(Santa Cruz, CA: University of California, 1965). First edition. Address written for the 1965 opening of the University of California Santa Cruz campus. The only other copy recorded is at UCSC. According to OCLC, this was a keepsake given out at the 3rd annual UCSC charter banquet, so presume actually..... Item #55392 More
New York: Dodge Publishing Co., no-date [circa 1910]. First U.S. edition, from the London plates. Frank Adams' large colorful illustrations for a story by James Kendrew (Kendrew's story was originally self-published in 1820 as a chapbook with small, unattributed woodcuts). Quarto red paper boards backed with red cloth (vs green..... Item #55153 More
[Various places]: circa 1870 - 1900. 12 trade cards in various sizes. Includes: M. C. MILLER, Fine Boots & Shoes; 3 7/8 x 2 5/8”; 2 girls one of whom is riding a large dog. || PARTRIDGE'S Café and Dining Rooms, Philadelphia; 4 3/8 x 2 7/8”; boy..... Item #71965 More
New York: Macmillan Company, (1963). First edition. His travel writings -- of a sort -- focusing on trips to England, Seville, Crete, Istanbul, Paris, et al. LARRY McMURTY'S COPY with his signature dated "1964" at head of front endpaper. Touch of foxing to endpapers and few bumps to lower front..... Item #55008 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1949. First edition. A fine, bright copy, lacking dust jacket. Item #51740 More
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: Knopf, 1956. First U.S. edition. Published in the UK as THE NIGHT COMERS. Fine in near fine dust jacket with few tiny tears, spine ends rubbed, and corners nicked. Item #54996 More
London: Macmillan, 1864. First edition. Arnold argues for a state system of middle-class education. Red pebbled cloth over limp boards; lettered in gilt. Minor cover wear but still very good or better. Item #49962 More
New York: Random House, (1956). First edition. A "Random House Play" illustrated with photographs from the original stage production which featured Jayne Mansfield and Walter Matthau. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some minor rubbing on edges and light soiling on back panel. Item #24792 More
[London: 1996]. First edition. Two paragraphs on Barnes' cream-colored Dartmouth Park Avenue correspondence card/letterhead measuring approximately 6.25 x 4.25" dated "10-May-96" and SIGNED BY BARNES "Best wishes, Julian B." Rolland Comstock was a noted book collector among the "gently mad" profiled by Nicholas Basbanes from Springfield, Missouri, who enjoyed flying..... Item #71724 More
Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1888. First edition. First issue with printer's imprint "J. J. Arakelyan" on copyright page and "wore" for "were" p.210:8. His famous Utopian novel. Included in Bleiler's Science Fiction, Grolier's 100 American Books before 1900, Merle Johnson's High Spots of American Literature and many others. In brown-orange..... Item #55166 More
New York: Vanguard Press, (1947). First edition. Faint, unavoidable offset to pastedowns (from binding) and minor edge rubbing, otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket with slightly faded spine, white spine lettering tanned, a few chips, a few closed tears (with tape repair on verso) and some shallow damp staining to..... Item #37589 More
London: Faber and Faber, (1948). First UK edition. INSCRIBED on the title page, "To Doris (Grumbach) with love - Kay Washington, D.C." Grumbach, the author of Chamber Music and a number of other well-received works was a good friend of Boyle's. Short, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise fine..... Item #29244 More
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1917. First edition. Poetry published in American magazines from October 1916 - September 1917; as well as lists of volumes of poetry published during the same period and of selected books about poets and poetry, etc. Brown cloth spine, brown paper boards, printed paper labels..... Item #55648 More
New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publ. 1939. First edition. From the library of Chicago artist Arthur Johan Anderson with his bookplate on front pastedown. Three novels and two novelettes by Bromfield. Red cloth near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, a few shallow chips and..... Item #30127 More
Edingburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916. First edition. Slim red cloth boards stamped in black on front and spine. About very good with spine toned to pink but lettering still bright, pages darkened, as usually seen, and endpaper just beginning to crack at hinge but binding quite strong..... Item #53930 More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1915). First edition. Action, romance and adventure in the 1680s, from Scotland to Virginia. Bookplate of Charles F. Roth on pastedown. Minor wear and rubbing to corners and spine ends and general aging, book plate on front paste down, cracking along gutter of verso of..... Item #53942 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: Macmillan, 1925. First U.S. edition. Translated from the Czech by Lawrence Hyde. The story of an engineer who discovers "Krakatit" -- an explosive powerful enough to destroy the world. Bright and nearly fine with barest wear and one small stain to page fore edge. In dust jacket with..... Item #53967 More
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1938). First edition. Translated from the Czech by Paul Selver and Ralph Neale. Old glue stain on rear pastedown otherwise near fine. In price-clipped dust jacket, about very good with spine tanned but lettering still bright and a few relatively small chips and tears. Scarce..... Item #54003 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
1977. Original pen-and-ink drawing on 11 x 14" illustration board depicting Capote as a 1930s gangster wearing a pinstripe suit with combat-style U.S.-flag patch on his left arm, a banded fedora atop his head, and carrying a machine-gun style "violin" case with what looks to be an F-16 protruding from..... Item #56034 More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1893. First edition, first issue. All edges gilt. Foxing on frontispiece and title page, spine rubbing and wear to unprinted portion (from lettering down). Good to very good overall. Item #48551 More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1987). First edition. Presumed review copy with photograph and publisher's letter laid in. Doris Grumbach's copy with her initials in pencil at bottom of first blank. Includes the first book appearance of 7 stories and some revisions and title changes on 30 others. Fine in..... Item #30778 More
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First UK edition. Translated from the Italian by Douglas Ainslie. JOYCE CARY'S COPY with his signature on front endpaper and his manuscript notes on front pastedown and both sides of front endpaper and eight pages of manuscript notes at rear. Very good. Lacking dust jacket. AN..... Item #55173 More