London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. 7 3/4" x 9 3/4". 243 pp. Bound in dark brown cloth with gold designs embossed on the boards and the spine. The front board's design shows a vampire flying and grinning evilly. Frontispiece and fifteen plates plus additional black...

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New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce [1942], 1942. First printing. Hardcover. 362 pp. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. Bound in maroon cloth. Edited by Erskine Caldwell. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Part of the American Folkways series. Colberg A6. A Near Fine book with a....

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 388 pp. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 001a, 4,500 copies printed. A very attractive copy of the author's first book. Jacket shows some light edge wear and has a small closed tear to the top left of...

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London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 2 volumes, 382 pp., 1858; 376 pp., 1859. Half bound in green leather with marbled boards and all edges stained a pinkish-brown, light pink endpapers and pastedowns. Spine has gilt lettering and and decorations and five raised bands. Bound by H....

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New York: David McKay Company, Inc. 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 210 pp. Price of $4.50 on front flap of jacket. The author's first book, a novel concerning the romance between two young people who meet at an Oklahoma bus depot and wind up attending neighboring colleges on the East coast...

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London: John Murray, 1890. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 500 pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt vignette on the front board and gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Darwin. Bookplate of distinguished surgeon and Captain in the Royal Navy (serving during the first world war) Hugh...

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New York: Charles L. Webster & Co. 1891/1892. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 vols. 455 pp.; 604 pp. Bound in rich green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, as well as on the spine. Fourth Edition, revised, corrected, and complete. The original edition was...

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Topeka, KS: Published by the Authors, 1901. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 630pp. Light brown cloth with gilt titles, black lettering and vignettes in black on front board and spine. Frontispiece with tissue guard, numerous illustrations and portraits, folding map at rear. An attractive example of this history of the Overland...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 428 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Fold-out map intact. Inscribed by Sandoz on the free front endpaper, with a hand-drawn illustration by the author. Noted for her use of words...

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Hartford, CN: The American Publishing Company, 1897. First printing. Hardcover. 712 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling and decorations on the spine. Includes several black and white illustrations. The first printing of the first American edition. BAL 3451. An account of Twain's travels around the British empire, expressing his disdain...

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New York: Dial Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 440 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of Berger's magnum opus. A Very near Fine book in a Very Good+ dust jacket with moderate fading to the spine panel and a few hints of rubbing and edge wear.

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New York: The Viking Press, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 145 pp. Price of $2.75 on front flap of jacket. Miller's acclaimed play is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials which serve as an allegory for the Red Scare of the early 1950s and associated mass cultural and political hysteria...

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