New York: Random House, 1997. Signed by Maya Angelou on the half title with the inscription "Joy!" [vi], 281, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black boards with copper lettering. Near Fine, corners a little bumped, in a Near Fine dust jacket with a subtle rubbing and a few tiny identations..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition. [x], 214 pp. Publisher's crimson and cream-colored cloth with crimson spine lettering and topstain. Near Fine with a little foxing to cloth, slightly bumped corner, Very Good with sunned spine panel, price clipped, small closed tear near head. A classic horror novel..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Early reprint. Bound in publisher's ivory cloth over green cloth backstrip tamped in gilt. Near Fine. Light soiling and light toning to cloth. Charcoal pencil marking to front free end paper. Pages toned. A bright and sharp example, in a much nicer state than most copies..... More
New York: Tobias Press, 1911. First edition, first printing. In a modern quarter binding. Very Good with toning to pages, moderate soiling and dog-earring. A scarce book of poetry by an African American. More
New York: Random House, 1957. First edition, first printing. Publisher's cloth green cloth, with gilt stamping and title blocked in black on the spine, with vivid dark blue topstain. Light foxing to textblock edge, slight tape ghosts and offsetting from an old-style asphaultic edged dust jacket protector to endsheets and..... More
New York: R.F. Fenno and Company, 1906. First edition. 313 pp. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with white lettering, color photo mounted to front board. About Very Good with slight bowing to boards, soiled cloth, foxing and a little staining to edges, corner of p. 51 stained, name written on..... 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. Very Good with significant lean to binding, rubbing to cloth and gilt, wear to rear spine joint at top edge. Front and rear..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First edition, first printing; second state "with portrait and map" printed on the title page. Signed by Elizabeth B. Custer the first blank page and dated 1894. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. 312pp. Near Fine with light rubbing..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. First edition, first printing. xxiv, 269 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and blue paper covered boards, lettered in white. Very Good, boards toned along edges, textblock toned, fore edge faintly foxed, name written on front free enpaper, in Very Good+unclipped dust jacket..... More
London: MacDonald Science Fiction, 1969. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original purple cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight edge wear, in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight soiling, light edge wear with light creasing to the top edge of the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. First edition, first printing. Signed by Gwendolyn Brooks and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in silver. Near Fine with bump to foot of spine, small strip of abrasion to front pastedown at bottom..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. First edition. 31 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with green lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, spine panel a little sunned, unclipped ($2.75). A lovely copy of a children's book by the author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. More
[New York]: Antaeus Editions, 1976. First edition. Signed by Louise Gluck at the rear colophone, number 29 of 50 thus. Bound in printed french wrappers. Fine. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First American edition. An unusually nice copy bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind with spine lettered in gilt. Near fine with fading to spine, light wear at spine ends, light spotting to textblock edge. Light foxing, heaviest at preliminary sheets, small..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1954. First English-language edition. 187, [3] pp. Original purple wraps over card covers. A Near Fine copy, light wear to tips, spine slightly creased and the fugitive purple is a little sunned but much less than is common. An uncommon paperback original that presents well, often..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First edition, first printing; Hobart and Robbins listed on both copyright pages, title pages lack printing statement as called for. Two volumes, in rare publisher's original gift binding, blue cloth with extra gilt stamping and all edges gilt. Near Fine or better, with..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition. Signed by Eve Babitz on the front free endpaper, with her lipstick kisses and a brief inscription to the former owner. [viii], 178, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's tan boards with cream colored half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958. First edition, first printing. Signed by Shirley Jackson and inscribed to a former owner on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's original black paper covered boards over grey spine cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with light toning and light wear..... More
New York: Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic Press, 1998. First edition, first printing, with points present: embossed purple diamond boards; spine lacking "Year 1" and stating J. K. Rowling; complete number line, first edition statement and Printed in the U.S.A. 23" on copyright page. Near Fine in a Near Fine..... More