New York: The Dial Press, 1974. First edition. [viii], 197 pp. Publisher's reddish orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket that is a little short for the book, small closed tear to back panel, small rub spot. An attractive copy of the novel by African..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to spine. Cloth lightly foxed and soiled, corners bumped. Previous owner notation effaced from the front paste down, and clipping from the absent..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886. First British edition. Bound in publisher's salmon cloth stamped in black; floral endpapers. Very Good or better with toning to spine, cloth lightly soiled, lightly scratched and bubbled. Housed in a custom slipcase, with scuffing to morocco spine. A lovely copy. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First American edition, first printing; precedes the London edition by four days. Bound in publisher's greenish-gray cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Fine, with trivial touches of wear to cloth, name erased from top of title page, pages lightly toned. A fantastic copy..... More
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1930. First American edition. [viii], 379 pp. Publisher's tan and black cloth. Fine with a bit of rubbing to spine lettering, in an unclipped dust jacket with a tiny chip near the top edge of the front panel, else Near Fine with a little..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1834. First American edition. Two volumes bound in publisher's original dram boards over blue cloth spine; title labels perished. Binding worn, corners softened and contents foxed, old tidemarks to bottom corner of several early pages. Chip to edge of first blank in Volume II. Lower..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. (First printing with title page dated "1940.") [iv], 356 pp. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in crimson. A Fine copy, with bright unmarked contents, sharp lettering. An excellent example of the author's debut novel, widely regarded as her best..... More
London: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition, British issue. Signed by Algernon Blackwood on the front free endpaper in colored pencil "S.A.B. from A." It appears that the final initial, "B," of his name may have been erased; an impression of a penciled date of 1914 below that is visible..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1957. First American edition. vi, (1), 248 pp. Original blue cloth with red title band, gilt lettering. First American edition. Near Fine with slight sunning to spine, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a few tiny..... More
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1935. Signed first edition. [vii], 245 pp. Pinkish red cloth with navy lettering. Fair or a little better, lacking jacket, with staining to cloth, spine sunned, front corner chewed, front and rear hinges repaired with glue, some marginal pinpricks and creased corners. With a lengthy inscription..... More
New York: New Directions, 1949. First American edition, first printing. 318 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with black and blue spine stamping. A Near Fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. Small notation to front free endpaper, offsetting to endpapers. A very straight, clean copy. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. First American edition. Book Club edition. (An oddity of modern firsts in that the book club edition is the first US edition. Dated 1945 on title page. Follows the British edition earlier the same year.) [viii], 351 pp. Publisher's red cloth with black lettering..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Three volumes bound in early-to-mid 20th-century half-leather over marbled boards. Near Fine with leather lightly scuffed and rubbed, spines sunned. Former owner bookplate to front pastedowns. Longfellow's translation, originally published in 1867, was the first American translation of Dante's Italian narrative..... More
Chicago & New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1897. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt. Previous owner name, bookplate and light soiling to front endsheet, pages lightly toned, still easily Fine. A fantastic copy. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth. Near Fine with minor wear, in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip at the foot of the spine, trivial edge wear and light soiling. Uncommon in such nice condition..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First edition, first state without the publisher's colophon. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with upper board stamped in blind and spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Good. Lean to spine. Cloth marked and edge-worn, rubbed through at corners and bottom edge..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First edition, first state without the publisher's colophon. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with upper board stamped in blind and spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with lean to spine and light wear to cloth at extremities and front..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, slightly battered type on pages 38, 90 and 248; in a dust jacket with lips just faintly battered. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in blind on the upper board, and stamped in gilt on the spine. Light lean to spine..... More
San Francisco: The Japanese American News, 1922. Second printing of the first American edition. (Stated "Second impression" on copyright page, also referred to erroneously as "Second Edition" on title page. See Rogala A Collector's Guide p. 167). Publisher's boards bound with white rope. Despite noticeable wear along gutters and edges..... More
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company, 1927. First edition in English. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Good, with darkening and wear to covers. Binding is a little wonky with glue repairs evident and original glue a little brittle and dried out. Pages toned, previous owner name to..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing, first issue with textual errors present: page 60, line 16 "chatter"; page 119, line 22 "northern"; page 165, line 16 "it's"; page 205, lines 9-10 "sick in tired"; page 211, lines 7-8 "Union Street station." Publisher's dark green cloth binding..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1971. First British edition. Signed by Joan Didion on title page. [vi], 214 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in dust jacket, Very Good+ or better with a tiny closed tear on the top of front panel, a little shelfworn but unfaded. A...... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1913. First edition, first printing. [iv], 311, [1], 31 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing and dulling to spine; foxing to edges and, sporadically, to contents. Gift inscription dated Nov 1913 on paste down. A few corner-creased pages. The first..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's cinnamon-colored cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth lightly stained, soiled and darkened. Offsetting to endsheets and toning to pages. More
New York: Random House, 1971. 206 pp. First edition, first printing. Very Good with light shelf lean, light perfume odor to pages, sunning to boards at edges and spine cloth. Previous owner name and date to front free endpaper and marginal brackets in ink throughout. In a Very Good unclipped..... More