New York: Blast Books, 1997. First Edition (published simultaneously in hard- and softcover). Oblong Quarto (23x25.5x1.5cm); 159pp, including appended transcripts of media reports on the crimes committed by those in the photographs. Seventy mugshot pairs, reprinted full-page from the original glass plates. Coated photographic wrappers over sewn gatherings. Covers clean..... More
Berkeley: University of California, 1954. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($10.00); xiii,[1],147pp.; tipped in color frontispiece, 111 illus. printed on 46 leaves, including two additional tipped in color plates, pictorial endpapers and text illus. throughout. Shallow chipping along the upper jacket margins..... More
Hartford: A.S. Hale and Company, 1870. First Edition, published by subscription only. Octavo; xi, [xii], 13-501pp. Engraved portrait frontis, with 14 plates and fold-out facsimiles, all present. Rebound in brown buckram with leather spine and corner tips. Boards rubbed and bumped at corners and down joints, with a small chip..... More
![Item #25128 Home Front Memo [Signed Bookplate]. Carl Sandburg](/pictures/thumb/25128.jpg?v=1673709433)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Carl Sandburg mounted to half title. Octavo. 310 pp. + b&w photographs. Blue cloth boards stamped in white. No dust jacket. Includes pieces by Sandburg on Lincoln and World War II along with a small section..... More
![Item #10238 Personal Experiences of a Cub Reporter [Signed]. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr](/pictures/thumb/10238.jpg?v=1627412201)
New York: George Sully and Company, 1922. First Edition (Sully did not have a set method for identifying printings). Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; [x], 212pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Boards rubbed and worn at corners and spine ends, with a fair..... More
![Item #11477 On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense [Signed]....](/pictures/thumb/11477.jpg?v=1645816045)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First Edition. Signed by Brooks with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 304 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Cream and green boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows some light edgewear and general rubbing. Boards shelfworn and top of spine slightly crushed..... More
Barre: Dean H. Perry / Barre Daily Times, 1928. First Edition. Octavo; 117pp. Buff dust jacket with title and author framed in black on front surface; no printing on spine. Green boards with framed title and author stamped in gold on front panel. Over 30 B&W contemporaneous documentary photographs... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on half title. Octavo; [xiv], 317pp. Black dust jacket with original $16.95 price intact; book in mustard paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket shows a small chip at top..... More
![Item #6973 50 Apuntos de Eduardo Vernazza [50 Sketch Notes by Eduardo Vernazza]. Eduardo...](/pictures/thumb/6973.jpg?v=1643049503)
Montevideo: Colombino Hermanos Ltda. Impresores, 1944. Tall quarto; 48pp [unpaginated]. Fifty ink or pencil vignettes of 38 celebrated actors and musicians, sketched during live performance, many with facsimiles of the artists' signatures. Wraps with highlight color over textblock of heavy ivory stock. The album shows liquid stains at all..... More
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906. First Edition. Octavo. 445 pp. Black and white frontis portrait with tissue guard. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Boards gently rubbed at extremities and gilt lettering heavily rubbed. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Stated First Edition. Signed by editor Frances Carpenter with brief dedication on front free endpaper. Octavo; 314pp. Printed dust jacket with original $5.75 price; book in red paper-covered boards with red cloth spine and silver lettering. Jacket chipped at spine ends with a...... More
![Item #8968 To Hell in a Handbasket [Inscribed and Signed to Earl Newsom]. H. Allen Smith](/pictures/thumb/8968.jpg?v=1615826199)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in teal pictorial dust jacket; [16],341pp. Light wear to jacket and board extremities, rear jacket panel a bit dust-soiled, ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed to notable personal relations..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 315 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price present. Oatmeal boards stamped in red and blue. Gray topstain. Dust jacket chipped along edges with some general rubbing and smudging. Corners of boards slightly bumped and a touch of..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 317 pages. Printed dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Black boards stamped in gilt. Orange topstain. Decorative endpapers. Errata slip tipped in. Dust jacket chipped along edges with heavy toning to spine. Boards show light shelfwear, with gilt along spine..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pale green pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; xi,[3],279pp. Some chipping and a few short closed tears to jacket extremities, most notably small loss at top fore-edge corner of upper panel not approaching text, external panels quite faded..... More
Norfolk: The Donning Company, 1985. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo; [xii], 548pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $12.95 price intact; bound in black leatherette with silver stamped lettering. Jacket is crisp with faint wear at corners and light scuffing at bottom back. Boards are sturdy and square with a bit..... More
New York: Rockport Press, 1950. Presumed First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50), black topstain; xiii,[3],269pp. A few small chips to jacket extremities most notably at spine crown (not approaching text), spine panel toned, corners tapped, else Very Good overall. Inscribed and..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. 316 pages. Dark red boards stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards and some chewing along edges of rear panel. Three stain rings from a glass to front panel. Binding is sound..... More
Pennsylvania? Jane Alden, [2005]. Second Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's comb-bound printed card wrappers; [12],314pp. Some light soil and wear from handling, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Self-published account of the author's thirty years of experience as a crime reporter in the United Kingdom, though at the time..... More
[N.p.]: Public Broadcasting Service / Daphne Productions, 1978. Transcript of two interviews, held on consecutive nights, with Updike. Bookplate signed by Updike loosely laid in. Loose 8.5" x 11" sheets printed one-sided; 11 pp. and 10 pp., respectively, plus cover sheet. Housed in blue acetate folder. The pair's..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942. Inscribed on front free endpaper in blue pencil by the author, former executive director of the Associated Press, to journalist William Safire: "Greetings to Bill Safire - KC alias (?) Kent Cooper." Octavo; 324 pp.Tan cloth binding with title in orange..... More
New York: Daily Worker, 1944. Side-stapled pamphlet; 30pp. Printed paper wraps. Front and back covers both detached but present; toned and chipped along brittle edges, with no loss to text. Interior also toned along edges, but pages clean and unmarked. Textblock binding still secure. A history of militant..... More
![Item #9466 A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon [Signed]. Neil...](/pictures/thumb/9466.jpg?v=1620068515)
New York: Random House, 2009. First Edition. Signed by Sheehan with brief inscription to half title. Octavo. 534 pages. Black embossed dust jacket over black paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with some faint smudging and surface scratching. Boards show..... More
![Item #9431 Men Before Ten A.M. [Limited Edition, Signed]. Pam Houston, Véronique Vial,...](/pictures/thumb/9431.jpeg?v=1620064560)
Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing, 1996. First Edition, Limited to 100 copies signed by Houston of which this is no. 15. Large square quarto (28cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps; 141pp.; chiefly half-tone photographs. Near Fine condition. Signed by Houston on limitation page. Photographic portraits of nearly one..... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988. First Edition. William Safire's copy, with autograph letter signed by editor Peter Galassi to the New York Times columnist and essay contributor laid in. Quarto (10.75" x 9"); 192pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket over dark green cloth with black stamped lettering..... More