New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 614 pp. Bound in grey cloth with gilt decorations on the front board and spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated with nearly eighty beautiful black and white photolithographic plates. Includes the name card of Mrs. Overton H. Chenault (born Lida... More
New York: Baen (1996), 1996. First edition thus. Hardcover. 480 pp. First combined hardcover edition of "Shards of Honor" (Bujold's first novel and the first book in her Vorkosigan series) and "Barrayar" (winner of both the Hugo and Locus Awards for best novel), and the first trade hardcover edition of... More
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
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: 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
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
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1945. Second edition. Hardcover. 135 pp. Price of $2.00 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the Second Edition of Einstein's explanation of his theory of relativity for a general audience. Includes a new appendix prepared by Einstein in 1944 covering new developments since... More
Paris: Librairie Des Bibliophiles, 1872. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 200 pp. Gathered in 4s (gathering a in 8s, gatherings b-f in 4s, gatherings 1-26 in 4s). Fully bound in brown morocco with five raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, all edges gilt. Endpapers and pastedowns are marbled and... More
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
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: 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: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes., large octavo; 584 pp (1885); 647 pp (1886). Bound in green cloth, with beautiful gilt decorations on the front boards and the spines, and gilt lettering and four gold star decorations inset in a black bar with... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes. 428 pp.; 444 pp. Bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the front boards and the spine panels, and red and gold decorations on the front boards and the spines. With nearly one-hundred illustrations made from... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 309 pp. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author with personalization on the title page. Currey 339. McCaffrey's second novel, the first in her original Dragonriders of Pern trilogy. McCaffrey won the Hugo... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. 426 pp. Price of $23.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. One of a thousand signed copies prepared for friends of the author and publisher (signed by McCarthy on the limitation page). A very attractive copy of the second... More
Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1924; 1924; 1925; 1930. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. 4vol. 173 pp.; 168 pp.; 164 pp.; 175 pp. Includes all four series: A History of the Pepper Trade with the Island of Sumatra; A History of the "George", "Glide", "Taria Topan", and "St. Paul", in trade... More
New York: Random House, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. 630 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. A bright, clean, and attractive copy of Roth's second book. A very near Fine book in a Very Good+ lightly edge-worn dust jacket. More
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. (1948), 1948. First printing. Hardcover. 538 pp. Price of 18s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Dust jacket is printed on a map of East Sumatra used during the war, printed by the War Office. Russell today remains one of the... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 428 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Fold-out map intact. Inscribed by Sandoz on the free front endpaper, with a hand-drawn illustration by the author. Noted for her use of words... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1891/1892. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 vols. 455 pp.; 604 pp. Bound in rich green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, as well as on the spine. Fourth Edition, revised, corrected, and complete. The original edition was... 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, Conn. The American Publishing Company, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 320 pp. Bound in bright blue cloth with decorations stamped in black on the boards and spine, with gilt decorations on the front board and spine. Now first published in complete form. Sold only by subscription. Illustrated by woodcuts... 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: Farrar & Rinehart [1932], 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. 317 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Lacks copyright and title page. Yellow boards with brown lettering on spine and lion in brown on front board. Dark blue topstain, rough cut fore-edge. Presumed 1st american edition... More
