Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., [ca.1946]. An attractive copy of the eleventh Oz book. Reprint. Octavo (23.5cm); beige cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine, and color title leaf mounted to front cover; dustjacket; 312,[2]pp; with black and white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name to "This..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1986. Limited Edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator, this being copy no.573. Thick quarto (32.25cm); beige linen boards and quarter dark brown morocco backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's dark brown cloth slipcase; xiv,[2],3-262,[8]pp..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [vi],298pp. Small, faint triangular damp mark to lower right edge of front cover, subtle offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), showing some toning..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1913. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); cobalt blue cloth titled in gilt, with key motif embossed onto front cover; [viii],408pp, with frontispiece and four plates of black & white illustrations by Frank Snap. Inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front..... More
New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1957. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); powder gray paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in hunter green on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-191,[1]pp. Pinpoint wear to spine ends, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), with some trivial external wear and faint rubbing..... More
London: Peter Owen Publishers, 1994. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author on the copyright page, this being copy no.98. Octavo (22.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's original unprinted white tissue dustjacket; [8],9-93,[3]pp; illus. Tiny scuff..... More
London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd, 1973. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],145,[1]pp; illus. Signed by Bradbury and Mugnaini on the title page. Eight tiny spots to lower edge of textblock, else very Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket..... More
New York: Del Rey / Ballantine Books, 1985. First Edition. The concluding volume in Brooks's best-selling Sword of Shannara Trilogy. "One of the most commercially successful Tolkien retreads, Brooks's saga substitutes a magic sword for the eponymous ring and elves for hobbits, but retains all the essential tragi-comic elements of..... More
Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); royal blue pebbled paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in reddish-brown on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [iv],[10],11-314,[2]pp, with frontispiece and four plates of illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, with the..... More
Boston: Beacon Hill Press, 1957. First American Edition. First Printing. Fine and unread in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. A touch of nicking at the crown, with a small splash at the bottom right corner of the rear panel and faint soil to same. Calvino's first novel, and the first..... More
London: Collins, 1956. Original dustjacket artwork for the First British Edition of Calvino's first novel. The novel, told from a child's perspective, paints the trauma of war torn Italy using a variety of impressive characters, namely a young boy and his teenage sister, who are depicted on the jacket. The..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); gray-green textured cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; [ii],104pp. Hint of sunning to spine, scattered foxing to upper and right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 6s. net), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn..... More
West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, Inc., 1982. Limited Edition. One of 350 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator on the colophon, this being copy no.7. Folio (43cm); binding by Gray Parrot in full burgundy crushed morocco titled in gilt on spine, with large gilt-stamped crowns on covers..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Limited Edition. An attractive production of Carroll's beloved novel, signed by the woman who was the inspiration for the main character. Lovett 90a; Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, No.36. One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by typographer..... More
Los Angeles: United Artists, 1947. An American insert poster for the 1947 film noir directed by Delmer Daves, starring Edward G. Robinson, Julie London, Judith Anderson and Lon McCallister. Adapted from the 1945 novel by George Agnew Chamberlain. A bright, Near Fine example. Folded, with a few tiny pinholes along..... More
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Tokyo: Hayakawa Books, 2010. First Edition. A key translation by Haruki Murakami of Chandler's sixth novel - the apex of 20th century detective fiction, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1955, and basis for Robert Altman's 1973 film starring Elliott Gould and Sterling Hayden. While Murakami is..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1959. First Edition. An early young adult novel by the creator of the Ramona and Henry Huggins series, uncommon inscribed. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); mauve cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [8],9-284,[4]pp; illus. Generically inscribed by..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; tan endpapers; dustjacket; [10],11-208pp; illus. Spine ends gently nudged, with a handful of faint, tiny stains to covers; contents fresh and unmarked; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Limited Edition. One of 2,000 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator, this being copy no.573. Quarto (29cm); original turquoise linen, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's pale blue paper-covered slipcase; xiv,[2],3-137,[9]pp; with illustrations throughout the text, including..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2012. Limited Edition. Illustrated edition of Collins's 1868 novel, first serialized in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round, followed immediately by a three-decked published by Tinsley Brothers. Centered around a large yellow diamond, stolen by an Englishman during the Anglo-Mysore War from an Indian..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Second State, with four-line colophon reading "Bound by The Book Press, New York." Octavo (26cm); orange cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with pictorial elements embossed onto front cover, and no ISBN present on rear cover; dustjacket; [viii],118,[2]pp; illus. Hint of sunning to spine..... More
New York: R.H. Russell, 1901. First Edition. Best-known mystery by the Philadelphia-born novelist and journalist, "which contains three connected short stories in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson's New Arabian Nights (1882). There's a double surprise ending" (Penzler & Steinbrunner, p.117). A Queen's Quorum title, with distinguished provenance. Hubin, p.109;..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. First Edition of this translation. One of 500 copies. Quarto (25.75cm); original quarter blue crushed morocco and paste paper boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [ii],[4],5-65,[5]pp. Inscribed by Fowles to Czech-born British filmmaker Karel Reisz (1926-2002) on half-title page: "Dear Karel, I thought..... More
Paris: Universal Film S.A., 1945. Large quarto; single sheet of matte stock (18 X 24.25 inches), folded to make a four-page pressbook, which opens into a poster with printed synopsis; text and illustrations printed in red, black and white. A stunning, Fine example of the French film pressbook for Fritz..... More
London: John Stockdale, 1790. First Stockdale Edition. An important, early edition of Defoe's classic 1719 novel – the first with illustrations by Thomas Stothard (1755-1834), and the first to print George Chalmers's biography The Life of Daniel De Foe (bound at the end of Vol.II). Sabin 19285; ESTC T72291; Lowndes..... More