London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with a light shelf lean, light bruising at spine ends and light bumping to corners, small patch of wear to front paste down; in a Near Fine second state dust jacket with the rear panel blank, light rubbing and... More about The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with light bruising to spine ends, light soiling to end sheets and several dog eared pages. In a Very Good second state dust jacket with blank blue rear panel, a bit used with light rubbing, light edge wear and... More about The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1979. First edition, first printing. Very Good with light wear at corners and spine ends, soiling to front free endpaper, pages occasionally thumbed with several creased corners. In a Very Good first state dust jacket with the Capricorn One advert on the rear panel, sunning to... More about Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Douglas Adams on the half-title page. Near Fine with light rubbing to metallic title stamping on spine, small patch of fading to spine cloth. In a Near Fine dust jacket with publisher's price of $6.95 intact and light... More about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
London: Rex Collings, 1972. Signed. First edition, first printing. Warmly inscribed by the author "To dear Janet, with much love, Richard Adams, December 1974." Very Good, lean and reading crease to spine, bumping to foot, light rubbing to cloth at extremities, endpapers foxed, previous owner name (Janet Vernon Hall) to... More about Watership Down
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1949. First edition signed by Algren in black ink on the title page. Very Good+ in supplied unclipped first issue dust jacket. Name and date written on front flyleaf, small stain on bottom edge. Jacket presents well but front flap separated, a few small pieces... More about The Man with the Golden Arm
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American edition. Inscribed by Ambler to Norman Nolan on page facing title page at the Mystery Writers of America awards (Ambler won the Grand Master award) in New York, April 25, 1975. From the Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction. [xiv], 281, [1]... More about A Coffin for Dimitrios
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1939. First edition. 320pp. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Good+ condition, sans jacket. Cloth a bit stained with wear spot on back board, spine darkened, slight lean, previous owner's bookplate on paste down, small stain on fore edge, internally clean and fairly bright. The... More about The Mask of Dimitrios
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 about Danish Fairy Legends and Tales
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First hardcover edition, first printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket with price intact. Remainder stamp to bottom of page block. Light dings to top edge of several pages and boards. Light edge wear. Hinge at half-title page slightly over-opened. Dust jacket... More about Flowers in the Attic
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First hardcover edition, first printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket with price intact. Foxing to edge of page block, and publisher's remainder stamp at bottom edge. Dust jacket is a bit tired looking, with rubbing and light edge wear--nothing major, but... More about Flowers in the Attic
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First edition. Near fine in rare dust jacket. Light wear at edges, bumping to corners. Jacket verso has clear masking tape layer, slightly trimmed front flap, presents very well, though. No fading to spine panel, just a bit of light chipping and rubbing at... More about The Gangs of New York
New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First edition, wrappered issue. Though the publishing history is murky, this is assumed to be either an example from the publisher's short foray into paperback publishing, or an Armed Services edition. Very Good. Pages toned. Wraps lightly worn with a short tear and associated creasing... More about I, Robot
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1963. First edition. (xiv), 302 pp. with eight pages of photos. Original green and black cloth lettered in white. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($4.95), a little rubbed and worn at tips. A lovely copy of the baseball book that inspired the 1988... More about Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985. First edition. Signed by Atwood on half title. 324 pp. Original two-toned cloth with white spine lettering. Near Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn. A very nice signed copy of the uncommon Canadian first edition (preceding all others) of the Canadian author's... More about The Handmaid's Tale
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First edition. Inscribed to former owner on title page, "From Virgil Tibbs and John Ball." 184 pp. Original half cloth and boards, lettered in silver. Near Fine with a few finger smudges, in price-clipped dust jacket, easily Very Good+ with a lot less wear... More about In the Heat of the Night
New York: Harper & Row, 1965. First edition. 184 pp. Original half cloth and gray paper-covered boards, lettered in silver. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel. An uncommonly neat, unrubbed example of the dust jacket. The author's first book. Winner of the Edgar... More about In the Heat of the Night
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1973. First American edition. 224 p. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Jacket has small stain on front panel, small tear near top corner, else fine. Price intact ($6.95). An attractive copy. More about Crash
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First British edition, first printing. Very Good in a Good dust jacket with price intact. Front board lightly bowed. A few small spots of bleeding to front end paper. Water warping to just jacket, with wrinkling to laminate; ding to front panel near spine. Served as... More about Crash
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First American edition, first printing. Near Fine. A beautiful copy with elaborate gilt stamping still rather sharp and bright, spine cloth toned. Previous owner notation in pencil to front free endpaper, small stain to top edge of page block. A lovely copy of this... More about Peter and Wendy
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1930. First British edition. iv, 315 pp. Publisher's light blue cloth with navy lettering. Cloth very faintly stained, foxing to edges and prelims, still a clean, straight Very Good+ copy in very nice shape. Lacking the dust jacket. The basis of the 1932 film with a dynamite... More about Grand Hotel
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Peter Beagle with a doodle of a face inside the "P" of Peter, dated 30 March 1968 and inscribed "Hoo-aa!" Very Good, with sunning at edges, flaking to spine lettering, and small stain to edge of last several... More about The Last Unicorn
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good with long previous owner gift inscription to front free end paper, light lean to spine and title stamping on spine moderately chipped. In a Very Good dust jacket, rubbed and lightly edge worn, slightly faded at the spine;... More about The Last Unicorn
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page, and inscribed to a former owner. Fine, in a Very Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket, with a small bit of tape residue to the spine panel on the blank verso, and a.... More about The Last Unicorn
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