Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First edition stated, first printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Bound in publisher's original brown paper-covered boards over green cloth spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with slight lean to binding, covers lightly soiled and spine cloth faded; former owner..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1976. First edition. Signed by Loretta Lynn and co-author George Vecsey on front free endpaper. xvi, 204 pp. Publisher's light blue cloth, spine lettered in metallic blue. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Includes former owner's letter to Loretta and her co-author laid in. A signed..... More
Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1981. First edition review copy signed by Lydia Davis on the title page. Unpaginated. Wraps. Fine. Review slip laid in. An uncommon early book by the American writer. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First American edition. Signed by Isabel Allende on the second blank page at front, inscribed to former owner, "For Salam, the artist, with best regards from the crazy spirits of my house [signed] Isabel Allende" with a small cartoon of a flower. [viii], 368..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original crimson and cream-colored cloth with crimson spine lettering and topstain. Near Fine. Evidence of a narrow label removed from the front pastedown, former owner name and date to verso of half-title page and inked notation to..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1975. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and inscribed to a previous owner in 2003. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with upper board lettered in blind and titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine wit ha faint scratch to the..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1942. Advance copy of the first American edition, perfect bound in dust jacket with flaps. Very Good with lean and light creases to spine, indentations to front wrap, binding a little over-opened at front cover with a short split at the tail. The American..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. First edition. (First printing with dated title page.) [iv], 356 pp. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth, with titles stamped in brown. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, edges a little scuffed, in an About Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine panel, wear..... More
Washington, DC [actually Healdsburg, CA]: Zephyrus Image / National Endowment for the Domestic Arts, 1977. First edition. Publisher's stringbound stiff wraps, housed in original printed envelope. [20] pp. Near Fine with typical offsetting to endpapers, in Very Good+ envelope with toning and light wear. Uncommon. The author's first publication..... More
Washington, DC: Off Our Backs Collective, 1970-1979. Vol. 1 Nos. 1-5, [8] -24; Vol. II, Nos. 1-4, 6, 8-10; Vol. III 1-4, 6-12; Vol. IV Nos 1-12; Vol. V 1-4, 6-11 (includes misnumbered "Vol. IV No. 3" which is actually third number of this volume); Vol. VI Nos. 1-10; Vol..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First American edition. [x], 629; [v], [630]-1181 pp. Two volumes bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, illustrations mounted on front boards, blue topstains; housed in publisher's slipcase. Very Good with rear hinge of Vol. I cracked but holding, corner crease to..... More
New York: The Penguin Press, 2014. First deluxe edition, first printing. This is one of an unspecified number of copies sold pre-publication by the publisher where the laid in small poster poem, "A Little Black and White Dog," is signed by Mary Oliver. Bound in original full red cloth stamped..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930. Early reprint. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth stamped in black, lacking the dust jacket. Good, with cloth rubbed at extremities, mildly stained and spine-sunned. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown and hinge at title page slightly over-opened. More
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. Signed limited first edition, copy number 44 only 350 copies (327 of which were offered for sale) signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and writer of the text Julia Peterkin. Printed by letter press and with 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure plates..... More
Boston: Christian Scientist Publishing Company, 1875. First edition, first printing of the founding text of Christian Science. Bound in publisher's original black cloth decorated in blind and titled in gilt on the spine with orange silk page markers and errata slip tipped-in at rear and an original printed receipt for..... 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. Near Fine or better with just trivial touches of wear to the wraps and faint foxing to the textblock edge..... More
London: Gerald Howe LTD., 1934. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth stamped in dark blue, lacking the dust jacket. Good, significant slant to binding, cloth soiled and with a short split at the top f the rear spine joint. Former owner name to front free..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in brown, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with foxing to cloth, browning to rear cover, darkening to foot of spine and wear at spine ends and heavier so to corners. Boards a...... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966. Reprint. Signed by P. L. Travers on the title page. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth. Near Fine with light foxing to pages, small stain to rear paste down. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with faint staining to the front..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1954. First edition. Signed by the book's subject, Enrico Fermi, and the author on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. x, 267 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with a little dampstaining to back board, in..... More
Omaha: [no publisher], 1919. First edition of what is apparently the third cookbook written by an African-American woman, after rarities by Malinda Russell (1866) and Abby Fisher (1881), and published just eight years after Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat. An eclectic mix of 700 recipes, with some Southern. 112..... More
Pittsburgh: The Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania, 1915. 244 pp. First edition. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in yellow, with front cover showing an illustration of Uncle Sam weighing men against women on a scale. Very Good, with cloth lightly toned at spine and rubbed and a bit..... More
New York: Published for the Author, 1853. [Boston: Published for the Author, 1854]. Second edition, early issue with title page dated 1853 with a New York imprint, and front wrapper resetting title page within an ornamental border dated 1854 and with a Boston imprint. BAL 19381 describes an 1853 dated..... More
London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934. First edition, first printing of Cunard's ambitious compilation all aspects of history and culture of the African in Africa, or the diaspora featuring contributions from an impressive array of leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston..... More
New York: Random House, 1961. First edition. Signed by Ayn Rand in blue ink on half title. viii, 242pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, with gilt spine lettering and green ruling. Near Fine with former owner's name on front free endpaper, in lightly worn Near Fine..... More