New York: Random House, 1957. First edition, first printing. Publisher's cloth green cloth, with gilt stamping and title blocked in black on the spine, with vivid dark blue topstain. Fine, with light bruising at the bottom of the spine. Black and gilt stamping very bright and fresh. In an About... More about Atlas Shrugged
London: Faber and Faber, 1999. First British edition of Heaney's translation, first printing. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with spine lettering stamped in gilt. Near Fine with scuff to front cover., faint edge wear. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's price intact, and light shelf wear. The Old... More about Beowulf
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First edition, first issue with uncorrected errors: "reduplicate" for "repudiate" on line 20 of page 21; "characterss" page 41, line 5; "Chatechism" page 132, line 29; and "known of it" page 199, line 4. In a lovely, near-contemporary half-leather over marbled paper binding, bound... More about The Scarlet Letter
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1862. First edition, later state. Bound in publisher's original pebbled brown cloth decorated in blind; front cover stamped in gilt with vignette of bartender, titled "The Bar Tender's Guide" and priced at $2.50; gilt title on spine reads "How to Mix Drinks"; with title reading... More about How to Mix Drinks, or, the Bon-Vivant's Companion, containing clear and reliable directions for...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. First edition, second state with Metropolitan Magazine stamp on copyright page. Very Good with rubbed edges, nick in spine, former owner's details written on verso of front free endpaper. No jacket. More about The Game
Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1989. Signed by author on card tipped in to verso of front wrap, dated October 13, 1989; invitation from author and wife also tipped-in below that. First edition. Near Fine in custom slipcase with leather spine label lettered in gilt. An examination of the... More about Patrons and Architects: Designing Art Museums in the Twentieth Century
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First edition. [xii], 237 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white. Fine in unclipped dust jacket, Very Good+ with wear to extremities (especially head), small closed tear to bottom of back panel. A nice copy of the photographer and author's second book. More about The Man Who Was There
London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1936. First edition. 320 pp. Faintly greenish gray cloth, lettered in dark crimson. Very Good, lacking jacket. Small tear to cloth at foot, rubbed tips, cloth a little mottled, edges foxed, occasional foxing to contents, rear hinge starting. Rare. The only novel by... More about Minty Alley
New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. First American edition. (Correct first in English too according to the colophon.) xxxvi, 278, [1] pp. Original half cloth. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with subtly sunned spine panel. The Portuguese author's posthumously-published masterwork. More about The Book of Disquiet
New York: The Viking Press, 1927. First edition. [x], 56 pp. Original metallic paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with rubbed edges, very slight wave to text, a few reading smudges, in Good+ edge-worn dust jacket, dust-soiled, chipped at head and tail, spine panel... More about God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971. First edition. 24 pp. Stapled wraps. A Fine copy. An uncommon MOMA exhibition catalogue devoted to the African-American sculptor with b/w photos. More about The Sculpture of Richard Hunt
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1926. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt; top edge gilt. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled and wrinkled at rear cover; gilt lightly rubbed, spine ends bruised and rubbed. In a Very Good dust jacket, with some edge... More about Winnie the Pooh
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1964. First edition. Complete in 26 volumes, plus summary report. Includes a signed copy of the 1995 book Referenced Index Guide to the Warren Commission by Walt Brown. Navy cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good overall: text free of markings, unfaded spines, some foxed or... More about The Warren Report in 26 Volumes Plus Summary Report) Investigation of the Assassination of...
New York: Ariel Books / Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. 211 pp. First edition, stated first printing. Good, with sunning to boards at edges, previous owner name to front free endpaper and tide mark to top edge of front paste down. Foxing to textblock edge and and small stray ink... More about A Wrinkle in Time
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in red and gilt. Very Good with light soiling, light fading to cloth at edges and previous owner name and address to front free end paper. In a Very Good unclipped... More about The Master and Margarita
New York: Signet, 1958. First Signet paperback edition, first printing. In publisher's original illustrated printed wraps. Very Good with light shelf wear, slight slant to spine and the usual toning to the pages, else a very lovely copy. More about On the Road
New York: Boke Press, 1965. First edition. 4to. Stapled wraps. The second of two installments in this series featuring poems by New York School of Poets, including the liked of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett, illustrated by Joe Brainard. Very Good. Toning... More about C Comics No. 2
New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Near Fine with light toning, foxing and wear, rusting to staples. A lovely copy. More about Self Portrait
New York: Boke Press, 1968. First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Very Good+ with uneven toning to rear cover, light wear, rusting to staples. A lovely copy featuring text by Ted Berrigan and drawings by Joe Brainard. More about Living with Chris
New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Near Fine with light toning and light wear, rusting to staples. More about The Banana Book
New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1909. Signed by Swami Paramananda and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's orange cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on upper board and spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed at tips, spine... More about Vedanta in Practice
New York: Summit Books, 1988. First edition, first printing. Signed by Hunter S. Thompson and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Near Fine with faint soiling to rear cover, light foxing to textblock edge, light edge wear. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slight... More about Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers Vol. 2. Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. First edition. [xii], 111 pp. Very Good with a single red underline to one word, "elixir," and Good+ dust jacket with price clipped, new price of $1.00 stamped on front flap, chipped at extremities with tape reinforcements to verso, spine sunned. More about Old Mr. Flood
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1975. Issued in an edition of 190 copies. Bound in publisher's mauve Japanese silk stamped in silver, in silver slipcase with title label on spine. Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase with mild shelf wear. A beautifully designed book, and the third title published by... More about Venus and Adonis
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Advance review copy. [viii], 408 pp. Plain brown wrappers with title, author, and publication date written in pen on front wrap. Very Good, faint dampstain affecting the lower quarter of the title on the wrapper and free endpaper, the text block with a minute... More about Tender is the Night: A Romance