London: John Hinton, (1770 - 1782). First edition of each. 20 half-year volumes published from Jan. 1770 to Dec. 1780 (i.e., six monthly issues in each) COVERING BRITISH REACTION TO AND VERSIONS OF INCIDENTS LEADING UP TO AND DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Missing only 2 volumes from an 11-year run..... Item #72636 More

(London): Allen Lane, (1977). First edition. With illustrations and diagrams by A. Wainwright. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Bright, attractive copy of his third novel. Item #30920 More

London: George Allen, 1897. First printing of the combined, one-volume edition with illustrations by A. J. Gaskin originally printed in a 2-volume edition in 1893. Translated from the Danish by H. Oskar Sommer. Small 8vo gilt-stamped light green cloth boards; leaf-patterned light green endpapers; 826 pages. Illustrated "with 100 pictures,"..... Item #72468 More

New York: Dell Publishing, 1931-1932. First edition. The first 12 issues of this hugely popular depression-era humor magazine known for its parodies of advertising and publishing. An early precursor to Mad Magazine, it was "stuffed with parodies of national advertisements and consumer magazines and sprinkled liberally with topical and risque..... Item #71783 More

New York: Henry Holt, (2004). First edition thus: first trade edition, first this publisher, and first with illustrations by Isol, the prize-winning Argentinian children's book illustrator and pop singer. Previously issued only in limited editions. SIGNED BY AUSTER on publisher's bookplate affixed to half-title page. Basis for the 1995 movie..... Item #72469 More

London: Oxford University Press, 1960. First edition. Children's book, edited by Avery and illustrated by Susan Einzig. Light offset to endpapers, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. A very bright copy. Item #30476 More

[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1989). First edition. Unifies three novellas in a trilogy "which describe old age (Company), the ending of the world (Ill Seen Ill Said), and the creation of life (Worstward Ho)--John Calder, essay in the Monthly Newsletter (laid in). Number 156 of 550 numbered copies SIGNED..... Item #72689 More

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927. First edition. Wilson, a civil servant, wrote a number of biographies of literary and historical figures; and as a civil servant, she was one of the first women in the United Kingdom to earn equal pay for her work (Wikipedia). One of 1,480 numbered copies..... Item #55262 More

Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1925. First edition thus: edited and with essay of appreciation by Bridges. With 29 illustrations, including the picture by Holbein etched in the author's time, to which is added Mr. Angarola's drawings of his conception of the period & drawings by way of contemporary comment by Gene..... Item #54686 More

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 - 1858. First edition. The life of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff as imagined by Brough, a writer of satires, burlesques, and radical poetry, as well as more conventional forms of prose. IN THE ORIGINAL 10 MONTHLY PARTS with woodcut illustration on front..... Item #54014 More

(London): Andre Deutsch, (1982). First edition. "A wealth of general bedlore, illustrated with colour plates which shows scores of beds from antiquity to present." Small imperfection in rear board, otherwise fine in dust jacket with ink mark through price on front flap. A very bright, interesting book. Item #27794 More

New Jersey: Margrace Corporation, (1985). First American edition. A textbook for the study of ALICE. Text on one page, illustrations on the next. Questions on the rear pastedown. Fine in pictorial boards. No dust jacket, if it was issued in one. Item #48905 More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 and 1872. First UK edition to be regularly published of ALICE IN WONDERLAND (after the suppressed 1865 edition) and first edition of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS with correct first-issue/printing point present on p.21, "wade" for "wabe" [Williams 10 & 21, respectively]. Each volume finely bound..... Item #72399 More