Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / Crime Club, 1953. First edition. 193 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+, pages toned with age, a little foxing to top edge and mustiness, in a Fine dust jacket, unfaded with rich colors, light shelf wear and toning..... More
Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1986. First edition. Signed by poet on half title, inscribed to former owner and dated June 3, 1989. 80 pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in second state dust jacket with Pulitzer mention, light rubbing, else Fine. Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;..... More
Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1986. Advance reading copy. 80 pp. Side-stapled yellow sheets with publisher's prospectus stapled to front cover. Blue text on yellow sheets has faded significantly; it's still legible but just barely. Apparently created on a ditto machine. Rear wrap (last page of text), creased. Front staple a...... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1950. First edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Browning to endsheets, gutters of prelims, and to spots on the top edge of page block. Black cloth is sharp and clean. The dust jacket shows light rubbing at extremities, and toning to the spine..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1938. First edition stated, first printing. Near Fine with light tobacco odor and toning to pages; Silver foil band is bright and sharp, save for some light oxidizing at the spine, and a small paper fragment pulled from verso of the dust jacket and..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and upper board; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Lean to binding. Cloth lightly marked, rubbed at extremities, aspine faded and lightly creased, lettering mostly rubbed. Pages toned and a little..... More
Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1903. First edition, with text in German and English. Very Good, wraps lightly soiled and lightly toned, with a bit of edge wear; short split started at the top of the front joint, small ownership stamp to half-title page. Pages lightly handled; offsetting from news clipping to..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. Copy #108 in Author's Autograph Edition of only 150 copies, signed by the famous aviator on limitation page in black ink. Above that publishers' name is handwritten by someone, possibly her husband George Putnam, who worked with her in writing the book..... More
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1934. First edition, first printing. Signed by Amelia Earhart on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's brown cloth lettered in white; lacking the photograph and pocket at rear, though endsheet there shows offsetting and evidence of removal. Near Fine with light sunning to..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. First edition. Three volumes, buff leather over burgundy cloth binding, title pages present, though bound without ads at rear. Very Good. Previous owner name to half-title pages, bookplate on paste-downs. Pages are generally clean, though show wear commensurate with age. A lovely..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1860. First edition, Carter's first state of the first volume with no ad leaf inserted. No ads at rear of Volume III. 361, 319, 313 p. 19th-Century leather over marbled paper, black label and gilt lettering and ruling, blue endpapers. Very Good. Wear..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. First edition, with 4-page advert at front, and publisher's 16 page catalogue at rear. Pages uncut, in publisher's original terracotta stamped cloth. Good. Light soiling to cloth. Spine cloth slightly darkened Softening to bottom corners, bump to center of rear board at edge..... More
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876. First edition. Eight volumes, scarce in publisher's original wrappers. About Very Good, with wear commensurate with age: chipping, cracking and loss of material on several spines, some covers are partially split at the joints. Names written on front cover of all volumes. A very..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. First edition, first printing. Rare in the publisher's original maroon cloth binding with boards decorated in blind and spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with rubbing to cloth and sunning to spines, front cover of Volume I lightly spotted. Previous owner names..... More
London & Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1912. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth printed in black. Near Fine with slight toning to spine, bump to rear board corner near spine. Offsetting to free endpapers and toning to pages. A history of women's suffrage..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945. First edition. [iv], 251 pp. Bound in blue cloth with black stamping. Near Fine with dust-soiled cloth, offsetting to endpapers, in Very Good+ pictorial dust jacket with a small chip at its head, spine panel unfaded but a little soiled, tiny dimple in rear..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1943. First edition in first issue dust jacket with Hurrell photo of author in reclining pose on back panel. 295 p. Green cloth with silver lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing at edges and spine ends, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First edition. Signed by Janet Flanner in green ink on half title. 160 pp. Original red boards with black cloth backstrip. Very Good with a little soiling and wear to edges, in Very Good dust jacket with small tear to front panel, surface wear..... More
Tuskeegee, Alabama / Charleston, South Carolina: Tuskeegee Institute / Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co., 1897. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's yellow beige cloth over beveled boards, decorated in green and lettered in gilt, with all page edges colored red; introductory written by Booker T. Washington and photographic portrait..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by Dian Fossey on page xi at the end of the acknowledgment; on the same page Fossey has also made a marginal bracket pointing out the address of the Digit Fund at the Karisoke Research Center. Fine, in a Near..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by Dian Fossey on the title page and inscribed to former owners. Near Fine, with lean to spine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and fading to spine, light edge wear with several short tears, and light..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1952. First American edition, first printing; states "First Edition" on the copyright page. Very Good with toning to pages, previous owner name on pictorial front free end paper, cloth lightly frayed at corners and spine ends, faded at spine, lightly marked. In a Good dust..... More
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1963. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed "For a liberated man" by Betty Friedan on the front free endpaper just above a former owner's bookplate. Bound in publisher's gray paper-covered boards over blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine, in a Very..... More
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1963. 1963 [but later]. First edition, third printing. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's full black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Previous owner inkless emboss to title page, else Fine..... More
