First Edition. New York: Vantage Press, 1982. Stated First Edition. SIGNED by author Adele B. McQueen with brief inscription to a friend above Foreword. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"); xii, 91p. Illustrated dustjacket over green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Price-clipped dustjacket shows a small, clean tear at top front with..... More
Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1964. First Edition. Quarto. 297 pages with map/glossary endpapers. Black and white photographs. Illustrated black dust jacket with original $8.00 price; book in absurdly bright gold boards with blue lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed and worn along edges with some light chipping, especially at..... More
New York: The New Press, 2003. First Edition. Inscribed by author on title page: "9-30-03. For Bill—Thanks for all your work for equal justice for all over the years. David Cole." Octavo; xiii + 315pp, including index. Photographic dust jacket. Gray boards with black spine and silver spine lettering... More
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition in first state binding. Quarto; unpaginated. Kelly green boards with open-mouthed fish illustration and dark green lettering. Seven-line copyright notice. "Random House" on spine measures 1.25". Missing dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with bumping to corners, tugging / fraying at spine ends, and..... More
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1982. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription opposite title page. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"); 67p. Covers toned along edges with a small sticker shadow at top front corner and very light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. First Edition. Signed by editor Liu on title page to William Safire with inscription, "To William Safire - / Whose words and / wit inspire - / Eric Liu / 8/94." Additional typed letter signed from Liu to Safire laid in. Letter is..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "With the compliments of the author, G. Gordon-Smith, Washington, D.C., Feb. 7 1925." Octavo; viii + 360pp + tipped-in fold-out "General Map of the Balkan War Area." Wine cloth with gilt lettering front panel and..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. First Edition. Octavo; [iv], 482p. Wine-colored cloth boards with beveled edges and gilt lettering and "J.R. Osgood & Co" imprint at base of spine (later state bindings had "Houghton Osgood & Co" instead). Brown endpapers. Corresponds to all First Edition points, with "illustratd"..... More
New York: Roy Publishers, 1953. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 170 pages. Black and white illustrations. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original "$2.75" price present. Mustard boards with spine stamped in light blue. Dust jacket is heavily chipped at spine ends and corners and stained across front and rear..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. First edition. Octavo. 224 pages; 2 maps. Printed green dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; olive boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, with slight wrinkling, a few tiny tears, and some discoloration to edges. Boards very light bumped at top right..... More
First Edition. McLean, VA: EPM Publications, 1977. First Edition. Octavo; 174 pages. Signed by author on half title to William Safire with inscription, "For my mentor, / Bill Safire, / with best wishes - James Kilpatrick." Unclipped dust jacket is faded at spine with a couple small closed tears..... More
First Edition. Paperback. Benin City: Ethiope Publishing Corporation, 1974. First Edition. Octavo; 111pp. Illustrated green paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with a slight curve along spine and a few scratches and scuffs. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Omotoso's fourth novel, claimed to be the first Nigerian detective novel. 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
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 (8.5"..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Stated First Edition, with full numberline on last page. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Black dustjacket with original $12.50 price; book in black cloth with gilt lettering. Ex-library with small patch of tape residue at tail of..... More
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1937. First Edition. Inscribed by author (but not signed) on front free endpaper: "To Kariuki K. Njuri with all good wishes from the Author, July 3 1958." Octavo; vii + 296pp, including bibliography and index. Green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First American Edition [Author's Edition]. 16mo; 352pp + 15 pages of Ticknor and Fields adverts at back. Blue cloth on boards with blind-embossed front panel and gold-stamped spine lettering set within an elaborate gilt surround. Brick endpapers. Gilt on all edges of textblock. Binding..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984. First Edition. Signed and dated by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 321pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $16.50 price. Khaki cloth binding with lettering stamped in copper on spine. Dust jacket is sunned on spine, but is clean..... More
First Edition. London: Cassell and Company LTD, 1956. First Edition with original decorated publisher's box. Octavo. 274 pages. Blue/Purple silk boards in glassine with spine and front board in gilt. White publisher's box printed with title page info on front and price of 31s 6d. net on back. Errata slip..... More
First Edition. New York: Harper San Francisco, a Division of Harper Collins Publishers, 1992. First Edition. Quarto; 198 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper to author and Presidential Speechwriter William Safire with inscription, "To Bill Safire, a superb / fellow wordsmith - / Richard A. Nenneman." Unclipped..... More
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1949. First Edition. Octavo; xiv + 129pp. Six pages of B&W stage production photos. Illustrated three-color jacket by Grant MacDonald; rarely reproduced photo of young whippersnapper Davies on jacket back. Black boards with crimson spine lettering; title and author reversed out of embossed crimson..... More
Roger Brooke Taney was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1836 through 1864. He was an antagonist of Lincoln, a Southern sympathizer, and, most famously, ruled in 1857 in the Dred Scott case that African Americans could not be considered citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First American Edition, with integral New York title page and printer's attribution (Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., Edinburgh) on verso. Stub from errata slip attached to inner margin of page [1], but slip itself is missing. Octavo; xiii, 510pp. Publisher's blue cloth-covered boards..... More
Columbus: Steam Press of Smith & Cox, Statesman Office, 1853. First Edition, an ex-library copy with the small blind-stamp of Western Reserve Historical Society and "Dup" notation on title page. Octavo; 23 pages. Removed from original wraps (missing). Chip to fore-edge of title page, with no loss to text. Some..... More
First Edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition.0 Octavo. 255 pages. Inscribed by author on title page to William Safire. Inscription reads, "For Bill - / My friend who was / very much responsible for the / publication of this first work. Thanks, / Sammy Rawls / 9..... More