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 about Humboldt's Gift
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First edition thus. Hardcover. 125 pp. Krumhansl 103c. The first hardcover trade edition, one of 400 copies numbered and signed by Bukowski, this being number 393. A very near Fine book with a tiny bump to the top right corner of the front... More about The Movie: "Barfly"
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... More about Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry
London (Londini): Excudit S. Hamilton, 1816. Later edition. Hardcover. 24mo. 468 pp. Collates as complete. Bound in beautiful straight-grained red morocco with decorations in gilt on the boards and spine (spine is in six compartments). All edges gilt. A later edition of Franz van Oudendorp's edition of De Bello Gallico... More about De Bellis Gallico et Civili Pompeiano nec non A. Hirtii Aliorumque De Bellis Alexandrino,...
New York: TOR (1985), 1985. First printing. Hardcover. 357 pp. Price of $13.95 on front flap of jacket. A very attractive copy of this science fiction classic, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Near Fine book with a tiny spot of discoloration to the fore-edge and a few... More about Ender's Game
London: George Newnes Limited [1934], 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 3 volumes, consecutively paginated: (i)-iv, 1-512; (i)-iv, 513 - 1024; (i)-iv,1025 - 1668. Three-quarter crimson morocco over dark red cloth, spines in 5 compartments with gold lettering and decorations, marbled crimson endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait... More about The Great War
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 about Greenwitch
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 248 pp. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first edition. Small bookplate signed by the author laid in. Ahearn APG 001a. A beautiful copy of Crews' first novel. A very near Fine book... More about The Gospel Singer
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 faced from westward expansion through the 1960s. Deloria Jr. was a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe... More about Custer Died for Your Sins; An Indian Manifesto
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 412 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The second book in Farmer's acclaimed Riverworld series focusing on Sam Clemens building of a riverboat and exploring the Riverworld. Currey 184. A nice copy of one of... More about The Fabulous Riverboat
New York: Random House (1995), 1995. First printing. Hardcover. 325 pp. Price of $23.00 on front flap of jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. More about The Polish Officer
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition. 8vo. xvii, [2], 353, [5] including four pages of advertisements in the rear for other works by Hornaday. Pictorial light blue cloth lacking the dustjacket. Spine is lettered in gilt, title and author are stamped in gilt on the front board, top... More about Camp-fires in the Canadian Rockies
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 about The Town and the City
New York: Random House, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. 197 pp. Red paper covered boards quarter bound in black with gold lettering on the spine and the author's initials embossed on front board. As with all of McCarthy’s early works, there was a relatively small print run. The story of Lester... More about Child of God
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 about All My Friends are Going to be Strangers
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 182 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper. Ahearn APG 009a. A Very Good+ book with mildly warped boards and some yellowing to the gutters in a Near Fine dust... More about Promised Land
New York: Atheneum, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 291 pp. Blue paper-covered boards quarter bound in pink cloth with gold lettering on the spine and author's initials embossed in gold on the front board. Price of $14.95 on the front jacket flap. The first printing of the first edition. The author's... More about Lion in the Valley; An Amelia Peabody Mystery
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New York: Cambridge University Press (1975), 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, 328 pp.; 457 pp. Each volume bound in dark tan cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine, gold endpapers and pastedowns. These two volumes collect Putnam's early and most influential papers in the philosophy of... More about Mathematics, Matter and Method, Philosophical Papers Volume 1 [with] Mind, Language and Reality,...
New York: Harper & Row (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 76 pp. Bound in grey cloth with silver lettering on the front board and on the spine. Price of $6.50 on front flap of dust jacket. In this short monograph, Putnam discusses the nominalism/realism debate in connection with logic and... More about Philosophy of Logic
New York: The Overlook Press (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 318 pp. Price of $10.95 on front flap of jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page. A lovely copy of Rushdie's first novel. Ahearn APG 001c. A Fine book in a.... More about Grimus
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918. First edition. Hardcover. 234 pp. Bound in maroon cloth with gold lettering and gold rules on the spine. Lacks the dust jacket. Russell today remains one of the most significant philosophers and logicians of the twentieth century, and was one of the founders of... More about Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 2 volumes., [4], v-xiii, 500, [2] pp; [4], v-xi, [1], 486, [2] pp. Bound in green cloth, with beautiful gilt decorations on the front boards and the spine, steel-engraved frontispieces in each volume, 11 folding maps, and numerous... More about Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 volumes: 547 pp.; 540 pp. Bound in original green cloth with outline of Africa embossed on the front boards in dark green and black with gilt titling and facsimile of Stanley's signature stamped in gold, bust of Stanley... More about In Darkest Africa; or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria
New York: Farrar & Rinehart [1941], 1941. Ross Santee. First printing. Hardcover. 356 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white drawings by Ernest J. Donnelly. Part of "The Rivers of America" series. Series edited by Stephen Vincent Benet and Carl Carmer... More about The Charles
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First printing. Hardcover. 260 pp. Small 8vo., bound in tan cloth with gilt, brown, and black decorations on the front board. BAL 3436, Ahearn APG 045a, McBride 135. A Near Fine book with a small crack to the rear hinge (binding is... More about The £1,000,000 Bank-Note