New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. First edition, third printing. Signed by Rose Wilder Lane on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Fine, with hinge over-opened at the title page, light softening to cloth at spine ends. In a Very Good unclipped dust... More about Free Land
The Fountain Press and The Hogarth Press: New York and London, 1929. First edition, large paper issue, copy number 399 of a limited 492 signed by Virginia Woolf in purple ink. Publisher's original red cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on spine. Very Good, cloth unevenly sunned, lightly worn... More about A Room of One's Own
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by author as Richard Hooker on the title page with quote marks around his name; Richard Hooker is the pseudonym of Dr. Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. Near Fine, with light edge wear, toning to spine ends, small evidence... More about Mash
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First edition, trade cloth issue. 202, [3] pp. Paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip, red paper label. Near Fine with edge rubbing, lacking acetate jacket. Bukowski's last novel, a tongue-in-cheek detective mystery. More about Pulp
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First British edition, first printing. Publisher's pale green cloth with titles stamped in maroon on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Good or better. Cloth is lightly soiled, sunned at edges and spine, with boards bumped at corners and along top edge. Foxing to endsheets, bookseller... More about Nineteen Eighty-Four
New York: Random House, 1957. First edition, first printing. Publisher's cloth green cloth, with gilt stamping and title blocked in black on the spine, with vivid dark blue topstain. Fine, with light bruising at the bottom of the spine. Black and gilt stamping very bright and fresh. In an About... More about Atlas Shrugged
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1850. First edition, first issue with uncorrected errors: "reduplicate" for "repudiate" on line 20 of page 21; "characterss" page 41, line 5; "Chatechism" page 132, line 29; and "known of it" page 199, line 4. In a lovely, near-contemporary half-leather over marbled paper binding, bound... More about The Scarlet Letter
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. First edition, second state with Metropolitan Magazine stamp on copyright page. Very Good with rubbed edges, nick in spine, former owner's details written on verso of front free endpaper. No jacket. More about The Game
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First edition. [xii], 237 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white. Fine in unclipped dust jacket, Very Good+ with wear to extremities (especially head), small closed tear to bottom of back panel. A nice copy of the photographer and author's second book. More about The Man Who Was There
London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1936. First edition. 320 pp. Faintly greenish gray cloth, lettered in dark crimson. Very Good, lacking jacket. Small tear to cloth at foot, rubbed tips, cloth a little mottled, edges foxed, occasional foxing to contents, rear hinge starting. Rare. The only novel by... More about Minty Alley
New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. First American edition. (Correct first in English too according to the colophon.) xxxvi, 278, [1] pp. Original half cloth. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with subtly sunned spine panel. The Portuguese author's posthumously-published masterwork. More about The Book of Disquiet
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. [xiv], 216, [1, note on type] pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, ruled in orangish red. Near Fine, sans jacket, with rubbing to spine lettering, top edge slightly foxed, small bookplate remnant on rear paste down. An attractive copy of an... More about Passing
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in red and gilt. Very Good with light soiling, light fading to cloth at edges and previous owner name and address to front free end paper. In a Very Good unclipped... More about The Master and Margarita
New York: Signet, 1958. First Signet paperback edition, first printing. In publisher's original illustrated printed wraps. Very Good with light shelf wear, slight slant to spine and the usual toning to the pages, else a very lovely copy. More about On the Road
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Advance review copy. [viii], 408 pp. Plain brown wrappers with title, author, and publication date written in pen on front wrap. Very Good, faint dampstain affecting the lower quarter of the title on the wrapper and free endpaper, the text block with a minute... More about Tender is the Night: A Romance
London: The Hogarth Press, 1930. First edition, first printing. Signed by Vita Sackville-West on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth with titles in gilt on spine, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, with toning and several light stains to the spine. Endsheets offset and pages toned... More about The Edwardians
London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. 4 parts in 2 vols., frontispiece portrait in second state. A mixed set, the first volume conforming to Teerink's AA (second) edition and the second volume from the B (third) edition. pp. xii, 148; [6], 164; [vi], 154, [8], [155]-353, [1], 8vo, [bound with... More about Travels into several Remote Nations of the World In Four Parts By Lemuel Gulliver, First a...
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's coarse oatmeal cloth stamped in brown, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine, with toning to spine cloth and small, previous owner address label to front free endpaper. A lovely copy of this classic. More about The Grapes of Wrath
New York: The Viking Press, 1967. First edition. 188 pp. Original black cloth with orange lettering. Fine with a little rubbing to bottom of fragile spine lettering, pages toned with age. In Very Good dust jacket with creased tear at front panel joint near foot, a few small chips and... More about The Outsiders
New York: The Orion Press, 1959. First American edition. 206 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with sticker shadow on front flap, tiny closed tear to back panel top edge. A memoir by Italian Jewish Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, which is better... More about If This is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz
Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1916. Third edition, pre-May 1917 variant without stamp to title page. [Although only copyright date is 1913, text is re-set from 2nd edition. 11. Lame Duck Books Catalogue #32.] 47 pp. Original black wraps with blue label. Text in German. Near Fine with rubbing to title... More about Der Heizer: Ein Fragment
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with a small strip of sunning along the top and bottom edges of the boards and a small imperfection to the rear cover. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's price intact, land faint shelf wear. A stunning... More about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. First American Edition, first printing. In contemporary three-quarter leather binding over cloth covered boards. Very Good with binding lightly scuffed at rear cover, hinge at front free endpaper cracked and exposed, though binding firm. Previous owner name to title page, foxing. The second and... More about The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. Second printing of the new edition. Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine titled lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light wear at extremities, light soiling to cloth and endsheets foxed. While... More about The Common Reader
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou, 1978. First edition, first printing. A fantastic association copy, signed by Jim Carrol, inscribed to poets Ted Berrigan and his wife Alice Notley on the half-title page, "To Ted + Alice, 'I'll be right there'... All my love, Jim 10/7/78." Berrigan was a central figure in the... More about The Basketball Diaries (Association Copy