Chicago: Obsidian Press, 1961. 1st. Original wrappers. 8vo. 40 pp. stiff yellow wrappers with brown lettering. Uneven darkening to covers; a near fine copy of the author's scarce first book. Number 2 in 'The New Frontier Series in American Literature.' George Harold "Hal" Bennett (1936 – 2004) also wrote under...
San Francisco: Printed for A.A. Brown by Taylor, Nash & Taylor, 1911. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition, Limited to 400 copies. 8vo. 8, [1] pp. Etched title page vignette; title page in black and red. Stiff tan wrappers housed in custom cloth folder. Previous owner bookplate else fine condition. Brief...
london: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition, First Issue, with all correct points. Small 8vo. 269, [1] + 2 pages of advertisements at both front and rear. Vignette illustrations on wood by Samuel Palmer. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contemporary owner...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 225 pp. White cloth with black lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (age toning; light wear to extremities; darkening to spine). The author's first novel "... is a raunchy, funny, swaggering, angry, cocksure book;...
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891-1908. Leather bound. The Riverside Edition, complete in 14 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards in 4 volumes. Dark Blue three-quarter morocco over blue cloth boards; gilt lettering to spines; marbled endpapers; TEG. Engraved previous owner bookplates in each volume else a....
New York: Random House, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 335 pp. Red quarter cloth spine over red paper covered boards in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. Red stain on top page edges water spotted;small erasure marks to ffep; minor wear to spine ends; else near fine in very good dustjacket...
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1971. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition of 500 copies. 4to. 86pp. Designed and printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. Illustrated with a matched pair of original leaves from A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, A.M. (1755), and An American Dictionary of the English Language...
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2011. First Edition Thus, Limited to 200 (of 222) copies. Hardcover. SIGNED by Barry Moser, Patrick McGrath and Aeron Alfrey. Introduction by Patrick McGrath. 15 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Cover artwork by James Bama and Basil Gogos; endpaper artwork by Aeron Alfrey. 15 pp color...
