[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
![Item #72398 THE AURORAS OF AUTUMN; [Scarce signed copy]. Wallace Stevens](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72398.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733275061)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First edition. Winner of the 1951 National Book Award for Poetry. SIGNED BY STEVENS on the half-title page. 8vo dark blue cloth boards, spine stamped in gilt, top edge dark blue; 193 pages plus "Note on the Type." Fine in bright, near fine dust..... Item #72398 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
First edition. Small archive of correspondence. Norman Thomas was a six-time Socialist candidate for President. Nineteen (19) letters in total, all of which would appear to have been from Felix's own files as several include copies of his responses. Of the nineteen, 13 are from Thomas and 3 are copies..... Item #71579 More
London: Chatto & Windus, (1935). First edition in English. Translated from the German by Basil Creighton. The first of his "Jungle Novels," a six-book series published in the 1930's that focused on indigenous Mexicans forced to work clearing mahogany in the jungle – their rebellion lead to the outbreak of..... Item #53809 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
New York: Knopf, 1960 - 2000. First edition of each of the four volumes in the "Rabbit" quartet, plus LICKS OF LOVE, a collection of short stories including the sequel novella, "Rabbit Remembered." RABBIT, RUN with 3 x 5" card laid in INSCRIBED "For - - , Best wishes, John..... Item #49847 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
Los Angeles, CA: Occidental Publishing Co., 1905. First edition. Scarce early Occidental College magazine. This particular issue includes three poems attributed to Robinson Jeffers: "The Lake" (p. 8) by "R. J." [Alberts A-9]; "Nemesis" (p. 1) by "Rob York"; and "In the Garden" (p. 8) by "Edwin Rush." The latter..... Item #71605 More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, (1964). First edition. The true first edition of the "Warren Report." SIGNED BY PRESIDENT GERALD FORD, who was a congressman when appointed to the Warren Commission by Lyndon B. Johnson. (In 1973, Richard M. Nixon appointed Ford vice president after Spiro T. Agnew resigned; and..... Item #54964 More
[New Haven]: Yale University, (1956). First edition. One of only about 175 copies [Grimshaw A14, p.84]. Designed, printed, and illustrated by Jane Doggett at Yale University's School of Design. This copy WARMLY INSCRIBED BY WARREN TO HIS LITERARY EXECUTER on front endpaper, "To Stuart (W)/ with admiration and friendship/ Red..... Item #49496 More
New York: Jonathan Cape / Harrison Smith, (1930). First U.S. edition, published March, 1930 (the UK was published January). Waugh's working title for the book was "Bright Young Things," a tabloid nickname for the hard-partying young aristocrats and socialites of 1920s London whom he satirizes herein. 8vo green cloth-backed, decorated..... Item #54585 More
New York: Jonathan Cape / Harrison Smith, (1930). First U.S. edition, published just a few months after the UK. Waugh's working title for the book was "Bright Young Things," a tabloid nickname for the hard-partying young aristocrats and socialites of 1920s London whom he satirizes herein. 8vo green cloth-backed, decorated..... Item #55117 More
London: William Heinemann, 1896. First edition. In first-issue binding with publisher's blind-stamped monogram on rear board and 32-page catalog with p.[1] headed "THE MANXMAN" and p. [32] headed "OUT OF DUE SEASON" as called for. (Also issued with 16-page catalog, no priority established). Covers darkened, soiled and subtly rubbed, hinges..... Item #54132 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
(New York): New Directions Book, (1947). First edition. Pulitzer Prize-winning play made into the Elia Kazan Academy Award-winning film. Light bumping along lower edges otherwise near fine with the lavender pictorial boards showing very little of the fading which is endemic with this book; in very good or better dust..... Item #53823 More
(New York): New Directions Book, (1958). First edition. SIGNED BY WILLIAMS on front endpaper. Basis for the 1959 movie starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift. Very good to near fine with touch of faint foxing to pastedowns, small strip of minor sunning to base of spine, and front..... Item #54196 More