Minneapolis: 1941. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Illustrated whimsical verse inspired by Hawaii. Inscribed by the author to a friend, with laid in slips translating Hawaiian vocabulary and a laid in letter describing the origins of the illustrations and outlining the author's hopes for the marketing of the book. Scarce, with.....
Boston and Chicago: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A small book on the subject of perfection from a Christian perspective from William Eleazar Barton D.D., INSCRIBED by the author. Slight wear to the corners of the red cloth boards. Pages clean and unmarked. 64pp. 6.75 x......
Del Rey, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First printing, INSCRIBED on the title page by the author, "Beware of techno-mages, for they are subtle and quick to anger! Jeanne Cavelos". Slightest wear to edges and corners of soft covers, spine clean and unbroken, slight toning to pages.
Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, SIGNED on the half title page by Julia Child. Building upon her television show, Child offers 150 recipes from 26 master chefs, resulting in "a celebration of food in America today". Unclipped glossy jacket with slightest creasing to edges;.....
Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, SIGNED on the half title page by Julia Child. Building upon her television show, Child offers 150 recipes from 26 master chefs, resulting in "a celebration of food in America today". Price clipped glossy jacket with slightest wear to.....
Chronicle Books Llc, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing with full number line, INSCRIBED in green ink on the half title page by the author, "For Mark Miller, - on my birthday I know my friends and you are one. Fondest regards, Barnaby Conrad, April 18, 1989". Laid in invitation.....
Michael Jospeh, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed first printing. Unclipped jacket with slightest wear to upper edge, bumping to corners. Dark blue/purple cloth, map endpapers, signed on the title page. Slightest toning with age to page edges. xiii.396, [3]pp. The second novel in Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles.
Indiana Reflections LLC, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "Thanks for all of your help!, Bruce Scott". Slightest wear to edges of jacket. Sturdy red covers, pages clean and unmarked. xi, 262, [6]pp. 11.5 x 8.75". As an oversize, heavy book.....
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.....
2002. 1st Edition. Soft cover. SIGNED copy of Ronnie del Carmen's short work introducing his character Nina. Bright orange covers, 40 pages. Signed in pencil on the title page. 8.25 x 5.75"
William Morrow, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by MUHAMMAD ALI and DICK SCHAAP. The stated first edition of Dick Schaap's memoir, recounting, among many other things, his conversations with Ali. In a bright, unclipped jacket, with only the most minor of bumping to extremities. 9.5 x 6.5". 'When Muhammad Ali.....
1923. Hardcover. Signed collection of poetry, addressed "For Dotsie, with love form Beezn [?]" in Farnum's distinctive script. In four parts, "A Song of Sicily and Other Verses", "Love Songs", "Songs For People" and "In Memoriam". Wear to blue cloth covers with darkening of spine, mild toning throughout. 115 pp.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing in clipped jacket, inscribed on the free endpaper "With Best Wishes to Arthur Knight, Jack Finney", possibly the film critic and historian. Clipped jacket in mylar cover, with slight wear and creasing to edges and.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, in this case understood to indicate a second state, the first state omitting the statement. The "great Overdog" of Canis Major "roams" rather than "romps through the dark" on page 44, an error corrected in later printings.....
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[Diogenes], 1979. Soft cover. Undated reprint, SIGNED by Gorey on the front cover beneath his struck-through name. Soft covers, fading to stitched spine. Unpaginated. 6.75 x 6.25". Appears to be from the 1979 Diogenes set of the Catafalque works.
New York: Walker & Company, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED ABC's of the ocean, illustrated with drawings, diagrams and photographs, from Aquanaut to Zooplankton. Edgwear. Spine is cracked , chipped near head and tail, and slanted. Light toning. 9"x11.5"
New York: Random House, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing, INSCRIBED by Jeffers: "Inscribed to Walter Murphy, Cordially, Robinson Jeffers, Tor House, Carmel. - December, 1947". Corrected with "least" present on p.99. Unclipped jacket with chipping and loss. Orange and black boards with bumping to corners and tail of.....
New York: Young Scott Books, 1969. Gorey, Edward. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED on the title page by Gorey, above his struck-through name. Clipped jacket, presumed first edition with no indication of later printings. Slight wear to jacket at joints, foxing to verso of jacket. Illustrated boards clean, slight toning to.....
New York: Young Scott Books, 1968. Gorey, Edward. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by Gorey, above his struck-through name on the title page. Presumed first edition with no indication of later printings. Clipped jacket with spots of discoloration, visible on both sides of the jacket. Illustrated cloth covers with slight bumping.....
New York: Random House, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing of Sinclair's satirical novel, SIGNED on the free endpaper. Unclipped jacket, now in mylar, with creasing and wear, with loss to the corners and the upper edge of rear panel. Slight soiling to cloth covers, mildest toning to pages.....
Jenkintown Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED first edition collection of Liudmila Kondakova's portrayals of Paris. Inscribed on title page. Slight shelfwear to jacket, red cloth covers, 144 bright glossy pages. 14.5 x 11.5". As a large, heavy book this order may incur additional shipping charges.
New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is a fascination story of research on a rat population in India and resultant plague outbreaks. The title is embossed in blind to the front board, spine in gilt. Inscribed to a previous owner "with the.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Paperback first edition, INSCRIBED by Anne McCaffrey. Stated first printing. Visible crease to the spine, short tear to the lower front joint. All edges stained orange. 245pp. 7 x 4.25"
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of Mencken's autobiography, signed by Mencken on the title page. Wear to the tan cloth covers, with a small tear on the front joint and darkening of the spine. There is a small dark stain on the lower.....
New York: New Directions, 1947. Hardcover. Fist edition, SIGNED on the free endpaper by Miller. Noticeable fading to the head and tail of the spine, slightest toning of the pages throughout. xxxvii, 427pp. 8 glossy plates from photographs. 8.75 x 6"