Approximately 11.75 x 8" black-and-white photograph of Amis by an unknown photographer circa 1980s (or perhaps 1990s?). Appears to be a professional photograph, the sort used on a dust jacket, but we are unable to identify it. A close-up shot from the neck up, SIGNED BY AMIS. Evidence of previous... Item #55095 More
New York: Gnome Press, (1951). First edition. With gold-bordered label SIGNED BY ASIMOV affixed to base of title page. In binding cloth variant "A" (red-stamped dark blue boards) and pages bulking nearly 2 cm., as called for. In later-printing circa-1959 dust jacket with price, front flap, spine and front panel... Item #55110 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, September, 1928. First edition. First appearance of this story by Sherwood Anderson. Paperwraps lightly worn on overhanging edges, front cover splitting at hinge (about 5"), otherwise very good. Item #52937 More
(Winston Salem): Palaemon Press, 1984. First edition. The only edition of this set of 22 broadside poems, printed in red and black, with each broadside SIGNED by the poet. Reportedly one of only 50 unnumbered copies. Issued as a tribute to the founder and president of the Academy of American... Item #53650 More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First edition of the poet's first regularly published book. In the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with a foreword by W.H. Auden. Award-winning poet Anthony Hecht's copy with his ownership signature on front endpaper. The book is fine in near fine dust jacket with... Item #53616 More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1907. Third revised and augmented edition. Includes thirteen colored maps and twelve plans (many folding and two-page). Flexible, red cloth boards with gilt-lettered front and spine and marbled page edges. Light rubbing still very good. Item #52637 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: Random House, (1946). First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling (heavier on spine) and minor wear to spine ends and tips. The play was staged by Elia Kazan and starred Richard Widmark. Item #33026 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page to Eda Lou Walton, "For Eda Lou, with my inexpressible gratitude for the best pieces in the book and the death of the Ice-Age. Affectionately, Ben." The printed dedication to the last... Item #45577 More
New York: Viking Press, 1983. First edition. His first novel. SIGNED by Bell on the title page. Near fine in dust jacket with barest shelf wear to edges. Item #48503 More
London: John Murray, 1945. First edition. Light edge rubbing, names and dates on front free endpaper, some bubbling to pastedowns near hinges and light offset to free endpapers near hinges, otherwise very good or better in lightly soiled dust jacket with tanned spine, shallow chipping to spine ends (not affecting... Item #34921 More
West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, (1991). First edition thus. Reprint of the 1922 limited edition, adding an introduction by Donald R. Burleson. Bierce's letters to Loveman--who he seemed to have taken under his wing--from October, 1908, until a few months before Bierce disappeared in Mexico in December, 1913, with the... Item #54069 More
(New York: Athens Printing Company), no-date. First edition. SIGNED with inscription in Greek on front endpaper. Text in Greek and five poems translated to English. Near fine in glossy, stapled paper wraps with light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Item #51668 More
New York: Noonday Press, (1954). First edition. Errata slip laid in. Near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket with one small closed tear (with small tape repair on verso), light soiling and spine slightly tanned. Item #35634 More
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New York: (Pynson Printers), 1938. First edition. Four volumes: Winter 1938, Spring 1938, Summer 1938 and Autumn 1938. Scattered foxing otherwise near fine to fine in edge-worn original glassine. Item #55464 More
New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, (1933). First edition. Dark blue cloth cover and gilt lettering very good to fine in very lightly soiled dust jacket slightly tanned at spine, with two small chips and one small closed tear. Item #23866 More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1940. First edition. Very good with cloth edges rubbed, offset and page edges lightly soiled in dust jacket with rubbing, shallow chipping and minor soiling. Item #19979 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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First edition. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Fearless Freddy saves the day when Mr. Flint tries to rob the First Animal Bank. Name on front endpaper, otherwise fine, lacking dust jacket. Item #33163 More
(San Francisco): Centaur Press, 1949. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Broughton's play illustrated by Daniel Harris in his first appearance as "Zev." The first book from the press founded by Broughton and Kermit Sheet. SIGNED BY BROUGHTON on half-title page and INSCRIBED WITH A LARGE DRAWING BY ZEV on... Item #53548 More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1936). First edition. Very good to near fine with very subtle spotting to covers and a touch of light foxing to prelims. In bright dust jacket with scattered foxing to spine and few inconspicuous tears, otherwise near fine. Item #53949 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: Horizon Press, (1983). First edition. Slight discoloration where tape removed on front pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket with very minor wear. SIGNED on title page. Item #16121 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 and his best... Item #55057 More
