London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First edition of this classic dystopian novel and 20th-century highspot. Rebound in gilt-stamped full green leather with marbled endpapers and original cloth spine bound in at rear. Text block expertly trimmed and resewn with red-and-green spine bands at head and tail. Quite fine. Item #72284 More
Los Angeles, CA: Students of Occidental College, (1905). First edition. RARE 1905 GRADUATION ISSUE. Large 8vo (7 x 10") gilt-embossed heavy black envelope-style paperwraps; 112 pages, including ads. Includes the first appearance of Robinson Jeffers' poem, "The Stream" on p. 71 (preceding the October 1905 issue of Out West Magazine..... Item #71603 More
New York: Vanguard Press, [1934]. First U.S. edition of Powell's third novel. Issued from the UK sheets of FROM A VIEW TO A DEATH. Very good to near fine with spine label and endpapers a little darkened. In somewhat soiled dust jacket with professional repair to edges and flap folds..... Item #53628 More
(London): Bloomsbury, (1999). First edition thus: scarce first printing of the Deluxe Edition. Reportedly one of only around 1,000 copies. The third book in the series but first to be printed in the deluxe edition. 8vo gilt-stamped green cloth with pictorial inset on front cover; all edges gilt; ribbon place..... Item #72006 More
[York]/ London: [Anne Ward]/ R. and J. Dodsley/ T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, [1759] 1760-1767. First edition of each of the nine volumes, with the first two volumes the correct ones -- as printed in York by Anne Ward in 1759 -- i.e., with 1760 date but without place..... Item #72340 More
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. First edition. Stevenson classic tale of the adventures of a Scottish boy cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas. First issue with "business" vs. "pleasure" p. 40: 11, other textual..... Item #72335 More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886. First UK edition, preceded by a few days by the U.S. edition. Handsomely re-bound in full leather by Riviere & Sons. 12mo (4 5/8 x 7") rich blue morocco with gilt double rules to board edges, gilt lettered spine, 5 raised spine bands, top..... Item #72296 More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922. First edition. INSCRIBED BY STODDARD on the front free endpaper, “TO MAXINE DAVIS/ my charming hostess -/. Lothrop Stoddard.” Stoddard (1883 - 1950) was a prominent American eugenicist, racial theorist, and "scientific" racist who used his status as a Harvard-educated historian to become a...... Item #72738 More
London: T. Bensley for J. White, 1801. First edition. Illustrated with frontis and 39 hand-colored engraved plates by Strutt. Bound by Morrell for John Wanamaker. Quarto full red morocco with sides elaborately tooled in blind and ruled in gilt; 5 spine panels within raised bands tooled in blind and stamped..... Item #56139 More
London [No-place]: Lovat Dickson / (Arden), (1934). First U.S. edition. Collects two novellas. "The first story is concerned with the adventures, charmingly and delicately told, of a young girl with Lesbian tendencies" (from the jacket front panel). Translated from the Swedish by Paula Wiking. Published from the sheets of the..... Item #71672 More
Antwerpiae [Antwerp]: Officina Plantiniana [Plantin Press], apud Viduam & Filios Jo. Moreti [widow & sons of Joannes Moretus] (Printed by Robert Bruneau), 1612. Later printings of both volumes with first one retaining the 1603 printer's statement from the first edition on final page; and with second one reprinting Sweerts 1602..... Item #72562 More
New York & Boston: Knopf / Little, Brown and Co., 1992 / 2002 / 2013. First edition of each of her first three books together with two interesting circa 1992 photographs of Tartt. THE SECRET HISTORY (Knopf, 1992): SIGNED on laid-in bookplate. Near fine with spine ends gently pushed; in..... Item #72170 More
Munchen: Der Ziegelbrenner, 1917-20. First edition. German language ANARCHIST MAGAZINE that reportedly escaped censorship due to it being misclassified by authorities as a magazine for bricklayers. Edited under the name Ret Marut up until March 1919, after which Marut remained anonymous, identified on the rear cover only as being "known..... Item #54291 More
circa 1970. A TREASURE TROVE OF RESEARCH gathered by Donald McCormick (1911-1998), a Senior Manager at the Sunday Times in the late sixties and early seventies, for an article or book that never came to fruition. Includes a 5-page proposal from Sydney Paulden for an article on Traven's identity..... Item #56188 More
[Washington DC]: 1949. First edition, limited issue. Program from Truman's second inauguration, SIGNED BY HARRY TRUMAN on May 13, 1967. One of an undesignated number of copies of the "Limited DeLuxe Edition," this being number 781 and signed by MELVIN D. HILDRETH, General Chairman of the Inaugural Committee, presumably as..... Item #53710 More
New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885. First U.S. edition. Mixed state with the following first issue points: title page tipped-in; "Him and another man" listed incorrectly in list of illustrations; "...with the was..." p.57:11[up]. Also, with the following later issue points: p.155 final "5" in folio slightly larger..... Item #72329 More
New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885. First edition, earliest state of the cloth issue. Rebound in lovely full-leather binding by Bayntun-Riviere with portions of original covers and spine bound in at rear. First state points from various sources present in this copy are as follow: title page and..... Item #72330 More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. First edition, issued simultaneously with the UK edition. Mixed state without "s"-like ornament in caption p.[59] but with perfect type on p.[72]. 8vo olive-green cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and gilt blue and black on front; floral endpapers; 575 pages..... Item #72328 More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. First U.S. edition. Publisher's prospectus or salesman's dummy with half-title page, frontis illustration, title page, contents pages, "List of Illustrations" (explaining why there is no list of illustrations); Twain's preface, and a sampling of pages from the text interspersed with full-plate illustrations..... Item #49501 More
![Item #55876 CRACKED SIDEWALKS; [signed, limited edition with extra suite of signed prints]....](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55876.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1583205471)
Sherman Oaks: Mixolydian Editions, 2006. First edition. "Short impressionistic prose vignettes” about growing up in Southern California illustrated with four wood engravings by Wagener. Number 27 of 40 numbered copies printed on Rives Heavyweight paper and SIGNED BY WAGENER (from a total edition of 65). ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED by Wagener at..... Item #55876 More
London: Chapman and Hall, (1932). First edition. Satire set on the fictional island nation of "Azania." Based on Waugh's own travels to Ethiopia, the novel follows a young emperor's attempts to modernize his home nation after studying at Oxford. Near fine with only touch of minor shelf wear to tips..... Item #54156 More
![Item #54557 THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY; [24 volumes, the complete set in the original parts]. H. G....](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/54557.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1582074208)
London: George Newnes, Ltd., (1919-20). First edition of the complete set in the original 24 magazine-format parts. A massive work running to a million words. These are the original issues, each bound in colorful pictorial paperwraps. Save for the staples rusting, the set is very good to near fine. Housed..... Item #54557 More
Diana Younger. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1936]. First edition. INSCRIBED, "For Diana / who drew the figures in the end papers (of this book) ... love / from Dennis." Diana Younger, Wheatley's stepdaughter, illustrated the endpapers for this book and several others, and the dust jacket for THE GOLDEN SPANIARD..... Item #53572 More
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First edition. One of 1,000 copies; not numbered (as usually seen). This copy in the scarce VARIANT BINDING, recorded only as with "some copies" having been bound as such [Mason & Millard 381, note to]. 8vo gilt-stamped mauve cloth stamped in gilt; [152] pages..... Item #71614 More
Columbia: University of Missouri, 1932. First edition. College yearbook from Williams' final year in school. Includes the first appearance of his poem "Not without Knowledge" (by "Thomas Lanier Williams, Missouri Chapter of the College Poetry Society.) One of his earliest appearances in print. Williams is also listed and presumably pictured..... Item #71647 More