New York: The Viking Press, 1927. First edition. [x], 56 pp. Original metallic paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with rubbed edges, very slight wave to text, a few reading smudges, in Good+ edge-worn dust jacket, dust-soiled, chipped at head and tail, spine panel... More about God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
New York: Boke Press, 1965. First edition. 4to. Stapled wraps. The second of two installments in this series featuring poems by New York School of Poets, including the liked of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and Ron Padgett, illustrated by Joe Brainard. Very Good. Toning... More about C Comics No. 2
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first printing. Very Good with faint lean to spine, sunning to edges of boards, light soiling to textblock edge. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with edge wear, creasing and two light stains at the edges. The author's most well-known work. More about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. First thus. No. 494 of 1050 copies printed for England and America. Signed by artist on one color plate. 68 pp. Original cloth with gilt tooled title, cover floral decoration stamped in brown; publisher's cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Very Good, cloth... More about Sebastian Van Storck
Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1972. First edition. Unpaginated. Illustrated wraps. Signed by Porter on copyright page, dated March '85. Near Fine with a little rubbing to wraps, light shelf wear. Rare. An American artist's book The Museum of Modern Art described thusly in an exhibition of the author's works... More about The Waste Maker: 1926-1961
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition, limited issue; Copy number 141 of 175 numbered copies with signed and with an original color illustration by Ludwig Bemelmans specially bound in. Very Good. Covers soiled and worn at the extremities. Signed, with an original painting by Bemelmans bound in. More about The Donkey Inside
Paris: Christian Dior, 1966. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, this being #417. Buff cloth covered boards with titles printed on marbled paper onlay. Near Fine, light foxing, light toning, previous owner bookplate to front paste down, small stray ink mark to rear paste down. An illustrated hunting journal/checklist for... More about Livre de Chasse
London: Thomas McLean, 1822. First edition. Bound in full straight-grain green morocco, stamped in blind, with raised bands and gilt tooling to spine, all edges marbled. With 19 beautiful hand-colored aquatint plates. Binding lightly scuffed, rubbed at extremities, with a 2-inch split at the top of the outer front joint... More about The Sporting Repository, containing Horse Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting...
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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First edition. xx, [2], 296 pp. Quarto. Original brown embossed leather rebacked with original spine strip laid down, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gray-brown coated endpapers. Very Good overall with leather well-rubbed, back and head spine strips starting to peel along edges, tiny... More about The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire
London: Printed by Geo. James, and sold by Maurice Atkins, 1712. First edition in English. [x], 218, [2, Instructions to Binders] pp. with 32 folding plates after designs by Alexandre Le Blond. Full contemporary paneled calf, red spine label lettered in gilt. Very Good with all plates present and in... More about The Theory and Practice of Gardening