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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company: 1954. First Edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Inscribed by author to economist Herbert J. Cummings on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Herbert Cummings / From an old / colleague and / friend, with / kindly memories / Adolf A Berle Jr / November 1954."..... 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
New York: Oxford University Press, 1961. First Edition. Signed by Martin on front free endpaper with inscription, "Faithfully, / Charles Martin." Octavo. 126 pages. Blue boards with navy lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Letters of advice from the longtime headmaster of St. Alban's preparatory school in Washington..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Limited Edition. Signed by the author without inscription and numbered 769 of 1000 on full title. Octavo; x, 564pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Gilt page edges and printed marbled endpapers. Housed in paper-covered box with illustration from original dust..... More
![Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department [Signed]. Dean Acheson](/pictures/thumb/6072.jpg?v=1581000628)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1969. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author "With best wishes" without dedication on front free endpaper. Octavo; 798pp. Printed beige dust jacket with original $15.00 and special $12.50 prices intact; book in blindstamped blue cloth with gilt lettering..... More
Glenn Chadbourne. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Shocklines Press, 2004. Limited First Edition, SIGNED by the author and numbered 645 of 752 copies on limitation page at front. Illustrated dustjacket with wine-colored cloth boards and gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a tiny clean tear at top edge with..... More
Chicago: The American Lumberman, 1906. First Edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription "To Frank Weatherbee, whose pictures are poetry without words and music without sound, from his friend, Douglas Malloch, November 23, 1906." Octavo; 192pp. Seven photo illustrations, with tinted green overlays, of Midwestern..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1973. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Octavo. 238 pages. Dust jacket illustrated by Alan E. Cohen. Book in maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket toned and rubbed at edges with tape repair to two closed tears at rear panel and..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Crown Publishers, 1998. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author to fellow writer and columnist William Safire on half title with inscription: "For Bill Safire -- With admiration, respect, and linguistic deference. Erik Tarloff." Octavo; 249pp. Illustrated dustjacket with original $23.00 price;..... More
![Stratford Hall: The Great House of the Lees [Signed Limited Edition]. Ethel Armes, Franklin...](/pictures/thumb/001637.jpg?v=1581519772)
Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, 1936. Limited First Edition of 1200 copies. Signed by the author on colophon at back. Quarto. 584 pages. Blue cloth with coat of arms on front and gilt lettering to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Top front corner is bumped and cracked. Boards otherwise faded..... 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
Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2000. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by illustrator Jules Feiffer "To Dev" on illustrated flyleaf. Quarto; [32 pp.]. Illustrated dust jacket over black boards with white lettering and illustration. Jacket lightly shelfworn, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are clean and..... More
First Printing. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972. Stated First Printing following a signed limited edition. Octavo; unpaginated. Woodcut illustrations by Frasconi throughout. Illustrated dust jacket has original "$4.95" price; book in blindstamped black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Dedicated to the four victims from the Kent..... More
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., Printers, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. 30 pages. Somewhat dust-soiled and stained; spine a bit worn and loose; a good, sound copy. A pro-Union address from the long-time Marietta College president and historian. Andrews attacks the principles behind secession and..... More
London: Fourth Estate, 2011. First British Edition. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); [viii], 406pp. Red dustjacket with original £20 price; book in red cloth with white lettering and fly illustrations. Light bumps to jacket at bottom edge and top front corner, but..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982. First Edition. Octavo. 460 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by Frederic Cassidy to William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription "For Bill Safire - / DARE's [Dictionary of American Regional English] favorite Calumnist/Columnist / and fellow Philologer. / from / Fred Cassidy."... More
First Edition. New York: The Noonday Press, 1992. Stated First Edition. SIGNED by author John Kisch, Introduction author Donald Bogle (both with inscription), and without inscription by Preface author Spike Lee. Quarto (11" x 8.5"); xxxiii, 168p. Illustrated paper covers with full-color illustrations throughout. Covers very lightly bumped at bottom..... More
New York: Subscription Book Department of The American News Company, 1879. First Edition. Two Volumes. Quartos; 631, 631 pages. Frontispiece of Grant with tissue guard; over 800 additional black and white illustrations. Lacks fold-out map. Half calf with gilt decoration and brown and red title labels to spine, volume 1..... More
New York: Basic Books, 2005. First Edition. Signed by Senator Lamar Alexander with inscription to friends on half-title; Alexander also signed a personalized printed notecard to the same friends, laid in. Octavo; xiv + 402pp. Text illustrated with some photographs and sketches. Photographic jacket. Black boards with silver..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 258 pages. Black and white graphs/illustrations throughout. Illustrated white, blue, and green boards. Volume 4 in the Cambridge Topics in Mineral Physics and Chemistry series. Review slip laid in. Light wear to extremities. Binding is sound and pages are clean..... More
Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Paperback. New York: Random House, 2017. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Illustrated paper covers with publication info on back. Book very slightly curved with a few light smudges to face, but no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound and..... More
Tel Aviv: The Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1985. First Edition. Signed by co-author Rabinovich on half title to journalist William Safire with inscription "Sep 25, 93 - For Bill, Despatches or dispatches? A book that has a lot to do with language and politics. Cordially, Itamar..... More
New York: Talk Mirimax Books, 1999. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by co-author Kenneth Adelman on half title to journalist and language columnist William Safire and his wife Helene with inscription "10-20-99 - Helene & Bill -- "Zounds! I never was so bethumped with words,"* as when reading..... More
Paperback. New York: Penguin, 1994.Third Printing by numberline. Octavo (9" x 6"); [xii], 108p. Illustrated paper covers with very light shelfwear, but no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More