New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First edition, first issue. (No colophon on copyright page, error "help" on 257 line 4 uncorrected.) [vi], 648 pp. Original green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. A Very Good copy, lacking the jacket, with a cocked spine, wear at tips, a little faint..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1968. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with light toning to spine ends and light edge wear, previous owner name to front paste down. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning, edge wear and several short tears, creasing to flaps and a...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Anne Rice on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. Near Fine with small rubber stamp to top edge of textblock and light soiling to bottom. In a Very Good un-clipped dust jacket, with light..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. 291pp. Advance reading copy of the first edition. One of only 25 copies thus. (Krumhansl 63a.) Perfect bound in stiff brown wraps with white review slip mounted on front cover. Light biopredation to base of spine, else an excellent and Fine copy; lacking the..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. First illustrated edition. 373 pp. Copy number 928 of a limited 1,500, signed by Henri Matisse. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt with, top edge speckled brown. Fine, with just the faintest rubbing to the gilt-covered relief on the front cover..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition, first printing. Signed by P. G. Wodehouse on the front free end paper. Near Fine with slight wear to corners and spine ends, in a Very Good dust jacket, chipped at the spine ends with a short tear at the top of..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936. First American edition, third printing. Signed by P. L. Travers on the front endpaper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth decorated in dark blue; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with spine cloth lightly sunned, lightly rubbed at ends. Small mark to textblock edge. A...... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936. First American edition, ninth printing. Signed by P. L. Travers on the front endpaper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth decorated in dark blue; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with cloth lightly sunned at spine and edges, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition, first printing. Signed by Haruki Murakami and dated in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's printed blue paper-covered boards; Fine, in Fine dust jacket. Faint shelf wear and faint transfer of blue from boards to verso of dust jacket, otherwise pristine..... More
Baton Rouge: Lousiana State University Press, 1980. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with light shelf wear, in a Very Good unclipped first issue dust jacket with Walker Percy quote on rear, light rubbing and light creasing to top portion..... More
Various Places: Various Publishers. A chilling, unique archive of 39 books, over 140 letters, and hundreds of newspaper clippings and pieces of ephemera from the private library of wealthy Sacramento businessman and outspoken eugenics advocate Charles Matthias Goethe (March 28, 1875 – July 10, 1966). The hardcover books are nearly..... More
London: The O.T.O., 1939. First edition. Signed by Aleister Crowley and inscribed to Ralph Shirley on the front free end paper. Shirley was the editor of The Occult Review. Bound in publisher's brown cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt, with frontis portrait of Crowley. Very Good. Cloth faded and soiled, scratch..... More
[New York]: [Penny Press], 1967. [1967]. First edition. Signed by Jim Carroll on the first page. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps. Near Fine with light toning, light creasing to the top corners throughout. The author's scarce first book of poetry, written while riding the New York City subway, and published..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First edition, first printing. First issue with light yellow-brown vertically ribbed cloth, with the period following "CO" on the spine touching the O. The typographical error "chince-bugs" for "chinch-bugs" is present on page 60, though it is not a point of issue since it persists..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First Edition. One of a limited 175 copies signed by Willa Cather. Bound in marbled paper covered-boards over green cloth spine with black morocco title label lettered in gilt; lacking the slipcase. Near Fine with light rubbing to edges and covers, slight fading to..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First edition in English, issued simultaneously in hardcover. Signed by Pablo Neruda on the front flyleaf. Bilingual, with text in Spanish on the recto and in English on the verso, translated from the Spanish language by W. S. Merwin. Bound in publisher's original white wrappers, in..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Thirty-third printing. Signed by Julia Child and her husband Paul on the half-title page, inscribed to a former owner; ink of signatures is slightly mellowed with age, and there is a small notation in a different hand written beneath them. Bound in publisher's white..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. First state with "wearily" in perfect type on page 135. Bound in publisher's original vertically ribbed cloth ruled in blind and stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with lean to spine, corners softened, spine..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light edge wear, bumped corners and toning to the spine. Previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, pages..... More
London: Andre Deutsch, 1966. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jean Rhys on the title page. Near Fine with light wear and narrow strips of sunning to edges, several page corners creased. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with edge wear and general use. A nice copy, signed by..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by with author on the half-title page and warmly inscribed to a good friend in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in black and white. Near Fine with a slight spine lean..... More
Meriden, CT: The Ralston Society, 1937. Early reprint. Sixteen lessons complete in eight volumes, bound in publisher's maroon cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt. Very Good. General light wear to cloth, tarnishing and rubbing to gilt stamping, toning to pages, and light biopredation to textblock edge. Rear hing..... More
Boston: Sat Sanga, 1923. 106 pp. First edition, first printing. Signed by Paramhansa Yogananda and inscribed to a former owner, Mrs. [Camilla] Tedrow. Bound in publisher's orange pebbled cloth ruled in blind with titles stamped in gilt. Very Good. Corners bumped. Cloth toned at spine, lightly stained affecting bottom inner..... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1801. First edition. [iv], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2, errata] pp., complete with half title, engraved frontis portrait and all three engraved folding maps (one of which is hand-colored). Later calf lettered and ruled in gilt with black label over marbled paper boards..... More
