London: Ernest Benn, 1925. Later printing. Octavo (9" x 6"); 192p. Plates, diagrams, and illustrations throughout. Addenda slip tipped-in at start of Chapter 1. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers edgeworn witih some bumping to corners and spine ends, with a small patch of discoloration on front center..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Octavo; 1056 pp. Dust jacket with original $3.00 price; book in bindstamped blue cloth gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has some rubbing and small chips on edges. All text legible. Front and back pastedowns are toned from age. Edges foxed. Front hinge starting..... More
Great Neck, NY: G. Alan Chidsey, November 9, 1940. Octavo (9.5” x 6.25”); [60pp]. Dark gray leather with stamped lettering. Covers a bit toned with any gilt or foil to lettering rubbed away. Spine a bit cocked. A handful of the pasted-in columns have let go from the pages, but..... More
Ann Arbor: Her-Self, Inc. June 1972. Newsprint periodical (11.5 x 8.5 inches); [16] pp. Black and white illustrations. Minor edgewear. Unfolds to tabloid format. Second-wave feminist newspaper featuring articles about contraception, women and credit cards, profiles of local women, ERA updates, and instructions for how to change a fuse. More
Greenwich, Conn.: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1923. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 120 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed with one-inch closed tear on back cover. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. The Dial was the first periodical to publish..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1980. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 191pp. Printed red and white dust jacket with original $9.95 rice; book in blindstamped black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Misbound with page block upside-down in the boards. Jacket lightly..... More
![As God Made Them: Portraits of Some Nineteenth-Century Americans [Signed]. Gamaliel Bradford](/pictures/thumb/6495.jpg?v=1593194690)
Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1929. First Edition. Signed by Bradford on front free endpaper with inscription "Sherwin Lawrence Cook [?], with the best wishes of Gamaliel Bradford, March 9, 1929. Published March 22." Octavo; [xiv], 294 pp. 8 plates including..... More
Flint: Bamberger Books, 1988. Stated Second Printing. Signed by the author with brief inscription on title page. Octavo (9" x 6"); 37p. Printed orange paper wraps. Covers lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, but are crisp and clean overall. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
![A Different Person: A Memoir [Signed]. James Merrill](/pictures/thumb/6326.jpg?v=1591202935)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author on full title with inscription "For Harold Herman with greetings from the author. 1993." Harold Herman and his partner Harold Mays were a gay, interracial couple who lived together in Washington, D.C. from 1965 until their deaths..... More
Unpublished autograph travel diary in three notebooks. February-August 1908. Each commercially-produced small octavo notebook (19cm x 12cm) of 190 pages, ruled paper, sewn gatherings, thin oxblood leather covers, rounded corners, all pageblock edges gilt. Covers and stitching now loosened; gatherings separating but all pages present. Leather covers flaking with edge..... More
Fourth Printing. Hardcover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Stated Fourth Printing. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription to collector/dealer Harold Mays on flyleaf. Octavo (8.5" x 6"); [vi], 485p. Printed dustjacket with $6.95 price; book in red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Jacket lightly edgeworn..... More
![Ensayo sobre un proletariado sin cabeza [Essay on a Proletariat without a Head]. Jose Revueltas](/pictures/thumb/5127.jpg?v=1562608509)
Mexico City: Editorial Logos, 1962. Signed by the author with inscription "Para Alvarez Barret, en recuerdo de nuestra militancia revolucionaria" ["For Alvarez Barret, in memory of our revolutionary militancy."]. Octavo; 261pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers foxed and toned with a number of small tears along fore-edge, creasing and..... More
Toronto: The Clark Co., Yonge Street, [1904]. Revised Twenty-Third Edition. Octavo; [xii] + 1487pp. Half bound in sea-green leather with raised bands on spine and gilt-stamped ornaments within spine compartments; title gilt-stamped on burgundy ground. Sea-green, gold, and tan marbling front and back, endpapers, and on all textblock edges... More
Irwin Touster. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. First Edition. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75"); x, 80p. Illustrated black dustjacket with original $2.50 price; book in red cloth with blue lettering. Jacket shows a few small chips and tears..... More
St. Paul: Graywolf, 1985. Stated First Printing. Signed by contributors Ralph Ellison -- with inscription "For Harold F. Mays, that admirable book-sleuth, with pleasure - Sincerely, Ralph Ellison" on title page -- and poet Charles Wright without inscription at start of his selection. Mays, along with his partner Harold J...... More
![Seeing Things [Signed]. Seamus Heaney](/pictures/thumb/6333.jpg?v=1591205372)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. Stated First American Edition. Signed by the author without inscription and dated January 1992 on front free endpaper. Octavo; 107 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $19.00 price intact; book in blindstamped black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near fine with only..... More
Hardcover. New York; Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. Stated First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); [xii], 238p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $24.00 price; book in blue paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge..... More
First Trade Edition. Hardcover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Stated First Trade Edition (preceded by a signed, limited Franklin Library edition), SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"); [x], 307p. Original dustjacket with $18.95 price; book in dark blue paper-covered boards with darker..... More
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1920. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 558 pp. Original pale pink/mauve printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed with cover toned. All in one piece, but detached from spine. Two small spots on upper right corner of cover, not affecting text..... More
Greenwich, Conn.: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1922. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 472 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Color frontispiece tipped in of Marc Chagall's "On Dit" (later known as "It Is Written" "The Rabbi" and "A Pinch of Snuff). Black and white illustrations throughout. Cover lightly..... More
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 378 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edge wear with some small closed tears. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Notable contributors in this issue include Paul Morand and Sherwood Anderson. More
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1922. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 696 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed with small spot on cover where rust from the staple binding has left a mark. Spine rubbed with some text affected. Pages clean..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First Edition, First Printing (3047 copies printed). Octavo (7.5" x 5.25"); [ii], 349p. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with yellow lettering. Dark blue endpapers with stylized white flower design. Missing dustjacket. Covers bumped at corners and spine ends with a small dampstain to cloth along..... More