AUTHOR PRICE GUIDES The Complete Set on CD (219 Guides).
2004-2007. Item #41625 More
2004-2007. Item #41625 More
(New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2004). First edition. Limited to 100 copies (as stated on each broadside). 12 letterpress-printed broadsides -- EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE POET -- housed together in portfolio handmade by summer interns. Produced in honor of readings at the Center by established and emerging..... Item #55775 More
(New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2005). First edition. Limited to 100 copies (as stated on each broadside). 12 letterpress-printed broadsides -- EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE POET -- housed together in portfolio handmade by summer interns under the leadership of Ana Cordeiro, the Center’s binder-in-residence. Produced in honor..... Item #55773 More
[Washington]: [No-publisher], 1852. First edition. DISBOUND. Executive Document Number 91 petitioning Congress for an increase in subsidies for the Collins Lines, an American steamship company, to transport mail “between New York and Liverpool, between New York and New Orleans, Havana and Chagres, and between Panama and San Francisco and some..... Item #72219 More
[Washington, DC: Shoreham Hotel, circa 1887]. The first Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC was founded in 1887 by then U.S. Vice President, Levi P. Morton, who named it after the city in Vermont where he was born. The original hotel went bankrupt in 1927, and its grand building at the..... Item #72164 More
Berkeley: Image Comics, Inc., 2014. First edition. First issue in the ongoing comic series set in an American South where football is everything and crime is a sport. Winner of the 2015 Harvey Award for Best New Series and 2016 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series. [NOTE: This is the..... Item #71713 More
Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, (1992). First edition. His second collection of poems. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht, "For Tony, with--poems, or no poems--Love [underlined], from Jonathan" beneath which he's sketched a chair and captioned it "Chair, EOS Hotel, Zurich, 21.v.92." Fine in glossy, black, pictorial..... Item #53749 More
AbbeyE.pdf. Item #22729 More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1971). First edition. A fire lookout falls in love with a young woman only to be falsely accused when she mysteriously disappears in the surrounding park. Very inconspicuous remainder mark otherwise quite fine in near fine to fine dust jacket with light creasing along bottom..... Item #71870 More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1956). First edition of his scarce second novel. Basis for the 1962 movie, “Lonely Are the Brave,” starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau. A presentable ex-library copy with extensive professional repair. Endpapers replaced; color touched up where tape and labels were removed..... Item #72129 More
New York: Dutton, (1980). First edition. His only work of science fiction. A sequel of sorts to THE BRAVE COWBOY (1956) in that it includes the character Jack Burns who, along with others, is trying to make his way in an America in which the economy and government have collapsed..... Item #71872 More
New York: Dutton, (1977). First edition. SIGNED BY ABBEY on front endpaper. "In a voice edged with inner chagrin, [Abbey] offers a portrait of the American West that we'll not soon forget, offering us the observations of a man who left the urban world behind to think about the natural..... Item #71795 More
Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1839. First edition. A little book of life lessons for children. Frontis black-and-white scenic plate, tissue protected. Gift inscription, boards slightly soiled, touch of rubbing to edges and corners, foxed throughout, otherwise very good. Scarce. Item #47756 More
New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996). First edition. With generic inscription (not to anyone in particular), "Aloha and Peace!" and SIGNED BY ABERCROMBIE -- the former Congressman and Governor of Hawaii -- on title page. Near fine with tiny tear where base of spine gently pushed; in crisp..... Item #51013 More
(New York): New Directions Book, (1974). First edition. His first novel, preceded by a book of poems. "An extraordinary linguistic tour de force" (from the jacket flap) with first and last chapters written using only words beginning with the letter "A" (e.g., "Ages ago an archeologist, Albert, alias Arthur, ably..... Item #53591 More
New York: Random House, (1991). First edition. INSCRIBED on bookplate affixed opposite the half-title page to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht, "for Tony, In praise of his poems, and with all good wishes, Diane / 1991." Base of spine a little sunned, otherwise fine in fine dust..... Item #53728 More
(Santa Cruz, CA: University of California, 1965). First edition. Address written for the 1965 opening of the University of California Santa Cruz campus. The only other copy recorded is at UCSC. According to OCLC, this was a keepsake given out at the 3rd annual UCSC charter banquet, so presume actually..... Item #55392 More
New York: Dodge Publishing Co., no-date [circa 1910]. First U.S. edition, from the London plates. Frank Adams' large colorful illustrations for a story by James Kendrew (Kendrew's story was originally self-published in 1820 as a chapbook with small, unattributed woodcuts). Quarto red paper boards backed with red cloth (vs green..... Item #55153 More
New York: Macmillan Co., 1961. First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Nick Eggenhofer. INSCRIBED by Adams on the front endpaper, " To - - with best wishes. If you ever have to ride the rough string here's hopin' your cinch is tight./ Cordially yours, Ramon F. Adams." Fine in price-clipped..... Item #51457 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: J. M. Dent & Co., 1905. First edition. Selections from The Spectator by Symons with an introduction by him. Illustrated by H. M. Brock. 12 mo, 310 pages. Bound by Bayntun in three-quarter red leather with marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-lettered spine with five raised bands, and top edge..... Item #54023 More
New York: Ray Long & Russell Smith, 1931. First edition. First printing in marbled cloth boards. Illustrated by Rea Irvin, Gluyas Williams, John Held, Jr., et al. A paean to bar culture written in the waning days of Prohibition. Very good or better with faint stain to front blank pages..... Item #28611 More
[Various places]: circa 1870 - 1900. 12 trade cards in various sizes. Includes: M. C. MILLER, Fine Boots & Shoes; 3 7/8 x 2 5/8”; 2 girls one of whom is riding a large dog. || PARTRIDGE'S Café and Dining Rooms, Philadelphia; 4 3/8 x 2 7/8”; boy..... Item #71965 More
Charleston, S.C. Steam-Power Press of Walker and James, 1850. First edition. 19-page hand-sewn tract in original pale peach printed paperwraps. Agassiz's address given to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Charleston, March, 1850. "James P. Low 1851" at head of front cover. Damp stain along lower edge otherwise..... Item #47124 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. Illustrated with 31 haunting black-and-white photographs by Evans. “...a violent and beautiful book; a supremely moving picture of one stratum of American life and of the effect of this life on two sensitive observers.”—from the dust jacket flap. 8vo silver-stamped black cloth boards; 471..... Item #72066 More