SH-KO AND HIS EIGHT WICKED BROTHERS.
Fumio Yoshimura. New York: Atheneum, 1988. First edition. Illustrated by Fumio Yoshimura. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #45240 More
Fumio Yoshimura. New York: Atheneum, 1988. First edition. Illustrated by Fumio Yoshimura. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #45240 More
London: J. Andrews, 1832. First edition. 8vo, original drab boards, untrimmed. [BAL 10134.] Published 2 months after the U.S. with same contents but this edition edited by Irving who introduced Bryant's poetry to British audiences in his preface, added several pages of notes at the end and, per William/Edge (p.97)..... Item #54917 More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1936). First edition. Very good to near fine with very subtle spotting to covers and a touch of light foxing to prelims. In bright dust jacket with scattered foxing to spine and few inconspicuous tears, otherwise near fine. Item #53949 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. First edition. "Circulating Library" copy, from the days when public libraries were not as plentiful and circulating libraries, which charged a fee, were known to stock popular novels the library might not. This one is from "The Stone House Book & Gift Shop" in Woonsocket..... Item #53940 More
Edingburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916. First edition. Slim red cloth boards stamped in black on front and spine. About very good with spine toned to pink but lettering still bright, pages darkened, as usually seen, and endpaper just beginning to crack at hinge but binding quite strong..... Item #53930 More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1915). First edition. Action, romance and adventure in the 1680s, from Scotland to Virginia. Bookplate of Charles F. Roth on pastedown. Minor wear and rubbing to corners and spine ends and general aging, book plate on front paste down, cracking along gutter of verso of..... Item #53942 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1936. First U.S. edition. Some minor soiling but still very good or better, lacking dust jacket. Item #38173 More
New York: The John Day Company, (1933). First edition. 14 stories with an introduction by Richard Walsh. A fine copy in nice, bright dust jacket with a split at front spine fold neatly repaired on verso, and just one tiny spot on spine. Item #41524 More
New York: The John Day Company, (1968). First edition. Name and date on front endpaper, otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket which has some minor wear on corners and spine ends. Item #41725 More
New York: The John Day Company, (1945). First edition. Fine in brown cloth with very minor rubbing on tips, lacking dust jacket. Item #41724 More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First edition, trade paperback issue. Edited by Seamus Cooney. Includes significant correspondence with Bukowski's editors, publishers and fellow writers. Contains many strong references to Jeffers and of Bukowski's admiration for him. Used as reading copy. Very good or better. Item #55672 More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First edition. Uncorrected proof in pale peach printed paperwraps. Includes the laudatory poem "Jeffers" which opens with "his blood-smeared horizons/ his hawks casting shadows of/ doom/ his stallions greater than/ men" (p.177) and lists Jeffers among other authors he holds in esteem in "nowhere"..... Item #55513 More
Tokyo: ShinchoSha, 1994. First Japanese edition. (We assume. We can't read Japanese.) Translated by Aono Satoshi. The book is fine in very good dust jacket with minor wear on corners and spine ends and small piece of clear tape at bottom of spine. The Buk in Japanese. Item #53122 More
New York: Knopf, 1938. First edition. Cloth a bit faded on edges; in dust jacket with spine faded, light rubbing, a few closed tears and a small chip on the spine. Item #45439 More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1933). First edition. Near fine with light foxing to first and last few leaves and spotting to page top edge; in good or better, price-clipped dust jacket with tear at head of spine with small hole beneath (affecting "D" in "Dead" and "No" in "Novel") internally..... Item #41383 More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (1997). First edition. Uncorrected bound galleys, fine in glossy pictorial paperwraps. Item #36739 More
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1985. First edition. One of an undisclosed number of copies of this SIGNED limited edition published for members of "The Signed First Edition Society." Precedes the first trade edition. Includes an introductory "special message for the first edition" by Burgess and illustrations Ronald De Felice not..... Item #71908 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
BurkeJ.pdf. Item #22751 More
New York: Hyperion, (1995). First edition. Fine in dust jacket, SIGNED on half title page. Item #52792 More
New York: Hyperion, (1997). First edition. Two volumes. His first novel to feature attorney Billy Bob Holland. Ther first trade is fine in fine dust jacket and the ARC shows a little minor edge rubbing but is otherwise fine. Item #56113 More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First edition. Burke's scarcest book with reportedly only 500 copies of the hardcover issue printed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new. Item #72098 More
New York et al: Various, 1987 - 2018. First edition -- unless otherwise noted -- of each of the 39 volumes, 24 of which are SIGNED BY BURKE. Covers 17 titles in total with, in some cases, a signed limited edition, first UK edition, and/or advance reading copy provided in..... Item #71680 More
Edna M. Reindel. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / Dial Press, 1930. First edition. His second book, the story of a mechanic's helper who becomes a middle-weight champion prize fighter. Basis for the 1931 pre-code movie of the same name starring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow. 8vo. blue cloth boards..... Item #54995 More
London: James Cochrane and M'Crone. 1834. First edition thus. Complete in eight foolscap octavo volumes, Bound by Reviere and Son in full polished green calf with gilt-titled spine labels in red and brown, gilt ornamentation and ruling to spine and board edges, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, and elaborated tooled..... Item #40671 More