The 9.50 Up Express (The Lost Classics Sseries)
Crippen & Landru. First Edition. Hardcover. A Fine copy of this first edition (with complete numberline) in a Fine dust jacket. Minor bumping to top right corner of front cover. More
Rare Fiction
DramaContemporary: Latin America (PAJ Books)
PAJ Publications, June 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight rubbing to jacket; slight internal browning to edges. 186, [3] pages. Contains English-language versions of 4 short plays in all: 'The Kiss of the Spider Woman' by Manuel Puig (the film script version, adapted by..... More
The Watcher in the Shadows
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author on title page. First Printing with a comple numberline. A Fine copy. More
Return of the Brute
Mandrake. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ in. - 7¾ in. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1929 Mandrake Press edition with no subsequent printings listed. Mild wear to book edges, light spot of discoloration at bottom book spine, pages open easily at a few points yet binding solid and strong..... More
The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time
Dodd, Mead, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author Edward Abbey on front free endpaper: 'to... Ed Abbey Seattle 10/31/56.' Although this inscription is dated by Abbey in the year of publication, it may have been later. A scarce signed first edition of Abbey's second book. A very..... More
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. A good copy of the first edition hardcover in jacket ('First Edition / 00025' (title page verso). Has some ex-library markings: intact and unfaded jacket has residue of paper spine label and one tiny closed edge tear; ink stamp to top edge; tape..... More
Contes chinois, traduits par mm. Davis, Thoms, le P.'Entracolles, etc. Tome Troisieme [volume III]
Chez Moutardier, 1827. First Edition. Leather Binding. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. This volume includes 'San-iu-leou ou les trois étages consacrés — Les deux jumelles — La matrone du pays de Soung.' Volume III of 3 only. Bound in period full brown speckled calf, spine with twin black..... More
Stand on It
Aztex Corp, August 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by co-author Bill Neely on sticker on inside front wrap. 8vo. - over 7 3/4 in. - 9 3/4 in. 294pp., yellow covers with red and black titles. Light wear to spine and wraps..... More
Shardik
Simon & Schuster, May 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. Hardcover with dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page, promotional bookmark laid in. First Printing with a complete numberline. Minor shelfwear to board edges, light foxing to page edges, upper book..... More
A Death in the Family
McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. A First Edition, First Issue ('Walking' opens page 80, title page in blue.) 8vo. - over 7 ¾ in. - 9 ¾ in. [10], 339, [2] pages, bound in full blue cloth with silver gilt stamped titles to the spine and front panel. First..... More
Upton Sinclair: A Descriptive Annotated Bibliography
Arundel Pr, June 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Extensively annotated bibliography, verging on a bio-bibliography. A remarkable reference, offers enormous insight into Sinclair's life and his development as a writer and political figure. Essential to any serious collection of Sinclair or progressive authors and..... More
The Clerk's Journal: Being the Diary of a Queer Man: An Undergraduate Poem ...
Eakins Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. VG+/VG in DJ (slight rubbing to DJ). Tall 4to with DJ [4]+26+[25] Previously unpublished poem, written in 1911 at Harvard, with the author's memoir. Notable for the facsimile of the manuscript, with Dean Briggs' commentary in the..... More
The Brand of the Sea
Century Co., January 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very scarce novel, translated from the Danish. Original orange cloth stamped in black (spine faded; some wear). More
Three American Plays
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Signed and inscribed by co-writer Stallings to his screenwriting contemporary F. Hugh Herbert in dark blue ink on front free endpaper: 'For Hugh Herbert / Prince of Suckers / from / Laurence Stallings / October..... More
Death in the Woods
Liveright, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A scarce First Edition. 8vo. - over 7 3/4 in. - 9 3/4 in. 298pp., bound in the original red cloth stamped in black. A Very Good copy with slight fading and wear to the cloth with some tape..... More
Hello Towns
Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First Issue with Fiugers for fingers on pg. 35. From the library of Denise Levertov, with her signature (she also signed her husbands name Mitch Goodman) on the ffep, dated 1961. A nice Franz Masereel bookplate on the front pastedown, ex-libris for Martha Magdalene..... More
Many Marriages
B.W. Huebsch, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG/VG (sm chips/sl stains to DJ). Sm 8vo with DJ [10]+264 Dedicated to auth or/critic Paul Rosenfeld. Uncommon in jacket. More
A New Testament
Boni and Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very good (spine sunned; sl rubbing to cloth). Tall 12mo 118 Series of short prose poems, dedicated to publisher Horace Liveright. In protective acetate jacket. More
Winesburg, Ohio; A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
B. W. Huebsch, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce First Issue of the First Edition. Map to front pastedown; 'lay' typo on pg.86, line 5; broken typo 'the' on pg.251, line 3. Hardcover in yellow cloth, paper title block to spine. 12mo - over 6¾ in. - 7¾ in., 303pp. Soiling..... More
The Life of John Mytton, Esq., Of Halston, Shropshire ... By Nimrod
George Routledge and Sons, 1869. First Edition. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (tall thin). A Very Good copy lacking most illustrative plates with previous owner's bookplate to the FFEP, light shelfwear, and slight rubbing to covers. Light internal sunning, else internally clean and free of markings..... More
The Man with No Face
Random House, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Mystery by the famed book designer. 8vo. - over 7 3/4 in. - 9 3/4 in. 279pp., bound in full red cloth with black titles to the spine and a pictorial front panel. A previous owner's bookplate to..... More
Mostly Dead Things
Tin House Books, June 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed by the author on the half-title page. Slipcased First Edition from Powell's Books Indiespensable Series, complete with separate pamphlet containing an interview with the author. A Near Fine copy with faint wear in a Very..... More
Die Gefangene Gottes
Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in cloth (slight sunning/rubbing to cloth). Small 8vo 300+[3] Text in German (translation by Siegfried Schmitz). At head of title: Schalom Asch. Signed (as 'Schalom Asch') by Asch on half-title page. Rare..... More
Autograph Letter Signed
The Author, 1981. First Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A rare Autograph Letter Signed from author Lester Atwell, 2 pages on a single 8vo leaf, March 26th, 1981. Atwell's discusses a search for his books (he was apparently out of them), which the recipient and his son..... More
Autograph Letter Signed Discussing 'Life with Its Sorrow, Life with Its Tear'
The Author, 1981. First Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A rare Autograph Letter Signed from author Lester Atwell, 2 pages on a single 8vo leaf, April 22, 1981, discussing his novel 'Life with Its Sorrow, Life with Its Tear', and the attitude of one of his sons..... More