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
Haifa, Israel: Or-Ron Publishing House Ltd., 1984. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [6],vi,280pp.; photo-illustrated endpapers. Light shelf wear, brief shallow biopredation along bottom margin of jacket spine not approaching text, corners bumped, some occasional pencil marginalia and highlighting to early leaves; overall Good to Very..... More
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, 1953. First Printing of the First American Hardcover Edition, with no additional printings listed. Octavo; 105pp. Printed black dust jacket with white and green lettering; bound in green cloth with black lettering to front and spine. Price-clipped jacket shows light rubbing at extremities and a couple..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. Early Printing, with "refrred" on p. 321, smaller "G" on p. 381, "Domininque" on p. 480," and "weight" on p. 651. Page number on p. 9 complete and unbroken. Octavo; 753pp. Second-issue dust jacket with $3.00 price intact and author photo with blurbs on back. Bound..... More
New Castle, PA: The Peace Makers, 1995. First Edition. Tall octavo. 242 pages plus advertisements. Comb-bound wrappers. Black and white illustrations. A collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches written, "out of disgust for some of the excruciatingly awful ripoffs I've read over the past few years." Nicolls would follow up..... More
New Castle, PA: The Peace Makers, 1996. First Edition. Tall octavo. 274 pages. Comb-bound wrappers. Purple card stock title pages for each story. Black and white illustrations. A collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches written, "out of disgust for some of the excruciatingly awful ripoffs I've read over the past..... More
New York: The Viking Press / A Seaver Book, 1979. First Edition. Octavo. 348 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $10.95 price intact. Light blue and beige boards stamped in copper and blue. Dust jacket worn and toned along edges with a few short closed tears. Boards shelfworn with..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1983]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; 252pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket extremities, front jacket panel a bit wrinkled and toned, small soil spot to top textblock edge, else Very Good and sound. Barbara Pym's first book, though it..... More
![Item #8370 The Innocent Villa [Signed]. Barnaby Conrad](/pictures/thumb/8370.jpg?v=1609795220)
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Signed by Conrad on front free endpaper without inscription. Octavo. 246 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $2.75 price present. Beige boards stamped in maroon and gilt. First book from the author of Matador. Dust jacket rubbed with some light chipping..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2005. Six octavo volumes. Various paginations. Color frontispieces to each volume. Full red leather with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on covers and spine; all edges gilt; orange satin ribbons. A hint of shelfwear and rubbing to boards. Bindings sound. No bookplates..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey buckram, upper cover and spine lettered in dark blue; 399pp. Moderate wear to cloth extremities including some minor fraying at spine ends, spine lettering a bit faded, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good, sound copy overall... More
![Item #9348 The Malcontenta [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Barry Maitland](/pictures/thumb/9348.jpg?v=1619118064)
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [4],348pp. Light wrinkling along top margins of jacket, small paper flaw to verso of front flap not affecting exterior, a trifle rubbing at spine crown; boards square with a moderate bump at head of spine..... More
![Item #8950 The Weathermakers [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Ben Bova](/pictures/thumb/8950.jpg?v=1615560188)
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Bova loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 250 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price present. Dust jacket is chipped at spine ends with some general toning. Short closed tear to top edge of front panel..... More
![Item #9145 The Thing Quarterly: Issue 21 [Thompson Cream]. Ben Marcus](/pictures/thumb/9145.jpg?v=1616699968)
San Francisco: The Thing Quarterly, [2013]. First Edition. Side-stapled booklet (5" x 5"); 8pp + tin of Thompson Cream (2.5 oz). Housed in original cardboard presentation box. Booklet clean and crisp with faint bend at top fore-edge corner. Thompson Cream tin unsealed but unperturbed, with plastic seal still..... More
![Item #8360 Elegy for April [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Benjamin Black, pseud. John Banville](/pictures/thumb/8360.jpg?v=1610564327)
London: Mantle, 2010. First Edition. Henry Holt and Company bookplate signed by "B Black" loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 313 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed with some light creasing along edges. Boards sturdy and square with traces of wear..... More
![Item #8468 Vengeance [Limited Edition, Signed by Banville as Black]. Benjamin Black, pseud. John...](/pictures/thumb/8468.jpeg?v=1612629769)
London: Mantle, 2012. First Edition limited to 300 signed copies of which this is no. 144. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],312pp. Just a hint of shelf wear to jacket extremities, ISBN sticker to rear panel (presumably as issued), else Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon..... More
![Item #13979 Too Late to Die [Inscribed and Signed]. Bill Crider](/pictures/thumb/13979.jpg?v=1661528290)
New York: Walker and Company, 1986. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's boards in grey pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [6],183pp. Jacket flaps a bit toned, corners bumped, else a Very Good or better copy overall. Review copy of the author's first book with slip laid..... More
New York: Gnome Press, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); 191pp. A few shallow chips and closed tears to jacket extremities never approaching text, light soil to rear panel, boards a bit scuffed, contemporary ownership inscription to front..... More
![Item #14258 The Midlander [Limited Edition, Signed]. Booth Tarkington](/pictures/thumb/14258.jpg?v=1664976399)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition, Limited to 377 copies of which this is no. 148. Large octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered paper-covered boards, top edge gilt; [10],493pp. Spine rather brittle and lightly toned with small losses at spine crown, brief scuffing at margins, dust jacket remnants..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1947. First Edition (stated). Octavo; publisher's cloth in pink decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [6],341pp. Light shelf wear, some foxing to jacket flap folds, spine panel a shade sunned, corners gently bumped, else a Very Good and sound copy overall. Three..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1932. First Edition (stated). Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50), red topstain; [8],318pp.; color frontispiece. General shelf wear to dust jacket including tiny loss at top fore-edge corner of front panel not approaching text, red lettering on..... More
![Item #10088 Frankenstein Unbound [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Brian Aldiss](/pictures/thumb/10088.jpg?v=1625681030)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Aldiss loosely laid in at front. Octavo; 184pp. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows a closed inch tear at top front near spine, with some light scuffing along folds and spine ends. Boards are square..... More
![Item #12903 Blood Risk [Bookplate Signed by Koontz Laid in]. Brian Coffey, pseud. of Dean Koontz](/pictures/thumb/12903.jpg?v=1650981024)
New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1973. A Black Bat Mystery. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Dean Koontz laid in. Octavo; 160 pp. Pictorial dust jacket with $5.95 price. Red cloth boards with silver lettering stamped on spine. Jacket shelfworn with rubbing along edges and spine ends and a couple tiny..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 272pp. Very minor spine lean, a hint of shelf wear, else a fresh, Very Good to Near Fine copy. Bookplate signed by the author for a private collector laid in. The continued sexual escapes..... More
![Item #10092 Decade: The 1940s [Bookplate Signed by Aldis Laid in]. Brian W. Aldiss, Harry...](/pictures/thumb/10092.jpg?v=1625682653)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Aldiss loosely laid in. Octavo; [iv], 212pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; book in red buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square with..... More