New York: Ballantine Books, 1955. Signed. First edition, first printing. Red cloth binding with spine stamped in black, with publishers BB monogram printed right side up. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page. Very Good. New England Science Fiction Association rubber stamps to top edge of textblock, and front...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1944. First edition, first printing. Near Fine, with toning to cloth at edges, toning to pages, previous owner bookplate to front paste down. In a Good edge-tattered and rubbed dust jacket, with publisher's price of $2.00 intact.
New York: Alleged Press, 1999. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ed Templeton on the verso of the front cover. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Near Fine, with light rubbing to wraps. Snap-shots of "achingly, heartbreakingly cool" late-'90s teenagers engaging in bold clumsy rebellion, taken by the street skating pioneer...
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. First American edition, first printing, utilizing English sheets. Publisher's blue-green cloth stamped in green; one of 504 sets of sheets, which were imported by Huebsch from the British publisher Grant Richards. Title page is a cancel printed on laid paper with "Utopian" watermark. Very...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First British edition, first printing. Very Good. Light lean to spine, foxing to endsheets, light musty odor to pages. In a Very Good dust jacket with proper price of 15s net intact., with light edge wear, toning, dust-soiling and a light stain to the front cover...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. First British edition, first printing. First state, lacking the month on the copyright page. Publisher's diamond embossed patterned covers, stamped in silver. Very Good, with lean to spine, heavy foxing edge of textblock and page throughout, previous owner details to front free endpaper, tape ghosts to...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Presentation edition, copy #459 of an unspecified limitation, signed by Charles Lindbergh. Near Fine, with faint shelf lean, fading to topstain. Pages slightly toned, bottom corners slightly bumped and there is a vertical crease to the front free end paper. A lovely copy. Signed.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First edition thus, limited issue. Copy #75 of 75 hardcover copies signed by both John Fante and Charles Bukowski, and specially handbound by Earle Gray. Very Good+, with toning to boards at edges, light soiling, in slightly rubbed, soiled and slightly cloudy acetate wrapper...
Seattle: Gear Works Press, 1965. Folio. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's heavy grey stapled wraps printed in yellow and black. Fine, with faint wear at corners and a small, light scratch to the rear cover. Tom Robbin's first published book, a monograph about the work of Guy Anderson...
New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1951. New York School of Poets, Larry Rivers. [1952] First edition. Folded and gathered sheets, unbound as issued; with two reproductions of drawings by Larry Rivers. One of 130 copies in the regular issue [of an edition of 150 total] as per colophon at...
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1859. First edition. 103 pp. Original dark brown cloth, ornately blind stamped front and back boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow endpapers. A Very Good+ copy with head and foot a little worn, former owner's info written on front free endpaper, moderate foxing...
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1890. First edition, deluxe issue binding. 473, [23, ads] pp. with illustrations. Publisher's three-quarter brown morocco and gilt, raised bands, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers. Very Good with sunned spine, front joint a little tender, former owner's name and info on front free...
New York: Works Publishing, Inc., 1945. Signed by Bill Wilson and inscribed to a former owner on the front free end paper. First edition, eighth printing. 400 pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with title stamped in blind on the front cover and in gilt on the spine; lacking...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First American editions, later impressions: 12th impression for Fellowship, Two Towers and Return of the King are 9th Impressions. Three volumes. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good overall with fold-out maps present in each volume. Dust jackets unclipped, some chipping and a few...
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First edition. 184 pp. Original half cloth and gray paper-covered boards, lettered in silver. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel. An uncommonly neat, unrubbed example of the dust jacket. The author's first book. Winner of the Edgar...
San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2011. Issue #36, complete. First edition. All contents present inside head box. Near Fine, with very light shelf wear to box. Edited by Dave Eggers, featuring work from Michael Chabon, Colm Toibin, Ishmael Reed, as well as a collaboration between Tim Heidecker (of Tim and Eric Awesome...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First American edition. xix, [3], 23-313 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in red. Near Fine with worn tips, light dust-soiling, in Good double-sided dust jacket with creased to bottom of front panel, open tear along fore edge fold, another tear by head along...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. xxv, [1], 412, [1, fold-out map] pp. with photos. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with two former owners' names on front free endpaper, rear map a little creased. A very bright, clean copy; tissue guard intact. A conservationist and...
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. Copy number 199 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) on rear...
New York: The Viking Press, 1931. Signed by Dr. Seuss at his usual spot in the corner, on the verso of the front free endpaper, and inscribed to Arthur A. Rogow, political scientist and psycho-biographer of famous figures. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Very Good+...
London: Sampson, Low & Co., 1913. First edition. xxv, [1], 314 pp. with photos throughout. Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in cornflower blue and black, gilt topstain. Very Good+ with light rubbing and soiling to cloth, offsetting to endpapers, former owner's name and old bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper, a....
London: Printed for, and Sold by, the Author, 1790. Third edition, enlarged. viii, [14, subscribers and contents], 1-20, [missing leaf], 23-180, [2], 181-359, [1, blank] pages. One folding plate, split along center fold with detached half laid in. Recent brick-red cloth; black leather spine label stamped in gilt. All edges...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American edition. Inscribed by Ambler to Norman Nolan on page facing title page at the Mystery Writers of America awards (Ambler won the Grand Master award) in New York, April 25, 1975. From the Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction. [xiv], 281, [1]...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. First American edition. xxix, [1], 33-354 pp. Publisher's orangish yellow cloth lettered in red. Near Fine with slightly dust-soiled edges, very subtle toning to spine cloth, small blue stamp "Gift" on left margin of Table of Contents. In a lovely Near Fine double-sided...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. Advance reading copy of the first edition. [8] 388, [2] pp. Original illustrated self-wrappers. Very Good+ with typical rubbing along spine, small tear near foot to front wrap along fold, tiny gouge to front wrap near author's name, top corner of text bumped. Publisher's...
