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
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (1997), 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 356 pp. Price of $24 on front flap of the dust jacket. First printing of the first edition. Misprint on page 25 ("man-woman" later corrected to "mad-woman"). The author's first novel, winner of the National Book Award, and the basis... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. 209 pp. Pale yellow paper-covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and the author's initials embossed in gold on the front board. Price of $15.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Winner of the Pulitzer... More
New York: Harper & Row (1965), 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 244 pp. Price of $3.95 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first American edition. Ahearn APG 004b. Wonderful jacket art by Frederick E. Banbery, a great example of mid-1960s style. Very near Fine book in a Near Fine... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich [1982], 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 245 pp. Price of $11.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first edition in the correct dust jacket (Ahearn 012b). Walker's third novel, a powerful story of resilience in the face of cruelty and of the... More
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
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 266 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first American edition. Edited, with an Appendix on the "Bertrand Russell Case", by Paul Edwards. A nice copy of one of Russell's more popular books of essays... More
New York: William Morrow, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 240 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 015a, Hubin 403. A sharp copy of this mystery featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. A very near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with... More
New York: The Macmillan Company [1964], 1964. Sendak, Maurice. First printing. Hardcover. 43 pp. Price of $2.75 and code 74762 on front flap. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. An attractive copy of this collaborative work between the well-known poet and the beloved children's illustrator, difficult to find in such fine condition... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 217 pp. Price of 38s on the front jacket flap. First printing of the first edition. An attractive copy of this seminal work in the field of Temporal Logic by one of the important early figures in the development of modal, temporal, and... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press [1948], 1948. Second edition. Hardcover. 381 pp. Bound in blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. The Corrigenda pamphlet and slip are laid in. Price of $5.00 on front flap of jacket. Melville's great posthumous novel was first published in 1924 edited by Raymond... 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
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 273 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. A very attractive copy of the author's first novel featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with... More
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
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company [1955], 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 767 pp. Price of $5.00 on front flap of the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Broadfoot 315. A nice copy of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize Winner for fiction, one of the most highly-regarded historical... More
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. 333 pp. Price of $8.50 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first American edition. Translated by Charles A. Kelbley. Bookplate of philosopher Paul Arthur Schilpp, best known for editing the Library of Living Philosophers (including the well-known volumes... More
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
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
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... More
Boston: William Sloane Associates [1949], 1949. First printing. Hardcover. 340 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950. A nice copy of the second novel in Guthrie's highly regarded series of western historical novels. Cazedessus 48. A Very Good book... More
New York: Canaveral Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 208 pp. Price of $3.50 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first edition. Zeuschner 198, Heins 133. Illustrated by Reed Crandall. A sharp copy of the last book in the Barsoom series, published posthumously in 1964. Near Fine book in... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 495 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. An attractive copy of a book with the unusual distinction of being a winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Near Fine book with fading... More
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley (1998), 1998. First printing. Hardcover. 133 pp. Price of $22.00 on front flap of dust jacket. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 487 pp. Price of $10.95 on front jacket flap. Second issue as per Ahearn (Collected Books, 4th ed.). A sharp copy of Brown's magnum opus, a history of Native Americans told from their perspective. A very near Fine book... 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