London: Werner Laurie, 1956. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 233 pp. Full-page INSCRIPTION by the author. Blue cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; small chip to upper rear cover; slight age toning). "...tells in a quiet and moving way of the effect..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 478pp. SIGNED by the author on title page. Pumpkin cloth, map endpapers in color printed dustjacket. Near fine invery good dustjacket (price-clipped; small triangle chip to upper rear edge; minor wear to extremities; front flap partially separated; darkening to spine)..... More
New York: Random House, 1948. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 336pp. SIGNED on half-title. Red cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities, moreso to spine ends with small loss of paper; small triangle chip with crease to upper rear edge). Originally conceived as a...... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1933. Reprint. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by the author; additionally, a TLS tipped in. 8vo. (119) -170 pp. Index. 413 items listed. Bound in leather in Madrid, with original gray wrappers bound in; gilt lettering to leather spine label; patterned endpapers. A near fine copy (ex-libris with..... More
London: John Cassell, 1852. First British Edition with George Cruikshank illustrations in book form. 8vo. [i-v] vi-xxiii [xxiv] [1] 2-391 [392] pp. 29 black & white wood engravings (including frontispiece and title page with black & white wood engraving captioned "Eva and Topsy") by George Cruikshank. Also includes an extra..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1922. First Edition. 8vo. 309pp. Illustrated by F. Luis Mora, brother of Jo Mora. Original red cloth with black lettering. Slight spine fading; ink mark upper page edge else near fine. Considered to be Stribling's first serious novel; provides a serious social critique of not..... More
Berkeley: Shambala Publications, Inc., 1973. First English Edition. INSCRIBED on half title "Henry Miller, my friend,/giving you this book/is one of the happy/days of my life/C.S./Pac. Pal. 16 May 73". Octavo; 116pp; Translation of Le vrai mystère de la passion de Judas./ Includes bibliographical references. Very Good copy in publisher's..... More
Seoul: CAU Press, 2013. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; xxiv, 417pp; xxv, 466pp. Near Fine copies - appear unread. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. 524 pp. Jacket design by Chip Kidd and Barbara De Wilde. Illustrated boards in publisher's printed acetate dustjacket. A near fine copy (light rubbing to dustjacket). The author's first novel, set in New England, tells the story of a closely knit..... More
Chicago: The Riley and Britton Company, 1912. 1st. Original wrappers. First Edition. INSCRIBED "For Leroy Truman Goble/with the usual/good wishes/Bert Leston Taylor/May, 1912." Small 8vo. 93 unnumbered pages. Illustrations by C.B. Falls. Stiff green wrappers with yapp edges; gilt lettering & dark green illustration of a tree branch extending over..... More
San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. First Edition. 8vo. [32] pp. Red and black Art Nouveau frontispiece, title page and borders. Publisher's wrappers with red, green, black & gilt decoration and lettering. Minor wear; a near fine and lovely copy of an uncommon volume of poetry by..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 544pp. Bibliogrpahy. Tan cloth, map endpapers in color printed dustjacket by William Barss. A near fine copy in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities; small chips; short closed tears). 1959 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction. The story of a teen-age boy and his..... More
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, ca. 1912. Westminister Edition, Limited #74 of 1000 sets. Complete in 30 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Illustrated plates with tissue guards throughout. Beautifully bound in three-quarter blue morocco with elaborate gilt decoration to spines; 4 raised bands; a red flower at the center of each..... More
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. Deluxe Edition Limited to 350 copies of which this is Number 164 SIGNED by Baumer. SIGNED by Baumer on the colophon. 4to. 483 pp. (many pages uncut). 20 tipped in color plates with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's full vellum binding with gilt illustration & lettering..... More
[Los Angeles?]. 'Dr. Geisel' Place Card; verso is SIGNED 'T.S. Geisel' below which he has printed his address in La Jolla. Elegant 2 1/4" x 3 3/4" beveled card stock, embossed with the Presidential seal; bearing two old staples, else in fine condition. On September 3, 1970 President Richard Nixon hosted a state..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. 1st. Softcover. Octavo. 374pp. Color printed wraps in near fine condition (very minor wear to extremities; crease line down spine; faint crease to front cover edge). Basis for the film of the same name starring Harrison Ford & Helen Mirren and directed by Peter Weir. More
Hollywood: The Cloister Press, 1933. 2nd. Original cloth. Second printing. Small 8vo. [60] pp. Dark blue cloth with silver lettering Owner name; light wear to extremities; light offsetting inside front cover from several typed poems & news articles laid in; a near fine copy. Tillson was a Lieutenant of Company..... More
Abilene, Texas: Designed, printed and bound at the Arion Press for the Four-O-Imprint Press, 1995. Limited Edition of 250 Copies. SIGNED by Tom Lea. 4to. 245 pp. With typed letter, signed, from printer Andrew Hoyem laid in explaining the edition.The illustrations by Lea were printed from photopolymer plates. The type..... More
Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith, 1948. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Lengthy INSCRIPTION by the author in year of publication. 8vo. 285 pp. Tan cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (light fading to spine; small chip to lower rear edge; light, general wear; brief ink notation on rear cover)..... More
Tokyo, Japan: Syonen Syasin Sinbun Sya, 1963. First Edition. Gift inscription from Henry Miller with his Pacific Palisades, CA address and in his hand "Happy reading! Uri - I think this is great stuff, for kids or grownups, don't you? HM." Small 4to. 31, [1] pp. Text in Japanese and..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1877. First Edition. Small 8vo. With half-titles. bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red leather with gilt decoration to spines; black leather spine labels with gilt lettering; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; AEG. Two abrasions to rear board of Volume I else a fine set. Set in the..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, ca. 1888. Early reprint. Hardcover. 12mo. 248 pp. Dated "January, 1888" inside front cover advertisement. Mustard cloth with black decoration and black & gilt lettering to covers & spine; publisher's advertising to endpapers. A near fine copy (light wear to extremities; light bumping to..... More
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1942. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 288 pp. Orange cloth with black lettering. A very good copy (owner name; light wear to extremities, more so to spine ends; slight fading to spine; light soiling), still a nice copy of the uncommon first edition of this classic work..... More
Np: Privately Printed, 1920. Limited edition #45 of 110 hand-numbered copies. Softcover. 8vo. [15]pp. Brown wrappers with dark brown lettering on front cover. Paper watermarked "Bay Path Book" (a Strathmore Paper Co. specimen). "...an imaginary record of conversation and court manners of a bygone day, written in the phrase of..... More
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 631pp + [1]pp pubisher's advertisement. State B of portrait frontispiece; 2nd state of regular frontispiece; and state B of sheets. Double frontispiece portrait of Twain & Titian's Moses with tissue guard. Plates; in-text illustrations. Publisher's sheep with black leather title label to..... More