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
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The Sword of Shannara
New York: Random House (1977), 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 726 pp. Price of $12.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Color fold-out plate by the Brother's Hildebrandt intact. Signed by the author and dated 5/77 on the free front endpaper. A nice copy of the author's first novel, difficult to... More
Freddy Plays Football
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
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 707 pp. Bound in the original rich green-pebbled cloth (bound by Edmonds & Remnants in London, with the binder's ticket on the rear pastedown) with gilt titling on the spine and a beehive decoration embossed on the front board... More
Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry
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
The Hunt for Red October
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. 387 pp. First edition in first issue dust jacket, with all required points. The author's first book. Small closed tear to top of front panel, a few other traces of wear to the extremities; book has some rubbing to edges of boards... More
A Feast of Snakes
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 177 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper. Ahearn APG 009b. A beautiful copy. A Very near Fine book with a tiny spot of discoloration to the top textblock in a sharp... More
The Voyage of the Jeannette; The Ship and Ice Journals
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 440 pp.; 911 pp. Large 8vo. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine and black lettering and decorations on the front board. "Jeannette" is outlined in gilt with gilt decorations meant to simulate icicles. On each... More
The Viking Age; The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of the English-Speaking Nations
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes. 591 pp.; 562 pp. Bound in navy cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front boards and the spines. 1,366 illustrations with a frontispiece in each volume and one full-page map in volume 1. Du Chaillu... More
The Polish Officer
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
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 501 pp. First printing of the first edition. An attractive copy of Gould's first book, an influential work in evolutionary developmental biology, uncommon in such fine condition. Near Fine book with some mild foxing to the top... More
Raiders of Spanish Peaks
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. 332 pp. Ahearn 067a. A presentable copy, difficult to find in the dust jacket. Near Fine book with a gift inscription on the first page dated 1938 in a price-clipped Good only dust jacket with chipping to the bottom edges and... 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
The Bushwhacked Piano
New York: Simon and Schuster [1971], 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 220 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. An exceptional copy of the author's second book. A faint spot of discoloration on the rear free endpaper, else Fine in a like dust jacket. More
The Crucible; A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Miller
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
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
New York: Basic Books [1959], 1959. First American edition. Hardcover. 479 pp. Price of $7.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition. A nice copy of Popper's well-known work in confirmation theory, a classic in 20th century philosophy of science. A Near... More
Scott's Last Expedition
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes, 443 pp.; 376 pp. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and top textblock in gilt. In two volumes, volume one being the journal of Captain R.F. Scott, volume two being the... More
The Long Valley
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
Treasure Island
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 292 pp. Bound in gold cloth with lettering in red and gold, and decorations in red and pale blue on the front board and the spine. Frontispiece is a facsimile chart of Treasure Island in green and red, vignette title-page with tissue... More
Following the Equator
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... More
Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock County Wisconsin
Chicago: Acme Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4vo. 1033 pp. Bound in pebbled brown leather with gilt lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, all edges gilt. The front and rear boards are decorated with flowers stamped in blind, with beveled edges. Four raised bands on... More
The Shoe Bird
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World [1964], 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 87 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Beth Krush. Ahearn APG 016a. An attractive copy of Welty's only book for children. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities. More
The Blue and Brown Books; Preliminary Studies for the 'Philosophical Investigations'
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958. First printing. Hardcover. 185 pp. Price of 25s. on the front jacket flap. Preface by Rush Rhees. The Blue book consists of notes dictated by Wittgenstein to a class he taught at Cambridge in 1933-1934 and the Brown book consists of notes dictated by Wittgenstein to... More
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