Boston: John W. Luce and Company, 1924. First American Edition. Paper over Boards. 8vo (8 1/2" x 6 1/2"), beige laid paper with chain marks over boards with labels on spine & front cover, Thirty-four page Introduction by the translator, archival polyester-protected lettered beige dust jacket (with its corners bevelled)..... More
New York London: Pegasus Books, 2013. Map endpapers. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, black quarter cloth with white lettering ons pine over "wine dark" blue boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with view over whitewashed Greek buildings toward..... More
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1856. Steel engravings. Unrecorded Reprint of 1849 Copyrighted Edition. Blind-stamped cloth. ASSOCIATION COPY SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR, Oliver Wendell Holmes, to "Joseph Roby, With the love of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dec. 25th, 1856" on a front blank flyleaf; PLUS a further INSCRIPTION "For M...... More
London: Printed for The Heritage Press at the University Press Cambridge, N. d. [c.1954]. T. H. Robinson. The Centenary Ediiton / First Printing. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Royal 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4"), decorative publisher's pictorial cloth with gilt title and simulated black label on spine and cartoon sketches..... More
London New York: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd / Dodd, Mead & Company, 1930. G. Spencer Pryse. First Edition Thus Illustrated. Decorative cloth. Quarto (10 1/4" x 6 5/8" x 2 1/4""), black pictorial cloth with gilt spine lettering & sign post plus title & silhouette of a horsedrawn..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. Steel engravings. First Edition, First Printing. Blind-stamped cloth. 12mo (7 1/4" x 5"), original blind-stamped and pebbled-brown publisher's cloth with gold lettering on spine, blind-stamped rules and ornament on front cover, chocolate brown-coated endpapers, [vi] + 410 pages. Green cloth slipcase with leather label. Oliver..... More
New York San Diego London: Harcourt, Inc., 2001. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author with "Shalom," 8vo, blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with small image of hands touching by Stephen Puetzer surrounded by triangular blue waves, 201 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
London: Privately Printed for The Navarre Society, Limited, 1923. Reproductions of original engravings. First Thus. Cloth with blind- & gilt-stamping. 2 volumes, small quartos / 4tos (9 1/4" x 6 3/8" x 2"), ivory buckram with Art Nouveau designs and lettering and designs on the spine plus gold rules on..... More
New York: Scribner, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over green boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped), 319 pages + [2] Editor's Acknowledgements. Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. The Black & Gold Library. Cloth. Thick 8vo (8 3/4" x 6 1/8" x 1 1/4"), black cloth has gold lettering on spine with elaborate decorative scrollwork, translation & Introduction by Ernest Boyd, archival polyester-protected decorative tan dust jacket (unclipped with price $3.50 present &..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1984. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. SIGNED by the Author on titile page, thick 16mo (6 7/8" x 4 1/8" x 1 1/8"), photographic wrappers with silhouette of a man standing on steps overlooking a crimson sunset over the ocean, publisher's yellow page fore-edges stain..... More
New York: The Heritage Press, 1962. Jean Charlot. Reprints Limited Edition Club of 1962. Pictorial cloth. Quarto, two-tone light blue above tan cloth with gold lettering and silhouette of men carrying another in a litter, Introduction by Granville Hicks, illustrated with 14 color lithographs by Jean Charlot, publisher's speckled page..... More
New York: The Penguin Press, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over gray boards, archival polyester-protected black & silver lettered photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a city at night, 477 pages + [2] About the Author + [2] A Note..... 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: Bridgehead Books, 1954. REPRINT. Cloth. Small 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 1/8"), black cloth with yellow lettering on spine, profusely illustrated with sketches of Kiki by X plus "A Few of Kiki's Beautiful Friends" aka 16 B&W full-page nude photos of women, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped)..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Trade Edition. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, thick 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting a colorful painting by Paul Sample, [xii] + 1067 pages. Carl August Sandburg (1878..... More