New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth boards over red spine cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with light rubbing at edges, pages toned. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light soiling, edge wear, toning, and fading to..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first printing. Signed by illustrator Ralph Steadman with a small sketch on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over black cloth spine lettered in silver. Very Good with lean to binding, light sunning to edges and toning to pages. In..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1970. First edition. [xvi], 330 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in silver. Top edge foxed, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unfaded and unclipped, lightly shelfworn. The prison letters of a famous African American '60s radical figure. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1990. First edition. Signed by Jacques Vallee on title page, inscribed to former owner, Richard McLaughlin, "I only wish I had the answer!" Additional correspondence from Vallee to McLaughlin laid in: signed postcard from 1996; single page ALS from August that same year on Vallee's stationary..... More
Vienna: Verlag fur Jugend und Volk, 1946. First edition, first printing. 130 pp. In German. Publisher's illustrated white wraps. Very Good with light wear; subtle abraiding along spine, perhaps from removed tape; small pencil note and corner crease to rear wrap; contents toned with occasional foxing; a few pages bottom..... More
New York: Random House, 1986. First edition. Signed by Charles Willeford on the front free endpaper. [xii], 255, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth and paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket. No remainder marks. An excellent copy of the crime writer's autobiography of his time in..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition, first printing with 1942 listed on the title page. Signed by Beryl Markham on the front free end paper; inscription in non-authorial hand beneath Markham's signature. Bound in publisher's turquoise green cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, light..... More
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. First edition, first printing. Signed by Eve Babitz with two red lipstick kiss marks and inscribed "To Chris on the event of our premiere brush." Bound in publisher's black cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with heavy fading to spine cloth..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Moses as Bob, and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original dark blue leather stamped in gilt, with gilt spine titles blocked in pinkish-red, top edge gilt. Fine, in acetate wrapper..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by Freeman Dyson and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in gilt, top edges stained red. Near Fine, boards lightly splayed. In a Near Fine unclipped..... More
Little, Brown and Company / Chinthurst Fine Books: Boston / London, 2003. Signed limited illustrated edition, specially produced by Chinthurst Fine Books in celebration of Nelson Mandela's 85th birthday. Copy number 248 of an intended 950, of which only 250 copies were produced. Bound in full brown morocco at Abbey..... More
New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First edition. Good only due to a number of stains on cloth, a few bumps, a little bowing, and some wear. Small light marginal stain to last few dozen pages, a few foxed pages early on, offsetting to two facing pages. A memoir..... More
Paris: Les Editions De Minuit, 1958. First edition in the original French, preceding the first English edition. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine, toned and lightly worn. A work of "terrifying power," and one of the first autobiographical accounts of Nazi death camps to be published. More