Franklin, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited edition, signed by James Baldwin at front. [xx], 232 pp. Brown leather lettered in gilt, silk endpapers and satin bookmark. Tissue guard laid in. A Fine, unread copy. Includes "Notes from the Editors" booklet. A signed limited edition of the African-American author's first..... More
[New York and Connecticut]: [ca. 1965-68]. A first-person archive of material from Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007), including poems, personal letters and a play. Mostly 8.5" x 11" sheets with various smaller paper sizes clipbound in black cloth university spring binder with title ("Poems by Madeleine L'Engle") typed on embossing tape labels..... More
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Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1952. Reprint; text in Danish. Signed by Karen Blixen and inscribed to a former owner at Blixen's long-time residence, Rungstedlund, which currently operates at the Karen Blixen Museum. Bound in publisher's green printed wraps illustrated by Peter Holm. Near Fine with light wear to wraps at extremities..... More
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857. First edition. Two volumes, bound without ads but with half-title pages in contemporary tan calf over marbled boards, with green and red gilt-stamped title labels to spines, all edges marbled. Bindings lightly rubbed at extremities. Pages toned, foxed at preliminary and terminal leaves. Bookplates..... More
London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817. Third edition. Two volumes, bound in mid-twentieth century half brown calf; bound without half-titles and terminal blank in Volume 1, as is often the case. Contents foxed throughout. Repaired L-shape tear to page 7 of Volume I; fraying to fore edge margin of page..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Bloch on the title page. Very Good with light shelf wear, sunning to covers at edges, and the usual toning to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing, light edge wear with several..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with spine lettered in red; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Heavy lean to spine. CLoth sunned at spine and unevenly on covers, foxed, rubbed through at spine ends. Pages toned, small stain to..... More
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1937. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pebbled maroon cloth with spine lettered in yellow. Very Good with foxing to textblock edge, pages lightly toned with endsheets offset, and name blacked out on front free endpaper. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1977. First British edition. Signed by Harry Crews on title page, inscribed to former owner. [viii], 177 pp. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with slightly toned pages and a few tiny stains, in Fine unclipped dust jacket. More
Los Angeles: Blood & Guts Press, 1998. First edition. One of 400 numbered copies signed by Harry Crews on colophon at front. [viii], 105 pp. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Ralph Steadman. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1946. First edition, first printing. Signed by Anais Nin and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with a faint stain to front and rear cover at bottom corners, lightly..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition, first printing with BCDE on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine lettered in red and black. Previous owner name inked on front free endpaper, else Fine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. First British edition. Two volumes, finely bound in blue leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Spines sunned, slight lean to Volume I. Contents toned, sporadically foxed, lightly stained and corner-creased. The two first impressions are indistinguishable, lacking any imprint to distinguish them apart. The first was..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Books, 1982. Advance reading copy of the first edition, signed by Charles Bukowski on the title page. Perfect bound in stiff off-white wraps with review slip mounted on front cover. 283pp. Near Fine, with some faint offsetting to binder's glue surrounding review slip. Foxing to top..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1853. First edition, first printing. Finely bound by [William Thomas Jennings] Worsfold, in late 19th or early 20th-century half leather over marbled boards, with all edges gilt. The former copy of author Edmund William Gosse with his bookplate to the front free endpaper; bookplate of Scottish..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition. Neatly signed by Thomas Wolfe with fountain pen on front free endpaper. [xii], 912 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered and ruled in gilt with green bands. Slight wave to bottom edge of prelims and first few pages, slightly worn tips, else Fine..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition. Signed by Babitz on the title page. ix, [1], 211, [1] pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with thin crease to laminate along back panel. A collection of short stories by the author of..... More
New York: Macaulay Publishers, 1929. First American edition. 316 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red with gray illustration. A Fine copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, easily Very Good+ with wear at head and tail, thin closed tear along fold near head and associated crease to front panel, rubbing..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Lean to spine, cloth unevenly sunned and rubbed at extremities. Pages foxed and toned, previous owner name and bookplate to front endsheet. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1984. First edition, first printing. Signed by Tom Robbins and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's blue paper covered boards over dark blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with covers a bit soiled and worn, light foxing..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First hardcover edition, first printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket with price intact. Remainder stamp to bottom of page block. Light dings to top edge of several pages and boards. Light edge wear. Hinge at half-title page slightly over-opened. Dust jacket..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. First American edition, first printing. Very Good with light lean to spine, front top corner bumped, pages occasionally soiled. In a Good unclipped dust jacket, worn at the extremities and rubbed at the folds, toned, a bit stained, with tape repairs made to..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Bound in publisher's pale grayish wraps printed in black. Near Fine with sunning to spine, and light overall wear. A lovely copy. 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, Fine, in Near Fine cardstock folding box which has light sunning to the spine and light shelf wear. A fantastic copy. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with bumping to head of spine, faint darkening to spine cloth and very light spine lean. In a Near Fine dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell, with..... More