New York: Vanguard Press, (1935). First edition of the author's first book. Based on his experiences living in Texas during the Great Depression. The title refers to someone with authority--namely bosses and police; poor folk and the powerless just wore shoes or went barefoot. Minor binding-glue bleed-through near inner hinges..... Item #53567 More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1993). Book Club edition of her second book. SIGNED on the title page with a quote from the book, "There hadn't been a god for a good many years." Spine ends lightly bumped, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Item #47417 More
Norman Laliberte. Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, (1980). First edition. Illustrated by Norman Laliberte. Number 21 of 100 copies SIGNED by Norman and Laliberte. Publisher's letter and advertising broadside laid in. This copy in acetate and scarce publisher's dust jacket, which appears to be from the trade edition (there were 2000..... Item #51181 More
New York: Dial Press, (1980). First edition of his first book. SIGNED by Bausch. Fine in fine dust jacket with just a touch of minor wear. Item #50482 More
New York: Dial Press, 1964. First edition of his third and most famous work. Dial Prize winner, and the basis for the Dustin Hoffman movie of the same name. "UNCORRECTED GALLEYS"--sheets punched with two holes, printed on front only, string tied with cardboard covers marked as above. Small portion of..... Item #42328 More
Boston: Commercial Printing House, 1862. First edition. "Originally published in Norfolk Co. Journal of December 14, 1861, republished with slight additions and corrections" (from title page). Bird was a Massachussetts Republican politician and anti-slavery advocate known as the "Sage of Walpole." This is his call for the emancipation of enslaved..... Item #51376 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1941. First edition. The author's fourth mystery. Cover has some spotting and wear, some foxing on endpapers and front page edges but still good or better, in fair to good dust jacket with head of spine chipped away (leaving only "SOLID KEY" in the title)..... Item #36068 More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (2004). First edition. A Joe Pickett novel. SIGNED by author. Fine in fine dust jacket with barest wear. Item #55063 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1973). First U.S. hardback of the complete text and first U.S. with illustrations. Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. This edition contains the original stories from the 1950 first edition plus "The Fire Balloons" and "The Wilderness" which were first included in..... Item #55168 More
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2005. First edition, limited issue. Presentation copy of this deluxe, slipcased limited edition, LETTER A OF 26 COPIES SIGNED BY KOCH AND BRINGHURST. And INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST on the colophon "Alas. The colophon is in error. Even Peter / does not always think of everything. /..... Item #55878 More
Kentville, Nova Scotia: Gaspereau Press, 2003. First edition. Afterword by Peter Sanger. The edition, the only one done, is limited to about 800 copies. Measuring 7.5 x 11 inches, the book is printed offset in three colors, gray, blue and black, with a wood engraving of Ursa Major (bear) by..... Item #55646 More
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Minsk: Eridan, 1992. Presumed first edition with "first time published in our country and abroad" (in Russian) on copyright page. Written in the Russian language. Volume one of a two-volume set collecting poems, essays and plays, this volume being poetry only. Near fine in like dust jacket with only mild..... Item #52602 More
London: J. Andrews, 1832. First edition. 8vo, original drab boards, untrimmed. [BAL 10134.] Published 2 months after the U.S. with same contents but this edition edited by Irving who introduced Bryant's poetry to British audiences in his preface, added several pages of notes at the end and, per William/Edge (p.97)..... Item #54917 More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First edition. Edited by Seamus Cooney. Number 215 of 300 SIGNED, numbered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each with an original color silkscreen by Bukowski. Contains many strong references to Jeffers' work and Bukowski's admiration for him. Brick-red cloth backed white paper..... Item #55515 More
San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980. First edition. In dust jacket. One of 2,000 copies. Foreword by Everson at the Lime Kiln Press. Bound by the Cardoza-James Bindery Co. of San Francisco. Cloth spine with decorated paper-covered boards. Although published in 1980, the book was not completely marketed until 1997. Once..... Item #55601 More
(No-place: no-publisher, August 4, 1977). Early draft of Robert Towne's screenplay for 1984 movie, "Greystroke," based on Burroughs' novel, TARZAN OF THE APES. Directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Christopher Lambert and Andie MacDowell. Towne, frustrated at being passed over for director, used the pseudonym "P. H. Vazak"--the name of his..... Item #52891 More
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, (1996). First edition. Based on Bushnell's New York Observer column and, of course, the basis for the television show. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Item #50604 More
London: John Murray, 1853. Eight volumes uniformly bound in original brown cloth. Beppo & Don Juan, Dramas, and Miscellanies in two volumes each and Childe Harold and Tales & Poems, each in one volume. Complete set? No illustrations. Minor corner wear, tiny hole in one spine, and the tops of..... Item #28288 More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1919. First edition, first printing, measuring 2.8 cm across top of text block and with unbroken rule on p.144 [Bleiler, 322; Schlobin, 174; Reginald, 02402]. The seventh volume in his fantasy/romance series set in the mythical medieval country of Poictesme. His best known..... Item #55057 More
(Wiesbaden): [1966]. First German edition of his most famous book. A true account of a multiple murder and its consequences. Light offset on endpapers, otherwise fine in white, printed dust jacket with a few tiny chips and lightly soiled. Item #48850 More
New York: Knopf, 1983. First edition. His third collection of short stories and the first to bring him critical acclaim, SIGNED on title page above his printed name and dated 10/31/83. Fine in fine dust jacket with just a touch of minor wear. SIGNED IN YEAR OF PUBLICATION. Item #54615 More
New York: Caxton House, Inc., 1939. First edition. he's been dead a year but his prints are all over the weapon. Page edges age-tanned otherwise bright and near fine in price-clipped, very good or better dust jacket with shadow from old tape repair to base of rear panel. Item #54757 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First U.S. edition, preceded by the UK edition. Pin prick to front gutter otherwise crisp and near fine in about very good price-clipped dust jacket with shallow rubbed chipping to spine ends and corners and two old tape repairs on verso. Item #53931 More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1953). First UK edition, preceding the 1954 U.S. edition. Faint stain to page fore edges otherwise crisp and fine in good, lightly rubbed dust jacket with some flattened creasing and chips at spine tips taking out first and last letters of "Raymond" and at base of spine..... Item #53935 More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1926. First edition, preceding the English edition by a year. An interesting travel book which discusses Irish personalities of the time. Fourteen full-page illustrations by a number of artists including A. E., and John Butler Yeats. Fine in a gold-foil dust jacket which we can't believe..... Item #41858 More