New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, off-white quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over light beige boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), [viii] + 406 pages + {2] About the Author. Naguib Mahfouz (Egyptian: 1911 – 2006) was... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Albert Orbaan. First Edition. Boards. 8vo, gray textured boards with yellow & white lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a space capsule in orbit above the earth by Albert Orbaan, who has numerous B&W drawings in-text, red-purple endpapers..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1984. First U.S. Edition. Cloth and boards. Tall thick 8vo, blue eighth cloth over beige boards, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with picture of Hercule, ix + [2] + 860 pages. Weight: 2 Lbs 11 oz. Fifty stories about Hercule Poirot in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION and... More
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. First Trade Edition: "reserve selection" of first edition for friends of author. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the author on "special reserve" endpaper, 8vo (9 5/8" x 6 5/8"), red quarter cloth with gold and silver lettering on spine over light black boards... More
Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over gray boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of Paul Theroux by Jerry Bauer, red endpapers, [viii] + 466 pages. "The man is fiction, but the mask... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / A Borzoi Book, 2015. Photos, diagrams. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Ex Library: Thick 8vo, tan quarter cloth over green boards, illustrated with 8 pages of B&W photographs and 47 in-text illustrations, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of young Vladimir and Véra Slonim, lix... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. Taro Yashima. First Edition (likely later printing). Pictorial boards. SIGNED, INSCRIBED, & STAMPED with his red Japanese Chop by the Author-Illustrator, small folio (12" x 9"), pictorial boards, no dust jacket, green endpapers decorated with a red flower & yellow butterfly, 37 pages. CALDECOTT... More
New York: William Morrow / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on half title, 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine over black boards blindstamped "WM," Mylar-protected white lettered red dust jacket (unclipped) by Miss Ty, xiv, [xv-xvi] + 336 pages. Scott... More
New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book / Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1966. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black glossy cloth with gold lettering, Mylar-protected black dust jacket with title in red (price cliipped), xiv + 306 pages. A classic study of animal and human behavior. VERY GOOD OVERALL... More
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo,black cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with 37 B&W plates; 23 in-text illustrations, and 2 maps, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Wallace against a collage of birds and places he studied by Marek Antoniak, xi, [xii]... More
Boston New York London: Little, Brown & Company, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, olive green quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over light green boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Deborah Lill, 310 pages. Debut novel! This is an engaging... More
New York: Avenel Books, 1978. First Reprint of Knopf 1934 Edition. Cloth. Thick 8vo, Preface (4pp.) by H.G Wells especially for this edition, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with images provided by the New York Public Library, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), by Angus McKie, 860 pages... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, c.1956. Early G&D Edition: Reprint. Cloth. Small 8vo, green cloth with black lettering in "label," Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Captain Ahab [looking rather like movie posters of Gregory Peck], 633 pages. A striking (!) edition of this American classic novel. Moby-Dick; or... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers / Thrushwood Books, 1940. Early Reprinted Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, bright green cloth with black lettering on spine and black stylized farm in small panel on front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of Rebecca in green dress, hat, holding a green umbrella, [x]... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1917. Photographs. Photoplay / Universal Film Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo 7 5/8" x 5 1/8"), pictorial green cloth with black lettering on spine & cover with tubby submarine, illustrated with 4 glossy B&W photos from the Universal Film, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), xiv +... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. Pat Marriott. First Edition. Decorated cloth. 8vo, tan cloth with embossed drawing on the front cover of a sperm whale hunt by Pat Marriott, illustrated with several full-page line drawings by Marriott, top edge of pages stained red by publisher for dust protection, 190 pages. Willard... More
By the Artist, c.1940. Original. Watercolor. SIGNED lower right "Garth Williams" in pencil; paper size: (9" x 12" with image size: 7" x 9"), medium is sepia and ink (with possible watercolor), estate catalog number lower right verso in pencil. Light creasing, toning, and signs of handling around edges. More
New York: Random House, 1979. Ruth Sanderson. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, tan cloth over beige boards, archival clear plastic-protected pictorial dust jacket with painting of Scruffy by Ruth Sanderson, 157 pages + [158] About the Author. "Dedicated to the many millions of unwanted strays throughout... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1910. Genjiro Kataoka. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo, red gilt-decorated cloth with a kimono-clad golden Geisha embossed on the front cover, with a colored frontispiece and three more colored illustrations (with tissue guards), top edges gilt [t.e.g.], decorated endpapers, [x]..... More
New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, c.1958. Richard Bergere. Book Club Edition [#592 on flap]. Boards. Thick 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4"), pale yellow boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), ATreeGIB illustrated with drawings by Richard Bergere, (pp.1-368: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn); ([369-373], 374-733 pages... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1973. Eric Sloane. First Edition. Cloth. PRESENTATION COPY with LIBERTY BELL SKETCH SIGNED by the Author-Illustrator, small 4to (10 1/2" x 7 1/2"), pebble-grain beige board with light gray-blue lettering on spine and image of Liberty Bell on cover, 26 B&W illustrations by Eric Sloan--many... More
New York and London: New York University Press / Oxford University Press, 1954. First Combined Edition. Cloth. Small 4to (9 3/8" x 6 3/8"), gray cloth, B&W half-tone frontispiece of Thomas Wolfe & example of his theme-correction [opp. p.96], Mylar-protected lettered beige dust jacket (unclipped) with mauve arch, xiii +... More
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1959. First American Edition. Boards. 8vo, black cloth with scarlet lettering on spine, Mylar-proteted dust jacket (unclipped) with photograph of Msgr. Ronald Knox, photographic frontispiece of a terracotta sculpture of Knox by Arthur Pollen, [xiv] + [358] pages. SUPERIOR COPY: clean, bright, tight, and... More
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1964. First American Edition. Boards. 8vo, light yellow pebble-grain boards with red lettering on spine, Mylar-proteted lettered dust jacket (unclipped), photographic frontispiece of the young author c.1913 & c. 1923 and 11 other photographic illustrations, top edge died red for dust protection by publisher... More
London: Heinemann, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected photographic green dust jacket, [vi] + [280] pages. "The most considerable of our women novelists"--Anthony Burgess. A novel by the author of the Balkan and Levant trilogies.which is set in an East African island... More