. More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1996]. Limited edition. Copy #967 of 3,500 copies signed by Elie Wiesel. [iv], 154 pp. Publisher's navy leather stamped in black and gilt. Fine. Includes laid in "Certificate of Authenticity" from publisher with additional signature by Wiesel and witness. A memoir, one of the most..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. First edition, first printing. Signed by Zona Gale on front free endpaper with a length inscription to writer and historian H. Ogden Wintermute at his hometown, "'And when shall we / be touched with light / To know the things that are...' [signed] Zona..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1950. First edition. [viii], 248 pp. Black cloth lettered in white.A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, bright, attractive, and unclipped. The author's second mystery with elements of horror fiction, titled The Hollow House for its UK release. A beautiful example..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's cinnamon-colored cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth lightly stained, soiled and darkened. Offsetting to endsheets and toning to pages. More
New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2000. Nineteenth printing. Signed and inscribed on half-title page by Benoit B. Mandelbot. Bound in publisher's red glazed cloth with gilt lettering to spine, Near Fine with boards lightly splayed, in Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear. More
New York: Exposition Press, 1955. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth at tips, faint stain to rear cover, light offsetting and foxing to endsheets. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with tears, worming and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First edition. Signed by Richard Hofstadter on front free endpaper, inscribed to sociologist Daniel Bell "with love always from the depths of the unprogressive. [signed] Dick" dated in the year of publication, Oct. 20, 1968. A few marginal brackets in red ink (presumably by..... More
London [?]: [No Publisher], 2004. 10 pound British banknote measuring 5 5/8" x 3". Non-editioned multiple. Offset lithograph in colors, on flexible currency paper. The recto is headed “Banksy of England,” below that the words “I Promise to Pay the Bearer on Demand the Ultimate Price” and in the portrait..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. First edition, first printing, first issue. An association copy, signed by Robert Frost and warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper to his longtime friend Charles Oliphant, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Methuen, Massachusetts. The first issue errors are present and..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2000. Signed by Nelson Mandella. Leather-bound with gold accents, silk end papers and ribbon marker. Laid in is a certificate of authenticity from Easton Press, as well as a note from the publisher about the book. Near Fine, with light wear to bottom edge of..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1995. Later printing. Signed by Mother Teresa and inscribed "God Bless You" by the Catholic saint on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards over blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light lean to spine, light edge wear, several pages..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth, previous owner name and date to front paste down, pages toned. A lovely copy of Pecora's account of serving as..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. 206 pp. First edition, first printing. Very Good with light shelf lean, light perfume odor to pages, sunning to boards at edges and spine cloth. Previous owner name and date to front free endpaper and marginal brackets in ink throughout. In a Very Good unclipped..... More