New York: Bernard Guilbert Guerney, 1929. First Trade Edition, preceded by a limited issue in 1922. Thick octavo (23.2cm); illustrated dust jacket over matching cloth boards; red topstain; 447pp. Jacket briefly chipped along edges with larger chips at spine ends; clean split along top third of front spine fold; some..... More

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974. First Edition. Signed by Blaze Starr at front free endpaper with inscription, "to Jack, a man who appreciates the fine things in life. Love, Blaze Starr." Octavo; photo-illustrated dust jacket; magenta boards stamped in gilt; 210pp. Black and white photographs. Light wear to edges of..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 2009. First Edition. Signed by Unigwe with brief inscription on full title. Octavo (21.4cm); illustrated wraps; [vi],298pp. Covers show a couple faint creases and brief scratches to surface. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better. Nigerian-born Igbo novelist Unigwe's novel follows the plight..... More

Tokyo, Japan: Shinseisha, [1903]. First Japanese Translation. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wraps featuring a cover sketch of Nana by nihonga artist Hyakusui Hirafuku; 177,37pp; photographic illustration of Zola and one sketch of Nana copied from an English illustration. Covers a bit soiled with a short tear along bottom edge; old binding..... More

Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia Editora, 2009. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); illustrated wraps with French flaps; 160,[2]pp. Rubbing and a couple minor smudges to covers; corners bumped. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. Debut novel from the Argentinian intellectual and feminist Camara, La Virgen Cabeza tells the..... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. First English-language Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket; red boards with gilt lettering to spine; [xxx],554pp. Jacket shelfworn with a few creases along edges and chipping at head of spine. Boards bumped along top edges, spine ends, and lightly at corners. Binding sound and..... More

New York: The Stuyvesant Press Publishers, 1908. Reprint, following the American first edition from Hudson Press. Octavo; forest green cloth stamped in black; 319pp. No dust jacket. Light wear to boards; bumping; spotting to cloth sizing; binding sound; off-setting to endpapers, else unmarked; a Very Good copy. Now..... More

Boston: New England Female Moral Reform Society, 1839. First Edition. Octavo; self-wrappers, unopened. 16pp. Toning and creasing to edges with a few minor nicks; about Very Good. The New England Female Moral Reform Society's stated goal was the "prevention of licentiousness," prostitution, the moral double standard regarding both..... More

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2021. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (23.4cm); illustrated wraps; [x],243pp. Mild rubbing to edges; corners curled; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good or better. Written by a queer, Sydney-based sex worker and told in a stream of consciousness narrative style inspired by Virginia..... More

United States: n.d., [ca. 1980]. Octavo (21cm); pictorial QSS 1-hour photo album containing twenty-two (22) original color snapshots (8.5x13cm), with an additional photograph added to the final snapshot as a collage element. Wrappers rather rubbed, old marker annotation to both covers—"Pro Girl Wrestlers in Nude Bowl[?]"—with "C— D— Stomped in..... More