New York: The Century Co., 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FIRST edition, stated first printing of Stuart Gilbert's translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's aviation classic, with a preface by Andre Gide. In an unclipped dust jacket, with the $1.75 price. Wear to jacket, wight creasing to edges and scraping and loss.....
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in unclipped jacket, with foxing visible on the light-colored flaps and rear panel. Bumping to head of spine. Foxing to edges. Pronounced foxing to margins of a handful of interior pages (see photo) and final pages. iv, 220pp. A mystery-thriller.....
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of Barnes' experimental novel. Damaged jacket with heavily faded spine and losses, old tape repair on verso. Blue boards. Top stain faded. Laid in newspaper clipping of a contemporary review from Gretchen Mount of the Detroit Free Press. The clipping.....
Rizzoli, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is a first edition copy of this comprehensive catalog of the expressionism in the early 1900s Germany, including the political changes and technological advancements that influenced the space. Dust jacket has some shelf-wear to the edges and the inside flaps. Otherwise pages are clean.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in unclipped jacket. Wear and small losses to edges of jacket, tear along rear joint, loss to tail of spine. Blue boards with red lettering. Toning to pages, foxing to fore edge. 312pp. The fourth of Biggers' Charlie Chan novels.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition in unclipped jacket. Wear to corners and head of spine. Slight bumping to corners of bright turquoise covers. Top edge stained grey, slightly faded. Previous owner's initials and date in pencil on the endpaper, along with an evocative.....
London: Printed for Benjamin Fisher and are to be sold at his shop in Aldergate streete, at the signe of the Talbot. 1630. 1st Edition. Hardcover. "Contayning all the Important and Remarkeable Passages f State both at Home and Abroad, during her Long and Prosperous Raigne. Composed by Way of.....
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: Minton, Balch & Company, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, with no further printings noted. A diary of a summer spent camping on an island in Ontario, with portraits of local residents and fellow campers, including the chemist Dr. Edward Renouf, to whom the book is dedicated.....
New York: R. H. Russell, 1901. Pierce, Thomas Mitchell; Steele, F.D. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, with a letter from the author thanking the recipient for "your kindly notices of me in the Sunday papers of last week" affixed to the front free endpaper. A delightful early mystery, in which.....
London: J. Johnson, 1800. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ESTC T112164. Octavo. xvi, 580, [2]pp. Faintly blue-tinged paper. Final leaf with errata on the recto and advertisements for forthcoming works by Beddoes on nitrous oxide on the verso. Later three-quarter brown morocco with marbled paper, joints visibly worn. Dark top stain. Occasional.....
London: Constable & Co., 1923. Buckles, Alex. Hardcover. Scarce publisher's advance copy, with Constable's name, rather than de la Mare's, on the bottom of the spine and more elaborate ornamentation on the spine. SIGNED by de la Mare on the free endpaper. An earlier bookseller's notes in pencil indicate 25.....
London: John Murray, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED first edition, first issue. Decorated spine panel in gold, blue cloth covers, top edge plain, missing bracket on title page ("Walter Ramal". Signed on the free endpaper "Walter de la Mar, November 19 1904, With all good wishes". Slight wear with loss.....
London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row; and W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, 1725. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ESTC T70641. Octavo. Two volumes in one. [2], [1]-208, [1]-205, [1]pp. Worn contemporary boards, rebacked. Prior owners names on the back of the frontispiece (one dated 1738, the.....
The Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1978. Soft cover. Slight scuffs to blue covers, minor bumping of corners. Interior is bright and clean. 51pp. 9.5 x 6.5". Very Good. Three stories written in 1974 with an introduction by Didion reflecting on the process of creative writing, printed for the Friends.....
Random House, 1957. Dr. Seuss. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition with 200/200 jacket, matte boards, bound as a single gathering. Wear to jacket, with creasing to edges and loss to rear panel, corners, head and tail of spine. Bumping to corners, edges, and head and tail of the spine, darkening.....
Random House, 1960. Dr. Seuss. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 195/195 price on jacket (circled by a prior owner) with printed beginner books logo. Glossy boards without beginner books logo. Creasing to edges of jacket with loss at upper front corner, soiling to back panel at the top of the Cat's hat.....
New York: Random House, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Younger & Hirsch 33. 250/250 price; 14 titles "up to now" on rear flap; 13 titles at end of book. Creasing and smudges to jacket, slight wear to head of spine. Childish scribbles in pen on endpapers and five other pages: first.....
Jonathan Williams, 1958. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 'This is copy 126 of 'Letters' by Robert Duncan, with five drawings by the author of the ideal reader; set & printed by Claude Fredericks in Pawletl (Vermont); published by Jonathan Williams in Highlands (N.C.) as Jargon fourteen; copyright by the author mcmlviii.'.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of Stanley Ellin's first novel, later adapted to film as "The Big Night". Some wear to the unclipped jacket, now in protective mylar, including loss to head and tail of the spine. Red cloth covers are bright, with minor.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. Hardcover. First edition of Farquharson's monograph on the theory of voting, whose publication was delayed by his insistence that the logical choice diagrams be printed in color. Unclipped jacket; laid in errata slip; stamped numbers on free front endpaper; foxing to edges of text.....
No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard: J. Johnson, 1779. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ESTC T56601. Sabin 25565. Octavo, "A reimpression of the quarto edition of the same year in an octavo format". 4 plates, including the frontispiece portrait and folding engraving of electrical experiments. xi, [1], 567, [7]pp. NB: lacking the folding.....
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition, INSCRIBED on the free endpaper, "To Mark Miller, A great friends and ringside companion, Leonard Gardner". Unclipped jacket (designed by Paul May), with American reviews on the rear panel. Slightest fading to the spine. Red boards with bumping to corners.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first English edition. As described in BAL 7935, the English edition consists of the American sheets with a canceled title page naming Low as the publisher. Significant wear to the illustrated boards (see photos). Top edge gilt, 5 plates.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first edition, limited to two hundred copies, bound uncut. Slight wear to the paper label, with a replacement label bound to the rear. Bookplate of a previous owner facing the half-title, with minor offsetting. Another previous owner's name.....