Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 343 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Near Fine book with a few hints of wear to the extremities in a Near Fine dust jacket with a bit of very light edge wear and three slight depressions... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First printing. Hardcover. 288 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. A very attractive copy of this science fiction classic, and uncommon thus. Some rippling to the rear pastedown near the hinge, else... More
New York: Random House, 1952. First printing. Hardcover. 311 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of Bowles' fifth book. Very near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a couple of small closed tears, some light edge wear, and a few traces of rubbing. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Wiese, Kurt. First edition. Hardcover. 265 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. An endearing story about Freddy the pig-detective, and how he makes the football team while solving two mysteries... More
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
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1861. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 531 pp. Recently half-bound in red leather and red cloth with edges ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations, and two black leather labels with gilt lettering. Endpapers and pastedowns are dark mauve. Two page... More
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
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 180 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The Author's first book. A few faint traces of foxing to textblock, else Fine. More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1970], 1970. First printing. Hardcover. 422 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Second state dust jacket as per Ahearn APG 002c. A beautiful copy of the author's masterpiece, a landmark work of literature widely regarded as the finest Latin American novel... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 129 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of this collection of poems by Jeffers. Ahearn APG 011a. A Very near Fine book with a vintage bookseller label on the rear pastedown in a Very Good+ jacket... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First printing. Hardcover. 499 pp. Red cloth-covered boards with Kerouac's initials in gold on the front board, and gold lettering on the spine. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. A presentable copy of Kerouac's first book. Very Good book with rubbing... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 336 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. An attractive copy of King's first and best collection of short stories. Brooks A7, Ahearn APG 005b. A Near Fine book with some very slight rubbing to the lettering... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. 276 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American hardcover edition. Ahearn APG 058c. An attractive copy. A Near Fine book with a former owner's name written on the free front endpaper in... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 678 pp. Bound in green cloth, with gilt lettering and red and gold decorations on the front board and gilt lettering and two gold star decorations inset in a black bar with gilt bordering (the "shoulder strap") on... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. First printing. Hardcover. 286 pp. Price of $7.50 on front flap of jacket. Signed by the author on the first page. More
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... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 151 pp. Price of $16.95 on front flap of jacket. Proulx's first book of fiction, a well-received collection of nine short stories. More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc. [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 374 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of the dust jacket. Broadfoot 521. A sharp copy of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner, one of the most highly-regarded and popular historical novels centered around the Civil War. A very... More
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.... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. 303 pp. Bound in reddish-brown cloth with a buckram-colored spine, 8vo. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. A collection of short stories by one of America's greatest writers of the twentieth century. Goldstone & Payne A11, Ahearn APG 013a... More
New York: Viking Press, 1942. First printing. Hardcover. 188 pp. Price of $2.00 on front flap of jacket. First issue with the correct first issue dust jacket ($2.00 price and untrimmed corners). Ahearn APG 018c. Goldstone and Payne A16. A Near Very Good book with some pushing to the binding... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co. 1892. First printing. Hardcover. 277 pp. Bound in olive-green cloth. BAL 3434. An attractive copy. Tiny tear to last three leaves, hints of wear to edges of boards, else Very near Fine. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First printing. Hardcover. 179 pp. Bound in red cloth with gilt decorations and titling on spine and front board. Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. Ahearn APG 066a. Lacks the dustwrapper. Name written on free front endpaper, few hints of wear to edges of boards. More
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 631 pp. Bound in brown cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine and the front board. Illustrated by various artists, with three or four by the author himself. In all the volume includes 328 illustrations. BAL 3386. Ahearn APG... More
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