(New York: Mulholland Books / Little, Brown, 2013). True first edition, preceding the UK. SIGNED BY BOTH ABRAMS AND DORST on front endpaper at a NYC ticketed signing event, Nov. 23, 2013. Original event program included. A story within a story conceived by Abrams and executed by Dorst. A copy..... Item #55430 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
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
![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
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
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
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
![A COLLECTION OF HIS EARLY WORK [14 VOLUMES]: The Black Echo; The Black Ice; The Concrete Blonde;...](/pictures/thumb/54519.jpg?v=1551479794)
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
![THE RESCUE: [In Romance Magazine]. Joseph Conrad](/pictures/thumb/54532.jpg?v=1569381032)
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
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
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. 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: Knight & Lacey, 1827. First edition thus: with hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and 12 hand-colored engraved 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
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
New York: Random House, (1942). First edition, first issue in black cloth binding with page top edges stained red. A bright, very good to near fine copy in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with only marginal, rubbed chipping and wear. Item #52757 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: 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