Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1969. Signed by both N. Scott Momaday and his father illustrator Al Momaday on front free endpaper. First edition, first printing. Review copy with reviewer's bookplate on front free endpaper, his penciled marginal notes. [viii], 88, [2] pp. Original cloth. Besides reviewer's easily-erasable checkmarks and..... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1801. First edition. [iv], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2, errata] pp., complete with half title, engraved frontis portrait and all three engraved folding maps (one of which is hand-colored). Later calf lettered and ruled in gilt with black label over marbled paper boards..... More
New York: Dial Books, 1992. Signed by Rosa Parks on the half title, dated 2/13/93. First edition, third printing. 192 pp. Quarter purple cloth and maroon paper covered boards. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine and back panels, light edge wear. A signed autobiography of..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901. First edition. ix, 330 pp. Bound in publisher's ribbed maroon cloth stamped in gilt, gilt topstain. Very Good+ with nice bright gilt, a little bumping to edges, name written on front free endpaper in easily erasable pencil, hinges a little free. The famous..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966. First edition. [viii], 328 pp. Navy cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Very Good with small ding/ tear in top of back board, slightly bumped corners, in Very Good dustjacket with light wrinkling and edge wear. The autobiography of the iconoclastic Civil Rights figure and..... More
New York: Delta, [1970?]. Signed by Eldridge Cleaver on half title with inscription, "For Jimmy / Do It! / [signed] Eldridge Cleaver / 4-19-98." Presumably signed in the Portland, Oregon area before Cleaver's Earth Day appearance there; he passed away not much more than a week later. xv, [1], 210..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First American trade edition. xvi, [4], 335 pp. Plates, and a folding map at rear. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with sturdy, straight binding, rear map creased. About Very Good plain variant jacket showing moderate wear and edge-rubbing, darkened..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, 1965. Signed by USAF General Thomas Power on front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. First edition. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, lacking jacket. Cloth sunned, Very Good. The political thoughts of the former Air Force General who was the protege of Curtis LeMay, and who spearheaded..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954. First edition. Signed by the book's subject, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, in ink on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former owner, one Katherine "Kay" Kehoe of Chevy Chase, MD, whose name and address are written on rear endpaper. [xviii], 413 pp. Light brown..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1940. First edition. (No subsequent printings listed and "Adventure" in italics on the front cover.) 376 pp. Zebra-striped tan cloth. Very Good, lacking jacket. A little foxing to cloth, slight musty smell. As The Atlantic Monthly once stated: "As good an 'escape story' as you..... More
New York: L.B. Fischer, 1945. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner"To Dr. Garski whose family / lived together with me in the Warsaw ghetto / [signed] Mary Berg / New York Febr. 9-1945." Special Edition Sponsored for the National Organization of Polish Jews..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956. First edition. xix, 266 pp. Original blue cloth with black cloth backstrip, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with wrinkling to spine cloth, in Good+ unclipped dust jacket with some small edge chips and tears along fore edge folds, toned spine panel. Profiles is..... More
New York: Dial Books, 1992. 192 pp. First edition, first printing. Signed and dated by Rosa Parks on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original quarter purple cloth and maroon paper covered boards. Very Good with light spine lean, light soiling and light shelf wear to covers. In a Very..... More
New York: Random House, 1938. First American edition, first printing. Near Fine with toning to pages, in a Very Good+ un-clipped dust jacket with toning, edge wear, and a short closed tear to the top of the front spine joint. A lovely copy. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First edition. 176 pp. Off-white cloth with black lettering. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. Tips worn and previous owner's bookplate on paste down. Jacket missing chip at front panel bottom left corner extending to the tail of the spine, head chip, spine sunned, rubbed..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. First edition. Signed by Milton Friedman and his wife Rose on half title and inscribed to former owner, an Arizona developer whose stamp is on the front free endpaper. xii, 660 pp. Crimson cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Paperclip impression to prelims..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. (Sheets printed in the UK, so presumably following the Chatto & Windus edition that same year.) [viii], 286 pp. with fold-out facsimile letter plate at rear. Original blue cloth with cream title stamping. Cloth head and upper tips slightly chewed, else..... More