Weston, Mass. M & S Press, 1984. First edition thus. Edited by Daniel G. Siegel. A folio-sized volume, bound in quarter navy-blue "Niger goat" leather over marbled boards and housed in the original cloth-covered slipcase. Number 58 of 275 copies bound as such. (An additional 55 were bound in full..... Item #54670 More
New York: Knopf, 1972. First U.S. edition, translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange in colloboration with the author. Originally published in Hebrew in 1968. MY MICHAEL has been translated into nearly 30 languages and adapted into a Hebrew-language movie. The book describes the love and marriage of a...... Item #53792 More
New York: Knopf, (1991). First edition. Final installment in the three-volume series on the life and work of Georgia O’Keefe (1987-1986) covering the years from 1916-1932. Folio gray linen boards stamped in silver on spine; illustrated with 91 full-color plates including the frontis; 130 pages plus list of plates. Includes..... Item #71964 More
London: Edward Stanford, 1893. First edition. Illustrated with 8 full page photographs and 3 colored maps, including one folding map of "Algeria and Tunis." Gilt stamped green cloth boards. Hinges cracked but holding, otherwise very good with minor wear on corners and spine ends, floral front endpaper over-glued at hinge..... Item #52575 More
Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1854. First edition. Decoratively blindstamped light brown cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Errata sheet tipped in. Ownership signatures of Lillian R. Sappington (front endpaper) and Thomas Sappington, Jr. (head of title page). A good, solid copy with covers fading and spotted and foxing..... Item #52557 More
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New York: Whittlesey House, 1945. First edition. Her first book for children, a story revolving around the donkey ridden by Christ into the city of Jerusalem. Illustrations in the text and on the dust jacket by Valenti Angelo, who began his career illustrating for Grabhorn Press. Although not indicated as..... Item #55375 More
London: John Lane / Bodley Head, (1925). First edition. Several leaves roughly opened resulting in shallow chips to margins otherwise very good to near fine. In good to very good dust jacket with light soiling, spine somewhat tanned, touch of damp staining near head of spine, corners nicked and scant..... Item #55015 More
(New York, et al: Farrar; New Directions; et al, 1959 - 1962). A mix of first edition hardcovers, later printings and paperbacks, all of which are INSCRIBED by Purdy to Brodsky. COLOR OF DARKNESS, (New York): New Directions, (1957), second printing, INSCRIBED, "For Louis Brodsky with sincere good wishes from..... Item #54266 More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1938. First edition. "Here is a new tempo in murder mystery. Murder is practically set to music!" His second book featuring detective Dan Jordan (the only two books he wrote). Spine and edges toned otherwise would be near fine in very good to..... Item #54786 More
New York: Dutton, 1929. First edition. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white both in the text and in full plate, as well as with a number of photographs and one folding "Target Chart" of official badges and insignia. Reimer seems to have taken a somewhat circuitous and whimsical approach to..... Item #71886 More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1986). First UK edition. Uncorrected proof in dark orange-red printed paperwraps. Touch of rubbing to spine tips, light glass ring and small scrape on front cover, otherwise very good to near fine. Scarce. Item #55406 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1959. First edition. The author's first book, winner of the National Book Award and the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. The title novella was turned into one of the hit movies of the '60's, starring Richard Benjamin, Ali McGraw and Jack Klugman. Near fine with spine..... Item #72290 More
(New York): Library of America, (2005). First edition. Fifth volume in the series. SIGNED BY ROTH ON TITLE PAGE and with Enrico Adelman's Bloomsday Books stamp at base of final page listing the titles in The Library of America Series. Adelman and Roth became fast friends in 1989 when Roth..... Item #55900 More
(London): Bloomsbury, (1999). First edition thus: scarce first printing of the Deluxe Edition. Reportedly one of only around 1,000 copies. The third book in the series but first to be printed in the deluxe edition. 8vo gilt-stamped green cloth with pictorial inset on front cover; all edges gilt; ribbon place..... Item #72006 More
London: Constable, (1940). First edition. Fanny's adventures as a "nice girl" through the somewhat tawdry neighborhoods of London. Olive boards and slightly cocked spine lightly rumpled, light offset to pastedowns from the dust jacket, page edges a touch soiled. The darkened, period-style dust jacket has some minor losses to the..... Item #48789 More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [circa 1926]. First edition. Pre-publication booklet illustrated with photographs. One of a stated 2500 copies of this prospectus. Though the publisher suggests on the cover its "preservation as a Lincoln item," it would appear not many people did. 34 pp; stapled, printed green paperwraps..... Item #55522 More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1988). First edition. A behind-the-scenes look at women in broadcasting. INSCRIBED BY SANDERS AND ROCK, "10/25/88 | To [Cooper? Casper?] - | with appreciation - | Marlene Sanders | Marcia Rock." The "groundbreaking first history of the 'underground' women's movement at the networks ... told..... Item #71922 More
(Washington, D.C. The Word Works, 1983). First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "Ernie: I can't tell you how much I appreciate your words on the cover. Looking forward to seeing you. Bob." Inscription is to poet Ernest Kroll, who provided the following blurb that appears on..... Item #50933 More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857. First edition. Howes H-178. Including his services as Chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the War of the Revolution. 1716 to 1790. Frontispiece of author's home with tissue. About very good in decorative dark brown boards with gilt lettering on spine, rear..... Item #52586 More
Rutland, VT & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., (1959). First edition. "The Japanese value Sesshu as the greatest of all their artists, and the Long Landscape Scroll, here reproduced in its entirety, is his acknowledged masterpiece."--from the introduction. Cedar wood covers, accordion-style pages. Approximately 4.25 x 5.5" with scroll..... Item #53693 More
New York: Brentano's, 1899. First U.S. hardbound edition. This edition was unauthorized, with the first authorized U.S. edition not published until 1901. Spine ends and tips slightly rubbed and tips lightly bumped, otherwise bright and near fine. Item #33864 More
Albany, N.Y. S. Shaw, 1824. First edition. An early Albany imprint. Wright credits Edward Hull as the author. The book was copyrighted by the publisher Shaw but is also credited by some to John Johnson, who was the printer. A narrative tale: Edgar and Caroline, after 280 pages or so..... Item #52532 More
New York: Otto Penzler Books, (1994). First edition. The first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and the Phantom of the Opera. An uncorrected proof in printed white wraps. Fine. Item #37504 More
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1971). First U.S. edition. Translated from the Yiddish by Singer and Elizabeth Shub. Generically SIGNED BY SINGER on title page, "Love/ I B Singer." Fine in good dust jacket toned on edges and tanned at spine with small stains where 2 thumb-nail tears were internally..... Item #54062 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co, Inc., 1946. First edition. "Three Best Sellers in One Volume by an Outstanding American Humorist"--from the dust jacket. Collects his first three books: LOW MAN ON A TOTEM POLE, LIFE IN A PUTTY KNIFE FACTORY and LOST IN THE HORSE LATITUDES. Near fine in like..... Item #54488 More