Mama Black Widow
Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1969. First edition. 312, [8] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with single crease to spine,a few stains to edges, pages toned with age, nice shape overall. More
Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1969. First edition. 312, [8] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with single crease to spine,a few stains to edges, pages toned with age, nice shape overall. More
New York: Modern Age Books, 1940. First edition. [viii], 252 pp. Publisher's flecked tan cloth stamped in black and crimson. A Very Good copy, offsetting to gutters, small stain to fore edge, lacking the original dust jacket. The first English-language book written by a Japanese woman, a memoir of her..... More
Stockholm: [No Publisher], 1911. Two 9.5" x 11.75" notebooks, apparently fragments of a larger autobiographical project or series of projects, with holograph entries and illustrations, some materials pasted on from magazines, sheet music, and newspapers. Titles handwritten in ink on front covers. Over five hundred pages of manuscript and illustrations..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. xi, 236 pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with tear and chip at head, price-clipped, lightly edge-worn. A biography of the Greek philosopher/soldier, uncommon in jacket. More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1970. First edition. [xvi], 330 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in silver. Top edge foxed, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unfaded and unclipped, lightly shelfworn. The prison letters of a famous African American '60s radical figure. More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953. First edition. (Stated "First Printing, 1953" on copyright page.) [viii], 241pp. Bound in publisher's pink cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with light wear at edges, offset to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning to spine..... More
London: W. Tweedie, 1862. First British edition, first printing of the scarce feminist narrative of escape from slavery, and the first published slave narrative by a woman. 306 pp. In a recent half faux-leather over marbled boards, new endpapers. Very Good+. Former owner bookplate and penciled "[Linda M. Brent]" to..... More
Boston: Published for the Author [by Thayer & Eldridge], 1861. First edition. 306 pp. Bound in recent three-quarters leather over marbled boards. Very Good, page 96/97 lacking and provided in facsimile, several leaves either remargined or repaired at the gutter. Soiling, staining, creases and wear to contents throughout, contemporary former..... More
London: Philip Allan, 1937. First edition. [xvi], 252, [4, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with slightly mottled cloth, rubbed spine lettering, top edge a little soiled, name and bookplate on paste down. An uncommon memoir of West Indian cricketer (later politician) Learie..... More
London: Williams & Norgate, Ltd., 1926. First edition. xiv, 272 pp. with photo frontispiece. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with heavily foxed edges but otherwise in nice shape. In rare dust jacket, Very Good, definitely toned, worn and a little chipped at head and tail..... More
Napa City: C.H. Allen and R.E. Wood, 1864. First edition. 56 pp. Woodcut frontispiece and one illustrated plate. Original tan printed wraps. Tiny tear at foot of wrappers, and faint corner crease to outer corner of front wrap with tiny closed tear, else Fine. A very bright copy that looks..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1940. First edition, signed limited issue. Copy #41 of a limited 520 copies, signed by Osa Johnson and inscribed with "Best African Wishes." Bound in publisher's marble-affect cloth over red cloth spine, decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. Near Fine. Spine shows white soiling, light..... More
New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, Publishers, 1868. First edition, first printing. 371, [1], [8, ads] pp. Publisher's brown cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, some reinforcement to tips, blue endpapers with old Lockwood, NY bookseller's ticket on paste down. About Very Good overall with bottom corner of front..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First edition, first printing. Signed by Orville Wright and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine titles lettered in white. Near Fine with toning to paged and a short closed tear at the..... More
Cambridge, MA: [Privately Printed] University Press, 1945. First edition. First issue with wings printed in red on the title page. Bound in original maroon cloth lettered in gilt with tittle blocked in black on the front cover; lacking the unprinted glassine wrap. Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth at..... More
Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1945. First edition, second issue with title page printed only in black. This issue was printed for Robert Kennedy with most copies personally distributed by him. [xii], 75, [1] pp. Fine, in the fragile unprinted dust jacket, small closed tear to front panel, a little creasing..... More
Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1945. First edition. Second issue with title page printed only in black; this issue was printed for Robert Kennedy with most copies personally distributed by him. This copy has an interesting Kennedy family association, being Peter Lawford's copy. He was the brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1990. First edition. A uniquely decorated copy, fully marbled in purple, blue, yellow, and green by Kesey on covers as well as edges. Painted signature of Kesey on front free endpaper. According his son Zane, Ken began experimenting with marbling techniques in 1964 while traveling..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First edition. A uniquely decorated copy, fully marbled in white, red, yellow, and green by Kesey on covers as well as edges. Painted inscription "For Keith / Ken Kesey" on front free endpaper. According his son Zane, Ken began experimenting with marbling techniques in..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Coretta Scott King, inscribed to previous owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original cream cloth stamped in gilt with spine titles blocked in black. Near Fine with light toning and foxing to cloth..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976. First edition. [xii], 208 pp. Original black cloth with silver lettering. Very Good with a little foxing to slick black cloth, foxing and a little staining to fore edge, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with slight foxing and two clear pieces of tape..... More
New York: Lyons and Burford, 1990. First edition. 186 p. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An unread copy. Contemporary (early '90s) bookstore sticker on back panel, easily removable. A truly excellent copy of the Into Thin Air and Into the Wild author's first book. More
Paris: Librairie de Paulin, 1843. First edition. Signed by Claude Francois Lallemand on the title page, inscribed with a flourish on his signature that zig-zags across the word "Hachych," which alludes to the closing lines of the novel: “Il n’existe, d’ailleurs, d’autre trace de signature qu’un énorme zigzag allant jusqu’au..... More
Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 2000. First edition, limited issue. Signed by Jacob Lawrence on page at front of Catalogue Raisonne, unnumbered copy in stated limitation of 250 copies. Two clothbound volumes, housed in publisher's black slipcase. Fine in Fine dust jackets, light shelf wear to slipcase. A...... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First American trade edition. xvi, [4], 335 pp. Plates, and a folding map at rear. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with sturdy, straight binding, rear map creased. About Very Good plain variant jacket showing moderate wear and edge-rubbing, darkened..... More