New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1951. First edition. 215 pp. Original black cloth with gilt stamping to spine. A Good+ copy with black tape on front and back boards, tape stains to front and back endpapers, former owner's name on title page and rear paste down. In Near Fine..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. First American edition. Signed by the poet on the title page. x, 131 pp. Publisher's tan cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with hints to foxing to edges, in Near Fine dust jacket, lightly worn and price-clipped. More
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1954. First edition. [vi], 247 pp. Bound in original black cloth and pink boards, white lettering on spine. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, pages toned with age, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with spine sunned, wear along edges,small nick to back..... More
Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1939. First edition. [x], 278 pp. Bound in publisher's purple ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with sunned spine, former owner's bookplate on paste down and his stamp along bottom edge, offsetting to endpapers. Lacking dust jacket. The memoirs of a Chinese American chef..... More
[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1939. Revised edition. The second edition of the pocket dictionary of African American slang attributed to the famous Cotton Club orchestra leader. It has been billed as "the first dictionary published by a Black person," but more accurately it is one of the first lexicons of..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974. First American edition. 303 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. A little offsetting to endpapers, still Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a hint of sunning to spine panel. A bilingual edition in English and Spanish. More
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901. First edition. ix, 330 pp. Bound in publisher's ribbed maroon cloth stamped in gilt, gilt topstain. Very Good with spine a trifle sunned, slight lean, reading smudge to front free endpaper. The famous African American educator, orator, and author's autobiography. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition, first printing. Signed by author with a full page inscription to former owners and drawings on half title, dated "December / January 1972." [xii], 208, [1] pp. Original black cloth backstrip with green boards. Near Fine with wear along top edge, slight..... More
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by T. Cadell, 1768. First Edition. xix, [1], 169, [7] pp. With three folding copper-plate engravings. Tree calf rebacked in modern leather retaining earlier morocco lettering piece, gilt-rolled edges. Very Good+ with some rubbing, staining and a few scuffs to calf; contents generally..... More
[Tokyo]: The Japan Council Against A & H Bombs, 1961. First edition. Publisher's off-white cloth stamped in black. Text in English. Very Good with light soiling to cloth, typical slight biopredation to black concentric circles on covers but less bad than many copies, sticker shadow to front board. Housed in..... More
Los Angeles: Hall Publishing, 1930. First edition. 31 pp. Stapled greenish wraps. Very Good with former owner's name stamped on inside of front cover and upper margin of title page, small number sticker on front wrap, sunning to wraps. An uncommon occult work by the Canadian-born author best known for..... More
Los Angeles: Hall Publishing, 1930. First edition. 30 pp. Stapled pale wraps. Very Good with former owner's name stamped on front cover, verso, and upper margin of title page, small number sticker on front wrap, a little sunning to wraps. An uncommon occult work by the Canadian-born author best known..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books. Thirty-ninth printing. Signed by Allen Ginsberg on the title page and dated 11/6/91. Bound in publisher's wraps printed in black. Very Good with some blemishes to covers, covers lightly curled outward. Small indentations to top corner of first several pages. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1933. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Good. Cloth soiled and rubbed, spine toned and dinged. Previous owner bookplate to front free endpaper. Pages toned and foxed throughout, heaviest at prelims, terminals and textblock..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition, first printing. Signed by Frances Hodgson Burnett on the half-title page, dated 1915. Bound in publisher's original green cloth decorated in gilt; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled, rubbed at extremities and with a small tear at bottom of the..... More
Cambridge, MA: Richard Brukenfeld, 1955. First edition. Signed by Gregory Corso on the title page in red ink. [vi], 35 pp. Publisher's white wraps printed in black and blue. Very Good with light soiling and wear to wrappers, slight crease to rear wrap corner and a few pages toward rear..... More
London: Downey & Co., 1896. First edition. xxviii, 165, [3] pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. A Near Fine copy with slightly rubbed gilt, crease to tissue guard, offsetting to endpapers, former owner's name written on half-title. A nice copy of a collection of the Irish Gothic writer's poetry..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985. Eighth printing of the first edition. Signed by Richard P. Feynman on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's red paper-covered boards over red spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light shelf wear, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with..... More
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. First edition, first printing. [vi], 278 pp. Publisher's boards with red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, red topstain.Near Fine with slight lean to spine, small "BTP" sticker on front paste down," in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, a little rubbed. Lacking wrap-around band. The..... More
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1896. First edition. 256 pp. Original yellow cloth with black stamping. Very Good+ with slightly darkened spine and a little dust-soiling to cloth, rubbed head, former owner's private ex libris to front paste down and contemporary bookseller's ticket on rear paste down. A very..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. First edition. (First printing with date on title page, which publisher used in lieu of a first edition statement.) xii, 424 pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering, gilt topstain. A Very Good copy with wear at extremities, slight wave to pages, p...... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1968. First edition of this deluxe facsimile. xxvii, [3], 928 pp. Publisher's quarter red morocco over cloth with gilt stamping to spine, top edge gilt. Housed in publisher's plain cloth slipcase. Former owner's label on front flyleaf, partially removed, and slight mustiness, else Fine..... More
London: The Stourton Press, 1947. First edition in English. [viii], 179 pp. Yellow cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. No. 4 of 356 copies. A Fine copy. A 1915 novel exploring the concept of reincarnation as an "eternal return," following the unsuccessful struggle of Ivan Osokin to..... More
