New York: Willey Book Co., 1938. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in mustard pictorial dust jacket; 55pp.; chiefly plates throughout, six (including frontispiece) in color. Some minor chipping and wrinkling to jacket extremities, spine panel quite sunned, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, else..... More
![Strangers [Advance Reading Copy, Inscribed and Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Dean R. Koontz](/pictures/thumb/9236.jpg?v=1618245628)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. Advance Reading Copy. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [2],523pp. General wear and minor soil from handling, spine creased and slightly cocked, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Bookplate signed and inscribed "Boo" by the author laid in. More
New York: Welcome Rain, 2001. First Edition (stated). Octavo. 212 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly rubbed along edges with a touch of toning to verso. Bookseller sticker to rear panel. Very light shelfwear to bottom edge of boards and..... More
New York: Congdon & Lattès, 1980. First Edition (stated). Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's embossed boards in black pictorial dust jacket; [8],508pp.; illus. Minor wear to jacket and board extremities, light foxing to textblock edges, else Very Good or better. Batchelor's first book, a comic novel set six years in the..... More
![The Big U [Signed]. Neal Stephenson](/pictures/thumb/9233.jpg?v=1617733188)
New York: Vintage Books / Division of Random House, 1984. First Edition (stated). Signed by Stephenson without inscription on title page. Octavo. 307 pp. Illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges of wraps and a bit of creasing and curling along edges. Bit of waviness and stiffening to text..... More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1954. First Edition with "1" on final page. Octavo. 317 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price present. Blue and green boards stamped in dark blue. Dust jacket shows light general rubbing with a few very short closed tears along edges. Boards lightly edgeworn. Binding..... More
Georgetown: Robert Alleson, 1815. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 8pp. Stock rather brittle, toned, and slightly foxed, shallow loss along top edge of each leaf not approaching text, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page with subsequent ink splatters, else Good or better. Anonymously-penned critique of the Madison..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First U.S. Edition (stated). Octavo. 249 pp. Printed dust jacket with $7.95 price present. Black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket chipped along edges with a small puncture to front panel near spine, some light dampstaining along top edge of back..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1922]. First Thus. Large octavo. 207 pp. 24 full-page illustrations, some mounted plates and some printed. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Boards show light wear to extremities, a little heavier with some fraying at spine ends. Spine..... More
![The Satanic Verses [Signed]. Salman Rushdie](/pictures/thumb/9226.jpg?v=1617730407)
Dover, DE: The Consortium, Inc., 1992. Stated First American Paperback Edition. Signed by Rushdie without inscription on half title. Octavo. 547 pp. Printed wraps. Covers lightly worn along edges with some creasing. Curl at corners. Binding is sound. Faint staining to fore-edge of text block but pages otherwise unmarked. More
City of Washington: A. & G. Way, 1808. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 5,[1]pp. Light foxing, spine nearly split, else Good to Very Good, despite slightly musty odor. Exceedingly uncommon pamphlet reproducing three pieces of correspondence between President Thomas Jefferson and American engineer Isaac Briggs. Briggs had volunteered his..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [14],294pp.; frontispiece, seven leaves of plates. Some wear to jacket extremities, including faint horizontal fold across entire mid-section, old tape repair to verso not visible externally, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. Collective..... More
![A Question of Timing [Limited Edition, Signed]. Fay Weldon](/pictures/thumb/9222.jpg?v=1618343864)
London: Colophon Press, 1992. First Edition, Limited to 225 copies of which this is no. 93. Quarto (24.5cm.); publisher's cream pictorial staple bound card wrappers printed in black and red; 12pp. Light wear from handling, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. More
![Houses of Old Richmond [Signed]. Mary Wingfield Scott](/pictures/thumb/9221.jpg?v=1617650942)
Richmond, VA: The Valentine Museum, 1941. First Edition. Signed by Scott facing half title with brief inscription. Quarto. 332 pp. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Dark orange boards stamped in silver. Map endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket is heavily scuffed and chipped, most predominantly along spine. Jacket remains..... More
London: Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press, 1954. First Edition. Octavo. 696 pp. Printed dust jacket. Dark blue boards. Blue topstain. Dust jacket shows some light general rubbing and spotting and one larger stain to center of spine. Boards show just a touch of shelfwear. Binding is sound and..... More
![Steamboatin' On the Cumberland [Signed]. Byrd Douglas](/pictures/thumb/9219.jpg?v=1618431422)
Nashville: Tennessee Book Company, 1961. First Edition. Signed by Douglas to front free endpaper verso with brief inscription. Octavo. 407 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards stamped in blue. Map endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped and rubbed along edges with a few closed tears. Slightly larger chip..... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1906. Third Edition. Octavo. 171 pp. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and 11 maps and plans, many fold-out. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Boards worn with brief exposure and some general scuffing. Heavier wear to top of spine with some loss..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1956. First Edition stated, with "M-E" code. Octavo. 266 pp. Black and white photographs. Printed dust jacket. Blue and black boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few small, clean tears along edges and shallow chips at spine ends, with some..... More
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1895. First Edition. Octavo. [16 pp.] Black and white illustrations by Burgess throughout. Illustrated wraps printed on rough paper. Covers lightly chipped along edges with creasing to corners. Light staining. Back cover just barely holding at top staple, but likely destined to separate eventually. Binding..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1914. First Edition (Published February 1914 on copyright). Octavo. 120 pp. Lacking illustrations. Illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Part of the Bed-Time Storybooks series. Boards worn at extremities with exposure and fraying at spine ends. Binding holding soundly. Pages show light spotting. All six..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. Stated First American Edition. Octavo. 180 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in purple and orange. Orange topstain. Unclipped dust jacket lightly chipped along edges with two short closed tears at bottom of spine. General rubbing. Boards show light wear..... More
![Arias in Silence [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Gordon Parks](/pictures/thumb/9211.jpg?v=1618344748)
Boston: Bulfinch Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First Edition (stated). Bookplate signed by Parks loosely laid in at front. Oblong quarto. 128 pp. Color photographs throughout. Photographic dust jacket. Beige boards stamped in dark green. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges with some light intermittent spotting..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition (stated). Octavo. 218 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Red boards stamped in black. Red topstain. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped along edges with a few nicks to spine. General toning. Boards a bit bowed, light shelfwear and toning..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. 241 pp. Grey boards stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Spine toned and toned around edges. Boards show light patches of staining. Binding is sound. Bookplate of Sidney Herschel Small to front pastedown. A touch of foxing to preliminaries..... More
![In the Night Room [Signed]. Peter Straub](/pictures/thumb/9206.jpg?v=1618405202)
New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition, stated with full numberline. Signed by Straub on title page without inscription. Octavo. 330 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Gray and black boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with one small abrasion to fore edge of front..... More