New York: The Viking Press, 1927. First edition. 103 pp. Publisher's paper-covered boards with black cloth backstrip, paper title label on spine. Near Fine with wear to tips, in rare dust jacket with label, Very Good, a little black staining to front panel, spine panel a but sunned, light edge..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948. First edition. Association copy signed by Dorothy West on front free endpaper, inscribed to Adelaide M. Cromwell (whose signature is above this), under her married name, Hill: "October 1976. With so much love. Thank you for all the years of your friendship, [signed] Dorothy." Cromwell..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1914. First edition. One of only 595 copies printed and bound at the University Press, Cambridge, MA. xxvi, 151 pp. Original cream-colored paper over boards and white cloth lettered in black; lacking the unprinted dust jacket. Very Good with toning and rubbing to covers. Previous..... More
New York: Gemor Press, 1945. First Edition. Deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies signed and numbered by Anais Nin at rear colophon, with five color hand-pulled woodblock prints by Ian Hugo tipped in (issued along side a regular edition with a limitation of 1,000 unsigned copies.) Publisher's pink paper covered..... More
Boston and Toronto: Atlantic- Little, Brown & Company, 1983. First edition, first printing, hardcover issue. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Either a review copy or publisher's file copy, with publisher's slips tipped into front paste down. viii, 88 pp. Dark bluish green cloth, spine lettered in gilt..... 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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First edition, first printing; first issue with "wearily" in perfect type on page 135. Bound in publisher's original vertically ribbed cloth ruled in blind and stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light lean to spine, faint mottling..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition, first printing, first issue. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt with publisher's imprint in metallic red; with red topstain. Near Fine, with light lean to binding, former owner name and date to front free endpaper and pages toned. In a Near..... More
London: Jarrold and Sons, 1877. First edition, first printing of the classic equine novel; in Carter's variant C binding. Good. Cloth well-worn and soiled, textblock edge lightly spotted, inner hinges repaired, pencil markings to brown coated endsheets, effaced owner name to first blank sheet and owner name in pencil to..... More
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First edition, first printing, hardcover issue. viii, 88 pp. Dark bluish green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Penciled owner name erased from front free endpaper, still Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear and a thin abrasion to..... More
Grants Pass, Oregon: Cosmic Star Temple, 1968. 55pp. Plastic comb-bound sheets. Very Good with soiling, toning and light wear to wraps, price sticker shadow to front cover; pages lightly toned. A very scarce UFO-related item. Violet Gilbert was a student of theosophy and a member of the "I AM" Religious..... More
New York: Random House, 1936. First edition. 212 pp. Publisher's red cloth with black leather band lettered in silver, black topstain. With original wrap-around band and clear dust jacket with silver paper flaps. Near Fine, offsetting to wrap-around band, jacket wrinkled and perhaps a little shrunken with age, still in..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Coretta Scott King, inscribed to previous owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original cream cloth stamped in gilt with spine titles blocked in black. Near Fine with light toning and foxing to cloth..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Third edition. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth over tan cloth spine stamped in silver on the front cover and in gilt on the spine. Good. Lean to binding, cloth grubby and edge-worn, spine browned. Front free endpaper nearly detached, pages toned, browning to endsheets. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1923. First edition. 242 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Good+ with frayed cloth at head, cloth a little insected, bumped front corner, hinges cracked but holding. The famous American anarchist writes of her embrace of the Russian Revolution and her horror..... 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. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with faint stain on front panel, spine panel slightly sunned, head and tail a little worn, unclipped ($3.95). A classic horror..... More
New York: Ivan Oblensky Inc., 1963. First edition, first printing of the author's debut novel. Signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Bound in publisher's original blueish-green cloth with spine lettered in white. Very Good with light lean to binding, light wear to cloth, light spotting to textblock edge..... More
Philadelphia: William Gibbons, 1792. xvi, [17], 274pp + [1] contents + [1] ads. First American edition, published the same year as the British first edition; and preceding the Boston edition, also published the same year but advertised for sale before the Philadelphia edition. Bound in modern three-quarter calf over marbled..... More
New York: Arthur A Levine Books / Scholastic Press, 1998. Rare Advance Reader's Edition sent to reviewers and book industry figures before publication of the first American edition. Illustrated wraps. [viii], 309, [4] pp. Near Fine with slightly sunned spine, light shelf wear. An attractive copy. Signed by a publisher's..... More
London: Freethought Publishing Company, 1858. First edition. 169, [1], 24 [ads] pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with light rubbing, hinge at front starting, title page a little foxed. Nice shape overall. The British theosophist and feminist writer's very rare first book, including a photograph of her..... More
New York: Gemor Press, 1944. First Edition, one of 300 copies originally printed. Signed by Anais Nin and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's decorated paper-covered boards. Near Fine with light lean to spine, light rubbing to covers at extremities, toning to spine..... More
New York: The Modern Library, 1993. Fourth printing of the Modern Library edition. Signed by Jane Jacobs on the title page in blue ink. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. More
St. Louis, MO: [self published] Printed by A. C. Clayton Printing Co, 1931. First edition, first printing. Signed by Irma S. Rombauer on the front free endpaper and inscribed, "To Helen, my 'best seller' / affectionately, Irma S. Rombauer / May - 1933," and with a color snapshot of Rombauer..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Signed. First edition, second printing with "Published October 16, 1961" on copyright page. Signed by Simone Beck on the half-title page, and by Julia Child and her husband Paul on the second half-title page. Bound in publisher's white cloth with red Fleur-de-lis and blue..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1901. First edition. Signed by Frances Kellor, warmly inscribed to former owners on front free endpaper. xvi, 316, [1] pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering and ruling to spine, top edge gilt. Near Fine, cloth worn and a little frayed at head and bottom..... More