Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page, inscribed to former owner. viii, [ii], 80 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Sixth printing of the first paperback edition. Near Fine, light sticker wear to rear wrap.The Pulitzer-winning poet's seventh book. More
Studio City, CA: Three Penny Press, 1959. Two uncommon chapbooks from Three Penny Press, edited by Grover Haynes and hand-lettered by Rose Haynes. Both first editions. About Very Good with a fair amount of foxing to wraps and contents. Laid in is a tiny handmade invitation to something called Outhouse..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1927. First edition. 103 pp. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with black cloth backstrip, paper title label on spine. Very Good+, lightly worn and dust-soiled, small former owner's stamp to paste down. Lacking dust jacket. An uncommon work by the Irish-American anarcho-feminist poet. More
London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1951. First British edition, first printing. (Published in the United States as The Origins of Totalitarianism the same year.) xvi, 477 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light soiling to edges, worn tips, in a Fair dust jacket, chipped..... More
New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., 1933. First edition. xviii, [ii], 301 pp. with 32 photographs. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with red lettering. Near Fine with light wear, cloth slightly grubby, in an unfaded dust jacket, price-clipped, slightly short for book, wear along fore edge, tape repairs on..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Early reprint. Bound in publisher's ivory cloth over green cloth backstrip tamped in gilt. Near Fine. Light soiling and light toning to cloth. Charcoal pencil marking to front free end paper. Pages toned. A bright and sharp example, in a much nicer state than most copies..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Early reprint with 1892 on title page (the first was 1891). Bound in publisher's grey cloth over bevel-edged boards stamped in gilt. Very Good with soiling, toning, and rubbing, glue repair evident at front and rear inner hinge; hinge after ffep exposed. Pages toned. More
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1912. First edition. [viii],306, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering, portrait illustration. Near Fine with very light wear to portrait, a few tiny stains on spine, wear at foot, gift inscription written on front free endpaper. Binding sturdy. Lacking dust jacket..... More
New York: Mahlon Day, 1837. Second edition. [2], 257-260, [3]-253 pp. (index, i.e. pages 257-260 bound following title page). Bound in publisher's diapered reddish purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. A completely unsophisticated copy in wonderful shape for an American imprint of its age. Tight binding. Stain to front board..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. Signed limited first edition. Number 111 of a limited 1,000 copies signed by Eleanor Roosevelt. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with title label to spine printed in black, in publisher's original unprinted acetate jacket, housed in original slipcase. Very slightly musty, else Fine..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. First edition. [ii], 490, [4, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt and black. Very Good, light wear to cloth, hinge at front starting, slight dampstaining to fore-edge, a little waviness to terminals, thumbsoiling. Bookplate of Irvin L. Edelstein on front paste-down. With..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop on the title page. Second printing. [xii], 50 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. About Very Good with sunning to spine, wraps slightly curled at edges, light diagonal reading crease to book starting at rear. An acclaimed final work by..... More
[London]: New English Library, 1971. First edition. Signed by June Johns on the half title. 128 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Good only with two diagonal creases through book, light edge wear, pages toned with age. A British guide to the history of the occult and its practitioners circa..... More
New York: The John Day Publishing Company, 1931. First edition, first printing, first issue with "The John Day Publishing Company, Inc." on copyright page. Error "flees" that was present in the first three printings on p. 100, line 17. [vi], 375, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt..... More
Levelland, TX: Marion Zimmer, 1949. Early scifi fanzine published by Marion Zimmer Bradley under her maiden name for F.A.P.A. 7 pp. printed on rectos only. Bradley's later stamp in red on first page along with date. Very Good+ with a little wear around staples. Includes poem by Theodore Cogswell. More
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. Near Fine with light wear to corners and spine ends, light browning to covers at edges. Pages lightly tanned and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Toni Morrison on the first blank page. Bound in publisher's white cloth binding, stamped in silver. Near Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. A nice copy of the first edition, signed..... More
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004. First edition. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. xvi, 101, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's publisher's cream-colored boards with crimson cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with slight curl along front panel, slight curl to top panel. The..... More