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
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
London: John Camden Hotten, [1873]. True first edition, preceding the U.S. [BAL 1096]. Bierce's first book, written while he was living and working in London, and for which he was never paid -- Hotten died before the post-dated check he'd given Bierce came due. 12mo gilt-stamped purple-brown cloth with gilt..... Item #71993 More
London: Printed for William Innys, Richard Ware, Aaron Ward, et al. 1747. First edition. Two massive full-leather folio volumes with A TOTAL OF 68 MAPS AND 2 PLATES. Lacking only 1 map in first volume. VOLUME ONE -- includes 27 of the 28 maps called for with 9 folding maps;..... Item #71742 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, DELUXE limited issue. All twenty fragments – ranging from a few words to 66 lines – of the poem generally referred to as "On Nature" by pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides of Elea (active circa 475 BC) translated from the Ancient Greek and with..... Item #55883 More
![Item #54963 THE OFFICE; [BOOK & ORIGINAL PAINTING]. Fredric. Philip Jose Farmer Brown, introduction](/pictures/thumb/54963.jpg?v=1547845842)
Joe Servello. (Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications), (1987.). Original uncut version, first edition thus. One of 450 numbered copies SIGNED BY PHILIP JOSE FARMER, who wrote the foreword for this edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. TOGETHER WITH THE ORIGINAL, SIGNED PAINTING BY JOE SERVELLO used for the dust jacket..... Item #54963 More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First edition. Burke's scarcest book with reportedly only 500 copies of the hardcover issue printed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new. Item #72098 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
Chicago: Covici Friede, 1930. First edition thus: illustrated by Kent and translated by Van Wyck. THE DELUXE EDITION. Number 28 of only 75 copies SIGNED BY KENT at end of second volume and with an extra suite of FIVE SEPARATE 5-PANEL PLATES, EACH ONE SIGNED BY KENT. Two folio-sized full-leather..... Item #71650 More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1940. Exceedingly scarce first U.S. edition and first edition with this title. Originally published in the UK with a racist term in the title. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE is the world's best-selling mystery and one of the best-selling books of all time. Adapted numerous times..... Item #71776 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
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
Isaac Robert Cruikshank. London: John Lowndes, 1822. Two volumes. (VOLUME 1) FIRST EDITION: Folding hand-colored frontispiece etching, "Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Burroughs & Mr. Wrench, As Logic, Jerry & Corinthian Tom...," by Robert Cruikshank. Bound (together with Songs, Parodies etc below) in 8vo gilt-stamped polished calf by Riviere & Son with..... Item #54607 More
London: Heinemann, 1901. First UK edition. One of only 1500 to 2500 copies printed (estimates vary) of “the MOST INTERESTING, AND PERHAPS THE SCARCEST (except the first American) of all Dreiser books” (Vrest Orton, DREISERANA: A Book About His Books, NY: 1929). Issued as the 6th volume in the short-lived..... Item #72065 More
London: Knight & Lacey, 1827. First edition thus: with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 12 hand-colored aquatint plates by Theodore Lane. Bound by Baynton in straight grain red morocco with raised gilt-stamped spine bands and compartments with gilt-lettering and rule as well as four ornaments of a sporting motif -- fox..... Item #54559 More
New York: Random House, (1952). First edition. His National Award-winning first book. Ranked 19th on the Modern Library list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century and one of Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Anthony Burgess called it "a masterpiece." Crisp and..... Item #54193 More
New York: The Vanguard Press, (1934). First edition. INSCRIBED but we don't not know to whom. Long, hand written, filling pastedown and front end paper, also signed on next blank. "Here are some of my first stories, written between 1927 and 1934." then discussion about the titles of the stories..... Item #54602 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. Originally issued in clear acetate without a slipcase. Endpapers darkened at hinges as often seen (offset from the binding materials), spine mellowed from deep red to..... Item #56030 More
New York and London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. First edition [Harvey A49]. "A lively, personal, and extremely persuasive indictment of modern Prussianism" (Daily Telegraph). INSCRIBED on the half-title page, "For George Keating / Ford Madox Ford." After Ford's heart attack in 1931 left him broke, Keating offered to pay his..... Item #53793 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
![Item #71544 LA VIE ARTISTIQUE [ARTISTIC LIFE]: 8 volumes, the complete series. Gustave Geffroy](/pictures/thumb/71544.jpg?v=1626960770)
First edition. French language. Eight volumes in French-style paperwraps with covers printed in red and black. Geffroy's impressions, criticism, and reviews of art and artists of the day. Each volume covers the Paris Salons of the period (the first, published in 1892, covers the 1890 and 1891 Salons, and so..... Item #71544 More
New York: H. R. Russell and Son, 1894. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST DANIEL BEARD on the dedication page, "To Dan Beard whose advice and friendship is of the greatest value to his friend C. D. Gibson, Dec. 1894." Beard was an illustrator, author, youth leader and social reformer..... Item #71535 More
New York: Doubleday, (1996). First U.S. edition. Boldly SIGNED BY GORBACHEV in felt-tip marker on the half-title page (few tiny specks of bleed through to title page). Mildest of shelf wear but still fine in fine dust jacket. "In every generation, a handful of individuals radically alter the course of..... Item #71588 More