London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Small 8vo. Preliminary advertisement leaf, engraved frontispiece and additional title after D. Maclise, 11 wood-engravings after R. Doyle, J. Leech, and C. Stanfield. Publisher's red cloth gilt, edges gilt. First edition, second state of the additional title with publisher's name outside the engraved border. Dickens's.....
London: printed for T. Thomson, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1729. 8vo. ix, [1], 62 pages; 16 pages engraved music. Three-quarter red morocco, red cloth boards, all edges gilt, by Riviere. Pirated edition published in the same year as the first, with p. 9, 44 lines;.....
London: Sold by J. Morphew, 1715. 8vo. 24 pages. Modern quarter calf, cloth boards. First edition. Sometimes attributed to William Oldisworth (1680-1734), a miscellaneous writer, but also to Defoe (by Trent, Hutchins, Moore and Novak; disputed by Furbanks and Owens). It is a reply to Thomas Burnet's ’The necessity of.....
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, a copy from Gropper's own library with his Croton-on-Hudson inkstamp. Gropper was a Leftist illustrator, and this work an early graphic novel about a tailor's pursuit of success.
New York: Random House, 1967. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, top edges stained blue; acetate wrapper (with some chips and losses); publisher's board slipcase. Special limited tenth anniversary edition, number 18 of 2000 copies signed by Rand on the limitation page at front.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. 8vo. 299 pages. Publisher's ochre cloth, blind-stamped on front cover, spine lettered in black. First edition, first printing of Lefèvre's scarce and seminal roman à clef, inspired by the life of Jesse Livermore, considered the pioneer of day trading. Using technical analysis as.....
New York: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1977. 8vo (8.5 x 5.25 inches). [16] pages. Duotone portrait frontispiece, and seven images in text. Stapled as issued in printed stiff wrappers; with the original hole-punch along the foremargins (with clean tear through, evidently from pulling the lock out), original lock and.....
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. 8vo. xix, 58 pages. Original quarter blue cloth, decorated paper boards; printed blue dust jacket. First edition of Crane's first book, first issue with Allen Tate’s name misspelled (“Allan”) on the title-page. One of only 500 copies printed of the total edition (inclusive of.....
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Paris: Grasset, 1913. 8vo. 523 pages, 8-page publisher's advertisement at end (unopened). Original pale yellow printed wrappers, untrimmed. Purple morocco chemise and slipcase (some light rubbing in a few spots). First edition, first printing of the first volume in Proust’s 'À la Recherche du Temps Perdu' ('In Search of Lost Time,'.....
Madrid: Joaquín Ibarra, 1780. 4 volumes, large 4to (301 x 223 mm). Four engraved frontispieces, folding map, portrait and 31 engraved plates after A. Carnicero, J. del Castillo, J. Brunete, B. Barranco, P. Arnal, G. Gil and G. Ferro. Contemporary Spanish calf, stained green calf panels on the sides, within.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1886]. 8vo. 456 pages. Portrait frontispiece of the author; one-page publisher's advertisement at end, with this work listed first and priced $1.50. Publisher's tan cloth stamped in maroon and gilt. First American edition, an unusually fine copy of a scarce book commonly found in worn.....
1946-49. Typescript working drafts, plus the final typescript used as publisher's setting copy, for The Man With The Golden Arm (published 1949), many pages of the drafts with Algren's extensive autograph additions (some on versos), corrections and deleted passages (pencil and ink); the final setting typescript with publisher's editorial markings, compositor's directions.....
Eugene, OR: Hypatia Press, 1987. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 220 pages. Original boards; faux leather dust jacket. With cloth slipcase. first edition, nuber 194 of 750 copies. Signed by MacAvoy, as well as some the contributing writers and artists.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo (18.3 x 11 cm). vii, 288 pages. 12-page advertisements at end. Original brown blind-embossed cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 7611; Clark A20.2.a.
New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown, 2013. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. First edition, first printing, inscribed and signed by Donna Tartt on the title-page. 'The Goldfinch' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. 4to. Illustrations by Fred Meyer. Original floral-patterned cloth; original glassine (chipped and somewhat irregularly folded as usual); publisher's slipcase (a few small scuffs). Number 542 of 2,000 copies signed by the illustrator and Charles Scribner III, author of the introduction. The illustrations include.....
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). Color frontispiece (with tissue guard) and color illustrations in text by the author. Original printed wrappers; glassine; publisher's mottled paper board slipcase. Bookplate on inner front wrapper. Limited edition, number 436 of 450 copies on Holland Van.....
New York: Grove Press, 1972. 8vo. Original paperback. Third printing. Signed by Stoppard on the half-title.
New York: Grove Press, 1980. 12mo. Original paperback. Sixth printing of the Evergreen Edition. Signed by Stoppard on the title-page.
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1907. 8vo. Complete with 8 color prints (including frontispiece) and black-and-white illustrations in text by Maginel Wright Enright. Original gray cloth, both covers with color-printed illustrations mounted. First edition, first state, with identical full-color designs on front and back covers.
Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1901. 8vo. 245 pages. 12 color plates, including frontispiece (with tissue guard) by C. Y. Cory. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered and -paneled on front cover, cover with color illustration mounted at center. Christmas gift inscription, 1906, on front pastedown, with recipient's inkstamp on front free endpaper. First edition.....
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1914. 6 parts in one volume, 8vo (199x147mm). 196 pages, each section with separate pagination. Color plates and illustrations by John R. Neill; ownership page designed by Maginel Wright Enright (here with owner's name and address in ink dated Christmas 1918). Original tan cloth, front.....
38th Street Publishers, 2009. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 128 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original white wrappers. One of 1000 copies. "Published by Josh Smith and Todd Amicon’s 38th Street Publishers, The Voidoid is a novelina written by Hell in 1973 and first published in 1996. This new edition includes drawings.....
London: A. Hamilton, 1765, 1769. Together two volumes, 8vo (8 x 5 1/4 inches). Contemporary quarter sheep, marbled boards, black morocco lettering-pieces on spines (wear at extremities, but in generally fine, original condition). Provenance: R. Michel, Esq. (engraved armorial bookplates). The Critical Review ran from 1756 to 1817, and was.....
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868. 8vo (199 x 142mm). 191 pages. Plates and illustrations in text. Publisher's presentation gift binding of full black morocco, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (hinges tender, light wear to joints and extremities). First edition of the first book both written and illustrated by Darley.....
