Yosemite National Park and Boston: Virginia Adams and Houghton Mifflin, 1949. First Edition. Signed by Ansel Adams on first preliminary blank, inscribed "For Robert T. Smith of the Sierra Club / Ansel Adams." 70 pp. 24 full page fine-screen gravures from photographs by Ansel Adams. (Folio), comb-bound pictorial wrappers. Very..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Special advance preview copy of the first edition in white printed wraps. Signed twice by Anne Rice, once on the first blank page and again on the half-title page. Very Good with toning, creasing, wear and soiling. Creasing to spine with several hinges over-opened..... More
New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. First American edition. 186 pp. White cloth with black lettering on spine. Near Fine with light softening at spine ends, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning, light edge wear and light chipping; faint stain at foot of spine panel. The..... More
New York: Charles S. Warnock, 1928. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with darkening to cloth at spine and edges. Small previous owner bookplate to front paste down. Pages toned. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by Dian Fossey on the title page and inscribed to former owners. Near Fine, with lean to spine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and fading to spine, light edge wear with several short tears, and light..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1955. First American edition stated, first printing. Near Fine with lean to spine, light dust-soiling to top edge and toning. Previous owner names to front endsheet, with top corner of front free endpaper clipped. In a Near Fine un-clipped dust jacket with light edge wear and..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition, first printing, second issue with the "I" properly aligned on page 11. Very Good, with lean to binding, backstrip with multiple light creases, light soiling to cloth. A nice copy, lacking the dust jacket. More
Shepherdsville, KY: Victor Publishing Company, 1960. First edition, fourth printing. Signed by Barry Goldwater on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original navy cloth lettered in silver. Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with fading to the spine, some creasing and wear. A surprise hit book from Arizona..... More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original charcoal-grey cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with thin strip of sunning to cloth at top edge. Light soiling to textblock edge. Previous owner rubber stamp to front free end paper, light odor..... More
Saint Louis: Charles F. Haanel, 1919. Bound in publisher's black leatherette over flexible card stock boards, stamped in gilt and decorated in blind. Near Fine, with light wear to spine ends and a chip to cloth near foot, bumped corners, thin, light blue staining to gutter at recto of front..... More
San Francisco: Four Seasons, 1967. First edition, first printing, issued as "Writing 14" and preceding later editions published by Delta. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with light rubbing at joints. Spine with light reading creases. Foot of spine and several early pages suggest a glue repair. Several hinges..... More
London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with fading to spine cloth, hinge at title page over-opened, pages toned and lightly thumbed. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with fading to spine..... More
Framingham, MA: Dennison Manufacturing Co., 1923. Bound in publisher's staples wrap. Near Fine with light wear and light toning. A how to book published by the Dennison Manufacturing Company, which for around 100 years made labels, tags, boxes and more in Framingham, Mass., before merging with the Avery Corporation in..... More
New York: Random House, 1985. First edition, first printing. Publisher's crimson cloth quarter cloth over red paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, ruled in red. Very Good. Binding askew, foxing to top edge, no remainder mark. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and several short..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 2010. First edition signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. [xiv], 59, [5] pp. Dark navy cloth backstrip with navy covered boards, gilt lettered spine. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A late work by the Pulitzer and National Book Award winning poet. More
The Martin Tutordale Corporation: San Francisco & New York, 1942. Signed by the book's subject, brothel owner Beverly Davis, on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner "as a memento of our many happy times together on his trips to California." Rare thus, a few copies for sale currently..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005. First edition. Signed by Amartya Sen on front free endpaper. xx, 409 pp. Original crimson paper-covered boards with saffron cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An essay collection by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences..... More
Washington, D.C. The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1930. First edition. xvi, [2], 265 pp. Original black pebbled cloth lettered in yellow. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with wear spot to spine panel, lightly worn at tips. A work on African American pioneers and..... More
New York: The Citadel Press, 1956. First edition. 126 pp. Original blue cloth with black lettering. Near Fine with offsetting to endpapers in a Good unclipped dust jacket with sticker scar to front panel, tape reinforcements to upper corner and head, sunning and a small dampstain to spine panel, tear..... More
Cordoba, Spain: Unknown, 1724. Bound in vellum with fragmentary straps, contents printed on rag stock, title and author handwritten in ink on spine with date. 635 pp. bicolumnar. Very Good with staining and wrinkling to vellum, a few ink blots and faint dampstain to fore edge, typical offsetting to contents..... More
Cordoba, Spain: Unknown, 1709. Bound in vellum with fragmentary straps, contents printed on rag stock, title and author handwritten in ink on spine with date. 823 pp. bicolumnar. Very Good with staining and wrinkling to vellum, foxing to fore edge, typical offsetting to contents, title page a bit rubbed. A...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth decorated in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear to covers, softening to corners and spine ends; spine faded with stamping rubbed. Previous owner name and date to front free end paper..... More
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1948. First edition, fifth printing. Signed by all three contributors: Alfred C. Kinsey, Clyde E. Martin and Wardell B. Pomeroy, and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's bed cloth with spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very..... More
Chicago: Universal Publishing Co., 1924. First American edition. 128 pp. Yellowish orange cloth with navy lettering. Very Good+ with lightly worn tips, a bit of toning to cloth and age-toning to contents, lacking jacket. More
New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972. First edition. Signed by Harry Waugh, inscribed to former owner. Date of May 5, 1976 in different hand. Laid in sticker for Les Amin du Vin, International Wine Society. xviii, 228 pp. with 8 pp. of photographs. Crimson cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with..... More