New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc. Publishers, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. 281 pp. Orange boards stamped in black; orange topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Edges and joints rubbed and spine mildly sunned. binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. First Edition, first printing. Octavo. 348 pp. Gray boards with black stamping to spine. No dust jacket. Boards show rubbing to extremities and some soiling and sunning to spine and edges. Binding is sound. Off-setting and mild spotting to endpapers but otherwise..... More
![Item #25985 The Book of Lost Things [Signed]. John Connolly](/pictures/thumb/25985.jpg?v=1679349636)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. First Edition. Signed by Connolly without personalized inscription at title page. Octavo. 310 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blind-stamped black boards. Unclipped dust jacket very gently rubbed at corners. Boards show just a hint of shelfwear. Tight in binding and pages unmarked. More
![Item #25983 Millennium People [Signed]. J G. Ballard](/pictures/thumb/25983.jpg?v=1679350084)
London: Flamingo an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. First Edition. Signed by Ballard without inscription at title page. Octavo. 294 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards lettered in silver. Unclipped dust jacket lightly creased along edges. Front board very mildly bowed and spine ends nudged. Binding sound and..... More
London: Flamingo An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. First Edition. Octavo. 1189 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards with spine lettered in silver. Tan endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket shows general rubbing with some mild creasing along edges. Boards lightly bumped at extremities, binding sound, and pages unmarked. More
![Item #25975 Dancing on the Stones: Selected Essays [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. John Nichols](/pictures/thumb/25975.jpg?v=1678813931)
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [2000]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],247pp. Fine condition. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. More
[New York]: Mysterious Bookshop, [2007]. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Small, slim 12mo; publisher's grey printed card wrappers; [2],34pp. Fine condition. Mysterious Profile #11. Chapbook devoted to the character of Kathleen Mallory, the fictional NYPD detective featured in the author's popular mystery series. More
![Item #25973 The Milagro Beanfield War [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. John Nichols, Rini Templeton](/pictures/thumb/25973.jpg?v=1678813651)
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. "Facsimile Anniversary Edition." Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],456pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of wear to jacket extremities, else a Near Fine copy. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Handsomely-produced facsimile of the first (1974) edition. More
New York: Century Co., [1932]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's yellow pictorial cloth stamped in red and black, red topstain; vi,392pp. Corners tapped, light dust-soil to boards, else Very Good and sound overall. Adventure novel by the prolific English author, this one set in India. More
![Item #25971 The Devil's Guard [alt. title: Ramsden]. Talbot Mundy](/pictures/thumb/25971.jpg?v=1678814137)
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1926]. Presumed First American Edition, though no statement provided on copyright page. Octavo; publisher's maroon buckram stamped in green; 334pp. Light shelf wear, contemporary bookseller ticket and ownership ex libris of a James C. Dine to front pastedown, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper quality..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company / Paris Review Editions, 1969. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 336pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including tiny closed tear to top margin of upper panel, light dust-soil affecting white portions of jacket, corners tapped else a Near Fine copy..... More
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [2002]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (£18.99); vi,[2],512pp.; map illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, textblock uniformly toned due to paper quality, else a Very Good or better copy overall. A Marcus Corvinus Mystery. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 222 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$2.95" price present. Beige boards stamped in red. Dust jacket creased along edges with a few short closed tears and a couple strips of tape mending to verso. Boards show light..... More
New York: Editions for the Armed Services Inc. / Council on Books in Wartime, [1942-1945]. All First Editions Thus. Small oblong 12mos (ca. 10x14cm. to 11.5x17cm.); pictorial wrappers; occasional illus., chiefly found in the volumes of cartoon collections and "Soldier Art." Most volumes show some edge wear and soil, occasional..... More
Red Cloud, Nebraska: [John A.] Bulkley, ca. 1890. Original studio portrait (16x10cm) of Willa Cather aged 16 or 17, taken while she was a student at the Nebraska Latin School. The bust-length portrait shows Cather wearing a hat over her short, buzzcut hair (as described by the Nebraska State Historical..... More
Philadelphia, PA: House of Bourbon, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 238 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in red; red endpapers. Dust jacket lightly worn and dampstained along edges with chipping to extremities; portion of bottom third of front flap neatly removed by previous owner. Boards show light shelfwear, binding..... More
![Item #25953 Bilbo: En Hobbits Aventyr [The Hobbit, Or There and Back Again]. J R. R. Tolkien,...](/pictures/thumb/25953.jpg?v=1678829081)
Orebro, Sweden: Raben & Sjogren, 1962. First Tove Jansson-illustrated Edition, preceded in Sweden by Tore Zetterholm's translation, Hompen, in 1947. Octavo. 308 pages. 12 full page black and white illustrations; smaller vignette pieces by Jansson throughout. Original green cloth with pictorial boards; spine stamped in gilt. Boards show light shelfwear..... More
New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc. Publishers, 1948. First Edition, first printing stated. Octavo. 297 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$3.00" price present. Beige boards stamped in maroon; red topstain. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges and spine lightly sunned. Boards show light shelfwear and spine ends mildly..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 326 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$2.50" price present. Red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Dust jacket chipped along edges with mild creasing and a few short closed tears. Boards with dark spotting along joints and binding is..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 317 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly chipped along edges with a short tear along top edge of rear joint with a touch of toning to spine. Boards chipped with exposure along top..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1905. First Dulac-illustrated edition. Octavo. 292 pp. Six color plates by Dulac, complete. Illustrated dust jacket. In publisher's boards decorated in dark green and gilt.; top edge gilt. Dust jacket shows some slight chipping along edges and spine with faint patchy dampstaining..... More
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. Limited Edition of 500 copies, this being #98. Signed by Dunsany at end of preface and by Sime on frontispiece. Small quarto. 322 pp. Frontispiece with lettered tissue guards. Illustrated dust jacket. Original quarter vellum and burnt orange boards and leather spine label lettered in..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1928. First Thus, "Half Leather Edition." Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's morocco over cloth boards in original orange dust jacket retaining original price on spine panel ($1.25); xx,[2],520,[4](ads)pp.; twelve (12) leaves of plates, pictorial endpapers printed in green. Fragile dust jacket separated along rear spine edge, bottom two..... More
Port Jervis: The Gazette Book & Job Print, 1892. First Edition. Octavo; 246pp +6pp appendix. Portrait frontis. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to front. Boards a bit shelfworn with light bumping to corners and spine ends, a small waterspot to front, scuffing to gilt lettering, and a few brief..... More
Omaha, NE: W.D. Poessnecker, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. 82 pp. Black and white illustrations including frontis portrait, complete. Limp leather boards stamped in gilt with metallic endpapers. Boards rather worn with chipping along edges. Binding is sound, ownership inscription to front flyleaf but pages otherwise unmarked. Scarce fictionalized..... More