[np]: [No Publisher], 1977. Original cartoon by the prolific Spanish-born illustrator famous for his Mad magazine marginals and comic Groo. Approx. 9" x 12" on a sheet of slightly yellowed sketch-pad paper, in black sharpie, showing what is likely a caricature of the former owner as a fat bear in..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1927. First edition, first printing. viii, 263 pp. Bound in publisher's bright green pictorial cloth stamped in canary yellow and dark blue.Very Good+ rubbing to pictorial element and slight darkening at spine, light rubbing to extremities, and faint soiling to cloth. Offsetting and a...... More
New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1906. First edition, first printing, issue with no frontispiece, leaves on spine stem down. BAL's State A with no printer's imprint on copyright page, no priority. Association copy signed by Ambrose Bierce in pencil and inscribed to his friend DeLancey Gill: "with the author's..... More
New York: [Self-published], 1962. First edition, second issue with four-letter words struck out. Fears of this San Francisco concert promo booklet harming him in his obscenity trial led comedian Lenny Bruce to have copies destroyed, most that weren't (like this one) had certain four-letter struck out to render them innocuous..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958. First edition. Signed by Art Buchwald on front free endpaper, inscribed to Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records, dated Feb. 1960. [viii], 211, 3] pp. Bound in publisher's clot, stamped in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, ink transfer from signature to..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First American edition, first printing. vi, 394 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with red and gilt lettering to spine, mustard yellow topstain and endpapers. Near Fine with very light rubbing and fading to head and tail of spine and small abrasion to half-title..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1832. First American edition. vi, 195, (36, ads); iv, 202 pp. Two Volumes. Original cloth and paper-covered boards with paper spine labels. Good+ copies with chipped and well-worn labels (still legible), boards stained and edge-worn, moderate to heavy foxing throughout contents. Textblock of Vol. 1 split..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition, first printing. Signed by George Burns and Gracie Allen on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a previous owner. xiii, 267, [2] pp. plus 16 pages black and white photo illustrations. Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards over blue spine cloth..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, [1884]. Early American edition. (One of 14 English language editions identified by George Monteiro in his review of the book in Luso-Brazilian Review; perhaps the third American edition reprinting the British first edition, which was also the first English language edition.) [vi], xvi, 60..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First edition. 247 p. Brown cloth with black lettering. Frontispiece and endpapers illustrated by Tony Sarg. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Spine panel toned, wear at head and tail of jacket. Twainesque humorist Irvin Cobb's account of his move from the city..... More
London: John & Horace Cowley, 1897. First edition. All four issues of the short-lived periodical in their rare original wraps. vi, 64; vi, 65-138, [2]; vi, 139-208, [6]; [iv], 209-280, [6] pp. Printed in red and black on laid paper, author portrait laid in to first three volumes. Bound in..... More
Paris: Futuropolis, 1986. First edition, #908 of a limited 1000 copies, signed by R. Crumb on the half title page, inscribed "To Michael Dusek from R. Crumb Sauve, Oct., 1995. I'll see you in hell, bubby!!!" Bound in publisher's black morroco leather stamped in silver on the upper board with..... More
London: Grey Walls, 1948. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Charles G. Finney on the half title, inscribed to "Lester Koening - with the regards of the author Charles G. Finney / Tucson, May 18, 1949." Koening, the inscribee was an American screenwriter, film producer, and founder of the..... More
London: William Pickering, 1837. First edition. [iv], 52pp. Finely bound by Riviere in half red morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, ruled in gilt, spine decorated in gilt, t.e.g., front wrap bound-in. Very Good overall, rubbed, with tidemark near foot continuing throughout bottom margins, slight warp to boards at foot..... More
New York: Lee Boudreaux Books, 2017. First edition, first printing. Signed by Andrew Sean Greer on title page. Very Good with small stain to bottom corner, really only visible on fore edge, faint associated wrinkling. In a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped with slight crimping at head. An uncommon signed..... More
New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1930. First English language edition. (First printing with statement of "First edition" on copyright page; most copies purporting to be firsts lack this.) [x], 448, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with brown stamping. Near Fine with slight soiling to cloth, hint of..... More
New York: Punk Publications, 1975-2007. Complete in 15 issues total, numbered 1-17 (issues 9 and 13 were never printed), plus the D.O.A. Filmbook and a double-sided flyer for the film's release, 1979 wall calendar, issues #0, #20, and #21 of the relaunched Punk magazine, and issue #8 of founder John..... More
Bristol; London: J. W. Arrowsmith; Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1889. First edition, third state. [vi], 315, [3] pp. with three advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and black on front boards, advertisements printed on pastedowns. Very Good with slant to spine, light..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890. First American edition, unstated early printing with plain (rather than floral patterned) endpapers as per The Jerome K. Jerome Society's online bibliography. Signed by Jerome K. Jerome on the front free endpaper and inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. F. Wright Neuman "in pleasant..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1966. First edition, first printing. Association copy signed by John Keel on the front wrap interior and inscribed: "To Jim Moseley -- and all of his friends in the C.I.A." 160 pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with light wear and soiling to..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition, first printing. Signed by Walt Kelly in blue pencil on front free endpaper, warmly inscribed with an original cartoon to former owner, late North Carolina journalist and author Roy Wilder (a good friend of Up in the Old Hotel author Joseph Mitchell)..... More
New York: Random House, 1981. First edition, first printing. Signed by Fran Lebowitz on the title page. [x], 147 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth and red boards, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, crease to back panel. A signed copy of..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1922. First edition, first printing with first state issue text "Purdy" on page 49. Signed by Sinclair Lewis on the front free endpaper. 401, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped and blocked in bright orange. Near Fine with small tear to crown..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with orange paper labels to front and spine. Fine, small scuff to front label; a very sharp and clean copy in a Fine second issue dust jacket (publisher merged with George H. Doran..... More
Tokyo and San Francisco: Japan Publications, Inc., 1974. First edition, first printing of Japanese American cartoonist Jack Matsuoka's graphic memoir of his childhood internment in Arizona. Signed by the author on the first leaf, inscribed to a previous owner with date 7/25/74, accompanied by a sketched profile. xiv, 191 pp..... More