New York: The Viking Press, 1962. A review copy of the first edition, first printing, with publisher's slip laid in. Bound in publisher's original crimson and cream-colored cloth with crimson spine lettering and topstain. Near Fine with small faint smudge to front cover visible in raking light, small number inked..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jane Addams and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original brick red cloth stamped in gilt with illustrated onlay to upper board. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear to..... More
New York / London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. First edition, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original ocher paper-covered boards with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with slight edge wear, light foxing to textblock..... More
New York: Afred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth boards stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light toning to pages and corner creases to the last two leaves. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning and light edge wear, a...... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1949. Two volumes. First edition, limited issue with text in the original French. Limited to 2,105 copies including 2,000 numbered copies on Alfama Marais paper, of which these are 1440 and 1089 respectively. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards with striking design by Mario Prassinos. Near Fine with..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. First edition. (First printing with stated "first edition" on copyright page.) Signed by Peg Bracken in the year of publication, "Greetings, and keep your chin up!" xii, 176 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with a few penciled..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First trade illustrated edition. A wonderful association copy, signed by Willa Cather and inscribed "To George Stimson, who took a great deal of trouble for this book and, I like to think, for me." Stimson was the production manager at Alfred A. Knopf. Bound..... More
[no place]: [none], 1966. [1966]. The correct first edition, self published by the poet. Bound in original printed wraps, not over-printed in blue and verso of the rear free endpaper is blank; this was printed later the same year by Stolen Paper Review Editions and went through various printings under..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with slight toning to spine and light staining to cloth, former owner bookplate to front paste down, foxing to textblock edge, preliminary and terminal pages..... More
San Francisco: Spinsters / Aunt Lute Book Company, 1987. Signed by Gloria Anzaldua on the verso of the front wrap, "Para Judy, Ojale que te guste mi librito. Contigo, Gloria E. Anzaldua / 2 Febrero 89." [xvi], 203, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Second printing of the first edition..... More
New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1914. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1914 and "Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1914" on copyright page.) 480 pp. with frontispiece of the author. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with black spine lettering. Very Good with bumped corners, some bubbling..... More
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation / G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. First separate edition of this Hugo-winning novella which originally appeared in Harlan Ellison's Again, Dangerous Visions in 1972. Signed by Ursula K. Le Guin on the title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Near..... More
New York: A Touchstone Book Published by Simon and Schuster, 1979. Reprint. Signed by Joan Didion and inscribed to a former owner on the publisher's imprint page. Bound in publisher's original pink and white wraps printed in yellow and black. Very Good with light edge wear and light spine creases..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First edition. [viii], 275 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with red and black stamping. Near Fine with faint tidemark to cloth only at head in Very Good+ dust jacket with light scuffing and wear, dampstain to verso of jacket near head, price intact..... More
Northampton, MA: Department of History of Smith College, 1934. First edition.Signed by Katharine DuPre Lumpkin on the front wrap, her copy. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+. Lumpkin was a Georgia-born sociologist and memoirist, also the sister of radical novelist Grace Lumpkin and long-time Director of Research at the..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First edition stated, first printing; a review and association copy. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page and with publisher's slip taped to front free endpaper. Ownership rubber stamp to front paste down reading "Library of R. and J. Coulson,"..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938. First edition. 301 pp. Bound publisher's red and blue striped cloth, white spine lettering, pictorial endpapers. Very Good with rubbing along edge of cloth, slight crease to spine, stamp on front free endpaper. Lacking jacket. The Their Eyes Were Watching God author's account of a...... More
Northampton, MA: Department of History of Smith College, 1935. First edition. Signed by Vera Shlakman on front free endpaper, association copy inscribed to Smith College colleague Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, "To K.D.L. - (a) with thanks, and (b) in memory of the preface that could never be written [initialed] V.S."..... More
London: George Allen, 1894. First edition thus. Dark green cloth with ornate gilt stamped peacock, illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Very Good with lean to binding, dulling to gilt, wear to cloth at edges with small losses at the bottom edge, staining and wear to cloth at back cover. Front and..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. First edition, second issue with the corrected "Whips" on page 50, line 13. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light lean to binding, light soiling, light edge and surface wear to cloth..... 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. Very Good with light lean to..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. Reprint. Signed by Laura Ingalls Wilder on the first blank page. Bound in publisher's original greyish beige cloth stamped in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with wear and staining to cloth, pages thumped with group of corners creased and tear at bottom..... 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 with light lean to..... More
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1963. First edition, first printing. 410 pp. Bound in publisher's boards over black spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with bookplate on paste down, former owner's name written on front free endpaper, clear dampstain to pages 9 & 10. In Very Good dust..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1966. First edition, trade issue. Signed by Pearl S. Buck & Theodore Harris on first blank sheet, dated June 1966; for members of the First Edition Circle at Koch & Brentano's Inc. in Chicago as laid-in bookmark reveals. Fine in Fine dust jacket with..... More