(Winston Salem): Palaemon Press, 1984. First edition. The only edition of this set of 22 broadside poems, printed in red and black, with each broadside SIGNED by the poet. Reportedly one of only 50 unnumbered copies. Issued as a tribute to the founder and president of the Academy of American..... Item #53650 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: Neale Publishing Co., 1909 - 1912. First edition. Twelve volumes, EACH ONE SIGNED BY BIERCE. Contents same as limited issue of 250 numbered copies which were signed in volume one only. This set "compliments of" page signed by Bierce in each volume. One of an undisclosed number of..... Item #54511 More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. First edition of Bradbury's first book, a collection of 27 of his earliest stories. There were only 3,112 copies in the first printing. 3 x 5" plain white card laid in SIGNED BY BRADBURY WITH DRAWING OF ONE OF HIS MONSTERS and dated in 1989..... Item #53848 More
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2003. First edition, the "Deluxe" limited issue. Copy B of 26 lettered copies SIGNED BY BRINGHURST, WAGENER, and KOCH. Additionally INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST "for Allen Mears, the kind of reader / Parmenides has waited for / 17.1.2004" Although copy B, the colophon is absent the limitation..... Item #55883 More
New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2005. First edition. The Center's 30th-anniversary publication, a stunningly innovative work. NUMBER 3 OF 60 COPIES offered for sale from a total edition of 75 (five of which are artist's proofs). INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST, the author and book designer, " for Allen Mears..... Item #55884 More
London;: James Cochrane and Co., 1834. The works in eight volumes with a biographical sketch by Allan Cunningham and the preface to the first Kilmanock (1786) in the first volume; and second Edinburgh (1787) edition reprinted in the second volume. First of this edition. Bound in full leather; red spine..... Item #40671 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First edition. A Gideon Fell mystery. Bright and fine in equally bright, very good dust jacket with rubbed edge creasing and tears. A scarce book, especially so in the jacket. Item #54756 More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition of her first book; a "vanity press" production of thirty-six poems. Cather reportedly destoryed what remained of the edition in 1908. INSCRIBED, "Mr. J. W. Rankin / From an old friend / Willa Silbert Cather / New York / May..... Item #54535 More
(La Jolla: circa 1958). Undated TYPED LETTER SIGNED "RAY." To the British mystery writer who was Chandler's London solicitor, friend and frequent correspondent, Michael Gilbert, on 6 x 9" off-white paper with return address of the small cottage rented by Chandler near the end of his life at 824 Prospect..... Item #54900 More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1940. First U.S. edition of the book in a Grosset & Dunlap reprint dust jacket that is a little smaller than the first but has same design. One of the best-selling books of all time. Incredibly scarce in the first edition. Even the Grosset & Dunlap..... Item #56082 More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1920. First Canadian edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK and first to feature Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot. Issued from sheets of the true first edition (NY; John Lane, 1920) and preceding the London edition (Bodley Head, 1921). We record only one other copy offered for..... Item #52258 More
New York: William Morrow, (1991). First edition. THE ELUSIVE HARDCOVER ISSUE -- SIGNED on the title page by Collins and dated "Jan 1992." The book was issued simultaneously in softcover and even that issue is scarce. An early selection of poems from the eventual Poet Laureate, exhibiting his usual wry..... Item #53538 More
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No-place: Ridgway Company, 1919-1920. First U.S. edition thus: seven-part serialization in "Romance" magazine, a short-lived venture edited by Arthur Sullivan Hoffman that was intended as a companion to his "Adventure" pulp magazine. Preceded by the 1919 UK serialization in "Land and Water" magazine (both magazine appearances preceding the book). All..... Item #54532 More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1857 and 1858. First edition, in the original, untrimmed and unopened monthly parts: TEN OCTAVO PARTS IN PICTORIAL PAPERWRAPS, housed together in gilt-lettered green-cloth chemise with bookplate of Maude M. Monell and matching green-cloth slipcase. Pale yellow pictorial paperwraps each with woodcut after..... Item #54014 More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1857--1858. First edition. In the ten original monthly parts, each with two full-page illustrated plates at front. Twenty plates in all; plus woodcut illustrations after Cruikshank replicated on front of each wrapper. Most with PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION blindstamp on front cover. All lacking rear..... Item #54140 More
London: Published for the artist by David Bogue, [1847]. First edition. The six-shilling superior-paper issue was stitched into wrappers (vs being offered on one large sheet for a single shilling). Eight plates on heavy paper with tint block added for shading (vs untinted). Includes original title page and paper covers..... Item #56024 More
(London): Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition. Issued in 4 monthly parts. This copy with four parts bound together by Bradstreet; cover of first part (only) bound in at front. 5 full-page illustrations by Cruikshank and numerous illustratrations in the text. Bound by Bradstreet in three-quarter leather over marbled boards;..... Item #54534 More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First edition thus: A completely revised edition of his third book. INSCRIBED, "For Brills son Edmund from Theodore Dreiser 1928." The first of the trilogy on Frank Cowperwood, a financier and businessman during an epic period of American history, from the Civil War through..... Item #53201 More
London: Faber and Faber, (1957-60). First edition of each of the four volumes comprising his most critically acclaimed work. JUSTINE shows light foxing to page edges but is otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with slight toning to spine, light soiling and tanning and tiny chips..... Item #53820 More
London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822. Second edition. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. Thirty-six hand-colored etchings by Robert and George Cruikshank. 6.5 x 10.25" gray paper boards printed in black; five vignette scenes from the play on front and back covers; 376 pages plus two separate eight-page booklets of publishers ads..... Item #55563 More
Edinburgh: W. Sutherland, 1823. First edition. Includes the "Dramatis Personae," presumably from the Caledonian Theatre perfomance, and the play itself but not any music. Illustrated with twelve unattributed hand-colored plates, including the frontis. Cruikshank bibliographer Albert M. Cohn's copy with his bookplate on front pastedown, above which he's penciled, "of..... Item #54555 More
Middletown, Conn: Robin Price, 1998. Number 43 of 150 copies SIGNED BY BOTH THE ARTIST AND THE PRINTER. Designed, edited and printed letterpress on a Vandercook 219 press by Robin Price, with woodcuts by Keiji Shinohara, a CD of the poet's digitally remastered reading located in a well inside the..... Item #55886 More
New York: Random House, (1938). First edition, limited issue. Number 44 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Faulkner. One of his smaller limitations. Originaly issued in acetate and without slipcase. Endpapers darkened at hinges as often seen (offset from the binding materials), spine mellowed from deep red to medium..... Item #56030 More
New York / London: John Lane / Bodley Head, 1915. First edition, American issue. One of his most famous and most scarce works, a novel set before World War I chronicling the tragic lives of two couples using intricate flashbacks. Provenance, R. P Blackmur, poet, critic and teacher, with his..... Item #53152 More