London: Rex Collings, 1972. First edition, first printing. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Light soiling, several faint spots and light wear to cloth; light, uneven toning at rear. Light reading crease to spine. Previous owner name to front free end paper. Map at rear intact. Searching for a new..... More
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
London: John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd., [1911]. First edition. Very Good with gift inscription on title page dated "Xmas '10," suggesting a 1910 publication date. 320 pp. Blue cloth with pictorial paper inlay, green, black and gilt stamping; plain edges. Pictorial frontispiece and color plate at p. 240, apparently..... More
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
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Very Good with light shelf lean, flaking to lettering on spine, wear at corners and light sunning to edges. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact, wear at the..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1920. First edition. [x], 428 pp. Original grayish green cloth with purple lettering. About Very Good with light wear, cracked hinges, textblock fallen. No jacket. The seventh Tarzan novel, featuring dastardly German villains. More
London: Constable & Company, 1917. First edition. Original cloth-back boards, paper spine label with red lettering. Near Fine with foxing to edges, a few reading smudges. A few pages unopened. A British Catholic poet's only published foray into fantastical fiction, often described as poetic, overwrought, and slightly reminiscent of Tolkien..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First edition in English, first printing. Publisher's white cloth stamped with floral pattern, repeated on edges and endsheets, title page printed in red and black. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and faded, spine creased and worn at the ends. Lean to binding. Front inner hinge exposed..... More
New York: Bantam Books, (1994). Signed by author on title page in black ink. [xiii], 529pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Book Club Edition. (Also first American hardcover edition, first printing following the paperback original and a British hardcover.) Fine in Fine dust jacket. The award-winning fantasy novel called..... More
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. First edition. Copy #309 0f 500 copies. Signed by author on preface in bold black ink and by illustrator on frontispiece. 322 pp. Original gilt-ruled half vellum and orange cloth with leather spine label lettered in gilt, gilt top stain, marbled endpapers. Very Good, lacking..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1941. First edition. Copy 566 of 998 numbered copies. xxx, (2), 350pp. Original cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with foxing to fore edge in About Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, a few stains near foot, slightly soiled, small tear..... More
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1983. First American edition. 396 pp. Original red cloth with blindstamped front and back, gilt spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine unclipped ($15.95) dust jacket with wear at head. An attractive copy. The basis of the 1984 film. More
New York: William Morrow, 2001. First edition, limited issue. One of 5000 unnumbered copies signed by Gaiman on page at front. [xii], 465 pp. Original navy and black boards, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with wrinkling to back panel, dampstaining to verso there as well..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition, first printing with BCDE on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine lettered in red and black. Previous owner name inked on front free endpaper, else Fine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine lettered in red and black. Price written in marker to front free endpaper, faint edge wear to cloth, else Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing, a light crease..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1957. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's first state binding, black cloth with titles in gilt lettered in European style on the spine. Near Fine or better, with faint rubbing to tips, thin stain to top of textblock edge, offsetting to endsheets from binder's glue..... More
New York: Gnome Press, 1953. First edition, first printing. Very Good, in a very good dust jacket with price intact. Light rubbing at edges. Light water drop to top edge of page block. Dust jacket shows rubbing and light edge wear, with a chip to the bottom edge of the..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First edition. (One of 3,004 copies. Joshi 17.) xxvi, 475, (1) pp. Original black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in unclipped ($5.00) about Very Good dust jacket, spine panel sunned, chipped along fore edge and at head, lightly soiled. Literary critic and sci-fi..... More
New York: Tor, 1990. Advance reading copy, published for reviewers before the first edition. xii. [iv], 670 pp. Stiff illustrated wraps. Near Fine with slight sunning to spine, slightly rubbed, corner crease to back cover. The first book in the popular Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels. More
[New York and Connecticut]: [ca. 1965-68]. A first-person archive of material from Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007), including poems, personal letters and a play. Mostly 8.5" x 11" sheets with various smaller paper sizes clipbound in black cloth university spring binder with title ("Poems by Madeleine L'Engle") typed on embossing tape labels..... More
New York: Ariel Books / Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. 211 pp. First edition, stated first printing. Good, with sunning to boards at edges, previous owner name to front free endpaper and tide mark to top edge of front paste down. Foxing to textblock edge and and small stray ink..... More
Berkeley, CA: Parnassus Press, 1968. First edition, first printing with faint vertical smudge on title page. Currey describes two bindings in the first edition with no established priority. Though this is not a former library copy, it conforms to Currey's library binding with embossed stamping to cloth, rectangular box on..... More
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original cinnamon cloth with spine titled in brown. Very Good with lean to spine. Cloth dust-soiled, stained at bottom fore edge corners, vintage bookseller ticket to rear paste down. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's pale grey cloth with spine lettered in silver. Very Good with light toning to pages, small vintage bookseller label to front pastedown, foxing to textblock edge and faint sunning to cloth. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with a...... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1939. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Staining from the remnants of clipping pasted to title page and associated offsetting to the adjacent pages, else Fine, with sharp gilt and bright, clean cloth. In a fantastic example..... More