Franklin Center, Pennslyvinia: The Franklin Library, 1978. Skip Liepke. A Limited Edition. Full Leather with decorative gold-stamping. SIGNED by the Author on a special front endpaper with tissue guard, small quarto (9 1/2" x 6 1/4"), full dark green leather with gold lettering on spine, four raised hubs, and gilt..... More
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: A Foundation Book / Doubleday, 1989. First Edition stated with code "FG" [unidentified]. Cloth and boards. Thick 8vo, tourquoise quarter boards with gilt lettering on spine over beige boards, illustrated with a chronology and chart of solar systems, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped)..... More
Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1975. Maps. First Printing. Pictorial cloth. Inscribed by the Author as "Viv" on the front free endpaper with an excellent quotation from Tacitus; tall 8vo, pictorial cloth with striking cover art by David Palladini; archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) reproducing Palladini cover art of the..... More
Franklin Center, Pennslyvinia: The Franklin Library, 1977. Ben F. Stahl. Limited Edition from The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers. Full leather with decorative gold-stamping. Thick small quarto, gilt-stamped full black leather, two raised hubs, gold lettering on spine plus elaborate patterns on covers; frontispiece color portrait of Sir..... More
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Howard Rogers. The First Edition Society / First Printing. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. Thick 8vo, full leather with gold cross lettering on spine and triple panel cross pattern on front cover, illustrated with 8 full-page engravings by Howard Rogers, maroon watered silk..... More
New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, red quarter cloth over charcoal gray boards with "PG" on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a portrait of a woman bearing "The Sword" by Agache, Index, 192 pages. Peter..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1948. First Thus by Heritage. Cloth and Pictorial Boards. Tall 8vo (12" x 8" x 1 1/2"), green pictorial backstrip with gold lettering & vine scrolling over yellow pictorial cloth with gold CWC lettering surrounded by vine & floral designs by Douglas W. Gorsline; who..... More
New York, N.Y. Warner Books / An Amistad Book, 1988. B&W Photos. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page & dated "September 21, 1989," tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4" x 1 3/4"), black quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine..... More
Franklin Center, Pennslyvinia: The Franklin Library, 1977`. George H. Jones. Limited Collector's Edition. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. SIGNED by the Author on special publisher's front endpaper, small quarto, brown tooled leather with fine gold stamping and hubbed spine, special message by author Herman Wouk, Illustrated by Geroge H. Jones..... More
London New York: Doubleday, Page & Company / William Heinemann, Ltd., 1922. Arthur Rackham. First Edition, American Issue. Half leather over cloth. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 3/4" x 1 1/4"), blue half leather with five hubs and gold lettering on spine over lighter blue cloth, illustrated by Arthur Rackham..... More
New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 1998. Photographs by & about Wm Shakespeare. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo (146 x 235mm), black quarter cloth with gold spine lettering over apricot boards, profusely illustrated with pictorial title page plus many full-color &..... More
Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. J.R.R. Tolkien. Second Printing. Cloth. Small quarto (10" x 7 5/8"), red cloth with gold lettering on spine and Tolkien initials on front cover, illustrated with colored plates and in-text images by Alan Lee, archival mylar-protected decorative dust jacket (unclipped) with Alan Lee..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1977. Rockwell Kent. First Easton Press Collector's Edition. Leather with .22 gold-stamping. Transcendentalism and Realism. Whitman is often called "the father of free verse." During the Civil War, he worked as a nurse caring for wounded soldiers, and was a passionate supporter of Abraham Lincoln..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. James Prosek. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Inscribed by Prosek--the Author & Illustrator--on the title page adding a tiny DRY FLY; square octavo (8 1/4" H x 8 3/8" W); dark green 1/8th cloth with gold lettering on spine over yellow boards, archival..... More
Chicago: Rhodes & McClure, Publishers, 1879. Lithographic engravings. First Paperback Edition reprinting 1878 hardback. Pictorial wrappers. 8vo, tan pictorial wrappers perfect bound with publisher's cord tie and lithographic engraved oval image of bearded Abraham Lincoln, illustrated throughout with B&W frontispiece, vignette title page, & 8 plates; 188 pages + [2]..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 2015. First Edition, 11th Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on a personal bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver letttering on spine over matching black boards, archival photographic black dust jacket (unclipped) with NOAA aerial photo..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Small quarto (9 5/8" x ,6 1/2"), maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with striking painting of Toussaint Louverture by Ester Pearl Watson, map endpapers of Saint Domingue [Haiti], Notes, Bibliography, Index, [xii]..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2010. Third Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, cloth and boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclippee), 232 pages. Dr. Christine Carter is a summa cum laude of Dartmouth, sociologist, author, and speaker. She was the Executive Director of..... More
New York, N.Y. HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. B&W photos. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on a bookplate on the front free endpaper & PRESENTED to an important supporter of the Southern Poverty Law Center; tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine..... More
New York, N.Y. Harper, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the half title, tall 8vo, powder blue quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over lighter powder blue boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with aerial colored photo of atomic bomb explosion..... More
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New York: Viking, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by Author on the half title, 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over light blue boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial-cartoon dust jacket (unclipped) with caricature of Garrison painted by C. F. Payne, 305 pages. Gary "Garrison"..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by BOTH AUTHORS Collins & Lapierre on the title page, small quarto (9 1/2" x 6 3/4"), black quarter cloth with silver & red lettering on spine over charcoal gray boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket..... More
"New York" [actually Shelton, Connecticut]: Viking, 1989. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition / Book Club Edition. Cloth and boards. Small quarto (9 1/2" x 6 5/8" x 2 1/8"); black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over matching black boards; Introduction by Studs Terkel; archival mylar-protected black & white dust jacket..... More
New York: The Viking Press [, 1945. First Edition, Second Issue in canary yellow cloth. Cloth. 8vo (7 1/2" x 5"), canary yellow cloth stamped in blue on spine and front cover, an archival quality clear plastic cover protects the pictorial dust jacket (unclipped with $2.00 price) illustrated with an..... More
New York Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, purple cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial aqua dust jacket (unclipped), with a human eye with radiating lines, xiv + 326 + [2] A Note About the Author + [2] A Note..... More