New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962. First edition, first printing. Signed and warmly inscribed by Barbara W. Tuchman to a former owner on the verso of the front free endpaper. Laid in is a note from Tuchman to the same owner. Boung in publisher's original black cloth stamped in silver..... More
Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Signed by Harper Lee on the half title, inscribed to former owner, "To George Friedman with my best wishes, [signed] Harper Lee 17 June 1983." 24th impression of the first edition, in correct dust jacket with "Seventh Printing" on front flap..... More
New York: Exposition Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed to a former owner by Estelle Pugsley Hart on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with light musty odor to pages, toning and a few bits of foxing. In a Very..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. First edition, first impression. 319 pp. Bound in publisher's grayish oliver cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with former owner's name and info written on front free endpaper, small scuff to fore edge, in a Near Fine dust jacket, faint crease to spine panel..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1924. First and only edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth-affect boards over green spine cloth with paper title label. Very Good with uneven fading to covers, toning and small chip to title label. Pages toned and with sporadic foxing, front endsheets browned from binder's..... 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. Near Fine. Light lean to binding, light wear to cloth with small blemish to rear cover. Inner hinges neatly repaired, pages toned, former..... More
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. Copy #39 of 150 copies on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen to be sold at the bookshop of Harry F. Marks in New York. [viii], 55, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps in glassine, housed in gold foil chemise with ribbon ties. Near..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth lettered in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light lean to binding, cloth soiled and worn at the corners and spine ends, rubbing to corner of textblock bottom edge. Pages toned with..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Book club edition. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page. Bound in publisher's original black paper-covered boards with titles in magenta. Near Fine with slight lean to binding. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and light edge wear. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First edition, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with faint wear to spine ends, faint foxing to textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust..... More
New York: Warner Books, 1987. First edition, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page. Bound in publisher's original green paper-covered boards over dark blue spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. The first title in the multiple Hugo and..... More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998. First edition, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original black paper-covered boards with spine lettered in silver. Crease to pp. 339/340 else Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket..... More
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with lean and light sunning to spine, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket, rubbed at the extremities with wear at the head, foxing and light staining..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First edition. 266 pp. Original gray cloth with pictorial black lettering, red top stain. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with small chips at extremities, closed tear along foot. The African-American author's follow-up to her debut novel The Street, set in New England..... More
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, 1925. First edition. Signed by Elizabeth David Richards on the front free endpaper with inscription. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over patterned blue spine cloth with paper title label to spine and upper board. Near Fine with light rubbing to corners and spine..... More
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2018. Limited edition signed by N.K. Jemisin, copy #383 of 500 thus. [2], 383 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with silver lettering, black patterned endpapers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The Hugo & Nebula award winning novel. More
Boston: Published for the Author [by Thayer & Eldridge], 1861. First edition. 306 pp. Bound in publisher's full brown textured cloth, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, boards blind ruled with floral ornamentation, spine ornamented and lettered "LINDA" in gilt. Very Good with foxing throughout, small tidemark to upper..... More
Columbia, SC: Hampton Publishing Company, 1944. First edition of this scarce novel written by an African American woman who worked as a teacher and librarian in South Carolina. Bound in publisher's original reddish-brown cloth stamped in brown. Good, cloth mottled, boards splayed and worn through at edges. Foxing to textblock..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth lettered in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with lean to binding, cloth lightly soiled, scuffed and spine-faded, small puncture to front joint. Pages toned with scattered light spotting and a few creased..... More
New York: Printed at Kay Printing House, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's origina dark blue cloth with titles lettered in gilt. Very Good or better, with toning to cloth at spine and edges, gilt rubbed completely at spine and partialyl to front cover, cloth lightly edge-worn. Pathfinders..... More
New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1919. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with fading to spine, light wear at tips and toning to pages. A noted African American female poet, Effie Waller Smith was born in Kentucy and this was the..... More
Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1938. First edition, first printing. An editorial copy, with a small rubber stamp stating such on the rear paste down. 271 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in black; lacking a dust jacket. Near Fine with faint mottling to cloth at rear,, light wear..... More
Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1931. First edition, first printing. Signed Mercedes Gilbert and inscribed to a theater critic, referencing her current role in the first Broadway play with an all-Black cast, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Green Pastures. Bound in publisher's original rose cloth patterned in blind with titled stamped in..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1962. First edition, first printing of the autobiography of the woman Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dubbed as the "Mother of the Movement," whose civil rights activism focused on voter registration, citizen education, and women’s rights. While teaching in the Sea Islands off..... More
