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The Witches
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. Reprint. Signed by Roald Dahl and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear to corners and spine ends, light foxing, light offsetting from Dahl's signature..... More
The Witches
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First American edition. Number 24 of a limited 300 copies signed by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake. Bound in original blue cloth boards stamped in metallic red. Near Fine or better with lightly bumped corner in a Near Fine original yellow slipcase with light..... More
The Witches
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First American edition. Number 174 of a limited 300 copies signed by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake. Bound in original blue cloth boards stamped in metallic red. Fine in a Near Fine lightly soiled slipcase. A fantastic copy. More
The BFG
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. Deluxe limited first American edition, number 20 of 300 copies, signed by the Roald Dahl and illustrator Quentin Blake. Bound in publuisher's original red cloth stamped in gilt, housed in grey cloth-covered slipcase. Near Fine with a bump to one corner of the..... More
Hidden Faces
London: Peter Owens, 1973. First English edition. One of a limited 100 copies signed by Salvador Dali; this copy is unnumbered and out of series. Publisher's gilt stamped vellum and marbled paper covered boards. Near Fine, in Near Fine slipcase, lacking 20-page Postface booklet. Slight yellowing to vellum and light..... More
Ahad 'asher kaukaban (Eleven Planets)
[Los Angeles?]: Al Jadid, 1992. First edition. Signed by Mahmoud Darwish on the front free endpaper in blue ink. Bound in publisher's wraps with red belly band that is loose on back wrap. In the original Arabic. Very Good+ with light bumping along top edge, slight crease to front wrap..... More
Be Here Now
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation, 1971. First book edition, first printing. Signed by Ram Dass and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original purple and white printed wraps; with no ISBN, no subsequent printing mentioned, $3.33 price at base of spine and Lama Foundation..... More
Be Here Now
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation, 1971. First book edition, first printing. Signed by Ram Dass and inscribed to a former owner on the front endsheet and inscribed to a former owner, "Don - in the book written by nobody + owned by nobody we meet to know God". Bound in..... More
French Provincial Cooking
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth David and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in red. Very Good with light wear and light fading to cloth, light stainign to textblock edge, former owner notes to..... More
Los Angeles, 1976
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2014. First edition. Signed by Bevan Davies on a slip visible through a window in the rear board; an unnumbered copy issued alongside a run of 350. Bound in silk with white lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket, housed in Fine publisher's silk slipcase with a...... More
Young Emma
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Signed by C.V. Wedgewood, the author of the foreword, on the title page, inscribed to a former owner. 160 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with light rubbing and shelf wear. Uncommon in the advance format. A posthumously-published autobiographical..... More
An Autobiography
New York: Random House, 1974. First edition, first printing. Signed by Angela Davis on the title page, and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering.Very Good with tape stains to boards, stain and residue to front endsheet, binding pulled with some tenderness to..... More
Sketches for a Life of Wassilly
Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1981. First edition review copy signed by Lydia Davis on the title page. Unpaginated. Wraps. Fine. Review slip laid in. An uncommon early book by the American writer. More
The Selfish Gene
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Reprint of the thirtieth anniversary edition. Signed by Richard Dawkins on the title page. Fine, in Near Fine dust jacket with minor edge wear. A lovely copy. More
The Selfish Gene
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. First American edition. Signed by Richard Dawkins and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light soiling to rear cover and former owner name to front free..... More
Loaves and Fishes
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. First edition. Signed by Dorothy Day on the front free endpaper in blue ink, inscribed, "St. Benedict's Day '64 / For Lois - with love - Dorothy Day." viii, 216 pp. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with small..... More
Debs and the Poets
Pasadena: Upton Sinclair, 1920. First edition, copy #20 of a limited issue of 500 copies signed by Eugene Debs on limitation mounted on rear paste down. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with oxidation to gilt stamping with some rubbing to lettering on the spine, slight lean to binding..... More
Haschish: Étude historique, chimique et physiologique. Thèse de pharmacie de Paris.
Paris: D’Edouard Bautruche, 1848. First edition. The author's own copy, signed and inscribed by him to Monsieur Regnate on the title page with his numerous holograph corrections and annotations throughout. 56 pp. Bound in contemporary wrappers; housed in folding cloth chemise and slipcase with title labels. Text in French. Very..... More
Nova
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Samuel R. Delaney on the title page with "Seattle '81". Bound in publisher's black cloth boards over pink spine lettered in gilt and blocked in black. Near Fine or better with light tape ghosts to rear..... More
White Noise
New York: Elizabeth Sifton Books / Viking Penguin Inc., 1985. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Near Fine with light toning, remainder marks to bottom textblock edge and several page corners creased. Price-sticker removal evidence to front pastedown..... More
White Noise
New York: Elizabeth Sifton Books / Viking Penguin Inc., 1985. First edition. Signed by Don DeLillo on the title page. [x], 326 pp. Bound in publisher's gray boards with white cloth backstrip lettered in silver. Near Fine with subtle toning to top edge of cloth, in Near Fine dust jacket..... More
Hunting Trips in the Caucasus
London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Demidoff to former owner "with kindest regards from the author" the half title. xvi, 319, [1] +4 four ad pp; fold-out map in pouch on rear paste down. Very Good, cloth lightly worn and soiled with sunned and slightly scratched..... More
Three Problems for Solar Pons
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1952. First edition, first printing. Signed by August Derleth on the front free end paper and inscribed to a previous owner. Musty odor to pages and jacket, else Near Fine with light toning to pages. In Near Fine un-clipped jacket, with a hint of rubbing..... More
Freedom and Culture
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Dewey on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's red cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with thin strip of fading to cloth at top of spine, offsetting to endsheets from a...... More