New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. First edition, third printing. Signed by Rose Wilder Lane on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Fine, with hinge over-opened at the title page, light softening to cloth at spine ends. In a Very Good unclipped dust... More about Free Land
New York: New American Library, 1966. Signed limited edition. Seven hundred copies in the limited edition were signed and numbered by the author. The 700 copies sold very quickly, and the publisher issued an additional 300 copies, signed but unnumbered as found here. Previous owner name to front free endpaper... More about Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
The Fountain Press and The Hogarth Press: New York and London, 1929. First edition, large paper issue, copy number 399 of a limited 492 signed by Virginia Woolf in purple ink. Publisher's original red cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on spine. Very Good, cloth unevenly sunned, lightly worn... More about A Room of One's Own
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper, "To Betty -- With greatest gratitude and the friendliest good wishes. -- [signed] Gwendolyn Brooks December 23, 1949 (-Merry Christmas!)." x, 60 pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with some offsetting... More about Annie Allen
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition, first printing with 1942 listed on the title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in black; lacking the dust jacket. Good, with cloth soiled and rubbed through at front spine joint and tips. Previous owner name to front free end paper, with... More about West with the Night
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. Fine, with light bruising at the bottom of the spine. Black and gilt stamping very bright and fresh. In an About... More about Atlas Shrugged
London: Victor Gollancz, 1935. First edition, first printing. Signed by Dorothy L. Sayers on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth nicked at crown, worn through at corners and nibbled along fore edge. Small bookseller ticket to... More about Gaudy Night
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. [xiv], 216, [1, note on type] pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, ruled in orangish red. Near Fine, sans jacket, with rubbing to spine lettering, top edge slightly foxed, small bookplate remnant on rear paste down. An attractive copy of an... More about Passing
New York: Ariel Books / Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. 211 pp. First edition, stated first printing. Good, with sunning to boards at edges, previous owner name to front free endpaper and tide mark to top edge of front paste down. Foxing to textblock edge and and small stray ink... More about A Wrinkle in Time
New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. First edition. Side-stapled mimeographed sheets, printed on rectos only. Near Fine with light toning, foxing and wear, rusting to staples. A lovely copy. More about Self Portrait
London: The Hogarth Press, 1930. First edition, first printing. Signed by Vita Sackville-West on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth with titles in gilt on spine, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, with toning and several light stains to the spine. Endsheets offset and pages toned... More about The Edwardians
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Thirteenth printing. Signed by Julia Child and her husband Paul on the front free endpaper, inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's white Fleur-de-lis patterned cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good, cloth toned, lightly soiled, heavily faded at the spine. Textblock edge... More about Mastering the Art of French Cooking
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1954. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth affect paper over boards, lettered in magenta. Very Good, with rubbing at corners and spine ends, pages toned. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, with toning to spine and edge-chips. A lovely copy. More about The Blunderer
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by Dian Fossey on the title page. Near fine with tiny blemish to rear cover, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light fading and rubbing to spine panel. An account of Fossey's research of gorillas at the Karisoke... More about Gorillas in the Mist
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1965]. Signed by Kael on verso of front cover. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. 239 pp. Comb-bound wraps. Very Good, wraps worn and creased towards bottom edge, comb foot chipped, covers and contents toned. A rare advance format of the film reviewer's first book... More about I Lost It at the Movies
New York: The Viking Press, 1967. First edition. 188 pp. Original black cloth with orange lettering. Fine with a little rubbing to bottom of fragile spine lettering, pages toned with age. In Very Good dust jacket with creased tear at front panel joint near foot, a few small chips and... More about The Outsiders
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. First British edition. xix, 103 pp. Original cream paper covered boards with gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. Near Fine in unclipped dust jacket with dust-soiled edges, scratch in back panel. Uncommon. The first of the Russian poet's books to be translated into English. More about Marina Tsvetayeva: Selected Poems
[np]: Stolen Paper Review Editions, 1966. First edition, very early issue with cover printed in brown (rather than black) ink with no blue overprinting, text printed sideways, publisher specified on verso of rear endpaper but partial with no address (first issue apparently has no publisher listed there). [10] pp. printed... More about The Love Book
New York: Atheneum, 1972. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Ursula K. Le Guin on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth decorated in metallic purple. Near Fine, with small stains to textblock edge, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a mild spine fade and faint... More about The Farthest Shore
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Ursula K. Le Guin and inscribed to a former owner. Near Fine, with light shelf wear and a small ink squiggle to the front free endpaper. In a Near Find unclipped dust jacket, with two flap corners... More about The Dispossessed
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. First American Edition, first printing. In contemporary three-quarter leather binding over cloth covered boards. Very Good with binding lightly scuffed at rear cover, hinge at front free endpaper cracked and exposed, though binding firm. Previous owner name to title page, foxing. The second and... More about The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. Second printing of the new edition. Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine titled lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light wear at extremities, light soiling to cloth and endsheets foxed. While... More about The Common Reader
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1966. First edition, first printing stated. Pages toned and with a small brown stain to the top edge of the textblock near the corner, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning and light wear. A fun, trashy page-turner with one foot... More about Valley of the Dolls
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. Reprint of the 35th-anniversary edition. Signed by Harper Lee on the half-title page, inscribed to a former owner. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small tear to the bottom of the front flap fold. A lovely copy, signed by the author. More about To Kill a Mockingbird
London: George Allen, 1894. First edition thus. Dark green cloth with gilt stamped peacock, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, all edges gilt. Very Good. Lean to binding. Gilt stamping is a bit tarnished and slightly rubbed, though remains much nicer and brighter than as usually found. Cloth rubbed through at corners... More about Pride and Prejudice