Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition, first printing with 1942 listed on the title page. Signed by Beryl Markham on the front free end paper; inscription in non-authorial hand beneath Markham's signature. Bound in publisher's turquoise green cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, light..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Limited edition. Copy #187 of 375 signed by Maugham on limitation. 279, [1] pp. Gray cloth with red title bands and gilt lettering. Fine in rubbed original clear acetate wraps, housed in Very Good slipcase with wear along open edge, a bit toned..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1938. First edition. [vi], 373 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, navy topstain. Very Good+ with foxing to edges, slight lean, a little foxing to prelims. Pieces of dust jacket laid in. An acclaimed memoir of life in the Lost Generation in..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954. First edition. Signed by the book's subject, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, in ink on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former owner, one Katherine "Kay" Kehoe of Chevy Chase, MD, whose name and address are written on rear endpaper. [xviii], 413 pp. Light brown..... More
Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2014. First edition. Signed by Bruce McCulloch on the front free endpaper. xviii, 281 pp. Original blue boards with yellow cloth backstrip lettered in black. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A signed memoir of growing up weird and parenting by the former Kids in the..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. First American edition, first printing. Signed and warmly inscribed by Golda Meir on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth ruled in blind on the upper board and with spine lettered in gilt. Near fine with light fading to spine, light..... More
Jackson, MI: Meredith Publishing, 1996. Signed on front free endpaper, "James H. Meredith 11 Nov 99." Photo of Meredith signing a book and small card laid in with former owner's brief description of the signing at "the Hosner's Library" [sic], presumably Hosmer Library in Minneapolis. Third printing of the first..... More
New York: Atria Books, 2012. Signed by Meredith on the front free endpaper. xiii, 267 pp. Publisher's cloth lettered in gilt. First edition, second printing. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A memoir by the civil rights legend, who was the first African American to..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First edition, first issue binding. [viii], 429 pp. Bound in publisher's off-white cloth. About Very Good with small tear in head cloth, wear at extremities, toned spine, name written on paste down. The bestselling autobiography by the Trappist monk, writer, and scholar. More
New York: Vantage Press, Inc., [1955]. First edition. [ii], 61 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering. Former owner's name stamped on title page, else Fine in spine-sunned dust jacket, lightly worn, unclipped. An alien contactee memoir. From the front flap of the jacket: "Here is one..... More
New York: New Directions, 1957. Inscribed by Henry Miller to Monterey attorney and good friend of John Steinbeck Webster "Toby" Street, signed and dated 8/19/58. First edition. (Distinguished from later printings by lack of printing statement on jacket flap. Shifreen & Jackson A105a.) (xii), 404 pp. Original orange cloth lettered..... More
London: The Porcupine Press, 1946. First British edition. Signed by Joseph Mitchell on the front endpaper to the former owner in blue ink, inscribed, "For V.H. / Kindest regards / and best wishes / Joseph Mitchell / December 1969." 253 pp. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good. No..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1969. Signed by Anne Moody on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. [x], 348 pp. Publisher's gray cloth with brown spine lettering, red topstain. Third printing of the first edition. Very Good+, top edge a little dampstained, gift inscription to former owner..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Moses as Bob, and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original dark blue leather stamped in gilt, with gilt spine titles blocked in pinkish-red, top edge gilt. Fine, in acetate wrapper..... More
Lockport, NY: Ward and Cobb, 1896. First edition. [vii]-xxx, [31]-485, x, with folding map at front. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine, with light rubbing to cloth at extremities, inner front hinge exposed though binding remains firm. Slight chipping to edges of front free endpaper and..... 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
London: Peter Owen, 1989. First British edition. 125 pp. Red cloth with black lettering. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, spine very subtly sunned, light shelf wear. A nice copy of Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet's autobiography, like all of his works taped, transcribed, and translated from the original Moghrebi..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-24. Manuscript edition, copy #414 of 750. Includes a piece of John Muir's original handwritten manuscript mounted at the front of the first volume, the beginning lines of chapter four of The Mountains of California: "Early one bright morning in Autumn while the glacier meadows were..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth boards over red spine cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with light rubbing at edges, pages toned. A sharp copy of Murphy's WWII autobiography, which also served as the basis for a 1955..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1932. First edition, first printing. xviii, 280 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with cracked hinge at front (holding), oxidation to lettering,in Very Good dust jacket with chipping at extremities, a few small closed tears and creases, price-clipped. Rare..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1932. First edition, first printing. Signed by John G. Neihardt and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original crimson cloth with bronze stamping; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Uneven sunning to cloth at spine and edges..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First edition. xvi, [ii], 450; viii, [451]-984 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Slightly musty smell, else Fine in bright Near Fine dust jackets, lightly worn, new price stickers on front flaps. An attractive set. A major two-volume biography..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903. First edition. (First printing with date on title page, which publisher used in lieu of a first edition statement.) xii, 424 pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering, gilt topstain. A Very Good copy with wear at extremities, slight wave to pages, p...... More
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London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1835. First Edition. [vi], 110 pp. with 12 hand-colored aquatint plates. Finely bound by Riviere for Bumpus, in full scarlet crushed morocco, triple gilt-rule borders, spine gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. Original front, rear, and spine cloth bound in at rear. Housed in a later morocco-tipped..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. First edition. Signed by Dr. Thomas Noguchi on front free endpaper in ink. 253 pp. Publisher's paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip lettered in pale brown. Near Fine with remainder mark to bottom edge, subtle lean to spine, a few pages' bottom corners creased..... More