London & Stratford-on-Avon: A.H. Bullen, 1914. Signed by Yeats on title page with his name crossed out. [viii], 237, [1] pp. Original green cloth and gray paper covered boards, spine lettered in black. Very Good, lacking jacket. Corners bumped, back cover stained, endpapers offset, a few pages roughly opened or... More about Ideas of Good and Evil
New York: The Orion Press, 1959. First American edition. 206 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with sticker shadow on front flap, tiny closed tear to back panel top edge. A memoir by Italian Jewish Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, which is better... More about If This is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz
Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1916. Third edition, pre-May 1917 variant without stamp to title page. [Although only copyright date is 1913, text is re-set from 2nd edition. 11. Lame Duck Books Catalogue #32.] 47 pp. Original black wraps with blue label. Text in German. Near Fine with rubbing to title... More about Der Heizer: Ein Fragment
New York: Duffield and Company, 1906. .First edition. Brick red cloth with cream lettering. xvii, 216 pp. A Very Good copy, sans jacket. About Very Good with rubbed spine lettering and cloth, neatly excised front free endpaper, newspaper clipping tipped in to paste down, reading smudges. The famous Apache leader's... More about Geronimo's Story of His Life
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. First trade edition. 141 pp. Purple cloth gilt and metallic purple lettering. Very Good with previous owner bookplate on front free endpaper, hinge at front overopened, in Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. A nice copy. The Doors singer's only book published during his... More about The Lords and The New Creatures
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. First British edition. xix, 103 pp. Original cream paper covered boards with gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. Near Fine in unclipped dust jacket with dust-soiled edges, scratch in back panel. Uncommon. The first of the Russian poet's books to be translated into English. More about Marina Tsvetayeva: Selected Poems
New York: Atheneum, 1977. Inscribed on the half title to poet Gene Frumkin, signed "William" and dated March 1986. First edition, cloth issue. (One of 1,000 copies thus.) viii, 213, [1] pp. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with closed tear near head. Association copy. More about Houses and Travellers
[np]: Stolen Paper Review Editions, 1966. First edition, very early issue with cover printed in brown (rather than black) ink with no blue overprinting, text printed sideways, publisher specified on verso of rear endpaper but partial with no address (first issue apparently has no publisher listed there). [10] pp. printed... More about The Love Book
Mastic, NY: Street Press, 1975. First edition. (Copy #183 of 300 total.) Unpaginated. Wraps. Near Fine with a few small stains to wraps. Poems and short prose pieces from the uncompromising poet of the streets. More about Street of Lost Fools
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. First edition. Warmly inscribed by author to former owner on front free endpaper in the year of publication. xiv, [2], 485 pp. Original gray cloth with black spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a few tiny tears and creasing along top... More about The Problems of Jurisprudence
Santa Cruz: The Mae Brussel Research Center. First published edition, following a photocopied manuscript that circulated among JFK assassination researchers since 1970. 104 pp. Stapled blue wraps. Very Good+ with slightly sunned and stained wraps. Uncommon in this format. A highly speculative manuscript on the assassination of John F.... More about The Torbitt Document: Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with a small strip of sunning along the top and bottom edges of the boards and a small imperfection to the rear cover. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's price intact, land faint shelf wear. A stunning... More about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
New York: Atheneum, 1972. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Ursula K. Le Guin on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth decorated in metallic purple. Near Fine, with small stains to textblock edge, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a mild spine fade and faint... More about The Farthest Shore
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Ursula K. Le Guin and inscribed to a former owner. Near Fine, with light shelf wear and a small ink squiggle to the front free endpaper. In a Near Find unclipped dust jacket, with two flap corners... More about The Dispossessed
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. First American Edition, first printing. In contemporary three-quarter leather binding over cloth covered boards. Very Good with binding lightly scuffed at rear cover, hinge at front free endpaper cracked and exposed, though binding firm. Previous owner name to title page, foxing. The second and... More about The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. Second printing of the new edition. Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine titled lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light wear at extremities, light soiling to cloth and endsheets foxed. While... More about The Common Reader
London: The Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Near Fine with faint toning to spine, previous owner bookplate and offsetting to endsheets, and a short edge tear to the illustration contents page. In a Near Fine unclipped... More about Three Guineas
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou, 1978. First edition, first printing. A fantastic association copy, signed by Jim Carrol, inscribed to poets Ted Berrigan and his wife Alice Notley on the half-title page, "To Ted + Alice, 'I'll be right there'... All my love, Jim 10/7/78." Berrigan was a central figure in the... More about The Basketball Diaries (Association Copy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First American Edition. x, 213, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering, red topstain. Near Fine with toned pages, dust-soiled edges, vintage bookseller's ticket to rear paste down. In About Very Good unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket, chipped and rubbed at edges, three pinhole-sized chips... More about Red Cavalry
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. First thus. No. 494 of 1050 copies printed for England and America. Signed by artist on one color plate. 68 pp. Original cloth with gilt tooled title, cover floral decoration stamped in brown; publisher's cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Very Good, cloth... More about Sebastian Van Storck
Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1972. First edition. Unpaginated. Illustrated wraps. Signed by Porter on copyright page, dated March '85. Near Fine with a little rubbing to wraps, light shelf wear. Rare. An American artist's book The Museum of Modern Art described thusly in an exhibition of the author's works... More about The Waste Maker: 1926-1961
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976. First edition, first printing. Signed by William Eggleston on the title page. Publisher's faux leather with pictorial inset on front cover, titles in gilt. Near Fine, with light wear to cover, lean to spine, corner clipped from title page and previous owner... More about William Eggleston's Guide
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition, limited issue; Copy number 141 of 175 numbered copies with signed and with an original color illustration by Ludwig Bemelmans specially bound in. Very Good. Covers soiled and worn at the extremities. Signed, with an original painting by Bemelmans bound in. More about The Donkey Inside
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1966. First edition, first printing stated. Pages toned and with a small brown stain to the top edge of the textblock near the corner, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning and light wear. A fun, trashy page-turner with one foot... More about Valley of the Dolls
New York: Random House, 1936. First edition. One of 300 copies signed by Cole Porter, unnumbered so presumably one of 50 presentation copies not for sale. Original red, white, and blue silk, lettered and ruled in gilt. Very Good overall. The unusual silk binding was quite prone to wear along... More about Red Hot and Blue: A Musical Comedy