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New York: Hill and Wang, (1971). First U.S. edition in hardback. The third in Traven's series of "Jungle Novels." Fine in dust jacket with light rubbing and spine toned, otherwise near fine. Item #54978 More
New York: Hill and Wang, (1971). First U.S. edition in hardback. The third in Traven's series of "Jungle Novels." Fine in dust jacket with light rubbing and spine toned, otherwise near fine. Item #54978 More
New York: William Morrow, (1997). First edition. SIGNED on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket with subtle toning to spine. Item #51166 More
New Bedford: Reynolds-DeWalt Printing, Inc., 1970. First edition. SIGNED by the editor on title page. Fine. Item #48842 More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. First U.S. edition. Publisher's prospectus or salesman's dummy with half-title page, frontis illustration, title page, contents pages, "List of Illustrations" (explaining why there is no list of illustrations); Twain's preface, and a sampling of pages from the text interspersed with full-plate illustrations..... Item #49501 More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. First edition. A massive work, as is needed to cover one of, if not our most productive author. Includes "A Foreword to my own Bibliography" by John Updike and a CD Supplement. Updike is internationally renowned and has won two Pulitzers, the National Book..... Item #45527 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First edition, first state. Near fine with light wear and bumping to spine ends and corners. In a fine dust jacket with a small stamp on the front flap. Item #50919 More
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1999). First edition. SIGNED BY URREA. Memoirs by the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Ruminations on nature, music and poetry written while wandering the West with his cat, Rest Stop. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #55453 More
Sherman Oaks: Mixolydian Editions, 2006. First edition. Number 27 of 65 SIGNED numbered copies, this one additionally INSCRIBED BY WAGENER to collector Allen K. Mears, "For Allen / With Best Regards / Richard Wagener / 1/15/07" and – though not called for -- with separate suite of 4 loose SIGNED..... Item #55876 More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1947). First edition. Near fine with short wrinkle to front board, light damp staining to bottom edge, and small penciled picture of a cat on rear pastedown under the jacket flap; in about very good dust jacket with light nicking and rubbing, small chip..... Item #55014 More
Salem: Cushing and Appleton, 1824 (& 1823). Stated “Fourth Edition” of Walsh’s text “To Which Is Annexed” the text based on Turner’s. 16mo period brown polished leather boards; gilt-ruled spine with gilt-stamped black leather label reading, “Walsh’s/ Arithmetic”; all page edges speckled; 264 pages plus 67 pages (including a separate..... Item #36006 More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1953. First edition. Illustrated with "decorations by various eminent hands including the author's." Light foxing to endpapers and page edges otherwise near fine in near fine price-clipped, lightly nicked dust jacket. Item #55085 More
New York: World Publ. (1971). First edition. True first; reportedly not distributed. Slight bubbling to pastedowns (production error), otherwise fine in dust jacket with minor edge rubbing, a small closed tear in rear panel and light tanning to edges of flaps and top edge of rear panel. A bright, attractive..... Item #32965 More
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. First edition. Infidelity, politics, and intrigue on the Italian Riviera. Near fine with head of spine just a little rumpled; in about very good, trimmed dust jacket with mild soiling, few tiny nicks and tears, one small chip, and a small hole in rear flap fold..... Item #54090 More
London: Ernest Benn, 1928. First edition. Bleiler title. 8vo gilt-stamped brown cloth boards; 288 pages. Near fine with foxing to page fore edges and minor wear to covers; in lightly soiled, very good dust jacket with spine ends and corners nicked and rubbed. Item #71999 More
Diana Younger. London: Hutchinson & Co., (1964). First edition. INSCRIBED on title page to step-daughter Diana Younger, "For Diana and Went / With love from Dennis." She illustrated the dust jacket for his 1938 book, THE GOLDEN SPANIARD as well as endpapers for several others. Fine in near fine dust..... Item #53579 More
Diana Younger. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1936]. First edition. INSCRIBED, "For Diana / who drew the figures in the end papers (of this book) ... love / from Dennis." Diana Younger, Wheatley's stepdaughter, illustrated the endpapers for this book and several others, and the dust jacket for THE GOLDEN SPANIARD..... Item #53572 More
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First edition. One of 1,000 copies; not numbered (as usually seen). This copy in the scarce VARIANT BINDING, recorded only as with "some copies" having been bound as such [Mason & Millard 381, note to]. 8vo gilt-stamped mauve cloth stamped in gilt; [152] pages..... Item #71614 More
Murray, UT: Pharos, 1945. First edition of the author's first book. An early version of ORPHEUS DESCENDING published as a double issue of Pharos Magazine: Numbers 1 & 2, Spring 1945 (comprising the whole issue). Fragile paper covers intact but yapped (over-hanging) edges of the covers understandably show some wear..... Item #56012 More
New York: Putnam's Sons, (1978). First edition. Includes an introduction by Williams. An attempt to "capture pictorially the man and the playwright" (from the jacket flap). Profusely illustrated with photographs, letters, rehearsal notes, manuscript drafts, posters, et al -- many of which are previously unpublished. Number 230 of 250 numbered..... Item #54673 More
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1938). First edition. Considered the foremost literary critic of the time, Wilson discusses the careers of Pushkin, Housman, Flaubert, Henry James, Samuel Butler, Paul More and Bernard Shaw from the point of view of their aesthetic significance and in relation to their social and..... Item #41691 More
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1979). First edition. BOLDLY SIGNED on first blank page BY WOLFE and by ASTRONAUT JOHN GLENN. His best-known, best-selling book which, in Wolfe's own words, grew out of curiosity about what "makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle…..... Item #71740 More
New York: Bernard Ackerman, (1945). First edition. According to the publisher this volume presents for the first time, in one volume, the drawings of every breed and variety of dog recognized by the American Kennel Club. Text and illustrations by Worden and foreword by Charles Hopton, the former editor of..... Item #41126 More
Candia, New Hampshire: John LeBow, 2000. First edition. Short story. Introduction by Dufresne. One of only 26 copies hand-bound in boards and SIGNED by Yarbrough, Dufresne, and Ewa Yarbrough whose small charcoal drawing is reproduced herein. (There were an additional 150 numbered, softcover copies signed by Yarbrough only). Fine, as..... Item #23564 More
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. First U.S. edition of this play. Scarce, as there was a very small cloth printing. Near fine with a touch of soiling on top page edges; in dust jacket with light soiling. Item #29048 More