Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1949. First edition. Winner of the first National Book Award and made into the movie that resurrected Frank Sinatra's career. "Unrevised proofs" in tall, plain blue wraps with light-blue label printed in black. Measures 6 7/8 x 11 3/4"; last page number is "122" but..... Item #52513 More
New York: Gnome Press, (1951). First edition. With gold-bordered label SIGNED BY ASIMOV affixed to base of title page. In binding cloth variant "A" (red-stamped dark blue boards) and pages bulking nearly 2 cm., as called for. In later-printing circa-1959 dust jacket with price, front flap, spine and front panel..... Item #55110 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
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. First edition, limited issue, in near fine condition with only light rubbing to edges. This copy SIGNED AND DATED BY BUKOWSKI IN SILVER INK, "Charles Bukowski 12-14-63" and one of 777 copies, most of which were signed. Issued as "Gypsy Lou Series No. 1" by..... Item #55506 More
London: Jones & Co., 1822. Illustrated with hand-colored plates, first edition thus. The satirical novelist's first book, originally published in 1778 as EVELINA, OR THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD. Includes 6 full-page hand-colored humorous engravings, three signed W. Heath, and a hand-colored extra-illustrated title page..... Item #54531 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
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): NAL/New American Library, (1968). First edition. Inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel" and based on the screenplay by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick for the Award-winning epic movie of the same name. Spine ends a little pushed otherwise near fine in bright, near fine dust jacket with few..... Item #55108 More
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New York / Los Angeles: Little Brown / Steven Vascik Publications, 1992-2007. First editions. 14 of his first 16 books (missing Angel Flight and The Narrows).The Black Echo - SIGNED (1992) The Black Ice (1993) The Concrete Blonde - SIGNED (1994) The Last Coyote - SIGNED (1995) The Poet SIGNED..... Item #54519 More
Edinburgh: Blackwood and Sons, 1902. First edition, presumed first issue with ads at rear dated "10/02" (vs 11/02). Includes the novella HEART OF DARKNESS, "a masterpiece of sinister deterioration" [Connolly 14] ranked by Modern Library among the hundred best novels of the 20th century. Green cloth stamped in gilt and..... Item #53766 More
Isaac Robert Cruikshank. London: John Lowndes, 1822. (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 six spine..... Item #54607 More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1938. First American edition. SIGNED by author on publisher's tipped-in page. The author's most famous book. Made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940 with Joan Fontaine, Laurence Oliver, George Sanders, and Judith Anderson. Hitchcock's first American project, which won two Academy..... Item #52775 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
New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1943). First edition, one of only 788 copies released. States "first American edition," as called for; in first-state dust jacket with $2.00 price in upper corner of front flap, back flap blank, and nine titles listed in bold on back panel ending with "Old Possum's...." Collects..... Item #54958 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
(Torrance, CA): Labyrinth Editions, 1980. First edition. Deluxe issue. Two volumes, the second being a PORTFOLIO OF BROADSHEETS WITH EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR & ARTIST and including an AUTOGRAPH POEM SIGNED BY EVERSON. A stunningly beautiful production. Selected for inclusion in surveys of fine contemporary press work by..... Item #55585 More
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. First edition. One of only 100 copies of his second book and first to be hardbound. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY EVERSON TO HIS FRIEND AND OYEZ PUBLISHER, "for Bob Hawley/ very happy to inscribe this copy of/ San Joaquin/..... Item #55619 More
New York: Modern Library, (1959). Modern Library Giant, first edition thus. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To The Maracay Book Club / with gratitude and best wishes / William Faulkner / Caracas / 20 April 1961" and signed on the title page "William Faulkner / Maracay / 10 April 1961."..... Item #52461 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, first printing with perfect type where called for. Preliminary and first few pages lightly foxed, scattered foxing elsewhere, pages 1-8 roughly opened resulting in chips and small tears at fore edges which is too bad because covers themselves are crisp and near fine..... Item #54550 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1920. First edition, second printing, published the same month as the first. His second book, with 8 short stories. The first printing was 5000 copies and this scarce second printing was only 3000 copies. Bright and nearly fine with just light offset to the front endpaper..... Item #49654 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition. First printings with correct points on pp.60, 119, 205, and 211. On all the best-of lists of 20th century fiction. Covers show only subtle mottling and mild wear but foxing to preliminary and final pages and to margins throughout. About very good thus..... Item #53834 More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1920. First edition. The author's first book, which established him on the Roaring Twenties scene. A sharp copy with covers clean and gilt spine lettering nice and bright but offsetting to last several leaves from items previously laid in and small abrasion to front endpaper; altogether..... Item #55116 More
London/ New York: Thomas Seltzer/ Duckworth, 1924 - 1928. First edition set save for the first volume, which is the first U.S.; all four volumes in the scarce to rare dust jackets. Ford's tetralogy set during WWI, mainly in England and on the western front, where Ford himself served as..... Item #54505 More