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
(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
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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
New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. First edition, limited issue. One of 777 copies, most signed. Issued as "Gypsy Lou Series No. 1" by Jon and Louise Webb's Loujon Press. SIGNED AND DATED BY BUKOWSKI IN SILVER INK, "Charles Bukowski 12-14-63." Hand-fed letterpress printed one sheet at a time by the... Item #55506 More
San Francisco: Arion Press in association with the Library of Congress, 1987. First edition thus. Preface by Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress. One of 500. Slipcase, boxed, original wrappings, prospectus, letters. Handmade, colored, lettered, hand-set throughout. Paper was handmade... Item #55498 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
Chicago: A. C. McClure & Co., 1914. First edition of his first book. First printing with "W. F. Hall Printing Co. / Chicago" set in Old English type on two lines on verso of title leaf. In the first binding, without acorn device on spine panel. Included on most of... Item #54592 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
New York: Knopf, 1943. First edition. His fourth hard-boiled mystery. Basis for the 1947 film directed by George Haight and starring Robert Montgomery and Audrey Totter. Spine ends tanned and beginning to fray otherwise very good or better in good dust jacket with some light internal staining, spine tanned and... Item #53849 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): 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
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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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
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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
Lisbon, Iowa: Penumbra Press, 1977. First edition. Number 126 of only 200 copies of the former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning POET'S FIRST BOOK. Number four in Penumbra's "Manila Series." Unprinted, brown, string-tied paperwraps; housed in publisher's printed envelope. This copy INSCRIBED, "For Jeff, with warm wishes from one book... Item #52919 More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First edition. The trade edition in two volumes, as issued. Precedes the limited edition by a year. Much scarcer in nice condition, in our experience, than the limited. One of Dreiser's most acclaimed books. Made into the 1931 film of the same name and... Item #52673 More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. 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 the end of... Item #53201 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: J Lowndes, [1823]. First edition. A play based on the characters Egan created for his LIFE IN LONDON, attributed to George MacFarren as published in 1823 (Oxford DNB). Includes dedicatory note ot "Mr. William Jackson," cast of characters, the play and "Jemmy Green's Tour, A Comic Song, written by... Item #54537 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