(New York: Mulholland Books / Little, Brown, 2013). True first edition, preceding the UK. SIGNED BY BOTH ABRAMS AND DORST on front endpaper at a NYC ticketed signing event, Nov. 23, 2013. Original event program included. A story within a story conceived by Abrams and executed by Dorst. A copy..... Item #55430 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 self-published in 1820 by James Kendrew as a chapbook illustrated with small (unattributed) woodcuts. Quarto red paper boards backed with red cloth (the London edition had green..... Item #55153 More
Wainwright, A. (London): Allen Lane, (1977). First edition. With illustrations and diagrams by A. Wainwright. Tips lightly bumped, otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket with just a touch of minor edge rubbing. A very bright, attractive copy of his third novel. Item #30920 More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863. First edition of the first report, as the Department was established that year. House of Representatives, 37th Congress, 3d Session. Ex. Doc. No. 78; Isaac Newton, Commissioner of Agriculture. 48 full-page, etched plates of fruits and farm animals bound at front. 632 pages with additional..... Item #52536 More
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1926. First edition. Number 339 of 1010 copies of which the first 150 were signed by the author. However this copy is INSCRIBED, "Harry Sloninsky from Richard Aldington Malthouse Cottage 7-7-26." Black cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Yellow jacket and endpapers designed by Frank Mechau. The..... Item #54684 More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1986). First edition. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. SIGNED and INSCRIBED "To Audrey, with many bluebonnets, Jean Andrews" on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #37668 More
New York: Association Press, (1973). First edition. Brooks on 82 plays from the period with Hirschfeld's drawings. Fine in lightly soiled, very good dust jacket with rubbing along the edges and spine ends but still an attractive copy with no chips or tears. Item #51198 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
Beistle, Mary Alice. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, (1939). First edition. Paper covering on boards rubbed in several small spots on edges and small "Property of ---" stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise near fine in dust jacket with tanned spine, a few small closed edge tears and a tiny hole..... Item #34887 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
Middletown, Connecticut: Robin Price, 2005. First edition, limited issue. Number 37 or 125 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ARTIST, AND PRINTER/PUBLISHER. Robin Price designed, composed, printed it letterpress and hand bound the book. This copy was presented to Mears with Price's INSCRIPTION ON THE COLOPHON that states "this copy for Allen..... Item #55875 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., (1973). First U.S. hardback of the complete text and first U.S. with illustrations. Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. This edition contains the original stories from the 1950 first edition plus "The Fire Balloons" and "The Wilderness" which were first included in..... Item #55168 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
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2003. First edition, the "Deluxe" limited issue. Copy B of 26 lettered copies SIGNED BY BRINGHURST, WAGENER, and KOCH. Additionally INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST "for Allen Mears, the kind of reader / Parmenides has waited for / 17.1.2004" Although copy B, the colophon is absent the limitation..... Item #55883 More
New York: 1954 - 1956. An original playbill, a souvenir playbook (magazine-style keepsake offered for sale at each play); and an original ticket stub for each one of these 1950's Broadway musicals. THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON: Martin Beck Theatre; starring Burgess Meredith; ticket stub for Tuesday evening November..... Item #56062 More
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, (1970). First edition. An Indian history of the American West documenting the systematic plunder of the native Americans, battle by battle, broken promise by broken promise. 487 pages, illustrated. The big book pages leans a bit at top edge of binding, otherwise fine in..... Item #55169 More
Decatur, Georgia: Wisteria Press, 1997. First edition. Letter "Z" of 26 COPIES BOUND IN FULL LEATHER and housed in handmade clamshell box, each copy SIGNED BY BROWN AND MOSER and with TWO LOOSE LITHOGRAPHS SIGNED BY MOSER in glassine envelope laid in (one is the frontispiece illustration, the other appears..... Item #53542 More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First edition. Edited by Steven Moore. Number 30 of 500 hardcover copies with a silkscreen print by Bukowski bound in. Martinelli published some of Bukowski's poems in her literary journal "Anagogic & Paideumic Review." In his letters Bukowski discusses Jeffers' poetry and usually counts..... Item #55518 More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First edition. Edited by Seamus Cooney. Number 215 of 300 SIGNED, numbered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each with an original color silkscreen by Bukowski. Contains many strong references to Jeffers' work and Bukowski's admiration for him. Brick-red cloth backed white paper..... Item #55515 More
N. C. Wyeth. (New York): Cosmopolitan Book Co., 1924. Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, first edition thus. Spine just slightly faded and the barest wear on corners and spine ends, otherwise fine with pictorial front panel and endpapers. Lacking the dust jacket. Very nice copy. Item #41196 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
London: Jones & Co., 1822. Illustrated with hand-colored plates, first edition thus. The satirical novelist's first book, originally published in 1778 as EVELINA, OR THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD. Includes 6 full-page hand-colored humorous engravings, three signed W. Heath, and a hand-colored extra-illustrated title page..... Item #54531 More
Andrew Wyeth. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1941). First edition, limited issue. Number 25 of 650 copies in the "special Delaware edition ... printed exclusively for the Greenwood Book Shop" SIGNED BY CANBY AND WYETH. Very good or better with light edge wear and spine slightly faded; in like dust..... Item #53698 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
New York: Dell Publ. Co., 1950. "Dell Surprise Book" number 12, first edition thus. Illustrated by Sheila Beckett. Small, oblong, stapled, pictorial paperwraps. Good or better with shelf wear, soiling, and one small chip. Item #48752 More