First Printing. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 72pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.95 price; book in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket edgeworn with a small, clean tear at top front and shallow chipping to head of spine. Boards are square... More about For the Union Dead
First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First Edition. Inscribed by editor and translator Jerrold "Jerry" Schecter to author, journalist, and speechwriter William Safire on half title page. Small Quarto. In dust jacket with original "$19.95" price present. Black boards with spine stamped in gilt. Inscription reads... More about Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes
First Mexican Edition. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. First Mexican Edition. Published in the same year in Argentina and Mexico. Sextodecimo. 159 pages. Text in Spanish. Black and white illustrations. In illustrated dust jacket. Patterned copper boards with spine and front board stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is... More about Manual de Zoologia Fantastica
George Cruikshank; Robert Cruikchank. First Edition. London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828. First Edition. Octavo; viii, 184pp. Six plates including frontis, all present. Harvard University Library binding in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Harvard College Library bookplate on front pastedown with circular deaccession/"released" stamp on plate and small... More about Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect; and Poems
First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition. Signed by author on title page without inscription. Octavo. 308 pages. In illustrated dust jacket with original $24.95 price. Textured sky blue cloth with spine and front board stamped in silver. Some very light creasing along top edge... More about The Widows of Eastwick
First Edition. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: La Revista de Yucatan, 1919. Illustrated Wraps. Octavo. 187 pages. Black and white photographs.Text in Spanish. A chronicle of the 1910 rebellion of Valladolid, often referred to as the spark of the Mexican Revolution. Menendez was accused of sedition and inciting a rebellion... More about La Primera Chispa De La Revolucion Mexicana (El Movimiento de Valladolid en 1910) -- Estudio...
First Edition. Buenos Aires: Editorial Troquel, 1955. First Edition. Wraps. Small Octavo. 99 pages. Black and orange printed wraps. Text in spanish. An introduction to the Argentinian poet, novelist, and politician Leopoldo Lugones, whose work was an influence on authors Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Horacio Quiroga, among... More about Leopoldo Lugones
John McCrady. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First Edition with FR symbol on copyright page. Signed by author on half title with a charming inscription: "To the sweetest person I know - Devotedly, Hodding. (P.S. - It's you, Louise.)" Black and white illustrations throughout by John... More about Lower Mississippi [The Rivers of America Series
First Edition. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; 171pp. Printed dust jacket with original $8.95 price; book in blindstamped beige paper-covered boards with green cloth spine and dark green lettering. Jacket chipped at head of spine with a few small tears along edges... More about A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
First Edition. London / New York: Hogarth, 2018. Stated First United States Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 273pp. Printed dust jacket with original $26.00 price; book in speckled cream paper-covered boards with green foil lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with no... More about Normal People: A Novel
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company Publishers, 1914. Octavo. 138 pages. Frontispiece illustration tipped-in; original brown cloth over flexible boards. Rubbed at corners. Name in ink on front free endpaper, some notes in pencil on second free endpaper, and small bookseller's sticker on rear pastedown. More about Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes -- The Elegant Art of Dining
First Thus. New York: The Illustrated Modern Library, 1946. First Thus. Duodecimo. 587 pages. 10 double-page, full-color plates by Dali. With original clear acetate dust jacket with yellow lettering. Orange paper covered boards with front Dali illustration in black cloth. Spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is chipped at... More about The First Part of The Life and Achievements of the Renowned Don Quixote De La Mancha
Nicolas Sidjakov. First Edition. Sausalito, CA: Contact Editions, 1961. First Edition. Small Quarto. 288 pages followed by 19 unnumbered pages listing contributors. Creme boards with names of contributors printed in purple and green. Text in purple and green with illustrations throughout. With original illustrated slipcase. Spine of book... More about The Artists' & Writers' Cookbook
First Edition. London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 185 pages followed by fourteen pages of a blank ledger for recording wine purchases and notes. In dust jacket illustrated by film art designer Edward Carrick, with Borzoi Books colophon to base of spine. Marbled paper boards in purple cloth... More about A Book of Other Wines -- Than French
First Edition. London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 247 pages. In dust jacket illustrated by film art designer Edward Carrick. Red and mustard boards with spine stamped in grey. Dust jacket is rubbed along edges and moderately worn at corners. Borzoi books colophon at base of spine. Boards... More about A Book of French Wines
First Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 384 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $2.50 price present. Red boards with spine and front board stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is moderately rubbed and creased along edges and corners, with some slight chipping at corners and... More about The Gardener's Day Book
First Edition. London: Cassell and Company LTD, 1956. First Edition with original decorated publisher's box. Octavo. 274 pages. Blue/Purple silk boards in glassine with spine and front board in gilt. White publisher's box printed with title page info on front and price of 31s 6d. net on back. Errata slip... More about Fine Bouche: A History of the Restaurant in France
First Edition. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. 350 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with 8s. 6d. price present. Navy boards with spine in gilt. Dust jacket is edgeworn and one closed tear on top right corner of front panel. Boards are square in binding. A trifle... More about Vegetable Cookery
First Edition. London: Andre Deutsch, 1956. First Edition. Octavo. 375 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.50 price present. Yellow boards with spine stamped in green. Dust jacket is moderately worn along spine ends and at corners. Dampstain along top and fore edge of rear flap, and bleeds... More about The Scottish Cookery Book
First Edition. New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First Edition. Octavo. 184 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.50 price. In brown and green cloth with spine stamped in black. Dust jacket is worn along edges with some loss at corners. Spine somewhat faded. Slight roll to the... More about Jesse's Book of Creole and Deep South Recipes
First Edition. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. 127 pages. Lacks dust jacket. Limited Edition, numbered 228 of 500 copies printed on Batchelor's Hammer & Anvil handmade paper by the Fanfare Press. Includes eleven illustrations from artist Thomas Lowinsky. Brown and dark red cloth with spine in gilt... More about Lovely Food: A Cookery Notebook
First Edition. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Stated First Edition. Signed by Wallace with brief inscription to writer, columnist, and former Nixon speechwriter William Safire on front free endpaper. Octavo; 183pp. Printed dust jacket with original $7.95 price; book in gray paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine and silver... More about Stand up for America
First Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author to fellow writer and columnist William Safie on front free endpaper with inscription: "Bill | May all your prophecies | come true -- as they | usually do. || Wil all best wishes... More about A Walking Guide: A Novel
First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on tipped-in flyleaf. Octavo; 317pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $26.95 price' book in green and copper paper-covered boards with black lettering and ornamentation. Jacket is rippled a bit at bottom front edge... More about The Buried Giant
First Edition. New York: Viking, 1986. First Edition, First Printing with "First published in" on copyright. Illustrated dustjacket with original $22.95 price; book in black paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and red foil lettering. Jacket is lightly shelfworn with some nudging to head of spine but no chips or... More about It: A Novel