Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific Press, 1935. First edition, first printing. Bound in original hand-painted tapa-cloth with titles in black on upper board. Very Good with boards lightly splayed, nick to spine near foot. Binding lightly shaken with some hinges slightly visible. Pages toned, with erased pencil scribble to front..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First edition. Copy number 438 of a limited 700 signed by Joe DiMaggio. Two volumes bound in full dark blue leather with spines stamped in gilt; in publisher's dark blue cloth slipcase with pinstriped embroidered Yankees logo onlay on front, and DiMaggio's number (five)..... More
[no place]: [none], 1953. 36pp. Coronation year edition. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with light creasing and toning. An early guide to surfing to coasts of England, with a list of beaches, cautions to bathers and warnings about spring tides. This was first published in 1934 as The..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1949. First edition. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. Offsetting to endpapers, light wear. Jacket chipped at extremities, largest of which are at tail and along bottom edge. Rubbed, stamp remnant on front panel. A book about the history of boxing by the founder..... More
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976. First edition. Signed by Donald Hall on the title page inside a drawing of a baseball, inscribed to former owner and dated 9/18/2005. 254 pp. w/ 16 pages of black and white photos. Publisher's cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with a little..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's second state binding with green cloth lettered in black, with no flags; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth faded, lightly foxed and lifting from boards near spine. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Light worming..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First edition. Signed by A.J. Liebling on the front free endpaper. [x], 306 pp. Publisher's black boards stamped in crimson with tan cloth backstrip lettered in black. Near Fine, former owner's bookplate on paste down, light wear and foxing, in an About Very Good..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First edition, first printing. Signed by Bernard Malamud and inscribed to previous owners, "For Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Glanner for a most pleasant hour / Cordially / Bernard Malamud." Bound in publisher's gray cloth-covered boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with..... More
Philadelphia: Auerbach, 1973. First edition. [xii], 237 pp. Gray cloth with purple spine lettering. Good+ with slight bowing to front board, former owner's bookplate on front free endpaper, which caused a little wrinkling to page, sharpie marker blot behind it with transfer to following page, book a bit musty. In..... More
Tokyo: Tokyo-News Co., 1958. 98 pp. First English-language edition, first printing; the first Japanese edition was 1957. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over red cloth spine with titles on upper board in gilt. Near Fine with light soiling and light wear. Publisher's import to front pastedown. In a Near..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992. Third printing. Signed by Harvey Penick and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's red cloth-backed boards with spine titled in gilt. Near Fine with corners bumped and abrasion to front free endpaper. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with shelf wear..... More