New York: Rinehart & Company, 1956. First Edition with "R" on copyright page. Octavo; publisher's boards in blue pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); [8],245pp. Shelf wear to jacket and board extremities, jacket spine panel a bit toned, as is textblock, corners bumped; overall a Very Good, still quite..... More
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1938. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's yellow cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, yellow topstain; [6],297pp. Cloth a bit rubbed at extremities with some exposure, most notably at spine ends, spine cloth and margins toned; overall Very Good, internally..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); [4],188pp. Jacket a bit wrinkled and rubbed at extremities, perished glue to flaps and pastedowns, minor spine lean, faint white soiling to boards as well as occasional soiling and foxing..... More
San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1955. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Octavo. 40 pp. Illustrated wraps. Photographs of a busts of Henry Miller affixed to front and rear endpapers. Wraps lightly edgeworn with some toning. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions of a Jack Pieri to front and rear..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. First Edition, with GHD colophon on title page and copyright. Octavo; 294pp. Publisher's olive cloth with black lettering and illustration. Map endpapers. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly edgeworn and nudged at spine ends, with a couple faint smudges. Spine a bit cocked. Prior..... More
Boston: Atlantic / Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First American Edition (stated). Octavo; 1304pp. Black dust jacket with $29.95 price intact; book in beige and black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a small, closed tear at top of back inner flap, along with some nudging / creasing..... More
![A Minor Ode to the Morgan Horse [Signed]. William Jay Smith](/pictures/thumb/12038.jpg?v=1642534940)
N.p.: N.p., 1961. First Edition. Signed by the author "Best wishes, Barbara & Bill" opposite text. Single folded sheet (7" x ~4.75"); title printed in green and black with "Christmas 1961" printed at bottom. Externally toned along edges with faint rubbing. Unmarked. Greeting-card-style poem from William Jay Smith and..... More
New Rochelle: The Elizabeth Press, 1980. First Edition. Octavo; 243pp. Printed beige paper wraps. Covers bumped at spine ends and lightly rubbed at corners, with a couple very faint smudges to surface and a slight outward curve at fore-edge. Bump at head affects first few pages, but binding is secure..... More
![Living Instead: Poems [Signed]. William Bronk](/pictures/thumb/12036.jpg?v=1642537948)
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1991. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; [x], 98pp. Dust jacket with $16.95 price intact; book in mauve cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly rubbed along top edge with a faint scratch at bottom front, but no..... More
New York: M.S. Mill Co. / William Morrow & Company, 1950. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in price-clipped purple pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Charles Lofgren; [4],220pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn with a few small losses along top margin of front panel slightly touching text without affecting sense..... More
![Pierre Lavalle: Paintings 1947-1975 [Signed]. Alasdair Gray](/pictures/thumb/12034.jpg?v=1641914131)
[Glasgow]: Lavalle Retrospective Group, 1990. Signed by Gray without inscription on title page. Octavo; [8pp]. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers clean and crisp with very faint rubbing at corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Gray's brief bio and reminiscence of Lavalle, published for an exhibition at The Pearce..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1931. Four Volumes. First Editions, with (1) on final pages. Octavos; [vi], 105pp; [vi], 126pp; [vi],114pp; [vi], 171pp. Illustrated dust jackets over maroon cloth with mounted title cards to fronts and spines. Illustrated endpapers. Housed in illustrated paper-covered slipcase. Jackets generally clean and crisp..... More
New York: Jefferson House, 1947. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by Charles Lofgren; [8],212pp. Evidence of partly-removed ex-library markings, including rather substantial old yellow tape to jacket flaps and boards with subsequent offsetting to endpapers, bookplate to rear pastedown partially removed, top quarter inch of..... More
![I.O.U. Murder [alt. title: And Where She Stops]. Thomas B. Dewey](/pictures/thumb/12031.jpg?v=1642530898)
London: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, 1958. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; simulated cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 187pp. Jacket significantly worn with small losses at spine ends, long, shallow paper flaws from previously removed tape along both flaps with substantial loss of sense, light dampstain at tail of spine..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. Early Printing, with "refrred" on p. 321, smaller "G" on p. 381, "Domininque" on p. 480," and "weight" on p. 651. Page number on p. 9 complete and unbroken. Octavo; 753pp. Second-issue dust jacket with $3.00 price intact and author photo with blurbs on back. Bound..... More
![The Ray Bradbury Chronicles (Seven Volumes, complete) [Signed]. Ray Bradbury, ed](/pictures/thumb/12029.jpg?v=1641918380)
New York: Byron Preiss / Nantier Beal L. Minoustchine, 1992-1994. Seven Volume set in Mixed Editions: Vols 1 & 2 Trade Editions with full numberlines, signed by Bradbury without inscription on title pages, and Vols 3-7 the Limited Editions, each limited to 1000 copies and signed by Bradbury plus contributors..... More
Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1989. Limited First Printing, one of an unnumbered 300 copies. Octavo; [20pp]. Side stapled black paper wraps. Covers are clean and crisp with faint edgewear and a couple shallow crease marks along spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Two typescript programs for The New..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., [1951]. Later Printing with titles at rear flap listed to The Hidden Valley of Oz. Large octavo. 287 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Dark blue boards stamped in black with front pictorial pastedown. Dust jacket rubbed..... More
Kinderhook, IL: The International Wizard of Oz Club, Inc., 1988. First Edition. Large octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated stapled wraps. Light edgewear to covers. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked. More
Pasadena, CA: Terra Nova Press, 2014. Limited Edition of 250 copies, this being #83, signed by William Stout on publisher's limitation page facing title. Large octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps with green cloth spine. Light edgewear to wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked..... More
Kinderhook, IL: The International Wizard of Oz Club, 1972. First Edition in Binding Variant A. Large octavo. 94 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated stapled wraps. Covers worn along edges with some creasing, light general spotting, and a very short closed tear along fore-edge of front cover. Light..... More
New York: Gramercy Books, 1999. First Edition. Signed by Scarfone, Stillman, and Dubas with brief inscriptions to previous owner. Quarto. 224 pp. Illustrations, chief color. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket worn along edges with some creasing and general surface scratching. Boards lightly worn at..... More
Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat, 1880-1881. First Edition. Two volumes; large, thick quartos; publisher's half brown morocco over textured gilt-lettered cloth, gilt spines in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],556; ix,[1],269pp.; original engraved frontispieces, Vol. I contains sixty plates, including original engravings (collated and complete); Vol..... More
![The World of Oz [Signed]. Allen Eyles](/pictures/thumb/12020.jpg?v=1642172144)
Devon, UK: Black Pig Editions, 1985. Limited Edition of 500 copies, this being #21, with publisher's bookplate signed by Eyles facing title page. Large octavo. 96 pp. Illustrations, chiefly color. Black boards stamped in silver. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards show general rubbing and scuffing. Binding is sound and..... More
![Abraham Lincoln: The War Years [Volume One Only]. Carl Sandburg](/pictures/thumb/12019.jpg?v=1641926012)
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1995. Collector's Edition. Octavo; publisher's full maroon gilt-tooled morocco, all edges gilt, silk moiré endpapers; xxxi,[1],660pp.; photographic frontispiece, eight leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos, additional text illus. throughout. Publisher's unattached bookplate laid in. Just About Fine. The first volume only of the four-volume..... More