Grimm Fairy Tales Volume 4.
Fort Washington, PA: Zenescope Entertainment, Inc., 2008. Wraps. First Edition. 168 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
An increasingly scarce volume. Fine. More
Fort Washington, PA: Zenescope Entertainment, Inc., 2008. Wraps. First Edition. 168 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
An increasingly scarce volume. Fine. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 435 pp. 8vo. Minor wear and scuffing to dust jacket, "Signed by the Author" sticker on front panel. Dust jacket now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.
Signed by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the title page. Fine / Very Good. More
Philadelphia, PA: M. Carey, 1813. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. First US Edition, first published in England in 1808. [2] ads, 286 pp. 16mo. Three quarter leather binding with considerable wear and scuffing, top copvers, losses to corners. First free endpaper missing, darkening to pages from age and foxing throughout. OCLC lists only three copies in institutions. Good. More
New York: Doubleday, 2018. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 356 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by the author on the second free endpaper. Basis for the successful television series of the same name starring Kaley Cuoco of "Big Bang Theory" fame. Fine / Fine. More
Wraps. Limited Edition. Unpag. 18mo. Black paper wraps, clean and tight.
A surreal little limited edition chapbook produced in an edition of 100 copies, this being #89 and signed by the author on the last free endpaper. Fine. More
New York, NY: Doubleday, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing of the Illustrated Edition. Exceptional book with breathtaking illustrations that bring it alive. Clean, crisp, never read and in mylar cover! Fine / fine. More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 282 pp. 8vo. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, shipping at edges, loss at base of spine, now in mylar cover. Minor scuffing to boards, clean within.
Inscribed by the author on the title page. Reeve Lindbergh Brown is a daughter of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Very Good / Good. More
New York: Random House, 1959. Hardcover. First Edition. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 217 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, slight sunning to the spine, now in mylar cover. Minimal staining to front and rear endpapers due to quality of glue used in production, clean within.
Italo Calvino's (1923-1985) scarce second novel. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York: Random House, 1962. Hardcover. First Edition. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 246 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, 1/4" closed tear at top right corner of front panel, small creases at edges, early price in green ink at head of front flap, now in mylar cover. Very light sunning to top edge of cover boards, partial early paper price tag affixed to first free endpaper, some staining to pastedowns from dust jacket flaps, clean within. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. First Edition. First U. S. Edition. First Printing. 153 pp. 8vo. Scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, minor sunning along spine on front panel, now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with neon purple titling to spine. Clean within.
Italo Calvino's (1923-1985) novels in first U.S. editions are exceedingly scarce. Very Good / Very GOod. More
Brenda, W. T. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii [i], 418 [419] pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with warm orange titling to cover and spine. Slight sunning to spine, general wear overall, bumping to corners including harder compression bump to the front boards lower right corner, minor fraying to head and foot of spine. Interior quite clean with previous owner's name in blue ink on first free endpaper as well as a heavy erasure mark and a small loss at upper right corner of leaf, "Peabody Book Shop, Baltimore" bookseller's label at base of front pastedown near gutter. Contains first state printing of illustrations by W. T. Brenda on glossy stock. Very Good. More
Portland, OR: Poor Claudia & Tale City Press, 2009. Wraps. Limited. Unpag. 8vo. Green paper wraps, clean and crisp.
A mixture of poetry and essays signed by all contributors and the illustrator on the inside front cover flap. Clean, crisp copy. Of the 850 copies printed, this is #506. Fine. More
New York: Harper, 2019. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 451 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by the author on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1938. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 270 pp. 8vo. Wear and scuffing to cover boards, corners bumped with losses. Black endpapers with Native American symbol in white on pastedown. Some age toning to interior pages and a slight lean to volume. [Purcell 46].
Designed by legendary book designer Merle Armitage (1893-1975) and published in an edition of 1,500 copies, this copy is signed by Edwin Corle but not numbered. Good. More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Full Leather. Twelfth Edition. 175 pp. 12mo. 13 illustrations. Full red leather binding with bold embossed titling to cover as well as a holly sprig, borders on both front and rear boards; five raised band at spine, gold titling, and green leather patch titles that have faded to brown. Slight fading along top edge of front cover, light wear and bumping. Interior front and rear boards have gold dentelle boarder with Sangorksi and Sutcliffe label embossed on front board. Clean and crisp within. Very Good. More
Kenna, Michael. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1985. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 201 pp. 4to. Dark grey cloth boards with a large paw imprint printed on covers, black titiling to spine. Photo illustrated endpapers, clean and crisp within. Housed in a matching cloth slipcase in the same color cloth with a printed paper label affixed to spine, Michael Kenna's photo of the moors printed and attached to front and rear panels; top of slipcase has light spotting.
The sixteenth book of the renowned Arion Press and produced in an edition of 400 copies. Signed by Michael Kenna on the "Photographer's Statement" page in pencil. A wonderful combination of timeless text and timeless photographs the evoke the timber of the book. Fine. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 297 pp. 8vo. Slight wear to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.
Richard Ford's first novel. Fine / Very Good. More
New York: Ecco, 2020. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 258 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by Richard Ford on a bookplate pasted to half-title page. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. 177 pp. 8vo. Green cloth boards with green silk ribbon bookmark. No dust jacket, as issued. Black cloth slipcase has slight suning at edges, in Very Good condition.
Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies, this is copy #149 and signed by Richard Ford on the colophon. Fine. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 445 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, slight bumping to head and foot of spine, price tag at base of inside front flap, now in mylar cover. Brown cloth boards with gold titling to spine. Clean within.
Basis for the 1981 movie of the same name starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. Fine / Very Good. More
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969. Hardcover. First Edition. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 256 pp. 8vo. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Quite clean within.
The first title in George MacDonald Frasher's Flashman series. Fine / Very Good. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. First American Edition. 257 pp. 8vo. Sunning to spine of dust jacket, slight spotting along top edge, in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.
The second title in George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series. Very Good / Very Good. More
Gibran, Kahlil. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing; March, 1924. 107 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with gold embossed titling to cover, gold embossing to spine has faded with age which is the only reason for grading this copy as Very Good rather than Fine. 12 illustrations by Gibran supplement the text.
The first printing consisted of 2,000 copies and soon was reprinted numerous times and has been in print ever since it was published in 1923. Very Good. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 46 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
The first chapter of Gold's novel about Charlie Chaplin. Produced by Powell's Books as part of their IndieSpensable program with a wraparound label announcing the piece. Printed in a limited edition of 850 copies, this being #841 and signed by Gold at the colophon. Fine. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Very minimal wear to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with silver embossed titling. Water damage, at some point, stained the upper and lower edges of the covers but has only had impact on the first free endpapers and pastedowns. Clean within.
Sue Grafton (1940-2017) first novel, and only non-mystery before she started her Kinsey Malone series in 1982 with "A is for Alibi". Inscribed simply to "Dear Reader" by Grafton on the title page. Good / Very Good. More