(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
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1905. First edition. Selections from The Spectator by Symons with an introduction by him. Illustrated by H. M. Brock. 12 mo, 310 pages. Bound by Bayntun in three-quarter red leather with marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-lettered spine with five raised bands, and top edge..... Item #54023 More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First edition thus; revised and enlarged from the 1881, privately printed edition. Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) was the father of Louisa May, the author of LITTLE WOMEN. He was a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a major figure himself in transcendentalism who was also an..... Item #42348 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: Jonathan Cape, (1967). First edition. Second state with "Now reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. c[opyright] 1959, 1962, 1957, and 1960 (respectively) by John Ashbery" pasted onto copyright page. According to the printer, there were 1000 copies total: 250 of the first state, 250 of the second state..... Item #35556 More
New York: American Art Association. 1922. Also" Manuscripts and Association Items of Superlative interest." Sold January 26th and 27th 1922. Also finely bound sets, a unique Kipling items collected by Captain E. W. Martindell. Prices in margins. Printed paperwraps with spine a little darkened and a few closed tears otherwise..... Item #54538 More
New York: Random House, (1939). First edition. Faint, unavoidable offset to endpapers, otherwise fine in slightly soiled dust jacket with nicked tips and a touch of minor rubbing. An attractive copy of this play which starred Katherine Cornell and Laurence Olivier. Item #32534 More
London: The Bodley Head, 1922. First UK edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Includes an introduction by Stephen Leacock not in the American edition. Red paper remnant of small item previously tipped to rear inner hinge, slight edgewear and minor rubbing, otherwise very good. Lacking dust jacket. Item #40884 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
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. First edition. His third book. Dark fairy tales collected from his appearances in the British periodical "Fun"; illustrated with satirical wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers. It should be noted although Starrett (4) contends an 1873 paperback precedes this hardcover, BAL (1100) proved the..... Item #54109 More
Manchester (England): Carcanet, (1989). First edition. INSCRIBED on title page in July 1990. Fine in glossy pictorial wraps. No hardbound edition. Item #27529 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: Random House, (1954). First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Very good with some foxing on page edges. In a slightly soiled dust jacket with spine tanned, a few small closed tears and nicks. Item #40219 More
London: Faber and Faber, (1952). Two volumes of the first UK edition. One is INSCRIBED to her good friend Doris Grumbach, the novelist, essayist and critic, "Love to Doris - Kay." In what appears to us to be the first binding: light-red cloth with gold lettering. Chambers [A25c] calls for..... Item #29768 More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. First edition. INSCRIBED, "For Eric! Ray Bradbury 4/8/84." Crease to lower rear corner otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with small light splash on the slightly age-toned spine. Item #53996 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. First edition. Very good or better with few small, light spots of foxing to spine and rear endpaper showing faint offset. In a near fine dust jacket with a touch of soiling and rubbing, as well as a few very tiny chips and tears..... Item #51514 More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, (2012). First edition. SIGNED byHjortsberg above his printed name on the title page. Publisher's leaf -- an "extension of copyright page" -- laid in. Small quarto, silver-stamped quarter gray paper over blue paper boards; 852 pp.; illustrated with photographs. "Part history and part biography, this remarkable book etches..... Item #55151 More
New York: Knopf, 1942. Second printing, originally published in 1937. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. A mechanical playmate is mistaken for the real thing in this Freddy and friends adventure. Near fine in generally edgeworn, good dust jacket with tissue-tape repair to one-inch chip in bottom front corner. Item #33134 More
Decatur, Georgia: Wisteria Press, 1997. First edition. Letter "Z" of 26 COPIES BOUND IN FULL LEATHER and housed in handmade clamshell box, each copy SIGNED BY BROWN AND MOSER and with TWO LOOSE LITHOGRAPHS SIGNED BY MOSER in glassine envelope laid in (one is the frontispiece illustration, the other appears..... Item #53542 More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., (1858). First edition. Pro-slavery, anti-secessionist minister and newspaper editor William Gannaway Brownlow (who later served as a Senator and Governor of Tennessee) debates anti-slavery New York clergyman Abram Pryne, editor of an abolitionist newspaper. Decoratively blindstamped gray cloth boards with gilt lettered spine. About..... Item #52634 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
London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1933). First edition. Near fine with light foxing to first and last few leaves and spotting to page top edge; in good or better, price-clipped dust jacket with tear at head of spine with small hole beneath (affecting "D" in "Dead" and "No" in "Novel") internally..... Item #41383 More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1976). Later printing. Illustrated with photographs. FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN E. BURGER with his ownership signature and personal bookplate gilt-stamped with the Supreme Court seal on front pastedown. Stevenson's book was a runaway best seller that year. This copy was a Christmas..... Item #55050 More
Edna M. Reindel. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / Dial Press, 1930. First edition. His second book, the story of a mechanic's helper who becomes a middle-weight champion prize fighter. Basis for the 1931 pre-code movie of the same name starring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow. 8vo. blue cloth boards..... Item #54995 More
New York: The Century Co., 1916. Later printing. "A dramatization from the story of the same name by John Bennett." Illustrations by Reginald B. Birch. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper "To Jeanie dear, to whom all that the dedication implies belongs, and more, much more. From "the author." Jan. 1916."..... Item #33128 More