Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Advance uncorrected proofs, published before the first edition. Signed by Tom Robbins in red on front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. [x], 365 pp. Bound in publisher's blue printed wraps. Very Good+ with lines of sunning at spine and along fore edge of front..... More
Washington, D.C. Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936. First edition. Signed by Alain Locke on the foreword, dated 1937. [vi], 122 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wrappers. Very Good, wraps a little stained and toned, light foxing along edges, wear at foot. Called the “philosophical architect” and “ideological genius” of..... More
Taschen, 2014. New; still sealed in publisher's original shrinkwrap. Tear to shrinkwrap at top end of spine and edge of rear dust jacket flap crimped. Black hardcover in pink printed dust jacket. Sealed copies are scarce. A compilation of work previously appearing in Butt Magazine. Butt is a biannual magazine..... More
Chicago: Temple Publishing Company, 1893 [but actually 1896]. First edition, early issue or printing but not the first. (Title and copyright pages dated 1893. Reference on copyright page to Supplement copyrighted in 1896.) 316, [4] pp. Publisher's leather over boards, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt; plain wraps inexpertly glued over..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First edition, first printing of the author's first published novel. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in green; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear to covers. Small area from erasure abrasion to front free endsheet and half-title..... More
New York: Wynwood Press, 1989. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original ocher paper boards over maroon spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight softening to spine ends, in a Very Good unclipped ($18.95) dust jacket and subtitle "A Novel of Retribution," with light rubbing, edge wear..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Richard Adams on the title page in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's tan paper-covered over tan spine cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with textblock sunken, boards lightly soiled and nicked along the top and..... More
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Arthur C. Clarke directly on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt. Boards slightly splayed with thin sunning to edges, bookstore rubber stamp to front paste down, pages foxed..... More
Bantam, 1999. First American edition, first printing. Signed by George R. R. Martin on the title page. In publisher's original binding. Very Good with bump to top of spine, light wear to spine surface of covers, light soiling. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with spine lettered in silver; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to spine and wear to cloth; heavy foxing to textblock edge, preliminary and terminal pages; pages toned. More
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836. First edition, second state with page 94 correctly numbered. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth honey-comb patterned in blind with stamped in gilt on the upper board. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, light wear and subtle uneven discoloration to cloth, softening to..... More
New York: Harmony Books, 1980. Fifth printing of the American edition. Signed by Douglas Adams and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards stamped in gilt. Faint wear to corners and spine ends, else Fine in a Fine unclipped dust..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1938. First edition, first impression. 287, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with black lettering. A Very Good+, solid copy, lacking the dust jacket. Light wear, small scuff near foot, slight lean to spine. A British pre-WWII spy novel, filmed as Hotel Reserve..... More
New York: Phoenix Press, 1935. First edition. 246 pp. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with black lettering. Very Good with small stain to front board, hint of sunning to spine, light wear. Lacking dust jacket. The uncommon debut novel of Samuel Fuller, who would go on to carve out a...... More
London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. lxxxiv, [iv], 428, [14] pp. Photogravure frontispiece; other illustrations by New. Bound by master bookbinder Bernard Kiernan in full olive morocco with green & black leather inlay & gilt decoration, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edge..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968. First edition, first printing. Copy 91 of 100 copies numbered and signed by Alexander Calder. Publisher's yellow printed paper-covered boards with surface bubbling and light fading to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with sunning..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1974. First edition, first printing. [vi], 153 pp. Bound in publisher's turquoise boards with blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver and dark blue, green topstain. Very Good+, small stain to front free endpaper, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with slight dulling to spine..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1940 and no additional printings indicated on copyright page.) xiv, 380, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing along edges and to gilt, in Very Good+ price-clipped dust..... More
New York / Santa Monica, CA: Semiotext(e) / Smart Art Press, 1998. First edition. Signed by Michelle Tea on the half title, inscribed to former owner. 185, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with light wear. Signed Dar Williams postcard laid in (if this book was your jam..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First American edition. [x], 275, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with navy lettering. Former owner's bookplate on paste down, else Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, worn and little chipped, unclipped ($2.00). A WWII-era spy novel that inspired two film adaptations..... More
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. First edition, first printing. One of 777 unnumbered copies, signed by Charles Bukowski in silver paint pen and dated 5-25-63. [vi], 99, [2] pp. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets bound into stiff white wrappers, in decorated cork lined wrap-around dust jacket. Fine. A truly excellent, crisp copy..... More
Dearborn: The Dearborn Publishing Co., 1920. First edition. 235 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with black lettering. Very Good, light wear, offsetting to endpapers. Auto manufacturer Henry Ford's most famous anti-Semitic diatribe, compiling articles in his newspaper The Dearborn Independent. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First edition, first printing. xii, 146 pp. Bound in publisher's dark grey boards with black cloth backstrip, stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with subtle bowing to boards, foxing to boards, in a Good dust jacket, rubbed, price-clipped, closed tear in front panel mended with..... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008. Second edition, first printing. (The first English language edition.) Bound in publisher's black leatherette with pink edges, pink stamping, pink and black internal bookmarks. Text in German and English. Includes CD in unopened pouch at rear. Sticker schmutz on rear board and a hint..... More
Boston: Atlantic- Little, Brown & Company, 1983. First edition, wrappered issue. viii, 88 pp. Stiff wraps. Very light shelf wear, else Fine and unread. An excellent copy of the American poet's Pulitzer-winning collection, issued simultaneously with the hardcover. More