First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. STated First Edition. SIGNED by the author without inscription on title page. Illustrated dustjacket with original $14.95 price; book in blue paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and silver lettering. Jacket shows light edgewear with a few smudges, but no... More about That Night
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
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. Stated First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (8.5" x 5.5"); 268p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $23.95 price; book in turquoise and black paper-covered boards with silver lettering. Jacket shows very light... More about Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
First Edition. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: La Revista de Yucatan, 1919. Octavo; 187pp. Illustrated Wraps. Black and white photographs.Text in Spanish. A chronicle of the 1910 rebellion of Valladolid, often referred to as the spark of the Mexican Revolution. Menendez was accused of sedition and inciting a rebellion, and... More about La Primera Chispa De La Revolucion Mexicana (El Movimiento de Valladolid en 1910) -- Estudio...
First Edition. Washington, D.C. / Philadelphia: The United States Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction / The Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, 1977. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on front pastedown. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); xvii, 237p. Black cloth with gold lettering and design. Covers slightly leaning, with... More about Prince Hall: Life and Legacy
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1947. Stated First Edition. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Printed dustjacket with original $3.50 price; book in black cloth with red lettering to spine. Jacket torn along joints and folds, with a few smaller chips... More about Operation Moscow
Julia Ann Mountfort. First Edition. Hardcover. Boston: Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1921. First Edition. SIGNED by the author with "Easter Greeting" but no dedication on front free endpaper, dated in publication year. Octavo (7.75" x 5.25"); 222p. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Boards lightly edgeworn with a small scuff and... More about Light and Shade 'round Gulf and Bayou
First Edition. 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 about Season of Hunger / Cry of Rain
First Edition. New York: Atheneum, 1975. First Edition. Signed by the author on the half-title page without inscription but dated "1996." Printed green and blue dust jacket with original $7.95 price; book in black boards with spine in gilt and blind-stamped on front cover. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly worn... More about Seascape: A Play
First Edition. London: John Murray, 1953. Stated First Edition. Octavo. 285 pages, many still uncut. Green dustjacket; book in green cloth with gilt lettering and facsimile signature. Jacket is corner clipped at bottom of front flap with publisher's price sticker reading "John Murray / £2 / Net," with this sticker... More about The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939
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
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Julian Messner, 1936. First Edition. Octavo, 316pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $2.00 price. Red cloth binding with navy stamped lettering on cover and spine. Deckle edges. Sunning to spine of dust jacket and some edgewear including several closed tears and chips on head of... More about Mr. Madison's War
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Doubleday, 1982. Stated First Edition. SIGNED by the author to antique and book dealer Harold J. Herman on front free endpaper. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); 48p. Printed dustjacket over magenta paper-covered boards with maroon cloth spine and gilt lettering. Price-clipped dustjacket shows a couple small... More about Puella
First Edition. Hardcover. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1992. First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by Dickey with inscription "To Harold Herman - in friendship - from James Dickey, Fall, 1992" on full title. Both dustjacket and book as new except for a small bookstore sticker on back. Binding... More about The Whole Motion: Collected Poems, 1945-1992
First Edition. Hardcover. Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1903. First Edition, SIGNED by the author with inscription dated June 26, 1903 in Washington on front free endpaper. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and capital dome. Photo frontis. Covers show light bumping to corners and spine ends with a few small... More about Beautiful Washington
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (7.75" x 5.25"); [xiv], 200p +6p ads. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Covers bumped at corners and spine ends with some rubbing and fading along edges and some general smudging and scuffing. Opens easily to between gatherings... More about The Foothills of Parnassus
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1999. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 100pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with original $15.00 price; book in dark blue and white paper-covered boards with blue lettering to spine. Jacket lightly... More about Blues: For All the Changes
First Printing. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 72pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.95 price; book in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket edgeworn with a small, clean tear at top front and shallow chipping to head of spine. Boards are square... More about For the Union Dead
First Edition. Hardcover. London: Faber & Faber, 1999. First Edition. Illustrated dustjacket with original £14.99 price; book in dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows very light edgewear and a few faint scuffs, but is clean and crisp with no chips or tears. Boards are sturdy and... More about Beowulf: A New Translation
Hardcover. New York; Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. Stated First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); [xii], 238p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $24.00 price; book in blue paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge... More about The Toughest Indian in the World
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"); vi, 324p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $25.00 price; book in yellow and lavender paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Jacket shows very light edgewear and some sticker residue to back, but no... More about Thief of Time
George Cruikshank; Robert Cruikchank. First Edition. London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828. First Edition. Octavo; viii, 184pp. Six plates including frontis, all present. Harvard University Library binding in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Harvard College Library bookplate on front pastedown with circular deaccession/"released" stamp on plate and small... More about Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect; and Poems
First Edition. Hardcover; Ex-library. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. First US Edition, First Issue in green cloth. Ex-library. Printed dustjacket with original $2.50 price; book in green cloth-covered boards with blue title card and gilt to spine. Jacket heavily worn and rippled with extensive brown tape repair to interior and... More about Laughter in the Dark
First Edition. Hardcover. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951. First Edition, SIGNED by the author with brief inscription but no dedication on front free endpaper. Octavo (8.5" x 5.5"); xix, 240p. Blue cloth-covered boards. Missing dustjacket. Covers bumped at corners and spine ends, with a couple small chips to cloth near... More about God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom"
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 about The Ticket That Exploded