New York: The Modern Library, 1962. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo (7 1/4" x 5"), red cloth with black labels & gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected full-color pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting soldiers runnng through a desolate battlefield with ruined cannon in foreground, decorative gray "Torchbearer" endpapers, publisher's..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/8"), tan buckram with black & red lettering plus floral ornaments on spine & front cover, publisher's yellow topstain, [vi] + 203 rough trimmed pages. Stephen Crane (1871 – 1900) was..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, c.1923. Photoplay illustrated edition. Reprint of Photoplay edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, Photoplay edition with glossy B&W frontispiece and 3 B&W stills from the 1923 motion picture, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with portrait of..... More
New York: The Modern Library #214, c.1967. Reprint of ML #214. Cloth. 12mo (7 1/4" x 4 7/8"), yellow cloth with black lettering, Mylar-protected typographic dust jacket (price-clipped) with white lettering on a red field, xviii = 332 pages + [2]. SUPERIOR CONDITION for this major novel about the First..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Fred Marcellino. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, quarter cream cloth with gold lettering on spine over green paper boards with author's initials in gold on front cover, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Fred Marcellino depicting a sophisticated couple in fine attire..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, April 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. INSCRIBED by "Ted [Coles?"--the Dedicatee?}--to "Peg," 8vo, blue boards with gold spine lettering, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with depictions of a dress, buildings and mountains, ix + [iii] + 305 pages. Exceptional Condition! We are unable to verify..... More
New York: Pantheon, 2015. Colored pictures. First Edition, First Printing [indicated on [p. 832]. Pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by the Author on the Dedication Page with a Zed, tall heavy 8vo, glossy limp decorative cloth with the number "2" die-cut from the cover through which color images are revealed, profusely illustrated..... More
New York: SOHO Press, Inc., 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, gray quarter cloth over beige boards, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with paintin of waterfall by Gérard Valcin, endpapers reproduce letters, 312 pages. Second novel by this Haitian-American author..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue textured buckram with silver lettering and a few small stylized Maple-leafs, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), 360 pages + x: Index + [4] A Note About the Author & A Note on the Type. William Robertson Davies, CC..... More
New York: Minotaur Books, 2014. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on title page, 8vo, powder blue boards with silver lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), illustrated with preliminaries of a double-spread map of "Rome, from the Aventine to the Esquiline," & listing..... More
New York: Minotaur Books, 2014. First English Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on title page, 8vo, powder blue boards with silver lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped), includes preliminary double-spread map of "Rome, from the Aventine to the Esquiline," [x] + 342..... More
New York: Minotaur Books, 2013. Maps. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), light red cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by David Rotstein, preliminaries include genealogical tables & two..... More
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007. Maps. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), ivory cloth with light gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Michael Sabanosh, [xx: includes genealogical tables..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, beige quarter cloth with bronze-colored lettering on spine over black boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Michael Sabanosh, [viii] + 341 pages + [3] Maps. SUPERB CONDITION: internally & externally. Tight copy with no remainder..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR on the half title, 8vo, cinnamon quarter cloth with gold lettering over ochre boards with blind-stamped signature of the author on front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting "Oiseau et Tortue" by..... More
London / New York: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. / Dodd, Mead and Company, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto (10 1/4" x 56 3/4"), decorative black cloth with gold lettering on spine (with gold cupid) and front cover, (with puto-framed head & bust portrait of Molll by John Austin;..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, August, 1927. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, brown decorative cloth with stenciled brown-black lettering on spine & yellow-brown decoration plus the front cover with author's name & a stylized dark-brown aboriginal mask around the title against a yellow background, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a...... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, white quarter cloth with pale gold lettering on spine over white boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial blue-&-white dust jacket (unclipped) designed by Charles Rue Woods, deep blue endpapers, 324 pages. (Kiran Desai (born 1971) is an Indian author and..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. / HarperCollinsPublishers, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper (with additional Typed Letter Signed by the Author & envelope to an admirer laid in), tall 8vo, off-white quarter cloth with gold..... More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, brown cloth over light green boards with "AD" blind-stamped on lower right corner of front cover, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a shack in a forest, birds-eye view of the Northwest as endpapers, [xiv] +..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, Foreword by Frans Lasson, archival mylar-protected purple Carnival heads on dust jacket (unclipped) by Virgil Burnett, yellow endpapers, xi, [xii] + 338 pages. Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (1885 – 1962) with pen..... More
New York: Random House, 1957. First American Edition: "First Printing" Cloth. 8vo, gray cloth with gold lettering on spine within black banner and author's name in gold on front cover, archival mylar-protected decorative tree, red background & lettered dust jacket (price-clipped) designed by Jeanyee Wong, [vi] + 341 pages +..... More
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006. First Edition, Later Printing. Wrappers. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo (8" x 5 1/4"), photographic wrappers with reddish-brown image of cannons, burgundy endpapers, [xii] + 363 pages + [3} Acknowledgements, [2] About the Author. Edgar Lawrence "E. L." Doctorow..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, one eigth off-white cloth with gold lettering on spine over beige boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped; $23 price) with detail from "Into the Sun" by Tom..... More
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth. 8vo (5 5/8" x 8 1/2"), black cloth with silver lettering on spine and blind-stamped jester on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped with original "$3.95" price) depicting a Medieval Jester in maroon colors, red topstain, gray..... More