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...
New York: The Viking Press, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 341 pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter bound in durable tan cloth with titling in black, silver, and orange. First issue with yellow topstain. Jacket is either married or second issue since although it has the correct price of $4.50 printed...
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...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 312 pp. Bound in tan buckram cloth lettered in gilt and stamped with gilt and black decorations on the front board and the spine. The front board is lettered in gilt with a trumpet and a sunrise stamped in...
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.
London: Jonathan Cape (1965), 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 221 pp. Price of '18s net' on front jacket flap. First impression, first issue, second state, Binding C (Gilbert A13a(1.4); Gilbert notes that although there is clear priority amongst the four variant bindings, all four were available in shops on the publication...
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...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 242 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Clifford N. Geary. Currey 234. Ahearn APG 003a. An attractive copy of Heinlein's second novel, difficult to find in collectible condition. A Near Fine book with faint offsetting to...
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...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap [1940], 1940. First printing. Hardcover. 220 pp. The seventeenth book in the Nancy Drew mystery series. Farah 1940A-1. Near Fine book with very slight spine lean and a contemporary gift inscription (dated December 25, 1940) in pencil on the free front endpaper in a Very...
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...
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...
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 212 pp. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Momaday is an important First Nations author and this, his first novel, draws heavily on Momaday's early life and includes fictional portrayals of many actual events...
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 210 pp. Price of $4.50 on front flap of jacket. The author's first book, a novel concerning the romance between two young people who meet at an Oklahoma bus depot and wind up attending neighboring colleges on the East coast...
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1882. Later Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 5 volumes: 414 pp.; 422 pp.; 452 pp.; 570 pp.; 618 pp. Bound in orange-red cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine. Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A.H. Clough. Includes an index. A beautiful set. A...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. 428 pp. 8vo. Three-quarter bound in red morocco, over red cloth with five raised bands on the spine and gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Gilt rules between the leather and the cloth, top edge gilt. Endpapers and pastedowns are...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 433 pp. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An exceptional copy of the concluding volume in Richter's "The Awakening Land" trilogy about the Ohio...
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.
New York: Henry Holt and Company [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 303 pp. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first edition. Illustrated with line drawings by Walter Dower. The first of two books that collect Ruark's fictional although largely autobiographical stories of a young...
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...
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. 384 pp. Octavo, 8vo. Bound in green cloth with top edge gilt, gilt decorations on the spine and the front board, and beveled edges. Includes illustrations that show over 700 artifacts Dr. Schliemann excavated from Mycenae. The volume also includes...
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...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 214 pp. White patterned paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Winner of the National Book Award, this novel is Stegner's exploration of issues surrounding old age and death. Inscribed by author...
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...
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 232 pp. Edited by Rush Rhees, and G. E. M. Anscombe. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe (original German text on the versos, English translation on the rectos). Errata slip laid in. Price of 37s 6d. on the front flap of the dust...
