Wheaton, Illinois Chennai (Madras), India: Quest Books / Theosophical Publishing House, 1998. Photos. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. Square 4to (9 3/4" H x 9 3/4" W), glossy pictorial & photographic boards with silver lettering on spine & cover with its art repeated on dust jacket (unclipped with mylar-protection..... More
New York: Viking, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black quarter cloth with irridescent blue lettering on spine over ivory boards with author's facsimile signature on front cover, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) by Macduff Everton, red endpapers, [xvi] + 368 pages. Terry McMillan (born 1951)..... More
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1961, 1964, 1965. B&W photos (by LW). Second and Third Impressions. Cloth. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (9 1/2" x 7 7/8") by Author LEONARD WOOLF (on blue light-weight Air Mail stationery with 2-folds & stamp); plus 3 Initial autobiographical volumes [of 5 published], in light blue buckram..... More
New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, off-white quarter cloth with irridesdent scarlet lettering on spine over light green boards, archival mylar-protected silver- & scarlet-lettered dust jacket (unclipped), 324 pages + [2] About the Author / About the Type. Peter Benchley (1940 –..... More
New York, N.Y. HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997. Treadwell color photos. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, bright blue quarter cloth with silver lettering over ivory boards with silver griz head on front cover, ilustrated with 32 B&W glossy photos by Treadwell, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with colored..... More
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1969. Caricatures. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering on spine, Introduction on "The Brothers Goncourt" by George J. Becker, with a historical Introduction entitled "The Terrible Year" by Paul H. Beik, illustrated with foldout "Map of Paris" as frontispiece & 6..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, dark blue cloth with silver and gold lettering on spine and "John Updike" in silver on front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (not clipped) with a 5th century angel from Egypt, [xii] + 316 pages + [2] A Note About..... More
Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, N.D. Anderzej Klimowski]. The Collector's Wodehouse, First Printing REPRINT from First British Printing. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4"), gray cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting in color a man raising his fist against..... More
New York Chicago: A. L. Burt Company, 1932. Reprint. Pictorial cloth. Small 8vo, decorative black cloth with red lettering on spine and front cover with large man's image repeated from dust jacket, illustrated title page, frontispiece, and 5 plates with captions by Rea Irvin, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped)..... More
New York, N.Y. Vanguard Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering over blue boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the Tower by "Leigh Taylor," 410 pages. Jeffrey Robinson (born 1945) is..... More
New York: The Modern Library #40, 1962. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo, green cloth with black labels and gold lettering on spine and front cover, Introduction by Clifford Odets, archival mylar-protected brown-bordered & lettered dust jacket (unclipped), top of pages stained black by publisher for protection, gray ML Torchbearer endpapers, [i-x], 11..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1944. Book Club Edition: 21st Impression. Cloth. 8vo, blue cloth with black lettering & Siamese boy on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial orange-blue dust jacket (unclipped) illustrated by Margaret Ayer, who has also created the frontispiece map of Bankok plus 40 B&W illustrations as chapter..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, tourquoise cloth with bold gilt lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial bluish dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the muscular upper torso of a man with moonlike rising "head," 186 pages. Joe William Haldeman..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. Symeon Shimin. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a baby boy facing a dancing male lion by firelight, illustrated throughout in umber & blue tones by Symeon Shimin, yellow-gold sand dune..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Book Club Edition. Boards. 8vo, black boards with light gray-white lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial black dust jacket (unclipped) with whitened humanoid figure, 191 pages. Leslie Purnell Davies (1914 – 1988) was a British novelist whose works typically combine elements..... More
New York: The Modern Library #77, 1962. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo, red cloth with black labels & gold lettering on spine and front cover, Introduction by Pierre Louys, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with sepia illustration of Aphrodite, publisher's black topstain to pages for protection, xviii + 264 pages +..... More
New York: The Modern Library #106, N.D. Early Reprint. Cloth. 12mo, red cloth with green labels & gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with brooding landscape of the Yorkshire Wuthering Heights manse by Aldone, Introduction by Rose Macaulay, Editor's Preface by Currer Bell..... More
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday, 2002. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, black boards with canary yellow spine and image of a house on front cover, archival mylar-protected decorative pictorial white dust jacket (unclipped) with a dead yellow-black bird upended (unclipped)..... More
Berlin: Deutsch Bibliotek / Die Gestalten Verlag, 1984. First Edition. Pictorial boards. 4to, pictorial off-white boards with red lettering on spine and scary "Johnny Depp" Poe with candelabra on front cover, thirteen classic stories by Poe each illustrated by a different artist, bloodred endpapers, red ribbon page marker, 191 pages..... More
London: The Cresset Press, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED by the distinguished Author to another prominent cultural anthropologist, Paul Bohanan, on the front free endpaper, thick 8vo, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), 457 pages. SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY by the brilliant Sino-American cultural and psychological anthropologist, Francis L...... More
London: The Modern Library, 1946. Early Reprint: ML #48. Cloth. 12mo, red publisher's cloth with black labels with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (price-clipped) with three red "T" placards, includes a special Foreword by author Huxley, top edges of pages stained black by..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1965. First U.S. Edition: Second Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black quarter cloth with red & white spine lettering over red boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped, price $5.75, with brown removable dj edge guards) depicting a liquor bottle, publisher's red topstain to pages..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Book Club Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering & anchor on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped: no price on front flap) depicting a destroyer-minesweeper and two scenes painted by John Hull, drawing of the USS CAINE on..... More
New York: Illustrated Editions Company, N.D. Keith Henderson. Illustrated Reprint. Cloth and boards. 8vo, dark green textured quarter cloth with light green labels on spine over textured "wood"-simulated brown boards with woman-&-green leaf embossed on front cover, archival mylar-protected green pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting woman's head with penetrating gaze..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2019. Exclusive Signed First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author on a special tipped-in sheet, tall 8vo, navy blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) designed by Mark van Leeuwen, all page-edges stained blue by publisher, 471 pages + [4]..... More