San Francisco, CA: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First Edition, first printing in a second state dust jacket. Octavo. 506 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in white. Price-clipped dust jacket rubbed with some scuffing; 2" tear along bottom edge of front..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 396 pp. Color illustrations and text printed in red and green. Illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket lightly edgeworn with a few nicks and some creasing to corners; spine sunned. Boards..... More
New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition stated, first printing with number line ending in "2" in accordance with publisher's practice at the time. Octavo. 206 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with '$5.95" price present. Gray boards with spine lettered in white. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1924 [but 1923]. First Edition with "Other Books" facing title beginning with Adventures of Sally and ending with Love Among the Chickens. Octavo. 327 pp. Green cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Boards rubbed along edges and joints a few tears with brief..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1977. First Edition, First Printing with R49 gutter code at page 447. Octavo. 447 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price intact. Black and tan boards with spine lettered in gilt. Ex-library with adhesive remnants, but with no institutional markings (see below)... More
South Melbourne, Australia: Crime Book Publishing Co. Proprietary Limited, 1940. Presumed First Edition with no other printings listed. Octavo. 284 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Red cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn along edges, split along bottom edge of rear joint with fraying; scuffed and..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. First UK Edition. Octavo. 127 pp. Printed dust jacket. Brown cloth over paper-covered boards with paper spine label. Dust jacket chipped along edges with a rather large patch of loss to front panel near top of front fold; spine mildly toned. Boards show light..... More
![Item #14653 Situation Normal... [Signed]. Arthur Miller](/pictures/thumb/14653.jpg?v=1670247897)
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. First Edition. Signed by Arthur Miller at title page without inscription. Octavo. 179 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$2.00" price present. Yellow boards stamped in black and red. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general soiling and smudging and tape mending to..... More
![Item #14650 A View from the Bridge [Signed by Arthur Miller and Eileen Heckart]. Arthur Miller](/pictures/thumb/14650.jpg?v=1670248781)
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. Signed by Arthur Miller at title page and by Eileen Eckhart at the cast list page for A Memory of Two Mondays. Octavo. 160 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Beige boards stamped in red. Price-clipped dust jacket..... More
![Item #14645 Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories [Signed]. John Updike](/pictures/thumb/14645.jpg?v=1670285924)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First Edition, stated. Signed by Updike without inscription at title page. Octavo. 281 pp. Printed dust jacket. Red and grab boards stamped in silver. Ticket to a Washington Post Book Club even featuring John Updike laid in at front. Unclipped dust jacket..... More
![Item #14631 Rabbit Is Rich [Signed]. John Updike](/pictures/thumb/14631.jpg?v=1669732716)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition, stated. Signed by Updike at title page with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 467pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $13.95 price intact. Bronze boards stamped in silver and gilt. Red topstain. Dust jacket lightly worn and toned along edges, with some..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1906. First Edition with "Published October 1906" to copyright page, second state with tipped in title page. Octavo (7.75 x 5.5 "). 327 pp. + 4 pp. adverts. Eight full-color plates (including frontispiece) and five divider illustrations in orange-brown. Gray-green cloth binding has been recased with..... More
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. Limited Edition of 500 copies, this being #454. Signed by Dunsany at end of preface and by Sime on frontispiece. Small quarto. 322 pp. Frontispiece with lettered tissue guards. Original quarter vellum and burnt orange boards with leather spine label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers;..... More
[N.p.]: Privately Printed / Carbonnek, 1923. Limited Edition of 1050 copies signed by Machen, this being #942. Octavo. 331 pp. Black and white illustration following text. Publisher's vellum backed boards with gilt lettering to spine. Blue endpapers. Boards edgeworn with bumping and brief exposure at corners; spine..... More
Philadelphia: William B. Evans & Co., 1873. First Edition. Octavo. 349 pp. + 2 pp. ads. Black and white frontis with tissue guard. Publisher's brick red cloth stamped decorated in black and gilt. Brown endpapers. Corners and spine ends bumped and boards scuffed along edges, with an inch..... More
![Item #14594 Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement [Signed note laid in]. John Lewis,...](/pictures/thumb/14594.jpg?v=1669135631)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Note signed by John Lewis with brief inscription to previous owner on lined notebook paper loosely laid in . Large octavo. 496 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to dust jacket and moderate..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. First Edition. Octavo. 372 pp. Seven color plates including frontispiece with tissue guard; numerous additional black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Red cloth decorated in gilt with dragon motif to front. All edges gilt; illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket lightly chipped at extremities..... More
Brookfield, CT: The Millbrook Press, 1991. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo. 63 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver and red. Red endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed at verso with a couple very short closed tears to bottom edge of rear panel..... More
![Item #14504 Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life [Four volume set]. George Eliot](/pictures/thumb/14504.jpg?v=1667845822)
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871-1872. First Edition in book form. Four octavo volumes. Bound in contemporary half morocco; five compartments to spine; lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Lacking half titles and errata. Uncorrected "viros nulli" to page 103, line 17 of volume II. Boards worn..... More
New York: Ballantine Books / Random House, 1975. First U.S. Edition, stated First Printing, August, 1975. Quarto. Unpaginated. Color illustrations. Illustrated covers staple-bound at top edge. Covers lightly edgeworn with a bit of rubbing / bumping at corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More