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The Fool's Progress; An Honest Novel
New York: Henry Holt and Company (1988), 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 485 pp. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. First state jacket (Ahearn APG 021b). Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper. A beautiful copy of Abbey's last novel. More
Humboldt's Gift
New York: Viking Press (1975), 1975. First printing. Hardcover. 487 pp. Yellow paper covered boards quarter bound in gold cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. His eighth novel, winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and one... More
Planet of the Apes
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc. [1963], 1963. First American edition. Hardcover. 246 pp. Price of $4.50 on front flap of the dust jacket. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding. First printing of the first edition in English. Basis for the popular 1968 film and for its numerous sequels... More
The Spider's House
New York: Random House, 1955. First printing. Hardcover. 406 pp. Price of $3.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A very attractive copy of Bowles' sixth book. Light edge wear and a few traces of rubbing tothe dust jacket. More
2001: A Space Odyssey
London: Hutchinson of London (1968), 1968. First British Edition. Hardcover. 224 pp. Price of "25s net" on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first British edition. Based on Clarke's short story The Sentinel, the novel was written by Clarke while he was writing the screenplay for the... More
The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1914. First printing. Hardcover. 320 pp. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine. Several beautiful color illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. First American Edition and the true first edition preceding the UK edition. Green and Gibson A39c. A very... More
Greenwitch
New York: Atheneum, 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 147 pp. Price of $5.50 on front flap of dust jacket. The third book in Cooper's the Dark is Rising series, uncommon in the first edition. Near Fine book with previous owner name on free front endpaper and a few areas of faint... More
Americana
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... More
Custer Died for Your Sins; An Indian Manifesto
Toronto: The Macmillan Company [1969], 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 279 pp. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A commentary on the struggles and injustices that Native Americans face in the United States (during the 1960s). Written by a former Executive Director of the National Congress... More
Because of Winn-Dixie
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. 182 pp. Price of $15.99 on front flap of jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title page. A beautiful copy of this Newbery Honor book, the author's first novel. More
Out of Africa
New York: Random House [1938], 1938. First printing. Hardcover. 341 pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter bound in black with bird embossed gold on the front board, gold lettering and design on spine, yellow-green topstain. Price of $2.75 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of the author's... More
Intruder in the Dust
New York: Random House, 1948. First printing. Hardcover. 247 pp. Price of $3.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Near Fine in a jacket with traces of rubbing, a few closed tears and tiny chips, and some darkening to rear panel. More
The Mansion
New York: Random House, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 436 pp. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, light blue endpapers and pastedowns, yellow topstain. Price of $4.75 on front flap of dust jacket. Correct code on flap as called for in Ahearn APG... More
The Great Brain
New York: The Dial Press [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pp. Illustrated by Mercer Mayer. A Near Fine book with mildly warped boards in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a few closed tears and fading to the spine panel. More
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 170 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Translated from the Spanish by J. S. Bernstein. First printing of the author's first book to be published in English in the first issue dust jacket (Ahearn APG 001a). Some mild... More
Space Cadet
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 242 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Clifford N. Geary. Currey 234. Ahearn APG 003a. An attractive copy of Heinlein's second novel, difficult to find in collectible condition. A Near Fine book with faint offsetting to... More
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Hicksville, NY: The Gnome Press, Inc. 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Currey 235. Ahearn APG 030a. A very near Fine book with the usual age toning to pages due to production methods in a like jacket with two small spots of edge wear. More
The Second Jungle Book
London: MacMillan & Co. 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 238 pp. Bound in blue cloth with gilt decorations on the front board and gold lettering and decorations on the spine. All edges gilt. Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling. Livingston 116. A very near Fine book with a tiny (postage... More
A Game Of Thrones
New York: Bantam Books, 1996. First printing. Oversized Paperback. 663 pp. Advance Review Copy in wraps with dust jacket (different design and cover art than the published version), as issued. An attractive example of the first book in Martin's acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series, uncommon as an... More
All the Pretty Horses
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 301 pp. Price of $21.00 on front flap of dust jacket. The first book in McCarthy's "Border Trilogy" and a best-seller that brought him to national prominence. Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis... More
Mycenae: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns.
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. 384 pp. Octavo, 8vo. Bound in green cloth with top edge gilt, gilt decorations on the spine and the front board, and beveled edges. Includes illustrations that show over 700 artifacts Dr. Schliemann excavated from Mycenae. The volume also includes... More
Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 2 volumes., 500 pp; 486 pp. Bound in green cloth, with beautiful gilt decorations on the front boards and the spine, engraved frontispieces in each volume, 11 folding maps, and numerous other maps and portraits. Nevins 124. A.... More
Three Guineas
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1938), 1938. First American edition. Book. 285 pp. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition. Ahearn APG 030d. A nice copy of Woolf's epistolary essay, an extended treatment of questions concerning the prevention... More
The Swiss Family Robinson
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1868. Later Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 383 pp. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt titling on the spine. A later edition, printed in one volume, revised and corrected. An attractive copy of this classic adventure tale. More