First Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1981. Stated First Edition. Signed by author without inscription on full title. Slim Octavo; 61 pages. Printed dust jacket with $12.95 price. Jacket is clean and crisp with a small corner clip at bottom of front flap (price is intact at top)... More about A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981
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 about The Misfits
Robert Crane. First Edition. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.25"); viii, 280p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $3.00 price; book in gray cloth-covered boards with blue lettering to spine. Jacket shows shallow chipping and tugging at spine ends, with a couple light bumps to corners and... More about Night's Yawning Peal: A Ghostly Company
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 about The Street of Crocodiles
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 about The Peacemakers
First Edition. New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1976. First Edition, SIGNED by Donald Hall and Dock Ellis with brief inscriptions on front free endpaper. Printed dustjacket over black paper-covered boards with purple cloth spine and gilt lettering. Ex-library copy but remarkably free of library markings, with only a withdrawn... More about Dock Ellis: In The Country of Baseball
Ugo Mochi. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription on front free endpaper and lengthy accompanying letter. Illustrated dustjacket with original $7.95 price; book in white paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and zebra illustration. 134p;... More about A Natural History of Zebras
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 about The Priest of Blood
New York: International Publishers, 1950. First Editions with no additional printings listed. First two volumes of Foner's five-volume set. Octavos; 448 & 576 pages with photo frontis in each volume. Printed dustjackets showing original $4.00 and $4.50 prices, respectively. Book in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. First volume jacket... More about The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Early Years; Life and Writings of Frederick...
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by both authors without inscription on front free endpaper. 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 is... More about Dream City: Race, Power And the Decline of Washington, D.C
Jack Murray. First Edition. Hardcover. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. Stated First Edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"); xxxi, 254p. Illustrated throughout with full-color frontis. Orange cloth-covered boards with black lettering and illustration. Missing dustjacket. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, with light shelfwear and some sunning to... More about Spinning for Fresh Water Game Fish
Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited First Edition, privately printed for Members of the First Edition Society. Presentation copy, signed by the author on flyleaf with inscription "Most respectfully for the | writer William Safire | Kurt Vonnegut | Manhattan July 27, 1981." Octavo; [xiv]... More about Jailbird
First Edition. Paperback. New York: Signet, 1964. Stated First Printing. Mass market paperback; xi, 159p +1p ads. 8p photo spread at center. Covers lightly edgeworn with some rubbing at head of spine and light toning. Spine straight and unbroken. Pages a bit toned along edges but unmarked. Binding is sound... More about Why We Can't Wait
First Edition. Hardcover. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. Stated First Edition. Octavo (8" x 5.5"); [xii], 368p. Printed dustjacket over yellow cloth-covered boards with green lettering and ornament. Price-clipped dustjacket shows a couple small chips and tears along top edge and front joint, with a couple small waterspots and... More about The Hour of Spring
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. Stated First Printing. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"); 221p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $3.95 price; book in olive paper- and gray cloth-covered boards with blue and yellow lettering to spine. Jacket bumped with shallow clean tears at top corners, with a tiny... More about Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Stated First Edition. Signed by author on title page without inscription. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); x, 82p. Original dust jacket with $23.00 price. Speckled creme and gray boards with silver lettering to spine. Jacket is very lightly rubbed at corners, but with... More about Breath
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959. Stated First Printing, April 1959. Black illustrated dustjacket with original $3.50 price; book in green cloth with black lettering to spine. Jacket shows light edgewear with a few shallow chips and tears along edges and some foxing to back and... More about Life Studies
R.L. Boyer. First Edition. Hardcover. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (8" x 5.5"); [viii], 377p. 20 black and white illustrations and full-color frontis with tissue guard, all present, . Green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and red, white, and blue skyline and seal decoration. Covers lightly edgeworn... More about The Book of New York
Donald McKay. Second Printing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. Stated Second Printing, August 1951. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; 221pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.00 price; book in patterned red cloth with white title block to spine. Jacket torn and chipped at... More about An Island Summer