Dunlap, IL: Firebird Press, 1983. First edition. [xiv], 288 pp. Bound in publisher's pictorial wraps. Near Fine with slightly rubbed spine and shelf wear, author/publisher's new address stamp on copyright page. An unread copy. A scarce self-published follow-up to the author's paranormal/occult/ Fortean classic Weird America. This work as well..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Advance reading copy of the first edition. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's printed wraps, lacking the slipcase. Near Fine with uneven sunning to wraps heaviest at spine, and a small stain to the textblock edge. More
New York: Lee Boudreaux Books, 2017. First edition, first printing. Signed by Andrew Sean Greer on title page. Very Good with small stain to bottom corner, really only visible on fore edge, faint associated wrinkling. In a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped with slight crimping at head. An uncommon signed..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1949. First edition. xxiii, 416 pp. Bound in publisher's black and green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with rubbing along bottom edge, wear at tips, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, front and rear hinges a little over-opened. The first appearance..... More
New York: Ives Washburn Inc., 1930. First edition. Signed by Danny Ahearn, inscribed on the bottom half of the title page to Hollywood columnist Jimmy Starr, "Best of Good-Luck in[?] anything you ever [?] take to. May our friendship go on for decades to come, from one Human guy to..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1935. First edition. Copy of Wayne State University sociologist Frank E. Hartung with his gift inscription to another person on front free endpaper and stamp on title page, a single marginal notation in easily-erasable pencil (presumably his). An annual award at Wayne State has..... More
New York: Random House, 1961. First edition. Signed by Ayn Rand in blue ink on half title. viii, 242pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, with gilt spine lettering and green ruling. Near Fine with small stain to top edge, age toning to contents, in a Near..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1985]. First edition. Signed by Pauline Kael on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owners. Additional small note signed by Kael laid in. 404 pp. Bound in publisher's purple boards with white cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in dust jacket, price-clipped else Fine. Writings..... More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, 1934. Signed by Goldman on second blank page, dated March 22, 1938. viii, 993, [1], xvi pp . Bound in publisher's gray cloth with gilt and red spine lettering. Single-volume edition. Near Fine with light wear, former owner's stamp on front free endpaper..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. First British edition. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original dark blue blue cloth ruled in blind, with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with bookseller tickets to front paste downs, short tear to bottom edge of title page in volume 1, pencil markings throughout text..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First edition, first printing. Signed twice by Robert A. Heinlein, once on the title page and again with an inscription on the front free endpaper to polymath, researcher and science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle and his wife Roberta; from Pournelle's personal library. Bound..... More
New York: Harper, 2008. First edition, first printing. Signed by Garth Stein on the title page. [x], 321, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's navy boards with yellow spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hint of age toning to pages. An excellent copy. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Tom Wolfe on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's white cloth with titles stamped in metallic multi-colors on the spine. Very Good with some foxing and soiling to covers, textblock edge and endsheets. In a very Good unclipped..... More
Los Angeles: [No Publisher], [1976]. First and only issue of an underground paper edited by Eve's Hollywood author Eve Babitz and featuring work by a diverse group of Californians in her orbit at the time including actors Steve Martin, Carrie Fisher, and Ronee Blakley, as well as songs by The..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1954. First edition, first printing. Signed by Patricia Highsmith on the front free endpaper and inscribed "To Jose. A serious and grim book. I hope you will enjoy some parts of it. In memory of an important caesura in my life, and you are an anhydrate..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition, first printing stated. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth stamped in gilt, with yellow topstain. Near Fine with slight rubbing to corners and spine ends, bookseller ticket to rear paste down. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light..... More
Cambridge, MA: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1899. First edition, large paper issue. copy number 27 of a limited 150. Signed by Charles Chesnutt on the title page, with an inscription reading "Sincerely Yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt." Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with printed paper title label on the..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1966. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Levi Claude-Strauss and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing at corners and spine ends, two paper..... More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition of Willa Cather's first book of poetry and her first published book. Signed by Cather in inscribed "Twenty years later!" on the front free endpaper. Bound in original drab grey boards with paper title label to upper board and spine..... More
New York: Signet Books / New American Library, 1977. First edition, first printing. Signed by Stephen King on the title page in blue marker. Bound in publisher's original wraps. Near Fine with light rubbing to covers and light color re-touching to the front cover along the edges, slight sunning to..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980. Later printing. Signed by Friedrich A. Hayek on the title page. Bound in publisher's original umber cloth with spine stamped in black. Near Fine with trivial rubbing to spine ends, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light rubbing, fading to spine panel..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth stamped in turquoise; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, light toning to spine and light foxing to cloth, former owner inscription to front free endpaper, pages lightly toned. A...... More
Ithaca, NY: Privately Printed, 1919. The 1919 privately printed edition; the second of two privately published editions; preceding the publication of the first trade edition. Near Fine with light rubbing and toning to wraps, former owner name and street address to title page of a Cornell student living at the..... More
New York: Elizabeth Sifton Books / Viking Penguin Inc., 1985. First edition. Signed by Don DeLillo on the title page. [x], 326 pp. Bound in publisher's gray boards with white cloth backstrip lettered in silver. Near Fine with subtle toning to top edge of cloth, in Near Fine dust jacket..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968. First edition, first printing. viii, 416 pp. Bound in publisher's white cloth with titles stamped in metallic multi-colors on the spine, blue topstain. Very Good with rubbing along edges, foxing to fore edge, slight lean to spine, in Very Good+ dust jacket, slight sunning..... More