![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
San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2002. First Edition (stated). Octavo. 439 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in blue. Epistolary endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed along edges, a little more heavily at top of spine. Bottom corners of boards slightly bumped and top of spine a...... More
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, 1998. First Edition (stated). Octavo. 486 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket with original $29.95 price intact. Black boards stamped in gilt. Green endpapers. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges, but with no chips or tears. Bottom edge of boards just..... More
![What Dreams May Come [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Richard Matheson](/images/noimage.png)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Matheson loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 304 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $9.95 price present. Gray boards stamped in red. Dust jacket worn along edges with some light chipping. Spotting to verso. Boards with light shelfwear..... More
London: Lutterworth Press, 1953. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "Happy Christmas Phil - to (?) you & your family. Hope you'll enjoy this effort of mine. M - Nov 1953." Octavo; 208pp. Full-color frontis, with moon illustration preceding text. Blue cloth-covered boards..... More
Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1979. First Edition. Signed and inscribed: "For Ceci[e]lia, with thanks, DL 1979." Quarto (29x22x2cm); xxvi + 150pp, including index. Over 175 B&W documentary photographs and images. Photographic dust jacket. Volume in gray cloth with black spine and front panel stamping. Doublespread endpapers with map of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Octavo. 310 pp. Dark and light gray boards stamped in orange. Lacks dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure at corners and three short tears to top of spine. Nudged at bottom of spine. Slight lean..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo (25x19x2.5cm); xvi + 231pp, including bibliography and index. Ten color plates; 67 B&W images. Photographic dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt spine stamping (and a dot, just a dot, of maroon). Both jacket and volume are Near Fine, impeccably clean..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First American Edition. Octavo (24x17x6cm); xxv + 821pp, including indices. Dust jacket with portrait photographs. Deep purple cloth with silver spine stamping and Arendt's and Jasper's signatures blind stamped on front panel. Both unclipped jacket and volume are impeccable, with no signs..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5x13.5x3cm); xvi + 380pp, including bibliography and index + 8pp of publisher's prospectuses, including Darwin and Spencer. Four full-page plates and 20 figures. [Sabin 42601] Red ochre publisher's percaline with blind-stamped frames and borders on both panels; gilt..... More
![Ghosts and Grisly Things [Signed]. Ramsey Campbell](/pictures/thumb/9192.jpg?v=1618421177)
Nottingham: Pumpkin Books, 1998. First Trade Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,300pp. Corners gently bumped, else Fine. Signed by the author on title page. Collection of twenty horror short stories, including one previously unpublished novella. More
![The Face That Must Die [Signed by Campbell and Bloch]. Ramsey Campbell, J K. Potter, Robert...](/pictures/thumb/9191.jpg?v=1618415846)
Santa Cruz, CA: Scream/Press, 1983. Stated First Edition (First Thus.) Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; [2],xxxv,[1],213pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear with very faint rippling to jacket, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Signed by Campbell and Bloch on half title page..... More
![There Is a Serpent in Eden [alt. title The Cunning] [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Robert Bloch](/pictures/thumb/9190.jpg?v=1617738873)
New York: Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp., 1979. First Edition, stated First Printing, September 1979. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's black photo-illustrated card wrappers, all edges stained yellow; 240pp. Light shelf wear, textblock a shade toned, else Very Good or better. Spine straight and unbroken. Bookplate signed by the author laid..... More