New Arrivals
Everyman A King: The Autobiography of Huey Long
New Orleans: National Book Co., Inc., 1933. First Edition. Octavo. 343 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Yellow-orange boards stamped in red and black. Brown topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure. Spine toned with heavier discoloration to joints. Binding is sound..... More
The Quiet American
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 249 pp. Printed dust jacket with original "$3.50" price present. Brown and black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly chipped with several short closed tears, and some creasing along edges. Moderate to heavy soiling to flaps and..... More
A Zen Way of Baseball
New York: Times Books, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 279 pp. Black and white photographs. Printed dust jacket with original "$14.95" price present. Red and black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with toning to flaps. Boards edgeworn. Binding is sound. Dust soiling..... More
I Never Had It Made
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. 287 pp. Printed dust jacket with original "$7.95" price present. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges. Boards show light shelfwear with brief exposure to corners, touch of dampstaining along top edge of boards, and..... More
West African Food in the Middle Ages - According to Arab Sources
London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 262 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket worn along edges with a few shallow chips and short closed tears. Boards show light shelfwear and bottom corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
An Oak Spring Flora: Flower Illustration From The Fifteenth Century To The Present Time. A Selection of the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art in the Collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon
Upperville, VA: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1997. First Edition. Quarto. 425 pp. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Light edgewear to dust jacket with some general smudging and faint discoloration. Boards show a shallow bump along..... More
Parable of the Talents
New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 365 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$24.95" price present. Black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket rubbed with some shallow creasing along edges. Patchy light surface scratching and smudging. Boards edgeworn and bottom rear corner bumped..... More
The Blue Book [Signed]
London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. First Edition. Signed on title page by Kennedy. Octavo. 373 pp. Purple boards stamped in blue and gilt. All edges purple. No dust jacket as issued. Boards a trifle rubbed at corners and a few very light smudges. Binding is sound. Date inscription to..... More
The Flesh in the Furnace [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
New York: Bantam Books, 1972. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Koontz loosely laid in at front. 12mo. 132 pp. + advertisements. Illustrated wraps. Wraps lightly edgeworn with light, faint crease at top of front panel along front joint. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but..... More
Anti-Man [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
New York: Paperback Library, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Bookplate signed by Koontz loosely laid in at front. 12mo. 142 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Illustrated wraps. Wraps lightly worn along edges with some slight chipping and creasing to bottom corners. Touch of rubbing and toning. Binding is sound..... More
A Darkness In My Soul [Signed]
New York: DAW Books / Donald A. Wollheim, Publisher, 1972. First Edition. Signed by Koontz on title page without inscription. 12mo. 124 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Illustrated wraps. Wraps lightly worn along edges with a crease along front panel near spine, and a short half inch surface scratch..... More
The Crimson Witch [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
New York: Curtis Books / Modern Literary Editions Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Koontz loosely laid in at front. 12mo. 176 pp. Illustrated wraps. Wraps worn and with some slight chips to edges. Creasing to spine. Cracked at hinges but binding otherwise holding. Edges of..... More
Nevada: A Romance of the West
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. First Edition stated and with "B-C" code to copyright page. Octavo. 365 pp. + 6 pp. publishers advertisements. Stockton Mulford-illustrated dust jacket with original "$2.00" price present. Brown boards stamped in black. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket worn and lightly chipped along..... More
Knights of the Range
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939. First Edition stated and with "M-N" code to copyright page. Octavo. 308 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$2.00" price present. Grey boards stamped in red and black. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket worn and chipped along edges with largest chip at..... More
Tales of Fishes
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1919. First Edition with "Published June, 1919," and "F-T" code to copyright page. Octavo. 267 pp. Color frontispiece and 58 additional black and white photographs taken by the author. Blue boards stamped in gilt and mounted photo. Top edge gilt. Lacks dust jacket... More
Songdogs
London: Phoenix House, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. 212 pp. Photographic dust jacket. Red-brown boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Boards lightly rubbed at bottom of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's debut novel and second published book after his..... More
Let The Great World Spin [Signed]
London: Bloomsbury, 2009. First Edition. Signed by McCann on title page with date but no further inscription. Octavo. 349 pp. Photographic dust jacket. Dark purple boards stamped in white. Purple endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards lightly worn and nudged at top of spine with..... More
A Case To Answer
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. 203 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in white. Unclipped dust jacket shows light edgewear, general rubbing, a 1" closed tear at top of spine, and spotting to verso. Boards lightly worn along edges with some toning along bottom..... More
Zen and Japanese Culture (Bollingen Series LXIV)
New York: Pantheon Books, Inc., Bollingen Series LXIV, 1958. First Thus, being the second, revised edition of "Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture" (Kyoto, 1938). Octavo (24x16.5x4.5cm); xxiv + 478pp, including appendices, bibliography, and index. Frontispiece + 64 plates + 3 gatefolds + 1 double-spread, all in sepia..... More
The Society of the Cincinnati 1783-1935: Prepared under the direction of the Standing Committee of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition, No. 870 in a limited "New Windsor Edition" of 1000. Signed by the author. Octavo (24.5x16.5x2cm); 187pp, including 25 appendices listing prestigious members, offices, awards, honors, statues, medals, and colors attributed to the society and its membership, with bibliography. Pale wedgewood boards..... More
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A Defense of Circe [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1954 [published 1955]. First Edition, "limited to 1700 copies privately printed for the friends of the author and her publishers as a New Year's greeting." Bookplate signed with Porter's "KAP" laid in at front. Small octavo; 22pp. Marbled paper-covered boards with mounted white..... More
All about Arthur (an Absolutely Absurd Ape)
New York: Franklin Watts, 1974. Presumed First Edition with no additional printings listed. Signed by Carle with large, multi-color ape illustration on front free endpaper with inscription "For Robert with love." Quarto; unpaginated [32pp + illustrated flyleaves]. Illustrated dust jacket over matching illustrated cloth. Price-clipped dust jacket shows an..... More
Woman's Co-Operation Essential to Pure Politics
Boston: American Woman Suffrage Association, 1885. First Thus. Quarto (10.5" x 9.5"); 4pp. Single folded sheet. Some minor chipping to edges. A bit toned, but sound overall. Women's suffrage tract from a speech by George Frisbie Hoar. Hoar had campaigned for rights of African-Americans and Native Americans in his..... More
Select Views of the Royal Palaces of Scotland, from Drawings by William Brown, Esq. Perth; with Illustrative Descriptions of Their Local Situation, Present Appearance, and Antiquities
Glasgow: A Fullarton & Co., 1840. Second Edition. Quarto (11.5" x 9"); [viii], 179pp. 24 plates. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corners and gilt lettering to title square at spine. Boards edgeworn with rubbing, bumping, and exposure to corners, scuffs down joints with rubbing at spine ends, and..... More