New York: William Sloane Associates, 1948. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered stamped in gilt. About Near Fine, with rubbing to cloth at tips, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact, with light rubbing and edge wear. A nice copy. More about The Dispossessed
New York: New Directions, 1942. Signed by poet on front free endpaper. First edition, wrappered issue. 25, [3]pp. Plain wraps in blue dust jacket. Very close to Fine with very slight toning and a tiny stain to wraps, jacket unclipped. The American poet's first separate publication following his appearance in... More about Poems
New York: New Directions, 1940. First edition. Inscribed by John Berryman on front paste down to novelist Frederick Boyden, "so much skill, much faith - [signed] John Berryman[,] Boston 16 Dec 1941." 221 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket that is rubbed... More about Five Young American Poets
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1953. First edition. 250 p. One of 200 subscriber's copies neatly signed by author on front free end paper in black ink. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Bottom corner of back board chewed, otherwise in nice shape. Jacket has light rubbing and wear at tail, chip... More about The Demolished Man
New York: Feldman Gallery, 1979. Signed by Beuys on front free endpaper. First American edition. 141, (1) pp. Illustrated wraps. Near Fine with rubbed back wrap, light shelf wear. One of 1,000 copies. More about Aus Berlin: Neues vom Kojoten
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First edition. 233 pp. Green cloth with crimson lettering. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, spine darkened with some small tears and edge-chips. Best-known as the basis of Jules Dassin's film noir Thieves' Highway. Also a tightly-plotted proletarian novel that managed to... More about Thieves' Market
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First edition, first printing, first state with no frontispiece. Very Good. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, soiled and with rubbing to decorative stamping. Front and rear inner hinge cracked but binding remains solid. Pages toned, lightly soiled. A satirical dictionary which Bierce worked... More about The Cynic's Word Book [The Devil's Dictionary
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1899. First edition, first printing, first issue with 4 pp. of terminal ads starting with "By Anna Fuller." Very Good. Cloth a bit soiled, foxed, significantly darkened at spine, previous owner name and date to title page, pages show occasional but faint spotting. More about Fantastic Fables
London: Philip Allan and Company, 1934. First edition. Green cloth with black lettering. 243, (12) p. No dust jacket. About Good condition. Cloth spotted and worn, name written on back cover, spine sunned, "D.S." stamped on front free endpaper, "Specimen" written on title page. Part of the Creeps Library series... More about Powers of Darkness A Collection of Uneasy Tales
London: Philip Allan & Company, 1932. First edition. 248, (8) p. Tan cloth with black lettering. No jacket. Good+ condition. Spine darkened, slightly creased. Corners lightly bumped. Nice condition overall. Features nine horror stories from Tod Robbins, H.R. Wakefield, Elliott O'Donnell, Philip Murray, and Charles Lloyd. More about Creeps: A Collection of Uneasy Tales
New York: Workman Publishing, 1980. Later printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Very Good; softcover binding. Light edge wear and light creasing to covers. Foxing to edge of page block. Several hinges over-opened. Rare signed. More about The Official Preppy Handbook
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First edition, first printing. Near Fine, with bump to head, faint rubbing at tips and previous owner name on front free endpaper, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with fading to the spine and moderate toning to the edges. A very lovely copy. More about The Complete Poems
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Signed "Elizabeth Bishop - Poetry Forum - February 1st, 1978" on title page. First edition, first printing. (viii), 54 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine in an edge-chipped about Very Good dust jacket, a hint of restoration along verso top edge, spine... More about North & South
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with light sunning to cloth at top edge, light wear at corners and spine ends, small water spot to lavender top stain, and three words ("The New Yorker") underlined in ink on copyright page; in a Near... More about Questions of Travel
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First edition. Inscribed on title page "For Maggie Haford [?]- Best wishes, & kindness of Carly [?] - [signed] Elizabeth Bishop Seattle, January 1966." 95 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with red, silver and green spine lettering. Housed in a custom slipcase. A little... More about Questions of Travel
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965. First edition. 95 pp. Blue cloth with purple, silver and green spine lettering. Near Fine with gift inscription on front free endpaper, lettering a little rubbed, in price-clipped Near Fine dust jacket with crease to front flap, small laminate bubble to gutter of front panel. More about Questions of Travel
London: Chatto & Windus, 1967. First edition, first printing. Near Fine, with light foxing to top edge of page block and slight lean to spine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with price intact, toning to the spine panel, light wear at spine ends and corners, and light rubbing. A.... More about Selected Poems
New York: Crown Publishers, 2001. First edition. Signed by Edwin Black at a reading at Congregation Beth Israel, Portland, Oregon, April 23, 2001; inscribed to the former owner (whose tiny bookplate and phone number is written on front free endpaper) "Thank you for reading into the past" and dated. Flyer... More about IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful...
St. Paul, Minn. West Publishing Co., 1891. First edition. Very Good in original tan leather binding with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, blindstamped alphabet border and rule to boards. Previous owner name in gilt on leather label on spine. Scuffing to edges of red title label. Leather shows... More about A Dictionary of Law (Black's Law Dictionary
St. Paul, Minn. West Publishing Co., 1891. First edition. In publisher's tan leather binding with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, blindstamped alphabet and rule to boards. Very Good. Moderate wear and light staining to leather, with a patch of darkening at the base of the spine. Endsheets offset... More about A Dictionary of Law (Black's Law Dictionary
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Signed. First edition, fourth printing. Signed by the author on the front free end paper, inscribed "To my dear W.S.P. / from / John Jack Black / Los Angeles 6-16-26. Very Good. Gilt stamping on spine is sharp and bright. Light edge wear to... More about You Can't Win
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. First edition, first printing. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering; lacking the dust jacket. Good+, with reading creases to spine, light rubbing at spine ends and corners, small spots of discoloration to cloth. Boards dinged along the edges. Previous owner name and price... More about You Can't Win
London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and J. Butterworth and Son, 1825. Sixteenth edition. In four volumes. Leather, matching early rebacking with red and black labels on spines, lettered in gilt, dated at foot. Frontispiece portrait of author by Gainsborough in Vol. I, fold-out tables of Consanguinity and Descents in... More about Commentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First edition, American issue. [viii], 368, [7, ads] pp. Green pebbled cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light wear to head and foot, reading smudge to paste down, tiny date written in ink on front free endpaper, small corner crease to prelims, front... More about Incredible Adventures
Mountain Home, TN: Manuscript Press, 1989. First edition stated, first printing. Near Fine, lacking the dust jacket, perhaps as issued. Light shelf wear. Small tear to gutter at last page. An incredibly scarce title; one of a mere 500 copies originally printed, which posthumously concluded John Blaine's Rick Brant series. More about The Magic Talisman (A Rick Brant Science Adventure Series