Adrian Tomine. First Edition. Paperback. Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 1995. First Edition. Signed by Tomine on front cover along spine. Side-stapled (10” x 6.5”); 24pp. Covers are clean and crisp with very faint rubbing to a couple corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Tomine self-published seven issues of Optic... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Stated First Edition. White illustrated dustjacket with original $17.95 price; book in white paper-covered boards with white cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket shows a clean inch tear along top edge with a few smaller tears and some toning. Boards are... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Printed dustjacket with original $3.95 price; book in oatmeal cloth with black and red design and lettering. Jacket shows a few clean tears neatly repaired on the inside with tape... More
Frank Utpatel. First Edition. Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1973. First Edition. Illustrated dustjacket with original $6.00 price; book in black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a small bump at head of spine and with light scuffing along front flap fold and a bit of toning... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Walker & Company, 1963. First Edition. Pictorial white dustjacket with original $2.95 price; book in blue cloth with dark blue lettering to spine. 159p. Jacket chipped at spine ends with a few smaller tears at flap folds and along edges. Jacket spine dampstained and toned... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1888. First Edition with no additional printings. Octavo; 217pp +6pp ads at back. Six illustrations including frontis, all present, with first illustration mis-numbered in contents as being on p 51 vs. 41. Green publisher's cloth with gilt and white accents. Covers lightly bumped... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Avalon Books, 1960. First Edition. Octavo; 224pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $2.95 price; book in red cloth with black lettering to spine. Jacket rippled from humidity (but no water damage), with light bumping to bottom front corner and head of spine. Boards are square... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Avalon Books, 1968. First Edition. Octavo; 190pp. Illustrated dustjacket with original $3.50 price; book in beige cloth with red lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rippled from humidity, else clean and crisp with light shelfwear but no chips or tears. Boards are square, with thin ink... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Gotham Books, 2009. Stated First Printing, October 2009, with numberline. SIGNED "To Dave - Dr. Ralph Stanley" on title page. Photographic dustjacket with original $27.50 price; book in speckled cream/beige boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dustjacket is clean and crisp with very light edgewear... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1934. Stated First Edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75"); 333p. Red cloth-covered boards with silver lettering. Missing dustjacket. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, with a few faint scuffs to back and a bit of dulling to spine, but bright and clean... More
First Edition. Paperback. New York: New York Tyrant, 2008. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by contributor Atticus Lish without inscription on page 37. Illustrated paper covers. Covers lightly shelfworn, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Spine straight and unbroken. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Lish's debut publication. More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); 352p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $24.00 price; book is in gray paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine and silver lettering. Jacket lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, but with no chips... More
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Stated First U.S. Edition. Printed dustjacket with original $16.95 price; black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few tears and some adjacent creasing along top edge, but is clean and crisp overall. Boards are sturdy and... More
Betye Saar. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New York: NOK Publishers, 1978. First Paperback Edition. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Illustrated paper covers; [x], 42p. Covers shelfworn and toned along edges, but with no chips or tears. Book warping a bit as a whole, with a light... More
First Edition. New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books / Viking, 1987. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page without inscription. Octavo (8.5" x 5.25"); 97pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $15.95 price; book in blue boards in navy cloth with spine stamped in silver. Dust jacket is a trifle... More
First Edition. New York: The Viking Press, 1972. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page without inscription. Octavo (8" x 5.5"); 112 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $5.75 price; book in black boards with spine stamped in blue. Dust jacket is rubbed along edges and at... More
First Edition. New York: The Dial Press, 1965. Stated First Printing. Signed by editor Jules Feiffer without inscription on full title. Quarto (12" x 9.25"); 189pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $9.95 price; book in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a small dampstain over head of... More
First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Stated First Edition. Signed by Jacques Pepin without inscription on the front free endpaper. Quarto (11" x 9.5"); xii, 430pp. In unclipped dust jacket with original $40.00 price present; book in photo-mosaic paper-covered boards. Dust jacket is lightly creased along edges with... More
First Printing. Hardcover. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First Printing with full numberline. SIGNED by the author on front free endpaper with brief dedication to Harold Herman, a noted book and antique collector and dealer who ran Two Harolds Antiques in Alexandria Virginia with his partner Harold Mays. Octavo... More
First Edition. Paperback. Washington DC: Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1979. First Edition. SIGNED by contributors Jonetta Barras-Abney, Grace Cavalieri, Dolores Kendrick, E. Ethelbert Miller, Jean Nordhaus, Carlo Parcelli, and Linda Pastan on their respective pages. Printed paper covers; [xviii], 185p. Covers edgeworn with some bumps and creases to corners and... More
First American Edition. Hardcover. New York: Viking, 1989. First American Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (9.25" x 6.5"); 546pp. Illustrated dustjacket with original $19.95 price; book in black paper- and cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly nudged at... More
First Edition. Hardcover. San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. Stated First Trade Edition (preceded by the Italian edition and a limited Franklin Library Edition). SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"); [vi], 641pp. Illustrated black dustjacket with original $22.95 price; book... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Grove Press, 1967. Stated First Printing. Illustrated white dustjacket with original $5.00 price; book in orange cloth-covered boards with black lettering to spine. Jacket shows a .25" tear at head of spine and another at back top corner, along with some general light smudging. Boards... More
