Melbourne: William Heinemann Ltd, 1957. First Australian edition. [vi], 312 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with lean to spine, foxing to edges, in an About Very Good foxed and slightly soiled jacket, unclipped (15s). The novel of nuclear apocalypse written by a British..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with spine lettered in red and red topstain; lacking the dust jacket. Very good with heavy lean to binding, fading to spine and foxing to cloth. Former owner name to front free endpaper, pages..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1964. First edition, first issue text and jacket. (Publisher's logo on half title; not variant with logo on second half-title, no priority. Photographer's name spelled "Hank Krangler" on rear flap of jacket, two line author bio.) [viii], 628 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth lettered in..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First American edition. 314 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with slight crease to spine, wear at tips, tape stains on front free endpaper (possibly a review copy), small stain on fore edge, in Very Good+ dust jacket..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, first printing. (Dated 1926 on the title page with the Scribner's seal on the copyright page.) [viii], 143 pp. Bound in publisher's very dark green cloth with red lettering. Very Good, slight lean to spine, rubbing along edges, a few spots of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Advance uncorrected proofs, published before the first edition. Signed by Tom Robbins in red on front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. [x], 365 pp. Bound in publisher's blue printed wraps. Very Good+ with lines of sunning at spine and along fore edge of front..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Richard Adams on the title page in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's tan paper-covered over tan spine cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with textblock sunken, boards lightly soiled and nicked along the top and..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1938. First edition, first impression. 287, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with black lettering. A Very Good+, solid copy, lacking the dust jacket. Light wear, small scuff near foot, slight lean to spine. A British pre-WWII spy novel, filmed as Hotel Reserve..... More
New York: Phoenix Press, 1935. First edition. 246 pp. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with black lettering. Very Good with small stain to front board, hint of sunning to spine, light wear. Lacking dust jacket. The uncommon debut novel of Samuel Fuller, who would go on to carve out a...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First American edition. [x], 275, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with navy lettering. Former owner's bookplate on paste down, else Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, worn and little chipped, unclipped ($2.00). A WWII-era spy novel that inspired two film adaptations..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. First edition. Signed by Bret Easton Ellis on the title page. 208 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and boards with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with grease-penciled number on front free ednpaper, light wear, in Fine dust jacket. The American Psycho author's first..... More
Collins Harvill, 1967. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with faint foxing to textblock edge and front free endpaper, light rubbing to spine ends. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning and light..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. First edition, first printing, first state, preceding the British edition. Lacking the publisher's monogram on the copyright page and with "help" on page 257, line 4. Very Good+ with slight darkening to spine, light wear to cloth at extremities. Pages lightly toned, several..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. First edition, first printing of the classic Harlem Renaissance novel. Extremely rare, signed by Jean Toomer and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper, "To Fay De Frantz with warm regards for one who feels so warmly about this book and..... More
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1912. First edition. [viii],306, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering, portrait illustration. Near Fine with very light wear to portrait, a few tiny stains on spine, wear at foot, gift inscription written on front free endpaper. Binding sturdy. Lacking dust jacket..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1966. First American edition, first printing. An advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 243pp. Original black cloth with silver and gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with lean to binding and toning to pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a scrape..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over beige cloth spine with gilt titles blocked in maroon. Near Fine with small stain to topstain, endsheets foxed and pages toned. Ina Very Good unclipped dust jacket with foxing, toning and mild..... More
Bolinas, CA. Tombouctou, 1978. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jim Carroll with a warm inscription on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original wraps. Very Good with wear to covers, creasing to spine and front cover, a series of indentations to the front cover extending into the first several..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with red lettering to spine. Very Good+ with light lean to binding, cloth sunned through dust jacket, former owner name and bookseller ticket to front paste down, pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1932. First edition, first printing and a fantastic copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Signed by T. S. Stribling and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. 571 pp. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with paper labels on spine..... More
New York: Random House, 1958. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's canary yellow cloth with gilt titles on spine blocked in black. Near Fine with spine slightly rolled and black stamping slightly rubbed. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with fading to the spine panel, light edge wear..... More
London: Harvill, 1992. First British edition. [viii], 210, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with small dampstain to rear paste down, in Very Good+ jacket with small squiggly indent to front panel, light edge wear, stain to verso along top edge. Nice shape..... More
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1946. First edition. (First printing with publisher's colophon on copyright page.) [x], 275 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, gilt and green stamping to spine. Fine in an unsunned, sharp example of the fragile dust jacket, with a little soiling to rear panel, else Fine..... More
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1932. First edition. (First printing with "1.bis 5. Tausend" on copyright page.) 230, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with paper title label. In German. Near Fine with a few faint stains to back board, slight lean. An acclaimed German novel first translated into..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First edition. [ii], 490, [4, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Very Good, light wear to cloth, hinge at front starting, slight dampstaining to fore-edge, a little waviness to terminals, thumbsoiling. Bookplate of Irvin L. Edelstein on front paste-down. With..... More