Studio Vista, 1989. Hardcover. A history of the Cinecitta studios, with text and commentary by Fellini, translated by Graham Fawcett. Unclipped jacket with $50 price sticker. Minor scuffs and wear to the corners, head and tail of the jacket. The grey covers with silver lettering are clean and unmarked, as.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing of Michner's Pulitzer Prize winning collection. Lacking the dust jacket. Minor wear to the orange cloth covers. The fixed endpapers bears a suitably nautical bookplate (Alan A Green). Mild toning of the pages throughout. 326 pp. 8.5 x......
New York: Grove Press, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the English translation of the poet Octavio Paz's reflections on Mexican identity, with the bookplate of Eleanor Roosevelt. As with other books bearing her bookplate, the facing page is stamped and signed by her son and the catalog number.....
Weatherhill, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Full color reproductions of Yoshitoshi's series of prints, with the stories they are based on printed on the facing page. With an essay on Yoshitoshi's life and work. 92pp. 15" x 10.5"
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first American edition of "La Peste" translated by Stuart Gilbert. From the jacket: "When in the spring of 1947 "La Peste" was published in Paris, it created an immediate sensation. Camus was recognized all over Europe as having realized to.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. A gift inscription on the free endpaper from a previous owner acknowledges that Plath's novel might be an incongruous mother's day gift: "This is not a 'happy' book, but if you liked Zelda, you'll enjoy Sylvia". Very slight.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED first American edition of the Booker Prize winning novel. Unclipped jacket is protected in plastic cover. Discoloration of red top stain (see photos). Very slight fading of upper edge of the grey and blue covers. 245 clean pages in a square, tight.....
Viking Adult, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED first edition of the second volume in Vollmann's saga of the Jesuits and the Huron. The unclipped jacket is protected in a plastic sleeve, the green and black cover is clean and bright. [xvii], 990 pp. 9.25 x 6.25"
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first American addition, first printing, of Nabokov's controversial work. Unclipped jacket with $5.00 price. Jacket has moderate toning and wear, with loss to the lower front corner and top edge, and is now protected by a plastic cover. Wear to.....
Rizzoli, 1996. Hardcover. Both a beautiful book and an impressive scholarly reference. Very faint toning to the outer edges of the jacket. Dark blue covers, red endpapers. 352 clean and bright pages. 13 x 10". As a large, heavy book this order may incur additional shipping charges.
The State of California, 1979. Hardcover. An essential reference work for California water issues, prepared by the Governor's Office of Planning & Research in cooperation with the California Dept. of Water Resources. Scuffs and bumping of the corners of the sturdy blue cloth covers, with a faint discoloration of the.....
San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first collected edition of Muir's series of articles, published by the Sierra Club. Wear to the upper edges and front joint of the dark blue unclipped jacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with a blue and white image on.....
London: Martin Secker, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The Nine volume Caerleon edition of the Works of Arthur Machen. The first collected edition of Machen's works, printed in a limited run of 1,000 signed copies (500 offered for sale in Britain, 500 in America) after which the type was distributed. This.....
New York: John Day Company, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A semi-autobiographical novel of adventures in the American West, seeking and losing fortunes. Minor wear to the vividly illustrated jacket, now in a protective plastic cover, with creasing to the head and tail of the spine and a short, closed tear.....
Honolulu: Thomas Nickerson, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Previously uncollected "Letters" from the series that Twain wrote when he convinced his employers at the Sacramento Union to send him to Hawaii, printed in an edition of 1,000. BAL 3561. A roughly half inch loss to head of spine of original glassine.....
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Second Printing, SIGNED by Cosindas to a previous owner, dated June 12, 1982. With an essay by Tom Wolfe. Price clipped jacket, with minor sunning of spine. 143pp. 12 x10.5"
Sofawolf Press, 2010. Soft cover. Soft cover copy of the Garmen and Gavet's tale of adventure. Very slight wear to the corners of the covers, otherwise like new. 79 pp. 11.5 x 9"
London: J.J. Stockdale, 1820. Soft cover. Third Edition. A collection of anecdotes demonstrating the evils of gaming, presented as filling in material missed by more influential works on the subject. Unbound, protected in new paper covers, with older later paper covers preserved. 179 pp., one page of ads. 7.25 x......
London: Lawler and Quick, 1823. Hardcover. An attack on the gaming clubs of London, controversial when it was published. As in most copies, pages 311-428 were redacted, containing the chapter naming "Evil-disposed persons". Hand coloured frontispiece "La Roulette" depicts fashionable gamblers. Touches on law, mathematics, and morality. Jessel 459. Contemporary.....
London: J. Butterworth, 1806. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gaming from the perspective of the law. An introduction to the laws relating to gambling at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Although Disney presents it as a practical book, "a useful Compendium to the Profession", his frequent citations of, and quotations from.....
Printed by Gye & Balne, Gracechurch Street, for the Author, Published by Lackington, Allen & Co., 1814. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gaming from the perspective of mathematics: with an introduction that serves as a tutorial in basic mathematics and many demonstrations of the process of working out 'problems' posed by gaming.....
London: Newcomb, 1652. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ESTC R202008. Fisher Payne's effusive ode to Oliver Cromwell, with engraved plates offering unusually flattering portraits of the Protector. Cut down, effecting the running titles of the text. The title page, the page beginning "accedite lectores & docemini" printed in red and black, the.....
1656. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ESTC R202908. Quarto. 23 pp [1]. 7 x 5.5". A scarce relic of the War of the Three Kingdoms. The author claims the right to address Cromwell directly: "Since I have said thus much it will be necessary to speake more in praise of a free.....
London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1655. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ESTC R206614. As described by ESTC, the second variant of the title page with ruled borders, setting (3) of the first quires, with "civill" on page 7 and "Charls Stuart" on page 15. Lacking the first leaf with the coat.....
Manchester, N.H. A.S. Campbell & Co., 1895. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. An early work of bicycle advocacy, distributed free to members of the League of American Wheelmen. Of the 67 pages, the first 43 detail bicycle routes in New Hampshire, noting the condition of the roads. The rest include the by.....