Tokyo: Chuo-Koron-sha, 1972. First edition. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's white boards with black lettering; in dust jacket with with obi band (glued at flaps) and in publisher's plastic sleeve. Text in Japanese and English. Near Fine with a little rubbing to bottom edge, musty smell. Light edge wear to jacket..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1993. First edition, first printing of Welsh's debut novel. 343 [1] pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Very Good with soiling and wear to wraps. Foxing to textblock edges occasionally intruding into pages, pages toned. A novel of interlinked stories about heroin addiction, poverty, youth, ennui..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1974. Second printing of the tenth anniversary edition. Signed by Betty Friedan on the front free endpaper. [iv], 430 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light lean to binding, light soiling to textblock edges..... More
Berkley, CA: Quinto Sol Publications, 1972. First edition, first printing of Rudolfo A. Anaya's first novel, signed by him on the front blank and inscribed, "To Mr. & Mrs. Yeager Sinceramente, [Signed] Rudolfo A. Anaya July, 1973." 248, [1] pp., with black and white full page illustrations. Bound in publisher's..... More
London: The Sunday Referee and The Parton Bookshop, 1934. First edition, first printing, first issue. One of 250 copies with rough trimmed fore and bottom edges. 36, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with flat spine lettered reading upwards in gilt; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good+ with..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First edition, first printing. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the verso the page listing other works by the author. [xii], 186, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Very Good+ with lean to binding, light toning to edges, light..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition, first printing of the Black Panther co-founder's memoir. xiv, 333 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning and edgewear, diagonal crease to..... More
London: Wishart and Company, 1933. First British edition, first printing. [x], 241 pp. with 26 photos at rear, photo frontispiece of a bound African American boy. Bound in publisher's terracotta cloth lettered in red on the spine. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to cloth, slight bumping to two..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First edition, first printing. [viii], 245 pp. Bound in publisher's cream paper-covered boards over purple spine cloth lettered in silver gilt. Near Fine with slight lean, light reading wear with a few pages dog-eared pages. In a Near Fine unfaded, unclipped dust jacket with..... More
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First hardcover edition, first printing. [v], 159 pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with lean to binding, light foxing to textblock edges and endsheets. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with plain blue rear panel, of..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" as the only date listed on the copyright page. [viii], 1037 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with toning and two light green stains to spine, light..... More
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, 1965. A superlative copy of the first edition, first printing. xxvi, 412, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in white, patterned endpapers. Moderate lean to binding, trivial foxing to top edge of boards, trivial bumping to corners and a touch..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, first printing, first state with "stoppped" on page 181, line 26. [vi], 259 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with bronze title labels to front board and spine. Very Good+ with moderate rubbing and fading to covers, tender hinges, and toning to..... More
University of California Press / The Arion Press, 1981. First edition thus, first printing. Signed by Barry Moser in pencil on the title page. xv, [1], 576, [3] pp., illustrated throughout with Moser's boxwood engravings. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver gilt on spine. Near Fine with lean..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First edition, first printing. (Title page dated 1850; all of Smith's typographical errors present apart from "screamed" for "screwed" on p. 132.) xiv, errata sheet, 624 pp. Bound in 19th century half calf over marbled boards, morocco title label and gilt stamping to spine, all..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition, first printing. [xiii], 248, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth boards with decorative stamping in black, orange topstain; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear and soiling and moderate fading to covers and topstain, small bump to lower corner..... More
New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition, first printing. [vi], 262 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth-affect paper over blue spine cloth lettered in orange, orange topstain and endpapers. Near Fine with light rubbing and fading to extremities, several tiny stains to topstain, miniscule corner chips..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. First edition, first printing. Signed by Curt Siodmak on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the famous American political dynasty, "For all the Kennedys, the only liberals in the democratic party in Visalia. This book with thanks, Curt Siodmak Aug 9 - 1974..... More
[No place]: [Self-published], ca. 1978. Presumed first edition of this history of the Revolutionary Action Movement by its founder. 46 pp. Unbound in self-wraps, 12 single-fold letter-sized sheets printed recto and verso. Very Good+ with light reading wear. Minimal foxing and several small stains to front cover and first few..... More
[Seattle]: Ouroboros Press, 2015. First edition. One of 75 limited copies, bound by Ars Obscura in full walnut kid leather stamped and tooled in gilt. vi, 134, [16] pp, illustrated with full page plates and devices. Fine. A beautiful production from Seattle-based occult publishing house Ourboros Press, examining Michelspacher's treatise..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1976. First British edition, first printing. [vi], 306 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at spine ends, slight foxing to textblock edges, bookseller's ticket at front pastedown. In a bright, unfaded unclipped dust jacket with 4.50 sticker..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1998. First softcover US edition, first printing. Signed by Haruki Murakami on the half title page in Japanese and dated 11/18/07. [viii], 607, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with light edge wear, small ding to bottom edge of front wrap, light age-toning..... More
Philadelphia: The Rogers Company, No date. From the childhood library of T.S. Eliot, signed by him on the front free endpaper in pencil and dated 1898, when he was ten. Additional inscription apparently from Eliot's first cousin once removed, Henry Eliot Scott, noting that the book was gifted to him..... More
London: News from Everywhere, 1988. First edition. 21 pp. Staple bound in publisher's printed wraps. Fine condition; lacking folding map originally laid in. Rare, with only nine copies located in OCLC. Ford 245. The key text of the one-man Caribbean Situationist movement, which was inspired by the '60s Paris-centered..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. 295 pp. First edition, first printing with publisher's colophon and "A" on copyright page. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the title page. Near Fine with typical sunning to spine and edges, light rubbing to extremities, and slight splaying to front board. Contents lightly toned..... More