First Edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. First Edition. Signed by Tracy K. Smith without inscription on first page of her contribution. Small Quarto; ix, 847-1101pp +7 ads. Printed paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with light bumping to corners and spine ends and a few faint smudges. Binding is... More about Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters (Vol 27 No 4
First Edition. New York: Viking, 2016. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 462pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with original $27.00 price; book in gray paper-covered boards with red lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge, but with no chips, tears... More about A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Advance Uncorrected Proof. New York: Penguin Books, 2016. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. Signed without inscription by contributors Michael Lewis (on the full title) and Meg Wolitzer (at top of her contribution). Octavo; 424pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers bumped at corners with some light creasing at top back, else crisp and square... More about Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers
Uncorrected Bound Galleys. New York: Pantheon Books, 2015. Uncorrected Bound Galleys. Octavo; 829pp +52pp unpaginated elsematter. Printed green paper wraps. Covers square with some wear to corners, but no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More about The Familiar, Volume 2: Into the Forest
First Edition. New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1956. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on half title. Octavo; 69pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers are crisp with toning down spine and faintly along edges, with light wear to corners but no chips, tears, or marks. Toning to half title... More about 63: Dream Palace
First Edition. Woburn, MA: Aboriginal Science Fiction, 1989. First Edition. Signed by Jonathan Lethem without inscription on first page of his contribution. Side-stapled magazine with glossy paper wraps. Covers are crisp and bright with very light expected wear along spine near staples, but no chips, tears, or marks. Binding... More about Aboriginal Science Fiction: Jan-Feb 1989
First Edition. Berkeley: Idiot Tooth, 1993. First Edition. Signed by editor Jonathan Lethem without inscription at top corner of contents page. Square octavo; 71pp. Side-stapled illustrated paper wraps. Covers clean and crisp with a faint crease at top back corner. A few spots to fore-edge, not encroaching on pages. Binding... More about Idiot Tooth: Issue #2
Advance Reader's Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. Advance Reader's Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 294pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers square and crisp with light bumps to spine ends and lighter still at corners, but with no tears or marks. Binding is sound... More about There There: A Novel
First Edition. Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers, 1943. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth-covered boards with black lettering. Jacket shows a couple 1.5" tears, one at bottom front near spine and another at top back, along with couple smaller clean tears and rubbing along edges, but is clean... More about Harriet Tubman
Aubrey Beardsley. London: John Lane - The Bodley Head, 1912. 16mo; 82pp +6 ads. 16 illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, all present. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Lacks dust jacket. Covers lightly edgeworn with bumps to top corners and spine ends. Spine rolled. Pages roughly opened at fore-edge. Opens easily... More about Salome: A Tragedy in One Act
First Thus. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1912. First Printing thus. Octavo; 216pp. Portrait frontis with tissue guard. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt border, lettering, and illustration. Boards rubbed along edges with bumping to corners and spine ends, along with a few light scuffs to back. Spine a bit... More about Man A Machine: Including Frederick the Great's "Eulogy" on la Mettrie and Extracts from...
First Edition. London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1957. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 314pp. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few small tears at folds and rubbing to spine ends, along with a large faint stain at back top and a.... More about Move Over, Mountain
Mervyn Peake. First Thus. Stockholm: Zephyr Books, 1946. Library of British and American Authors Vol 67. First Thus. 12mo; 348pp. Illustrations throughout. Illustrated beige dust jacket over matching paper wraps. "Not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A." printed on back cover. Jacket chipped at head of... More about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
First Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on front free endpaper to author and columnist William Safire. Small quarto; 398pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $24.95 price intact; book in brown paper- and cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to... More about Rediscovering America: Journeys Through Our Forgotten Past
First Edition. New York: Academic Press, 1983. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by coauthor Arthur B. Laffer on front free endpaper with inscription to author, columnist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire with inscription, "To Bill Safire, A man who takes me from sitting in error to standing corrected. Thanks... More about Foundations of Supply-Side Economics: Theory and Practice
First Edition. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1858. First Edition. Octavo. 275 pages plus advertisements. Front and rear boards of red cloth blindstamped with ornamental decoration; spine stamped in gilt with title and a decoration of Cupid with three hearts caught on his arrow. Yellow endpapers with "C.C.B. Davis" both... More about The Dictionary of Love; Containing a Definition of All the Terms Used in the History of the...
First Edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on front free endpaper to author, columnist, and former Nixon speechwriter William Safire with inscription "For William Safire -- With the respect that an academic reserves for a politician of substance -- Bob Greene."... More about The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations
First Edition. Philadelpiha: M. Carey and Son, 1817. First Edition. Octavo; viii, [9]-425pp. Portrait frontis. Full leather with red title card to spine. Missing maps. Front board detached along with front free endpaper and fly leaf along front joint, with rear joint cracking but still holding. Leather scuffed, bumped and... More about The Life of Andrew Jackson: Major General in the Service of the United States, Comprising a...
Third Edition. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1797. Third Edition. Duodecimo. 318 pages plus 2 pages of advertisements. Full contemporary sheep with red spine label. Translated from Dutch. The translator's "Advertisement" claims that this work is an extension of Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa," though the title and names have been altered because, "it... More about Letters and Conversations Between Several Young Ladies on Interesting and Improving Subjects
First Paperback Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Stated First Paperback Edition. Octavo; 221pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers clean and crisp with light shelfwear but no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Huguenot tract originally published in 1579 concerning the relationship between the people... More about Vindiciae, Contra Tyrannos, or, Concerning the Legitimate Power of a Prince Over the People, and...
First Edition. Philadelphia: Silas Engles, 1805. First Edition. Duodecimo. 358 pages plus errata. Lacks frontispiece. Full contemporary sheep with front cover crudely glued to spine. Gilt ruling and black label to spine. Edges scuffed, with a one inch abrasion tracing diagonally from front top corner of front board. Endpapers moderately... More about Avenia: Or, a Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and Infringement of the...
Vida Rouse. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Quarto. 248 pages. Signed by author on half title page to William and Helene Safire with inscription "For Helene and Bill Safire: / Without you there / would be no 'Guess Who's / in the Kitchen.'... More about Guess Who's in the Kitchen
London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, [N.d., possibly 1880s]. Later Edition. Small Quarto. 784 pages. Prize binding. Red leather boards with gilt emblem of Haileybury College on front, gilt border and spine ornamentation, and gilt dentelles to turn-ins. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Prize bookplate on front pastedown to W.L. Ogle..... More about The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon: Consisting of an Alphabetical Arrangement of Every...
First Edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper to William Safire with inscription, "For William Safire / -- who (alone) has / noticed that this book / is mis-titled! / With best wishes for / much good news, and /... More about The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong
First Edition. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002. First Edition. Thick Quarto. 1014 pages. Inscribed by Chief Editor Hall to William Safire on front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "For William Safire and / the Charles A. Dana / Foundation, / With thanks for / your crucial support... More about Dictionary of American Regional English Volume IV: P - Sk