New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth ruled and decorated in blind, with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to spine cloth and slight stains to covers, in a Near Fine dust jacket with toning to spine..... More
Paris: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Edward W. Titus, 1928. First edition, copy number 850 of 1050 copies, privately printed for the author. Very Good with light toning, foxing and light general wear. Faint crease to the front cover, short split to the top of the front spine..... More
[Fresno, CA]: Academy Guild Press, 1964. Deluxe edition. Presentation copy signed by Merle Armitage on page near front in red marker, inscribed to former owner Dave Bohm and dated 1976. [30], 99, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with red and black lettering. Fine in an attractive dust jacket with..... More
New York: Random House, 1966. First edition. xii, 329, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's blue boards with green cloth backstrip, stamped in white, yellow, and black, black topstain. Fine in a Fine dust jacket with hardly any sunning to fugitive orange of spine panel, unclipped ($5.95). An excellent copy of..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First edition, first printing, cloth issue. viii, 88 pp. Bound in publisher's dark bluish green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a bright unclipped dust jacket, slight rubbing along fore edge and trivial indentations to front panel from being used as a writing..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. First edition, first printing of this Newbery Medal-winning book. Signed by Esther Forbes on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's orange cloth stamped in black. Very Good with light spotting to cloth at top..... More
New York: Faber & Faber, Inc., 2004. First edition. Signed by Billy Corgan on the title page in sharpie. [x], 83 pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The first book of poetry by the Smashing Pumpkins' singer, uncommon signed. More
New York: The Hecla Press, 1964. First edition, suppressed first printing. 16 pp. (rather than 22 in the standard edition). 6 1/8" by 9 1/4". Stapled self-wrappers. Very Good with vertical crease throughout entirety, faint toning to left bottom corner of front wrap, paperclip impression and few tiny rust spots..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1945. First edition. vii, 268; v, 352 p. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Complete in two volumes. British historian and co-founder of the think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies Sir Michael Howard's copy with copious marginal annotations; most pages have..... More
Chicago: Nina Van Zandt, [1887]. First edition, cloth issue. [iv], 91 pp. with frontispieces of Spies and publisher, his wife. Bound in publisher's three quarter black cloth with marbled paper sides, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with two former owners' private ex libris plates on paste down, hinges cracked..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1926. First American edition, first printing. xiv, 159 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt stamping. Good+ with wear to tips, dulled gilt, small scratch to spine, gift inscription on front free endpaper, binding a bit shaken. Lacking jacket. The classic children's..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. [viii], 240 pp. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark crimson lettering. Very Good condition with spine lean, light wear, typical slight offsetting to endpapers. No dust jacket. The third of Chandler's acclaimed Philip Marlowe novels, wherein Marlowe is hired by an old..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page, inscribed to former owner. viii, [ii], 80 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Sixth printing of the first paperback edition. Near Fine, light sticker wear to rear wrap.The Pulitzer-winning poet's seventh book. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1940]. First edition. Bound in publisher's pictorial boards, matching dust jacket. Near Fine with worn tips in Very Good+ unclipped ($2.00) dust jacket, edgewear and minor soiling with some small chips, short closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel. A nice copy of..... More
Melbourne: William Heinemann Ltd, 1957. First Australian edition. [vi], 312 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with lean to spine, foxing to edges, in an About Very Good foxed and slightly soiled jacket, unclipped (15s). The novel of nuclear apocalypse written by a British..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with spine lettered in red and red topstain; lacking the dust jacket. Very good with heavy lean to binding, fading to spine and foxing to cloth. Former owner name to front free endpaper, pages..... More
London: Harper Collins, 2009. The deluxe limited first edition. Copy number 135 of a limited 500 signed by J.R.R. Tolkien's son, Christopher Tolkien. Bound in full brown leather stamped in gilt, with all edges gilt; housed in a matching full leather gilt stamped slipcase; in publisher's original corrugated cardboard box..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page and inscribed to former owners. Bound in publisher's brown paper-covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with wear to rear cover, two diagonal creases to..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1959. First American edition. xii, [2], 111 pp. Bound in publisher's original crimson cloth with spine lettered in white. Near Fine with trivial wear to corners and spine ends. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities, light soiling, light fading to..... More
[no place]: Esso, 1934. 32 pp. Publisher's stapled wraps. Very Good, some spots of biopredation to front wrap,slight crease to bottom corner of front wrap, rubbing, contents toned with age. An advertising pamphlet relying upon African American culinary traditions, and prominently featuring a color tinted photograph of two "Aunts" in..... More
San Francisco: Oh! Press, [1985]. First edition. Unpaginated. Stapled wraps.Very Good, spine toned, light wear. The collected works of the post-Situationist group Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous comprised of John Zerzan, who gained national notoriety for his endorsement of the Unabomber and his later works of Primitivist anarchist philosophy, and Dan Todd. Many..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1964. First edition, first issue text and jacket. (Publisher's logo on half title; not variant with logo on second half-title, no priority. Photographer's name spelled "Hank Krangler" on rear flap of jacket, two line author bio.) [viii], 628 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth lettered in..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First American edition. 314 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with slight crease to spine, wear at tips, tape stains on front free endpaper (possibly a review copy), small stain on fore edge, in Very Good+ dust jacket..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1926. First American edition, limited issue. One of 200 numbered copies in the large paper issue printed on Japanese vellum, signed by both A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard on limitation leaf at front. [xiv], 159, [3, blank] pp. Publisher's pink paper..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, first printing. (Dated 1926 on the title page with the Scribner's seal on the copyright page.) [viii], 143 pp. Bound in publisher's very dark green cloth with red lettering. Very Good, slight lean to spine, rubbing along edges, a few spots of..... More