ALPHABETICAL AFRICA.
(New York): New Directions Book, (1974). First edition. Author's first novel. Touch of minor wear, still fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with flattened crease to front flap (otherwise fine). Item #53591 More
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(S.) SHIP OF THESEUS.
(New York: Mulholland Books / Little, Brown, 2013). True first edition, preceding the UK published by Canongate. SIGNED BY BOTH ABRAMS AND DORST on front endpaper at a NYC ticketed signing event, Nov. 23, 2013. Original event program included. A story within a story conceived by Abrams and executed by..... Item #55430 More
ON THE PRINCIPLES OF CLASSIFICATION IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM; On the Structure of THE HALCYONOID POLYPI; On the Morphology of the MEDUSAE.
Charleston, S.C. Steam-Power Press of Walker and James, 1850. First edition. 19-page hand-sewn tract in original pale peach printed paperwraps. Agassiz's address given to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Charleston, March, 1850. "James P. Low 1851" at head of front cover. Damp stain along lower edge otherwise..... Item #47124 More
EPISTLE TO A GODSON: and Other Poems.
New York: Random House, (1972). First edition. Two-toned, lime-green boards. The book has lightly sunned spine and edges with two tiny nicks to bottom edges of boards where bruised. Printed dust jacket is barely rubbed along edges. A very good to near fine copy. Item #48398 More
LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS: Handbook for Travellers.
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1892. Eighth revised edition. Includes three maps and fifteen plans (many folding and two-page). Flexible, red cloth boards, gilt-lettered on front and spine, marbled page edges. Frontis folding map torn and beginning to detach, otherwise about very good with covers scuffed. Item #52638 More
THE WASP FACTORY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984. First U.S. edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK -- SIGNED by Banks. Written from the first-person perspective of a sixteen-year-old describing his childhood, which included deaths within his family. Fine in dust jacket with only the barest wear on the spine ends. Item #52515 More
WAR IN HEAVEN.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1938). First edition. A novel by the playwright most famous for his plays "Holiday" (1928) and "The Philadelphia Story" (1939), which were both made into films starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant (Wiki). Rough, light-brown cloth covered boards lettered in gilt on front and spine. Endpapers a...... Item #41774 More
I'LL GET YOU: THE BEATLE MUSIC INDEX, 1958-1970.
(Lake Oswego, OR: AMV Entertainment), 1992. First edition. "This volume is an attempt to bring together a reference source for the Beatles' available session work." Apparently issued in only 150 copies. This copy with "19/150" handwritten in the corner of the Introduction page, beside Todd's INSCRIPTION, "Dear - - Thanks..... Item #50603 More
DISTORTIONS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1976. First edition. SIGNED on front end paper. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK of short stories, published simultaneously with CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER, her first novel. Fine in dust jacket with one small tape repair at back of top of front panel and touch of lightly rubbed..... Item #16213 More
THE QUARE FELLOW: A Comedy Drama.
London: Methuen & Co, (1956). First edition of his first book. A play set in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, where "The Quare Fellow," who is never seen or heard, is condemned to die the following day for an unnamed crime. Fine in very good or better, price-clipped dust jacket rubbed at..... Item #54368 More
THE FIVE-FOLD MESH.
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
THE WASHINGTON SQUARE ENSEMBLE.
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
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THE ANTI-PHILISTINE: "Castigare Ridendo" [4 issues, complete].
(London: John & Horace Cowley, 1897). First edition. In the publisher's original pale-green cloth lettered in black and with illustration by Will M.Bradley stamped in red and black on front and rear covers; "Volume 1" at base of both boards blacked out, as usually seen. Illustrated with photographs of contributors..... Item #54079 More
LIGHTNING IN THE FLESH: Poems.
(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
THE LIFE OF WILLIAM BLAKE.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. First edition. Wilson, a civil servant, wrote a number of biographies of literary and historical figures; and as a civil servant, she was one of the first women in the United Kingdom to earn equal pay for her work (Wikipedia). One of 1,480 numbered copies..... Item #55262 More
THE COMPLETE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BLAKE: With All the Variant Readings.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1957. First edition thus: completely revised and with new material added. 8vo "marbled" cloth boards backed in gilt-stamped red cloth. Spine mellowed to tan otherwise crisp and near fine lacking the unprinted glassine dust jacket. Item #55083 More
MONSIEUR PAMPLEMOUSSE AND THE SECRET MISSION.
New York: Beaufort Books, (1984). First U.S. edition. INSCRIBED, "For Marian, With all good wishes, Michael Bond." Bond wrote books for children, most notably his series featuring "Paddington Bear." This is one is for adults -- a gastronomic mystery in his series featuring Monsieur Pamplemousse and his faithful bloodhound, Pommes..... Item #54653 More
AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRINTING.
Philadelphia: Menamin & Ringwalt, 1871. First edition. This remains a major reference for American printing history [Bigmore & Wyman p.259, Appleton p58]. Illustrated with 38 full-page plates including a beautiful colored chromolitho frontis, an example of printing for the blind, and a double-spread color facsimile of a leaf from the..... Item #52565 More
THE VIOLATED.
New York: Dial Press, 1958. First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. "The sexual, moral and intellectual lives of four people of his generation, from the 1920's, through the depression, WW II and the 1950's." Fine in bright dust jacket with a touch of light wear at spine..... Item #32558 More
THE GAY PLACE. Being Three Related Novels THE FLEA CIRCUS, ROOM ENOUGH TO CAPER, COUNTRY PLEASURES.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1961. First edition. The author's only book. An advance copy INSCRIBED by Brammer, "For Wm. Beckman -- Friend of famous Arthurs / Pen Pay of Genius Poets / Patron of the Pataphysician. From his boon companion Wm. (B. L.) Brammer 3/21/63 (4 a. m.)." One..... Item #53157 More
SEPTUAGENARIAN STEW: Stories & Poems.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First edition. Uncorrected proof in pale peach printed paperwraps. Includes the laudatory poem "Jeffers" which opens with "his blood-smeared horizons/ his hawks casting shadows of/ doom/ his stallions greater than/ men" (p.177) and lists Jeffers among other authors he holds in esteem in "nowhere"..... Item #55513 More
POWER AND GLORY: A Drama in Three Acts.
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
ULTRAMARINE.
New York: Random House, (1986). First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Author Doris Grumbach's copy, with her initials on front endpaper. Fine in dust jacket with just a touch of minor edge rubbing. Item #29699 More
OBSCURE DESTINIES.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First edition. "Three New Stories of the West," each one dealing with the death of a main character. Octavo, light green cloth boards; pale blue labels on front and spine printed in black and orange. Pale yellow dust jacket printed in dark red and..... Item #54180 More
DEAD MEN LEAVE NO FINGERPRINTS.
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