Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. Early reprint of the first edition with copyright page dates 1894 but title page dated 1895. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in gilt. Good. Cloth grubby, spine-toned and worn. Former owner ex-libris bookplate to front paste down. Fraying to fore edge of..... More
London: Collins / The Crime Club, 1939. First edition, first printing, second state with no date listed on copyright page. Very Good with light lean to spine, a bit of dust soiling, fading to cloth corresponding to jacket chips, and bumping to page corners. In a Very Good dust jacket..... More
Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 1984. First edition, first printing. Signed by Sandra Cisneros on the title page. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wraps. Very Good with spine faded, covers lightly rubbed and creased, pages toned. An excellent copy of this modern classic, signed by the author and originally published..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ann Nolan Clark on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in red. Pages toned, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with several tape reinforcements on the verso, toning, light soiling and light..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1983. First edition, first printing with a complete numberline. Signed by Beverly Cleary on the half-title page and inscribed to former owners. Bound in publisher's white cloth spine lettered in dark blue over blue paper covered boards. Fine, in a Near Fine un-clipped dust..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982. First edition, first printing. Signed by Beverly Cleary on the front free endpaper and inscribed to former owners. Bound in publisher's pale green paper-covered boards over blue spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight spine-lean and thin strips of sunning along..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Light foxing to edge of page block, else Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and light edge wear; publisher's price of $6.50 intact. More
New York: Longmans, Green & Company, 1949. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author Catherine Cate Goblentz and illustrator Janice Holland on the half-title page in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped on dark blue. Near Fine with light shelf wear, light toning to cloth..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine titles in white. Near Fine with a thin strip of sunning at cloth edges. Previous owner name and date to front free endpaper and some offsetting the front and rear free..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Signed. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Yellow printed wraps with publisher's letter laid in. Signed by Patricia Cornewell in black marker on the title page. Very Good. Light wear to wraps, light reading crease to front joint, horizontal crease at bottom of..... More
New York: Random House, 1950. First edition. [vi], 242 pp. Publisher's dark gray cloth stamped in black and gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with small snag at upper corner of front panel, unclipped and bright. A Pat Abbott mystery set in Kentucky during horse racing season. Rare, especially..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First thus. (First expanded edition, reprinting Crapsey's 1915 debut with additional poems.) 107 pp. Beautifully patterned paper over boards, tan cloth backstrip with paper label. Basically Fine with a little rubbing along bottom and top edges in Very Good+ or better unclipped jacket with..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First American edition. (States "Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1923." on copyright page.) 242pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Photo illustrated. Near Fine in rare dust jacket with original price intact ($2.25), chipped at head and tail, else Very Good. Jacket torn along..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1950. First edition. [viii], 248 pp. Black cloth lettered in white.A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, bright, attractive, and unclipped. The author's second mystery with elements of horror fiction, titled The Hollow House for its UK release. A beautiful example..... More
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1949. First edition. [vi], 218 pp. Publisher's illustrated boards. Very Good+ with small tear at head, light wear, a little sunning to spine. No dust jacket, but boards mimic the publisher's typical jacket design so it's possible it was not issued with one. The..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1945. First edition. 189 pp. Gray cloth with red spine stamping. Slight dimple to front board, else Fine; corresponding ding to dust jacket; unclipped dust jacket is bright and attractive, two pencil marks on spine panel, a little dust-soiling to flaps. The first..... More
New York and London: Sheed & Ward. First edition. xxxvi, [2], 275 pp. Original grayish blue cloth lettered in black. Very Good+ with name and bookstore label on front free endpaper, light dampstaining to spine, in Very Good dust jacket with sunned and slightly dampstained spine panel, chip near foot..... More
New York: Communications Company, 1968. First edition. Published simultaneously by the Artists Workshop Press in Ann Arbor, with no known priority. 10pp including covers. Side-staples wrappers. Very Good. Tape ghost to rear cover, some light edge wear, thumbing and toning. Two holograph corrections to #1, and penned beneath letter #12..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth over bevel-edged boards, stamped in gilt with Indian pipe stem motif. Very Good. Cloth lightly rubbed, lightly soiled, lightly worn at spine ends. Previous owner notation to title page, and sporadic pencil marking throughout. More
London: James R. Osgood, McIvaine & Co., 1891. First British edition, first issue binding. 158 pp. Original pale yellow cloth with gilt lettering, gilt topstain. A Very Good+ copy, slightly toned spine with two tiny nicks along edge, head and tail lightly worn. The reclusive American poet's only book to..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1971. First British edition. Signed by Joan Didion on title page. [vi], 214 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in dust jacket, Very Good+ or better with a tiny closed tear on the top of front panel, a little shelfworn but unfaded. A...... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. First edition, first printing stated. Signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. xviii, 238 pp. Original cloth and paper-covered boards. Near Fine with light toning to edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, and slight soiling..... More
New York: Random House, 1938. First American edition, first printing. Near Fine with toning to pages, in a Very Good+ un-clipped dust jacket with toning, edge wear, and a short closed tear to the top of the front spine joint. A lovely copy. More
London: Putnam, 1934. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's burgundy cloth with titles in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light shelf wear, previous owner details to front free endpaper and pages toned. Hinge at page 514 slightly over-opened. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / Crime Club, 1943. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in black. Very Good. Cloth lightly toned at spine and top edge, foxing to cloth and pages, pages toned. Ina Very Good dust jacket with light edge..... More