Long Beach, CA: Published by the Author, 1927. First edition, self-published by the author; cloth issue. Signed by Upton Sinclair and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in original red cloth stamped in black, with upper board ruled in blind. Near Fine with light rubbing..... More
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First edition stated, first printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Bound in publisher's original brown paper-covered boards over green cloth spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with slight lean to binding, covers lightly soiled and spine cloth faded; former owner..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First American edition. Signed by Isabel Allende on the second blank page at front, inscribed to former owner, "For Salam, the artist, with best regards from the crazy spirits of my house [signed] Isabel Allende" with a small cartoon of a flower. [viii], 368..... More
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1926. Eighth printing. Technically the second edition as it's the first to have the type entirely re-set. [iv], 735 pp. Contemporary three quarter red leather with marbled paper sides, gilt lettering, ruling and decorative stamping to spine. Very Good with rubbing along edges, darkening to foot..... More
Bolinas, CA. Tombouctou / A Lamplighter Book, 1978. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's wraps with black and white author photo on the front cover taken by Rosemary Klemfuss. Very Good. Spine creasing and light general wear to covers, former owner name and Bolinas address written to a preliminary..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original crimson and cream-colored cloth with crimson spine lettering and topstain. Near Fine. Evidence of a narrow label removed from the front pastedown, former owner name and date to verso of half-title page and inked notation to..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Advance uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Bound in publisher's plastic comb bound wraps, lacking the rear cover. Good. A good majority of the binding's teeth are broken, and the front cover is detached and torn along the top half. Pages toned. A...... More
New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911. First edition, first printing; lacking Braunworth & Co. slug at bottom of the copyright page. Very Good, lacking dust jacket. Cloth a little soiled and darkened, lightly worn at corners and spine ends; bookseller stamp to front pastedown, owner name to front free endpaper..... More
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. First edition, first printing. Signed by Paolo Coelho on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's dark blue paper-covered boards over dark blue spine cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with light rubbing to covers and spine ends, in a Very..... More
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. First edition, first printing; one of 650 copies of the first issue. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, sunning to spine ends and along top edge and pages toned. In a Very Good..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. (First printing with dated title page.) [iv], 356 pp. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in brown. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, edges a little scuffed, in an About Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine panel, wear..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First edition. (Stated "First Printing" on copyright page.) [viii], 326 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth, blue spine lettering. Very Good, cloth rubbed along edges, former owner's name on paste down (next to bookplate) and title page, typical toning to pages, lacking dust jacket..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition. (First printing with publisher's colophon and "A" on copyright page.) [viii], 295 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Tiny stain on front board, else Fine in Very Good dust jacket, toned along edges, worn at tips, tiny chip..... More
Washington, DC [actually Healdsburg, CA]: Zephyrus Image / National Endowment for the Domestic Arts, 1977. First edition. Publisher's stringbound stiff wraps, housed in original printed envelope. [20] pp. Near Fine with typical offsetting to endpapers, in Very Good+ envelope with toning and light wear. Uncommon. The author's first publication..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. First edition. [vi], 284 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth, spine lettering almost completely effaced but looks like it was originally yellow, black topstain. A Good+ copy with aforementioned rubbed-off lettering, tiny hole in spine, cloth a little soiled, rear hinge cracked..... More
Irvine, CA: Suntup Editions, 2021. Artist Gift Edition. One of 1,000 copies thus signed by artist Jim Burns. 328, [4] pp. Full cloth smyth sewn binding with two-hits foil stamping over cloth boards, in foil stamped dust jacket, housed in die cut silver paper covered slipcase. A Fine copy. In..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First edition. [xii], 186, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, toned with a small dampstain to front panel, spine panel darkened, offsetting to front flap from a laid in sheet of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good or better, with fraying to spine ends and wear at corners. Former owner bookplate to front paste down, and light pencil ownership name to a...... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First British edition, first printing. 285 p. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with gilt lettering, top stained dark navy blue. Slight fading to boards at edges, small abrasion to front paste down, still Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. An excellent copy. More
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1984. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by Stephen King on the front free endpaper, his name inside a thought bubble. Fine, in a Near Fine lightly shelf-worn dust jacket. A fantastic copy of the first book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, signed..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition, first printing. First issue with title page printed in red and blue, dated 1843 in Roman numerals; half title and verso of title page printed in blue; "Stave I" on page [1]. 166pp. Finely bound in full red morocco, with raised bands. Near..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, third printing with four pages of ads at rear, printed on wove paper. (Garrison A.1.2.c) Bound in publisher's red ribbed cloth stamped in gilt, and ruled in blind on the front cover, top edge gilt. [vi], 533, [1], [4, ads] pp. Near..... More
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark red ribbed cloth with titles stamped in black. Near Fine with light rubbing at tips, trivial toning to the spine and a bump to the fore-edge of the rear board. In a Very Good dust jacket..... More
New York: Harmony Books, 1980. Advance uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Bound in publisher's original blue wraps pritned in black. Near Fine with light towning to wraps, light foxing to textblock edge and pages toned. A rare format of the humorous sci-fi cult classic. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966. Reprint. Signed by P. L. Travers on the title page. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth. Near Fine with light foxing to pages, small stain to rear paste down. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with faint staining to the front..... More