London: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xii, [1], 14-576 pp. Brown blindstamped cloth with decorations in black and gilt on the front board and spine, all edges gilt. Illustrated by a wood-engraved frontispiece, a map, thirty-two full-page illustrations, and several in-text illustrations. The..... More
New York: McDowell Obolensky [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 339 pp. Price of $3.95 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first edition, first issue as per Ahearn (Collected Books, 4th ed.). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1958. A presentable copy of Agee's best-known work, published..... More
London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-208 pp. Pink cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 13/6 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. The third novel by Amis. A very near Fine book with a touch of toning to the textblock..... More
Chicago: Acme Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4vo. [8], 19-1033, [7] 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..... 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
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 241 pp. Bound in blue-green cloth with red lettering on the spine, brown endpapers and pastedowns. Dust jacket is the version printed on high-gloss stock (generally assumed to be second issue) with price of $16.95 on the front flap. First..... More
New York: Ace Books (2004), 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 440 pp. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket. An attractive copy of the first book in the "Codex Alera" More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [1], 2-441, [5]; [3], vi-xvi, [1], 2-474, [2] pp. Bound in navy cloth with gold lettering and decorations in gold and black on the boards and the spines. Each volume illustrated by a frontispiece, 235..... More
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [2], xii, 1-479, [1] pp. Bound in yellow cloth with narrow rule border on the front board in black, gold lettering on the spine inset in a solid black rectangle with black and gold rules at the top and..... More
New York: E.P Dutton, 1978. First printing. Hardcover. 437 pp. Price of $10.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A rollicking and eccentric novel centered on T. S. Garp, a writer with an unconventional upbringing who bears some resemblance to the author himself. Winner of the National Book Award and..... More
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd. (1939), 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 164 pp. Price of 10 s. 6d. net on front flap of jacket. Frontispiece, 12 plates following page 62, and 64 plates following page 164 (all black and white and printed on coated stock, primarily from photographs taken by..... More
Philadelphia: Aetna Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], 6-634, [2] pp. Bound in maroon cloth with beautiful gilt decorations and lettering on the spine and the front board. Illustrated by three steel-lithograph plates, one of the author (the frontispiece), one of the Sultan of Turkey, and one..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 9-231, [1], 2 (pages of publisher's advertisements). Pictorial green cloth with decorations stamped in red and black on the front board and spine, top edge gilt. Title page printed in blue and black, frontispiece and seventeen additional full-page illustrations..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1964], 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [1], viii, [2], 3-438, [2] pp. Navy cloth with decorations in red and gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with seven maps, a...... More
Palo Alto, CA: Kodansha International Ltd. (1970), 1970. First edition thus. Hardcover. 159 pp. Bound in grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Translated by Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum. The first printing of the first edition in English. Matsumoto..... More
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
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1882. Later Edition. Hardcover. 5vol. 8vo. [2], 3-414, [4]; [2], iii, [1], 422, [4]; [2], iii, [1], 452, [2]; [4], 570, [2]; [2], iii, [1], 618, [4] pp. Original brick blindstamped cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine. Corrected from the Greek and..... More
London: T. Cadell Junior and W. Davies, 1796. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [13], vi-viii, [9], 10-128 pp. Bound in tree calf with gilt tooling on the edges of the boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, edges speckled, decorations and lettering in gilt and a green morocco label on the spine (appears..... 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: Bantam Books (1992), 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 440, [6] pp. Maroon paper-covered boards quarter-bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $22.00 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first hardcover edition. A sharp copy of Stephenson's modern science fiction classic;..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 318 pp. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The author's second novel. Near Fine book with some slight separation between backstrip and top textblock and a tiny spot of..... More
Hartford, CN: The American Publishing Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], 7-712, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling and decorations on the spine, inset blue and pink decoration of an elephant on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of Mark Twain and by numerous in-text..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [7], viii, [5], 4-258, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) [2] pp. Bound in dark green cloth stamped with black and orange decorations on the front board, lettering in gilt on the front board and the spine, top edge..... More
New York: New Directions, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. 128 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 029a. Winner of the New York Critics Circle Drama Award in 1962 and basis for the 1964 John Huston film. A very attractive copy of one of Williams' most..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxix, [1], 32-291, [2]; [5], vi-ix, [4], 14-291, [3], vi-xxv pp. Illustrated with sixty-four full-page illustrations including a map. Frontispiece of volume one features Sir Richard Burton, frontis of volume two features a photograph of Isabella Burton..... More