London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1967. First British Edition. Octavo. 110 pages +2 unnumbered pages. Original pictorial boards with no dust jacket as issued. Black and white illustrations. Lightly worn at extremities, with some exposure at spine ends. Laminate peeling at bottom of spine and chipped at..... More
New York: World Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Octavo. 170 pages. Signed by Valenti on half title to William Safire with inscription, "To Bill Safire - To reach to be a 'Safire' / and not quite make it, / is still an achievement! / Affectionately / Jack Valenti."... More
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919. First Edition. Signed by Kerensky on front free endpaper to journalist William Safire simply "To Bill Safire, Alexander Kerensky, March 6th, 1950. N.Y." (year a bit illegible but assumed from Safire's writings of their meeting). Octavo; xxiii, 312pp. Black cloth-covered boards with..... More
New York: Random House, 1986. Stated First Edition with numberline to 2 in keeping with publisher's identification methods at the time. Octavo; 140pp. Printed dust jacket over blindstamped purple paper-covered boards with gray cloth spine and blue lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows light rubbing along edges, but no chips or tears..... More
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo; 61pp. Printed gray and blue dust jacket; book in light blue cloth-covered boards. Jacket lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, with some toning along spine and fore-edge, but with no chips or tears. Boards are square, with toning to..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943. First Edition, First Printing with no subsequent printings listed on copyright and five-line colophon at back. Small quarto. Book in salmon cloth-covered boards with red lettering and illustration. Missing dust jacket. Boards bumped at corners, with a small dent to back at fore-edge, some..... More
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Middlebury: Middlebury College Press, 1939. First Edition. Signed by Robert Frost and dated 1939 without inscription on full title. Octavo; 174pp. Six illustrations including frontis. Green paper-covered boards with beige cloth spine and small printed paper spine label. Missing scarce original acetate jacket. Front corners lightly bumped, with faint fading..... More
[New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 296pp. Printed photographic dust jacket with original $7.95 price intact; book in black cloth-covered boards with silver and fuchsia lettering. Jacket split in two parts with much of the spine section missing, large tears and chips..... More
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London: B. Law, 1774. First Thus. Octavo; Vol I xii + 404pp; Vol II xii + 441pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses bound in. Contemporary tree calf with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine. Gilt filleting on all board edges, and additional trio of small gilt stamps on spine crowns..... More
[New York]: Ariel Books / Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 211pp. Marbled paper-covered boards over cloth with gray and yellow lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. Color (formerly blue) almost completely faded/bleached from cloth, with some spotting at tail of spine and a couple spots of..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. First Edition. Small Octavo; xii + 212pp. Six full-page woodcuts + frontispiece woodcut with four-color overprint. Additional fifteen small woodcuts as chapter head-pieces. Black cloth with red paper inset labels on spine and front panel; front panel inset is woodcut portrait of heroine... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951. First Edition. Signed by the author with inscription "For A___ B_____ (illegible) -- With best wishes and best luck. Bill Buckley" Octavo; xix, 240pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket back panel and flap, tattered along fold and chipped along top..... More
New York: Random House, 1931. Limited Edition of 400 copies, signed by Faulkner out of series (stated) on colophon at back. Octavo; 17pp. Red marbled paper-covered boards with white title card to front. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with paper coming up along bottom 3" of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962. First Edition. Octavo. 335 pages. Unclipped graphic dust jacket with original $5.00 price present. Red and black boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is rubbed on front panel and edges, has a few inoffensive closed tears, and light chipping at..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. Octavo; 429pp. Second State dust jacket with "Author on the left" caption, mention of Catholic Press Association award on back flap, and original $1.00 price intact. Book in second state black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket chipped at spine..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 335 pages. Frontispiece; 15 black and white plates; fold-out map printed in black and red tipped in at rear. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.00" price present. Plum glacé boards stamped in black at spine and front board..... More
New York: Random House, 1957. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 1168pp. Original first state illustrated dust jacket with 10/57 at bottom of front flap and publisher's name and address at bottom of back; book in green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Jacket is price-clipped, with a 3" x 1" chip at..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 546 pages. Signed by Cesar Chavez on half title with inscription, "To Joe and Marie / best wishes / Cesar Chavez / 9/16/85." Price-clipped photographic dust jacket is chipped along edges with tears to spine ends and some..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Stated First Printing / Printed in the United States of America. Octavo; 216pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with Cock Robin Thriller emblem on front and marigold lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly edgeworn and spine a bit rolled, with a small chip at..... More
London: James Duncan, 1827. First Thus. Octavo. xxviii, 551 pages. Drab olive cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Worn with some exposure to extremities. Spine a touch faded. Some staining and scuffing to boards. Markings in pencil to endpapers; some light foxing to pages; binding is sound and pages otherwise..... More
Philadephia: John C. Winston Company, 1949. First Thus. Octavo. 417 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout plus 8 color plates. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.50" price present. Abridged by Maugham and includes his introduction. Dust jacket is lightly chipped at corners and spine ends with two..... More
London: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2017. First Edition. Octavo. 305 pages. Volume 52 in the Camden Fifth Series. Illustrated dust jacket is a trifle worn at corners. Red boards are stamped in gilt at spine and show some very light smudging to bottom edge and a...... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. First Edition. Tall Octavo. 293 pages. Lacks dust jacket. Signed on printed presentation leaf by Zukor to a Trevor Faulkner. Blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Chipped and frayed at spine ends with some loss..... More
New York: Random House, 1986. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 307 pages. Signed by author without inscription on half title. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket is lightly rubbed and creased along edges. Some toning to spine. White boards in blue cloth with spine stamped in copper. Some fading and soiling..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 688 pages. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket shows some creasing along edges, more pronounced at spine ends, and light rubbing to front panel. Black boards are stamped in green at spine and red to front. Tugged and with some wear to..... More