New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. First edition, first printing. [vi], 277 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, faint mottling to cloth in raking light, former owner's name on front free endpaper, vintage department store ticket on rear endpaper. Lacking dust jacket. A...... More
New York: Hill and Wang, 1960. First American edition stated, first printing. Signed by Elie Wiesel on the title page. Bound in publisher's original black cloth lettered in silver. Very Good. Light wear and light staining to cloth. Lacking rear endsheet in what appears to be a binding error; the..... More
New York: Poseidon Press, 1992. First edition. Signed by Harry Crews on the title page in black ink. 284 pp. Bound in publisher's turquoise boards with gray cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine dust jacket. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. First edition. [xii], 242, [4] pp. w/ two-page map, frontispiece, and seven color plates. Bound in publisher's rough buckram with red and white lettering. Near Fine, rubbing to spine lettering, bumped corners, lacking dust jacket. More
Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Signed by Harper Lee on the half title, inscribed to former owner, "To George Friedman with my best wishes, [signed] Harper Lee 17 June 1983." 24th impression of the first edition, in correct dust jacket with "Seventh Printing" on front flap..... More
New York: Exposition Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed to a former owner by Estelle Pugsley Hart on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with light musty odor to pages, toning and a few bits of foxing. In a Very..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. First edition, first impression. 319 pp. Bound in publisher's grayish oliver cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with former owner's name and info written on front free endpaper, small scuff to fore edge, in a Near Fine dust jacket, faint crease to spine panel..... More
North Hollywood: Essex House, 1969. First edition. Signed by Charles Bukowski on first page with an inscription in the year of publication, "2-4-69 stories and rantings by this Charles Bukowski." 255 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Light shelf wear, else Fine and unread. Clean, bright pages. The first collection of..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First edition, third printing issued the same month as the first. One of 500 copies with "The Author's Apology" leaf tipped in, signed by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with titles stamped in blind on the upper board and in..... More
London: New Authors Limited, 1967. First edition, first printing. 223 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver lettering. Very Good+ with lean to spine, a little staining to edges, in a Very Good dust jacket, edge worn, bubbling to laminate, laminate lifting along front gutter, closed tear to back..... More
London: George Allen, 1894. First edition thus. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth stamped with an ornate gilt peacock design, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, all edges gilt. Near Fine. Light lean to binding, light wear to cloth with small blemish to rear cover. Inner hinges neatly repaired, pages toned, former..... More
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Copenhagen: P. G. Philipsens Forlag, 1890. First edition of one of the earliest modernist novels, in the original Norwegian language. Bound in publisher's original red cloth boards stamped in gilt. Very Good with light lean to binding, fading to the spine, light staining to cloth and short splits to the..... More
Belfast, Ireland: Simms and McIntyre, 1846. First English language edition of The Count of Monte Cristo, preceding the slightly more common London edition of Chapman & Hall with an anonymous translator. Also the first Irish edition. Bound in 19th century half calf over marbled boards, with spine rebacked. Near Fine..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition, not to be confused with the much more common advance reader's edition. Bound in publisher's red wraps printed in black. Near Fine with light wear to wraps, contents bright and fresh. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, first printing, first issue with 3 p's in "stoppped" on page 181. 259 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with bronze title labels. Good+ with cloth soiled and worn, faded at the spine. Corners softened. Binding a little pulled at the front..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1911. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt, and decorated in blind on the front board, top edge gilt. Very Good. Cloth worn and soiled, spine lightly faded, previous owner name to front free endpaper, foxing to prelims and terminals. Pages..... More
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. Copy #39 of 150 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen to be sold at the bookshop of Harry F. Marks in New York. [viii], 55, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps in glassine, housed in gold foil chemise with ribbon ties. Near..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth lettered in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light lean to binding, cloth soiled and worn at the corners and spine ends, rubbing to corner of textblock bottom edge. Pages toned with..... More
New York: Elizabeth Sifton Books / Viking Penguin Inc., 1985. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Near Fine with light toning, remainder marks to bottom textblock edge and several page corners creased. Price-sticker removal evidence to front pastedown..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with titles blocked in red and off-white. Pages toned, previous owner name to front paste down and foxing to endsheets, still Fine. In a Very Good unclipped first issue dust jacket a bit edge-worn..... More
[Los Angeles]: Quincy Troupe, 1968. First edition. Signed by Quincy Troupe, poet and biographer of Miles Davis; inscribed to photographer and filmmaker Sedat Pakay, "Keep on pushin!" with Troupe's address and phone number written below. His collected poetry from the past 50 years was released in 2022 by Seven Stories..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards over green spine cloth lettered in black. Near Fine in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with a rubber stamp number to the front panel, light toning, soiling and wear, creases to..... More
[np]: J.A. Rogers, [1917]. First edition. 128 pp. w/ publisher's announcement tipped-in to last page's margin. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with black lettering. Very Good+ with slightly soiled cloth, light rubbing along edges. Rare. The Jamaican-American writer's first book, a self-published attack on racist ideas about Black people in..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First edition. 266 pp. Original gray cloth with pictorial black lettering, red top stain. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with small chips at extremities, closed tear along foot. The African-American author's follow-up to her debut novel The Street, set in New England..... More
Philadelphia: McGirt Publishing Company, 1907. First edition. 131 pp. w/ illustrations and frontis of the author. Bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. Good+, with foxing and insecting to cloth at front. Former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Contents generally sound and clean with..... More