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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 320 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact. Beige boards stamped in green. Dust jacket worn along rear joint with a touch of bumping to corners. Boards show patches of light staining, top corners bumped, and slight lean to..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1931. First Edition. SIGNED by editor Charles Brockway Hale to Dr. H.C. Byrd, former president of the University of Maryland, on verso of front free endpaper. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"); xi, 476p. Textured black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Covers lightly edgeworn at corners..... More
![The Last Battle [Signed]. Cornelius Ryan](/pictures/thumb/8352.jpeg?v=1612381810)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. Stated First Printing. Signed by Ryan with inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 571 pages. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Map endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket is toned with chipping along edges, most significantly with a 3/4"..... More
![The Dial, March 1923, Volume LXXIV, Number 3 [containing "Taos" by Lawrence]. D. H. Lawrence,...](/pictures/thumb/7171.jpg?v=1599930943)
Greenwich, Conn.: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1923. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 328 pp. Original pale mauve printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout, with one full-color leaf of advertisements (one for Colgate and the other for Underwood Portable Typewriters) in the front portion. Cover edge worn with..... More
London: Martin Secker, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 246 pages. Printed dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped along edges with general rubbing and heavy toning at spine. Boards are lightly worn around edges, slight lean to spine, and binding is sound. Pages a bit..... More
First Paperback Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Signed by the author on full title. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly shelfworn with some outward curving at fore-edge, along with a few smudges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
![Israel With Love [Inscribed to William Safire]. Dorothy Rice](/pictures/thumb/6600.jpeg?v=1597263852)
Beverly Hills, CA: Glen House Communications, 1992. First Edition. Signed by Rice to William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription, "To William Safire with love Dorothy Rice." Quarto. 144 pages. Full color illustrations and photographs. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust..... More
Verona: Stamperia Valdonega, 1985. Limited Edition of 460, the first 100 of which were held "hors commerce," this being #42. Square octavo. 54 p. + 12 pages black and white photographs. Grey boards stamped in light grey. Flimsy light grey cardboard slipcase. Boards show very light shelfwear. Binding..... More
![Any Woman's Blues: A Novel of Obsession [Signed to William Safire]. Erica Jong](/pictures/thumb/5526.jpg?v=1570473974)
New York: Harper & Row, 1990. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on full title to journalist William Safire with inscription "For Bill Safire -- Who often makes me wish I'd said that! Warmly, Erica Jong, 12 March '90." Additional signed handwritten note on Jong's note-sized stationery..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in white. Dust jacket with original "$4.95" present is rubbed at edges with a very small closed tear at bottom of spine. Toning along top edge verso. Boards show a...... More
[New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 296pp. Printed photographic dust jacket with original $7.95 price intact; book in black cloth-covered boards with silver and fuchsia lettering. Jacket split in two parts with much of the spine section missing, large tears and chips..... More
New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1938. Stated First Edition. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Dorothy Frohman / Sincerely / Ilka Chase / Washington, D.C. May 14, 1948." Octavo (21x14x2.5cm); 319pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards with black and gilt spine stamping. Dust jacket is whole..... More
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1930. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 428 pp. Color frontis with tissue guard and black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.00 price present. Orange boards stamped in black. Color endpapers. Purple topstain. Dust jacket worn along edges with slight and shallow chipping. General..... More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. Deluxe Edition of 176 numbered copies, this being #111. Octavo. 172 pages. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated paper-covered boards; gray cloth backstrip; title label to spine. Original publisher's acetate dust jacket. Touch of rubbing to edges of dust jacket and boards..... More
![The Imaginary Girlfriend [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. John Irving](/pictures/thumb/9003.jpg?v=1616187112)
London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Uncorrected Proof. Bookplate signed by Irving loosely laid in at front. Small octavo. 148 pages. Printed wraps. Wraps show light wear along edges and front wrap curls open slightly. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked. A memoir of writing and wrestling, first..... More
![Aboriginal Science Fiction: Jan-Feb 1989 [Signed by Jonathan Lethem]. Jonathan Lethem, contrib](/pictures/thumb/5256.jpg?v=1564677505)
Woburn, MA: Aboriginal Science Fiction, 1989. First Edition. Signed by Jonathan Lethem without inscription on first page of his contribution. Side-stapled magazine with glossy paper wraps. Covers are crisp and bright with very light expected wear along spine near staples, but no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1903. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo; 299 pp +4 pp ads. Six plates including frontis, all present. Publisher's illustrated cloth. Boards rubbed along edges and joints, with bumping to corners, tugging / fraying to spine ends, and some general soiling and..... More
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1939. First Edition. 12mo; viii + 238pp. Butter-yellow dust jacket with navy blue lettering and sketch of Hearn on front face; bamboo motif on spine, and list of other Japan-published Hearn titles on back. Binding of olive cloth with gold lettering and bamboo motif on spine;..... More
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (25x20x5cm); lii, including intro., chronology, and bibliography + 605pp, including 10pp of artists' signature seals and index. Thirty-seven reproductions on 31 plates; three in color; all present. Plates are printed on solid tissue stock, itself tipped onto leaves of laid..... More
![From College to Cow Country [Signed to Bonner Fellers]. Leon V. Almirall](/pictures/thumb/7714.jpg?v=1605037729)
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1956. First Edition. Signed by author to Fellers on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers. Compliments of Leon V. Almirall." Octavo. 471 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in red. Almirall's story of..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. Stated First Edition. SIGNED by the author with biref inscription on second blank page. Illustrated dustjacket with original $5.95 price; book in brown cloth with dark brown lettering to spine. Jacket shows a clean half-inch tear at top backwith a couple..... More
Washington, DC: Navy Yard Recreation League, 1920. First Edition. Quarto. 140 pages plus 84 pages advertisements. Illustrated tied dark blue wraps with yapp edges. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Sections include descriptions of the Navy Yard football team going undefeated -- though the previous season had many..... More
![The Fossils of Piety: Literary Humanism in Decline [Inscribed and Signed]. Paul West](/pictures/thumb/8745.jpg?v=1613672138)
New York: Vantage Press, 1959. First Edition, stated. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pink decorative dust jacket; 85pp. Some chipping and general shelf wear to jacket and cloth extremities (shallow dents to bottom cloth margins), jacket spine panel completely faded, light foxing throughout, front free endpaper neatly excised, brief..... More
New York: Isaac Collins and Son, 1801. First Edition. Two Volumes Bound in One. Octavo. 328 p.; 248 p. Contemporary full calf decorated in gilt with red spine label and inset ownership label of Timothy Nostrand, a merchant from New York, on front. Marbled endpapers. Volume one missing..... More