New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. First edition thus. Bound in publisher's white cloth toned to tan with black and white pictorial onlay illustrated by Ward on the front cover, and title label to spine. Very Good with cloth foxed and soiled; spine toned with wear at the... More about Frankenstein
Tokyo: Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1955. First edition. Near Fine, in Good dust jacket. Light edge wear. Foxing and previous owner name written to front paste down, number written to rear free end paper. The dust jacket shows edge wear, with chipping at spine ends and splits along spine fold... More about Take Ten
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San Francisco: Arion Press, 1986. Signed by the illustrator, Clement Hurd on the half title page of "The World is Round." Bound in pink cloth circular boards printed in blue, with companion volume "The World is Not Flat" by Edith Thatcher Hurd, in original pink box printed in blue, lacking... More about The World is Round [together with] The World is Not Flat by Edith Thatcher Hurd
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1966. Easton Press collector's edition bound in genuine navy leather, lettered and edged in gilt, silken endpapers. Near Fine with former owner's bookplate on half title page. A lovely copy. More about Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751
London and New York: J. M. Dent & Co. and E. P. Dutton, 1909. Copy #335 of a limited 750 in the large paper edition, signed by Arthur Rackham. Very Good. Publisher's cream buckram cloth stamped in gilt, with rose colored ribbon ties intact. Toning, and light but prominent drip-stains... More about Gulliver's Travels
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1893. First one-volume edition by Crowell. Bound in pulisher's dark green cloth, with lavish peacock design stamped in gilt and dark blue. Near Fine. Cloth lightly rubbed at tips, previous owner bookplate to front pastedown, pages toned. A beautifully done reprint of Thackeray's... More about Vanity Fair
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, first printing. First issue with the headline on page 1 in rustic type, the woodcut of Mr. Steyne on page 336 which was later suppressed, and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453; bound without ads. Finely bound in somewhat contemporary three-quarter... More about Vanity Fair
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First edition. (xii), 227 pp. Original tan cloth with navy lettering. Near Fine with offsetting to gutters, in About Very Good dust jacket with darkened spine panel, faint staining to front panel, chip in back panel, price-clipped. Nice condition overall. More about The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze: A Collection of Short Pieces with Drawings by the Author
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1923. First American edition, bound from plates from the British edition and one of 250 copies thus. Very Good with slightly bowed and edge worn boards, front and rear hinges exposed and a bit tender, gift inscription on front end paper, corner chip to single... More about The Ship That Sailed to Mars
San Francisco: Dan Perkins, 1987. First edition. Unpaginated. Stapled plain wraps, b/w zine format. Near Fine with very faint creasing to front cover, very slight corner bumping. The uncommon first appearance of the award-winning, long-running political comic strip This Modern World, as a single-issue zine. Perkins would quickly adopt the... More about This Modern World
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. First edition. [xii], 330 pp. Original brown cloth lettered in yellow. Very Good with light soiling, slight insecting along top edge, scattered foxing to contents, lacking dust jacket. A long out-of-print proletarian novel by the author of Beggars of Life, illustrated by... More about Shadows of Men
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1885. First edition, first issue. (The first American edition in cloth. All definitive points present: p. 9 has "Decided" instead of "Decides"; p. 13 lists illustration on p. 88 "Him and another Man"; p. 57 error "with the was" 11 lines up from... More about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Tom Sawyer's Comrade
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 about Ultimo
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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 about Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Veinte Mil Leguas de Viaje Submarino
Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1911. Deluxe French limited edition; copy #213 of 340 (of 390 total) signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's full vellum binding, stamped in gilt. Near Fine. Boards faintly bowed, bump to top of spine, vellum lightly soiled, bookseller ticket to front paste down... More about Siegfried et le Crepuscule des Dieux
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1983. First edition, first printing. Signed by Edward Gorey on the rear cover in anagram as "Dogear Wryde". Very Good with light soiling and light toning to edge of wraps. Contains uncut illustrations of paper doll clothing and accessories to dress the bear on the... More about E. D. Ward: A Mercurial Bear
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition, third printing. Signed by Lynd Ward on the half title page. Very Good. Lightly rubbed at edges, spine cloth mildly rubbed at top. Spine title label toned and lightly lifting at top corner. A lovely, signed copy of the first... More about Gods' Man
New York: Jonathan Cape Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with light lean to spine, light bumping to spine ends, pages lightly toned and offset from images, in a Very Good dust jacket with toning and light edge wear, a water drop stain to the spine, wear... More about Madman's Drum
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. Limited edition, copy #224 of 299 [of a total edition of 309], signed by Lynd Ward. Publisher's black cloth binding with pictorial label to front cover and title label on spine, patterned end papers. Near Fine with light wear to cloth and... More about Madman's Drum
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by Lynd Ward on the half title page. Bound in publisher's decorated paper covered boards over black cloth spine, with paper title label on spine. Very Good with light toning and light rubbing at edges, light... More about Madman's Drum
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition, first printing. Near Fine or better, with light bruising to spine ends. Toning to pages. Offsetting from images onto adjacent pages and from black endsheets onto adjacent blanks. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear, and offsetting... More about Madman's Drum
New York: Random House, 1936. First edition. Copy #785 of a limited edition of 1250, signed by Lynd Ward. Very Good, with light rubbing to copper covers, browning to vellum spine and to endsheets at gutters and edges from binder's glue, previous owner bookplate to front paste down. In a.... More about Song Without Words
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. Presentation copy inscribed by E.B. White to "Bob and Boo with love Andy (writer of weird tales and funny sayings) N. Brooklin July 1970." Andy was the reclusive author's nickname from his days at Cornell; as per school tradition, following in the footsteps... More about The Trumpet of the Swan
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. (x), 234 pp. Blue cloth lettered in red. Fine in Very Good+ pice-clipped dust jacket, rubbed and little edge-worn, but bright and unfaded. A collection of juvenile aviation short stories by the mysterious American writer, whose hardboiled crime stories for Black Mask... More about Silver Wings
London: Sanctuary Publishing, 2004. First edition. Signed by Neil Young in black sharpie on front free endpaper. Underneath that by illustrator and dated 2004. Original green cloth with paper label to front board. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An illustrated novel by the rock legend. More about Greendale