London: Michael Joseph (1976), 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 96 pp. Price of $2.95 net on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first UK edition. Illustrated by Yoran Cazac. Ahearn APG 021a. A very nice copy of Baldwin's "children's story for adults" More about Little Man Little Man; A Story of Childhood
New York: New American Library [1964], 1964. First American edition. Hardcover. 240 pp. Bound in yellow cloth with facsimile of author's signature stamped in black on the front board, red lettering, red rules and publisher's device on spine, red endpapers and pastedowns, red topstain. Price of $4.50 on front jacket... More about You Only Live Twice
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company [1994], 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 267 pp. Green paper-covered boards bound in black cloth with metallic green lettering on the spine. Price of $22.95 on front jacket flap. A very attractive copy of Lehane's first novel. More about A Drink Before the War
London: Hodder & Stoughton (1996), 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 335 pp. Blue textured paper-covered boards quarter-bound in grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Bookmark bound in by the publisher. Price of £16.99 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 023a. An exceptional copy of... More about The Tailor of Panama
London: Hodder & Stoughton (1993), 1993. First UK edition. Hardcover. 335 pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine, red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of £15.99 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 021f. A beautiful copy. More about The Night Manager
London: Hodder & Stoughton (1991), 1991. First UK edition. Hardcover. 335 pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine, blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of £14.95 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 019g. A very attractive copy. More about The Secret Pilgrim
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1978), 1978. First printing. Hardcover. 129 pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on front jacket flap. The Oresteia is a trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies consisting of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers (here: Orestes), and The Eumenides... More about The Oresteia of Aeschylus
London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xiv, [2], 532 pp. 292 illustrations engraved on wood by G. Pearson and J. Cooper after drawings by R.T. Pritchett. Original publishers cloth with decorations stamped in blue, brown, green, and gilt on the front and rear boards and... More about In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1971. Pamphlet. 4 pamphlets (each one a folded sheet), pictorial covers. Price of 10 cents ($5.50 per 100 and $6.75 per 100 for Marihuana) on the rear cover of each pamphlet. Each pamphlet is illustrated with psychedelic art on the front... More about Marihuana; Narcotics; LSD; Sedatives Some Questions and Answers
New York: W W Norton & Company, 1991. First American edition (1991). Hardcover. 319 pp. Price of $19.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition. A nice copy of the thirteenth book in O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series. Near Fine with light foxing to the... More about The Thirteen-Gun Salute
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company [1952], 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 366 pp. Bound in pink cloth with decorations and an illustration (of Doctor Doolittle and a horse) on the front board, pictorial endpapers and pastedowns. Includes a color frontispiece. Price of $3.00 on front jacket flap. Illustrated by the author. Baumgarten... More about Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company (1986), 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 433 pp. Red paper-coverd boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first edition. A sharp copy of this Bowie biography. More about Stardust: The David Bowie Story
New York: James Miller, 1862, 1863. Later Edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. Small 8vo. [5], 384 [6]; [5], 408; [4], 400; [1] page of ads, [9], 242, [3] pages of advertisements in the rear, [3]; [9], 233, [1], [6] pages of advertisements, [1] pp. Includes a steel-engraved frontispiece of the author... More about Poems; Last Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning with a Memorial by Theodore Tilton; Essays on the...
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxix, 511, [5] pp. Includes two pages of advertisements for other works published by Harper & Brothers. Hazard's book includes a nine page bibliography of other works published on the history of Santo Domingo and Hayti. The dedication page... More about Santo Domingo, Past and Present With a Glance at Hayti
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xii, 124, vii, 1088 pp. 4 parts bound in one volume, with the four title pages of each part of the dictionary bound in. Assisted by Hans Gadow. With contributions from Richard Lydekker, Charles S. Roy, and Robert W.... More about A Dictionary of Birds
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 295, [8] (publisher's advertisements) pp. The advertisements in the rear include notices of Ben-Hur and Elizabeth Custer's Boots and Saddles. Navy cloth with lettering in gilt on the spine, title in gilt on the front board with a decorative gilt... More about Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life
New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii, 364, [8] pp. Bound in green blindstamped cloth with gilt decorations on the front board and spine. Includes a steel-engraved frontispiece and fourteen plates illustrating the text. Hubin 647. Allan Pinkerton was America's first private eye, founding... More about The Rail-Road Forger and Detectives
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1970), 1970. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes: xvii [xviii], 432, 11 (publisher's catalogue), [1], pp.; xvii [xviii], [2], 435-877, [3], 11 (publisher's catalogue), [1], pp. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. £10.50 net ( £10 10s the set) on... More about Logical Investigations
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 340 pp. Bound in green cloth with the title in gilt on the front board along with a red, white, and blue clover design outlined in gilt, gilt lettering on the spine, boards with beveled edges, light... More about Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock
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
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 252 pp.; 1 - (publishers catalogue dated December 1864). Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, coated brown endpapers and pastedowns. BAL 20115, binding C (sequence not determined). A nice copy of this collection of... More about Cape Cod
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 230 pp. Bound in light blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. Iconic wrap-around dust jacket art by Hannes Bok. A collection of seven stories (the title novella and six short stories). Currey 98;... More about Who Goes There?
New York: Bantam Books (1988), 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 198 pp. Black paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Introduction by Carl Sagan. Scarce first issue in the silver-blue dust jacket and lacking the dedication statement... More about A Brief History of Time; From the Big Bang to Black Holes
New York: A. L. Burt [1915], 1915. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 400 pp. Bound in dark green cloth with white lettering on the front board and the spine. Frontispiece adapted from the black and white title page of the first edition. Lacks the dust jacket. Zeuschner 699, Heins... More about Tarzan of the Apes
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 569 pp. Bound in light green cloth with oval wreath design stamped in blind on the front board and gold lettering on both the spine and front board. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of... More about Angle of Repose