London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Engravings. First Thus. Cloth. 8vo, grey buckram with a small burgundy & gold rimmed label, Mylar-protected puse-colored dust jacket (unclipped) with lettering, profusely illustrated with B&W repros of fine engravings from the second edition of 1774, xxvii + 504 pages + [1] re: printer Vivian..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue boards, dust jacket, 346 pages. Superior Condition internally and externally. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED, 8vo, maroon cloth, spine with teal paper-covered boards, Mylar-protected calligraphed maroon dust jacket (unclipped), xiv + 718 pages. Exceptionally Fine SIGNED copy of a well-received historical fiction. New York Times Bestseller for eight months. Became a film starring Donald Sutherland. Allan..... More
London: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, 1905. Maurice Greiffenhagen. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Thick 8vo, blue gilt-decorated cloth with gold labyrinth on spine and cover & green inlaid lines on cover, illustrated B&W frontispiece and 31 plates by Maurice Greiffenhagen, 384 pages. Continuation of the author's celebrated romance..... More
New York: Doubleday [a division of Random House], 2000. First Edition(s). Cloth and boards / wrappers. 2 Volumes [1 cloth and 1 wrappered]; Cloth Edition SIGNED by the Author with an ILLUSTRATION of a Piano & her Presentation, 8vo, black cloth over off-white boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket of piano..... More
New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, black cloth over pink textured boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket of ballet slippers by Mary Javorek, 349 pages + [4] "About the Author" & "About the Type." Signed by the Author on a bookplate affixed..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1959. First British Edition. Boards. Small 8vo, red boards with spine lettered in gold, dust jacket, 188 pages. Author's First Novel in Near Fine condition with a Near Fine & unclipped--thus Rare--dust jacket (with very slight a few abraision & clean nicks near the top of..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. First American Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering & Elizabethan woman on spine, engraved frontispiece of Queen Elizabeth, translated from the French by Elizabeth Lee, illustrated, t.e.g., [434] pages. Very Useful study on less well known subjects relating..... More
New York, New York: Legitur Books, 2013. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, gray buckram, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket of the moon over waters by Scott Hedblom, 388 pages. This debut novel is not listed by most book databases and may have been self-published. See www.prospiceanovel.com, which states..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010. First Edition, Second Printing (#-line ends with "2"). Cloth over textured boards. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, white buckram over textured white boards, Mylar-protected blue photographic dust jacket by Barnaby Hall, gold seal marked "Specially Autographed Copy" on dj, 354 pages. Third novel SIGNED..... More
New York: Scribner, 1999. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Tall and thick 8vo, black quarter cloth with spine lettering & Peace Sign in red over blue cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket collage (unclipped) by Phil Heffernan/Phx, 523 pages + [2] "Pierced heart + Peace Sign = Information." King's novel consists..... More
New York: Scribner, 2000. First Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, cloth, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped), 288 pages. "This is a special book, animated by a unique intelligence, and filled with useful truth" (Michael Chabon). 2000. More
Kennebunkport, Maine: Applesauce Press, 2014. Don Daily. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. Square quarto [4to] (11" x 11 1/4"), glossy pictorial boards depicting Mowgli patting an elephant, image repeated as dust jacket art by Don Daily, who has illustrated the book with detailed, full-color, realistic art, archival mylar-protected pictorial..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. Richard M. Powers. Book Club Edition. Cloth. 2 vols, 8vos, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial and colorful dust jackets--and title pages--with numerous painted scenes of India by Richard Powers (unclipped and spendid),vol. I: ix + 531 pages..... More
New York San Diego London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1992. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, red cloth over beige cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), ix + 358 pages. Handsome copy internally and externally of an extraordinary debut novel that ranks with other exceptional works by "Eco, Susking, and..... More
New York Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Book, 2013. First Edition. Boards. SIGNED by the Author on a front endpaper, 8vo, dark green boards with "JL" stamped in red on front cover, archival mylar-protected dust jacket with lettering (unclipped), indigo endpapers, [340] pages + [4] Acknowledgements & Notes on..... More
Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, golden quarter cloth with light gold lettering over light yellow boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a colorful swirling lotus by Philippe Lardy, 291 pages. Winner of..... More
Paris: Odyssey, 1935. First Authorized Edition: Seventh Printing. Limp leather. 12mo, pebbled leather wrappers with ribbon place marker, "An Open Letter to the Public of D.H. Lawrence from Frieda Lawrence," xxx-pages. Mrs. Lawrence wrote in her "Open Letter" that her husband had written three separate versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover..... More
New York: Grove Press Inc., 1959. First Grove Press Complete Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, blue-green quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over beige boards, xxxix + 368 pages. Mrs. Lawrence wrote in her "Open Letter" that her husband had written three separate versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover, but..... More
HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992. First American Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, black quarter cloth over white boares, Mylar-protected dust jacket, xiii + 442 pages. Doris Lessing became the 2007 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. Reissue with Author's Introduction. Cloth. Presentation SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, beige cloth, with an Introduction by the author, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket designed by Janet Halverson, xxiv + [566] pages. SIGNED Presentation Copy in excellent condition internally and externally of the author's important..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Book Club Edition. Cloth. 8vo (7 1/4" x 5"), green cloth with gold lettering on spine and embossed sprig of leaves on front cover, archival mylar-protected typographic gold and green / white-lettered dust jacket (unclipped with publisher's bevelled corners), publisher's..... More
London: Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1816. First Edition. Cloth and marbled boards. 24mo (5 1/2" by 3 1/2"), [likely rebound in:] marbled boards backed by linen, 60 pages. Rare copy of a humorous pre-Dickensian "disposable" pamphlet. More
New York: Viking Press, 1989. Mamet. First Edition. Cloth. Presentation Copy SIGNED by the Author with CARTOON of himself on half title, 8vo, black backstrip and gray cloth, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped), 180 pages. Rare to find a SIGNED Presentation copy with a Caricature of himself by David Mamet, who..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 1992. First Trade Paperback. Paperback. Thick 8vo, wrappers with red sky above mountains & "The National Bestseller" gold seal, three maps, notes & index. xli,+ 646 pages. . Very Scarce in this superior unread condition. When this book was first published in 1983, it was suppressed and..... More