[np]: [No Publisher], 1977. Six loose 20 3/4" x 16" black-and-white prints housed in a mustard yellow portfolio with the artist's name on the front wrap. A little scuffing and slight wear to the portfolio, bright prints in Fine condition. A collection of pencil drawings reminiscent of the illustrations of..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Advance Uncorrected Proof. In Good+ condition, with signs of age and light use. Previous owner name in red ink on title page, and mark on first page. Toning and leaning to spine. Wraps show wear, with edge wear, toning, wear at corners with a short tear..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. First edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Cloth shows small white stain to cover, fading at spine and top edge of rear board. Spine lettering dulled. Light lean to spine. Foxing to pages, mostly at prelims, terminals and edge of page block. First..... More
London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. First British edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Boards lightly bowed. Several small dents to rear board. Title stamping on spine rubbed and barely legible. Previous owner name to front free end paper. Pages show several reading creases, and foxing to pages including..... More
Berkeley, CA: Quinto Sol Publications, Inc., 1972. First edition, first printing. Signed by Rudolfo A. Anaya on the title page. Bound in publisher's original cloth with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with light wear to cloth, former owner name to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine second state..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1847. First British edition. Bound in publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind and stamped in gilt. Spine faded, corners bumped, cloth lightly rubbed. Previous owner details to front free end paper. Plates browned and foxed; sporadic light foxing to pages. All plates are present, though the..... More
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1935. First edition. Unpaginated. Publisher's red cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket, chipped at extremities, spine-sunned, a little rubbed, unclipped ($1.95). A long-running comic strip (1932-2018) of a boy who communicates mainly via pantomime, created when Anderson was 67 years old..... More
Palo Alto, CA: Midpeninsula Observer, 1967. Stop the Draft Week Portfolio Photo Collection. Small folio. Original printed paper wrapper with inner sleeves holding a loose suite of twenty photographs, including three double-page, documenting protestors and police clashing at the "Stop the Draft Week" protests in Oakland on October 16-20, 1967..... More
New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1935. First edition. viii, 275 pp. Original cloth tan stamped in crimson. Very Good+ with foxing to cloth at spine and edges, former owner's name on front free endpaper, one gathering of pages is a little proud. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1930. Haycraft Queen. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red and metallic. Very Good. Boards are curved, cloth lightly mottled and lightly frayed at top of spine, small bookseller label to front pastedown, pages toned. In a Very..... More
London: William Pickering, 1846. First edition in English. (iv), 197 pp. Late 19th Century three quarter leather over marbled paper, spine lettered in gilt. A Good or better copy with edges well-rubbed and cloth and leather mostly rubbed off or chipped there. Lacking front free endpaper. Last signature of pages..... More
Hebburn: Deviation Street, 1977. Rare complete run of the British punk 'zine. Nos. 1-3. All have 16 pp. Stapled wraps. Very Good+, generally bright and clean with a little age-toning, small stain and price sticker to front cover of No. 1; ad cut out of No. 2. Nice shape overall..... More
Philadelphia: John McGill White & Co., 1897. First edition. 263 pp. with photo frontis. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with a few small areas of biopredation to cloth, spine faintly sunned, edges faintly foxed and a little stained. The author was an important African American..... More
New York: Pocket Books. Advance preview edition. Publisher's printed grey wraps. Very Good with light wear to wraps. Minor production errors, and light waviness throughout. A fresh and bright preview copy of the author's first novel, scarce in this format, though preceded first by the scarce paperback original. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First American edition. 314 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with slight crease to spine, wear at tips, tape stains on front free endpaper (possibly a review copy), small stain on fore edge, in Very Good+ dust jacket..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition, first printing, first issue. [vi], 281, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt with publisher's imprint in metallic red; with red topstain. Slight lean, tiny smudge on page facing title page, else Fine in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition, first printing. First issue with red topstain. Signed by Maya Angelou and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in gilt and metallic red. Near Fine with light foxing to textblock edge, browning..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition, first printing, first issue. [vi], 281, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt with publisher's imprint in metallic red; with red topstain. Very Good with former owner's inkless emboss to front free endpaper, small dampstain to top edge at prelims,small..... More
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Paris: J.J. Pauvert, 1959. First edition of Hollywood Babylon in the original French language, printed in Paris six years before the American edition. Signed by Kenneth Anger and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original plain brown wraps with photo-illustrated dust jacket, profusely photo-illustrated..... More
Los Angeles: Creative Film Associates, 1947. Rare program notes for a 1947 showing of Das Cabinet Der Dr. Caligari by Kenneth Anger and his group Creative Film Associates. 3 pp. printed on rectos only. 8.5" x 13.25", folded horizontally. A few small tears at left edge by staple, sheets slightly..... More
Portland, OR: Np, [1942]. Original 10 3/4" x 14" poster printed in orange and black on cardboard with a racist caricature of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo stabbing a salmon. Text reads in its entirety: "The Japs are killing Alaska's fish industry / vote 311 X no against this infamous..... More
np: No Publisher, 1910. 38 pp. Ruled untitled notebook with mounted illustrations on both recto and verso throughout, all with accompanying captions in manuscript. Very Good. A collection of clipped illustrations from magazines, mostly fashion-oriented, mounted in a notebook with handwritten captions, probably created ca. 1910. The illustrated notebook proceeds..... More
[No Place]: [No Publisher], [1970]. 4.25" x 5.5", single-sided handbill flyer. Good, horizontally creased, missing triangular chips at corners, wrinkled, toned. No other copies located in commerce or in institutional collections such as University of Washington's Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection. A scarce piece of propaganda from the American anti-Vietnam..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1874. First edition. 39 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with slightly soiled and scuffed wraps, faint corner crease to front wrap, a few small reading smudges. Rare in commerce. The anonymously-written autopsy report of the famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker..... More
London and New York: H. Bailliere, 1856. First edition. iv, 208 pp. Bound in publisher's elaborately blind stamped dark cloth with gilt spine lettering, yellow endpapers. Very Good+ with slightly sunned spine, slight wave to text, a little foxing to contents, former owner's bookplate on paste down. Nice shape overall..... More