Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. [undated, ca. 1963]. Three volumes. First American edition, early printings: 13th, 13th and 16th printings respectively. In publisher's original blue cloth stamped in gilt with folding maps at rear. Near Fine with bumped corners, small bookseller tickets to front pastedowns in all volumes, maps intact..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. [undated, ca. 1963]. Three volumes. First American edition, early printings: 16th, 13th and 13th printings respectively. In publisher's original blue cloth stamped in gilt with folding maps at rear. Very Good. Lean to bindings, tape ghosts and light soiling to endsheets, sporadic foxing or soiling;..... More
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1966. 1966, 1966, 1965. Three volumes. First Edition; 15th, 12th and 11th printings respectively. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spines stamped in gilt, with maps intact at rear. A bright, Near Fine set or better, with light lean to the bindings, and a...... More
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1966. 1966, 1965, 1965. Three volumes. First Edition; 15th, 11th and 11th printings respectively. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spines stamped in gilt, with maps intact at rear. A bright, Near Fine set with light bumping to edges, foxing to textblock edges, date..... More
Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, 1962. First Tove Jansson illustrated edition, text in Swedish. Bound in publisher's illustrated paper covered boards over green cloth spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear, uneven sunning to boards and small stain to spine cloth, light wear to corners and spine ends. Illustrated..... More
New York: Avalon Books, 1958. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jack Vance on the title page. Bound in publisher's gray cloth stamped in brown on the spine. Near Fine with light toning to spine cloth, former owner address label to front paste down and pages toned. In a Very..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1930. First edition, trade issue with plain binding. Unpaginated. Blue cloth with black lettering. Fine in Near Fine original dust jacket, spine slightly sunned and rubbed along edges. An attractive, very clean copy. Dystopian phobia-inspired science-fiction by distinguished industrial designer John..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1930. First edition, first printing. Signed by both Ruth and John Vassos on the half title page, December, 1936, with Christmas card signed by John laid in. Bound in publisher's red cloth, decorated in gilt, black and white, with publisher's prospectus laid in..... More
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Madrid: Establecimiento Tipografico de Tomas Rey y Compania, 1869. First edition in Spanish, and the earliest edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea known in book form, preceding the French and English editions. Two parts in one volume, 247, 287 pp. + 2 page index, with illustrations by Riou..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. First edition. [xii], 186, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped in gilt, red and black. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, toned with a small dampstain to front panel, spine panel darkened, offsetting to front flap from a laid in sheet of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First hardcover edition, preceded by a Dell paperback edition. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth lettered in white. Near Fine with slight fading to spine cloth and trivial wear at corners and spine ends. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning and..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. Uncorrected proof of the first British edition in trial proof dustwrapper after a design by Brian Edwards, rejected by the publisher, with an image of a Tralfamadorian, and close by a man with gun in holster holding a sword. The words "PROOF ONLY Provisional Publication Date..... More
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1972. First edition. [xx], 284 pp. Publisher's silver paper-covered boards with black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver. Fine in a bright, attractive dust jacket, also Fine, tiny closed tear to back panel near head, orange on spine a little sunned. An excellent..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1896. First British edition, with publisher's monogram printed in black on rear cover and with adverts in a later state at rear beginning with The Time Machine. Bound in publisher's ochre cloth decorated in red and black. Very Good. Soiling and light wear to cloth. Pages toned..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1895. First edition, first printing. First issue with author misidentified as "H. S. Wells" on title page and 6 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Good. Hinges and crack at front paste down professionally repaired. Cloth soiled, with lettering worn off, extremities lightly frayed. Front free..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1895. First edition, first printing, first issue. [152]pp. plus 16 pages of publisher's ads at rear beginning with "The Manxman." Bound in original tan cloth stamped in brown. Near Fine with light darkening and stray mark to spine cloth, former owner name in pencil and bookseller ticket..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1895. First British edition, first printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously alongside the first cloth edition. Bound in brown wrappers printed in black in a variant not described by L. W. Currey. Though the collation conforms to his first issue (A) with no inserted publisher's catalog at rear..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1895. First edition, later issue with brown stamping on front spine and cover as opposed to purple and no ads at rear. Near Fine light toning to the spine, slight stain to rear cover, browning and foxing to endsheets and a tiny number inked to the front..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1898. First edition, second state with 32 pages of ads following the text. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth lettered in black. Very Good. Light lean to binding. Cloth darkened and soiled, spine toned, front inner hinge slightly exposed. More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. First American edition and first illustrated edition. Bound in publisher's original light green cloth stamped in gilt, light green and black. Very Good with light lean to binding, cloth lightly soiled, rubbed at extremities and toned. Former owner name to title..... More
Irvine, CA: Suntup Editions, 2021. Artist edition, signed by the artists Benz and Chang. Hardcover with jacket in slipcase in unopened publisher's shrink-wrap. One of a thousand copies thus. More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1933. First edition. 432, 12 [ads] pp. Dark navy cloth stamped in blind at front, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with bumped corners and light edge wear, in a Very Good dust jacket with a little expert restoration of the head, sunning and crease to..... More
Belfast, Northern Ireland: Walter A. Willis, 1950. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Near Fine with light creasing to top outer corner throughout. More
Belfast, Northern Ireland: Walter A. Willis, 1950. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Near Fine vertical crease to center throughout. Light general wear. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in green. Near Fine with faint stain to textblock fore edge at bottom, former owner name and date to verso of front free endpaper, and pages toned. In..... More