London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-278, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a full-page map. In the first state dust jacket (FIRSTS, October 2010, 30). A sharp copy of Ballard's harrowing novel based on his experiences growing up during..... More
New York: Random House [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxxiii, [4], 4-211, [7] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine, purple lettering on the spine as well; purple topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited with an..... More
New York: The Free Press [1992], 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxiii, [3], 3-418, [6] pp. Maroon glossy boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $24.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Fukuyama's treatise asks: is there a direction to human history? Written in the..... More
London: John Stockdale, 1793. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [2], iii-xi, [1], 1-225, [1] ; [4], iii-vii, [1], 1-187, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements) pp. Mid-nineteenth century paneled sheep: each board with a calf border inlaid with gilt pointillé in the border, three gilt borders on each board..... More
New York: Delacorte Press (1975), 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 1-122 pp. Blue and white cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first edition. A beautiful copy of the author's third novel, basis..... More
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxvi, [3], 4-474, [4] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by Hannes Bok (who also designed the jacket for Campbell's Who..... More
n.p. n.p., ca. 1890. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 27.5 c.m. x 38 c.m. 50 hand-colored albumen photographs on double-sided stiff cardstock leaves. All tissue guards present. Black lacquered boards with beautiful raised decorations carved and painted on bone on the front board: a woman wearing a kimono riding a dragon and..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [10], xi-xii, [2], 3-78, [6] pp. Black publisher's cloth with the publisher's device in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 7-253, [1] pp. Orange and black patterned cloth, gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket design by Don Bender. The first American hardcover edition of the sixth Travis McGee novel. Ahearn..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 6-611, [3] pp. Blue paper boards printed in white with white lettering and decorations on the boards and spine. Price of $25.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated by Jay Rubin. Murakami's fifth novel translated..... More
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, Inc. [1965] [1966] [1967] [1968] [1973], 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 9 vol. 8vo. For full pagination, please inquire. Quarter black cloth with gold decorations and lettering on the spine over green cloth: orange topstain; quarter black cloth with gold lettering and decorations..... More
Firenze [= Florence]: Tipografia All'Insegna di Dante, 1832. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [5], 2-41, [3] pp. Contemporary half sheep over maroon pebbled cloth, compartments ruled in gilt, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations; all edges gilt. Lovely marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by E Walker & Sons..... More
New York: Avon Books (1999), 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [11], 2-918 pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $27.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Anatomy of Wonder II-1075. A Locus Award winner. Inscribed by Stephenson on the title page. A...... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Second edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [7], 6-423, [5]; [6], 9-352; Black cloth with an orange and gold design (the ring and the eye of Sauron) on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Black cloth with a red and gold design..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], ii-lxxi, [2], 2-466 pp. Brown publisher's cloth with blindstamped borders on each board, gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a fold-out map as a frontispiece, titled, "Indian Reservations within the United States Limits, 1883 commissioned by Hiram Price". With..... More