![The Gods of Greece [Signed and with ALS to William Safire]. Arianna Stassinopoulos, Roloff Beny,...](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Harry C. Abrams Inc. Publishers, 1983. First Edition. Signed by Stassinopoulos on title page to William and Helene Safire with inscription, "To Bill and Helene, / with my love, / Arianna / 15th August 1983." Additional autographed letter signed taped to front free endpaper and reads, "Dear Bill..... More
New York: SINO Publishing Company, 1980. First Edition. Signed by Topping on front free endpaper to William Safire with inscription, "For Bill - We read you regularly / in 'The Lhasa Times' / and thought highly of / your column. / Best Wishes / Audrey + Top." Quarto..... More
Beverly Hills, CA: Glen House Communications, 1992. First Edition. Signed by Rice to William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription, "To William Safire / with love / Dorothy Rice." Quarto. 144 pages. Full color illustrations and photographs. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket shows light wear to corners and..... More
New York: The Vendome Press, 1995. First U.S. Edition. Quarto. 199 pages. Photographs throughout. Promotional materials laid in at front. Photographic dust jacket shows light shelfwear to edges but no chips or tears. Black boards are stamped in silver at spine. Some faint intermittent staining to boards and..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989. First Edition. Signed by Finn to William Safire on contents page with inscription, "For Bill Safire / with warm regards - / David Finn." Quarto. 224 pages. Black and white photographs throughout. Unclipped photographic dust jacket is lightly rubbed at edges..... More
Washington, DC: Democratic Convention Program Committee, 1964. First Edition. Quarto. 169 pages plus advertisements. Illustrations throughout. White boards ruled in gilt and stamped in red, black, and blue. Program to the convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, laid in at front. Boards are lightly worn at edges..... More
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Quarto; 128 pages. Black and white and color photographs throughout. Laid in is a printed announcement for the birth of the Eisenhower's baby, Jennie, with original envelope. Also included is a short hand-written note from Julie Eisenhower mentioning the new..... More
New York: Paul Eriksson, Inc., 1976. Second Printing. Signed by Viscardi to Wiliam Safire with inscription, "To my friend Bill Safire / with affection / and my best wishes - / Hank Viscardi / June 6, 1977." Octavo. 208 pages. Laid in are several promotional pamphlets for the..... More
New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. First Edition. Octavo. Contemporary sheep with black leather spine label and gilt lettering. 472 pages. All edges marbled. An extensive work of Baptist prophetic interpretation. Rubbing to boards, more heavily along spine. Front joint cracked at bottom but holding..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Signed "Sincerely, / Langston Hughes," with green pen on front free endpaper. Quarto. 316 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Red boards in gray cloth with spine stamped in red. Lacks dust jacket. Corners exposed, general staining and scuffing to..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First Edition, First State. Octavo; xii + 9-398pp + final advertisement. BAL 7626, with both ad and misspelled "myterious" on p. 145. Publisher's brown cloth blind stamped with borders and central ornaments front and back. Gilt lettering on spine. Joints and hinges solid. Cloth..... More
![Mastering The Art of French Cooking [Signed]. Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck,...](/pictures/thumb/6591.jpg?v=1593798798)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Ninth Printing. Signed on half title by Julia Child with inscription, "For Daphne Senn, Julia Child." Quarto. xv, 684pp, + xxxii index. Black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Fleur de lis patterned white cloth-covered boards with red topstain. Four promotional..... More
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head, over-against Katharine-street in the Strand, 1721. First Thus. Quarto; Vol I xxiii + 559pp; Vol II [vi] + 583pp; Vol III 624pp; Vol IV 594pp + [17pp "Names of the Subscribers"]. Vol I has engraved frontispiece portrait of Addison after Godfrey Kneller; allegorical..... More
![Homage to Catalonia [First U.S. Edition]. George Orwell, Lionel Trilling, intro](/pictures/thumb/6587.jpg?v=1593794726)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 232 pages. Iillustrated dust jacket with original $3.50 price present. Mustard boards stamped in light green. Dust jacket is chipped and toned at extremities. Two inch closed tear along bottom front joint and one inch closed tear along..... More
![The Violent Bear It Away [First Edition]. Flannery O'Connor](/pictures/thumb/6586.jpg?v=1593805162)
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 243 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.75 price present; Red boards and charcoal cloth spine with white and gray lettering. Gray topstain. Dust jacket shows light wear to extremities, with some very light chipping near crown and..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, 1927. First Edition. 12mo. 307 pages including bibliography. Yellow typographic dust jacket over gray boards with red stamped lettering and emblem. Jacket is chipped along edges and spine ends, with a few small tears and adjacent creasing along edges and general rubbing and toning. Boards a...... More
![Remembrance of Things Past [À la recherche du temps perdu] (3 Volumes in Slipcase). Marcel...](/pictures/thumb/6581.jpg?v=1593617130)
New York: Random House, 1981. Octavo; Vol I xii + 1040pp; Vol II xii + 1197pp; Vol III xii + 1128; each volume includes terminal synopses as in the French Pléiade edition from which this revised translation was made. Slipcase in silvery gray with art nouveau decorations in black. Black..... More
![The Lives of the English Poets, with Critical Observations on their Works [First Edition]. Samuel...](/pictures/thumb/6579.jpg?v=1593611152)
London: C. Bathurst [et al.], 1781. First Edition. Octavo; Vol I v + 480pp; Vol II 471pp; Vol III 462pp; Vol IV 505pp (includes final advertisement page). Vol I frontispiece engraved by Thomas Trotter after the famous Joshua Reynolds portrait of Johnson looking very much like an irascible, judgmental... More
London: Printed for the Author, and sold at his Shop in Great Russell Street, Covent-Garden, 1781. Third Edition [with Davies's corrections]. Octavo; Vol I [16] + 352pp; Vol II [16] + 434pp + 2pp of Subscription Prospectus for Davies's forthcoming Dramatic Miscellanies. Frontispiece portrait engraving of Garrick by John Keyse..... More
Paris: Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, 1873 [1872]. First Edition. Quarto; vi + 571pp. Fourteen full-color chromolithographs; 409 engravings embodied within the text, many full-page. Bright crimson leather back and joints with cosmetically matched percaline-covered boards (as published); all surfaces stamped in gilt with eclectic neo-celtic-cum-baroque designs. Lettering on panels..... More
Philadelphia: William T. Amies, 1878. Quarto; xxviii + 740pp. Thirteen steel engravings with tissue guards in place. Full leather with ornamental blind stamping, gilt lettering, and gilt highlights spine and front panel. Beveled edges on panels. Textblock gilt on all edges. Small comb marbled endpapers. Slight scuffing to panel edges..... More
Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016. Square Quarto. 753 pages. Illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket is rubbed and creased along edges but no chips or tears. Pistachio boards are stamped in gilt. Light shelfwear and toning to edges. Binding is sound. Some pencil marginalia to..... More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1988. First Thus. Octavo. 655 pages. Black and white illustrations. Includes selections from Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, and Jack Williamson, among others. Illustrated dust jacket is gently worn at corners. Black boards are stamped in silver. Light wear to spine ends. Binding is sound and..... More
![End Marijuana Prohibition, Washington, DC: High Noon, Friday July, 4th 2003 [Poster Title]. Steve...](/pictures/thumb/6572.jpg?v=1593803886)
Washington, DC: Fourth of July Hemp Coalition, 2003. Small Poster. Colorfully illustrated recto, text on verso. 14" x 8 1/2". The artist for the poster, Steve Marcus, has produced illustrations for "popular and unpopular culture" for decades, creating art for MTV, the Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon, among others..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1900. First Thus. Octavo; xvi + 270pp. Ninety-four illustrations by John Pennell, comprising 12 hand-pulled photogravures; 32 full-page B&W reproductions of watercolors and sketches on coated paper; and 50 small B&W reproductions of watercolors and sketches as head- and tail-pieces and within the preliminary matter. Bound..... More