New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. First Edition stated and with "B-C" code to copyright page. Octavo. 365 pp. + 6 pp. publishers advertisements. Stockton Mulford-illustrated dust jacket with original "$2.00" price present. Brown boards stamped in black. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket worn and lightly chipped along..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939. First Edition stated and with "M-N" code to copyright page. Octavo. 308 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$2.00" price present. Grey boards stamped in red and black. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket worn and chipped along edges with largest chip at..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1919. First Edition with "Published June, 1919," and "F-T" code to copyright page. Octavo. 267 pp. Color frontispiece and 58 additional black and white photographs taken by the author. Blue boards stamped in gilt and mounted photo. Top edge gilt. Lacks dust jacket... More
London: Phoenix House, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. 212 pp. Photographic dust jacket. Red-brown boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Boards lightly rubbed at bottom of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's debut novel and second published book after his..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 2009. First Edition. Signed by McCann on title page with date but no further inscription. Octavo. 349 pp. Photographic dust jacket. Dark purple boards stamped in white. Purple endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards lightly worn and nudged at top of spine with..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. 203 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in white. Unclipped dust jacket shows light edgewear, general rubbing, a 1" closed tear at top of spine, and spotting to verso. Boards lightly worn along edges with some toning along bottom..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition, No. 870 in a limited "New Windsor Edition" of 1000. Signed by the author. Octavo (24.5x16.5x2cm); 187pp, including 25 appendices listing prestigious members, offices, awards, honors, statues, medals, and colors attributed to the society and its membership, with bibliography. Pale wedgewood boards..... More
![A Defense of Circe [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Katherine Anne Porter](/pictures/thumb/9291.jpg?v=1618604703)
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1954 [published 1955]. First Edition, "limited to 1700 copies privately printed for the friends of the author and her publishers as a New Year's greeting." Bookplate signed with Porter's "KAP" laid in at front. Small octavo; 22pp. Marbled paper-covered boards with mounted white..... More
New York: Franklin Watts, 1974. Presumed First Edition with no additional printings listed. Signed by Carle with large, multi-color ape illustration on front free endpaper with inscription "For Robert with love." Quarto; unpaginated [32pp + illustrated flyleaves]. Illustrated dust jacket over matching illustrated cloth. Price-clipped dust jacket shows an..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1979. First Edition with "First Published" to copyright page. Octavo. 426 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $11.95 price intact; book in black boards with gilt lettering. Jacket lightly worn along edges and rubbed at top corners, with some scuffing at spine ends. Spine very faintly..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. Stated First Edition. Signed on title page with various inscriptions to "Holly" by Marie Arana, Alice McDermott, Carolyn Parkhurst, and Mary Kay Zuravleff. Octavo; 231pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly shelfworn with a couple small bumps along top front and a...... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. Stated First Edition. Small octavo; [viii]. [1-2], 3-135pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $15.00 price intact; book in black cloth with blindstamped initials to front and gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with very light rubbing along bottom edge. Boards are..... More
New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only [Thomas Seltzer], 1920. Limited Edition of 1250 copies, this being 1192 numbered in red ink. Tall octavo (9.75" x 6.5"); [iv], [1-3], 4-536pp. Blue buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Boards rubbed and scuffed along edges and joints, with some scuffing, nudging, and..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1954. First Edition. 16mo (7" x 5"); [xi], 12-575pp. Salmon dust jacket folded over plain white wraps. Printed on India paper. Covers rubbed along edges with shallow chips / tears at spine ends, some creasing to back, and a nickel-sized abrasion to top front corner, presumably..... More
Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1974. First Edition. Folio (38x27x1cm; in chemise of 29x27.5x1.5cm); [iii] + 41pp, each page a double-spread. Traditional Chinese fukurotoji stab-binding, with the bound spine on the right edge and the pages folded at the outer edge. Wraps of limp textured teal paper with rice paper..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo (20x14x3cm); 319pp. Honey-brown cloth with gilt rules and lettering on front panel and spine; textblock top gilt, other edges untrimmed. [BAL 10644, showing called-for nail head impressions in gutters; Phillips p. 59; Edel-Laurence A55] Very slight soiling overall..... More
![One Today: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration January 21, 2013 [Signed]. Richard...](/pictures/thumb/9277.jpg?v=1618260151)
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2013. First Edition. Signed by Blanco on title page with brief inscription. 12mo. Unpaginated. Printed wraps stamped in gilt and black. Wraps lightly rubbed along edges. Small shadow of sticker residue at top front corner. Binding sound and pages unmarked. More
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928. First thus. Octavo. 362 pp. Frontis portrait. Red cloth stamped in black with bubble-bursting vignette to front. No dust jacket. Black topstain. Boards worn along extremities with exposure and 1 1/2" gash to spine. Spine a touch faded. Light foxing to preliminaries..... More
![Deacon King Kong [Signed]. James McBride](/pictures/thumb/9273.jpg?v=1618328614)
New York: Riverhead Books, 2020. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by McBride on title page without inscription. Octavo. 370 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Orange and red boards stamped in black. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with "Signed First Edition" sticker to front panel. Boards very..... More
![Presidents of War [Signed]. Michael Beschloss](/pictures/thumb/9272.jpg?v=1618329546)
New York: Crown, 2018. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Signed by Beschloss on half title without inscription. Thick octavo. 740 pp. Color and black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Light and dark blue boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981-1985. Three octavo volumes comprising the "Guinevere Series" or "Guinevere Trilogy." Guinevere and The Chessboard Queen are First Edition, First Printings, and Guinevere Evermore a Second Printing. All three volumes signed by Newman with personalized inscriptions to University of Maryland Professor Harold Herman. Five typed..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Book / Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1978. First Edition. Signed by Dyer on front free endpaper without inscription. Octavo. 262 pp. Photographic dust jacket. Red boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket worn and toned along edges with some general creasing, most heavily to..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Octavo. 152 pp. Photographic dust jacket with 3/6 net price intact. Red boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is lightly chipped and rubbed along edges with smudging along spine and spotting to verso. Boards lightly worn at extremities. Binding is sound..... More
![The Big Both Ways [Signed]. John Straley](/pictures/thumb/9260.jpg?v=1618424749)
Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 2008. First Edition. Signed on title page by Straley with date but no personalized inscription. Octavo. 350 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. A touch of wear to extremities of boards. Binding is sound and pages..... More
![Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan...](/pictures/thumb/9259.jpg?v=1618258858)
San Francisco: Pomegranate Books, 1994. First Edition (stated). Bookplate signed by Le Guin loosely laid in at front. Quarto. 79 pp. Color illustrations by Boulet. Illustrated dust jacket. Light gray boards stamped in white. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with a few bumps, creasing, and faint surface..... More