Guilty Pleasures
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-165, [1] pp. Yellow cloth with black lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More
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The Cynic's Word Book
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v, [4], 3-233, [1] pp. Green cloth with red lettering on the front board, black and red decorations on the front board and spine, spine lettered in black; top edge gilt. Illustrated by a frontispiece of a silhouette..... More
The Toynbee Convector
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 275 pp. Price of $17.95 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good book with small damp stains at top and bottom of the spine with some corresponding discoloration on the reverse of the jacket. More
Representative Men; Seven Lectures
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 1892. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], 3-296, [2] pp. Three-quarter contemporary calf over marbled boards with the spine in six compartment, spine with a black and red morocco label, each label lettered in gold with gold decorations on the spine; marbled textblock, pastedowns, and endpapers. A..... More
Essays; First Series
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-445, [3] pp. Bound in maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Emerson and two additional plates. A later printing of the Concord Edition of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo..... More
Faulkner at West Point
New York: Random House [1964], 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [2], 3-136, [6] pp. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine and a blue decoration on the front board; yellow topstain. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by 15 black and white photographs..... More
Selected Letters of Robert Frost
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1964], 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], v-lxiv, [2], 3-645, [3] pp. Brick colored cloth with gold lettering and black decorations on the spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a few black and white photographs..... More
Victory Over Japan
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1984], 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [2], 3-277, [3] pp. Quarter brown cloth over orange paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of jacket. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust..... More
The Best of Abbie Hoffman
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows (1989), 1989. First printing. Hardcover. 421 pp. Price of $21.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Foreword by Norman Mailer. Edited by Daniel Simon and Abbie Hoffman. A collection of Hoffman's works, an important body of work from one of America's counterculture..... More
The Young Mencken
New York: The Dial Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxxii, [2], 3-576 pp. Bound in dark green textured coated paper with copper decoration on front board, twin rules, lettering, and publisher's device in gold on the spine, green enpapers and pastedowns, orange topstain. Price of $15.00 on front..... More
In the Presence of the Sun; Stories and Poems, 1961 - 1991
New York: St. Martin's Press (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xx, [5], 2-143, [7] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with orange lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Numerous full-page illustrations by the author. More
Mystery and Manners; Original Prose, selected and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], v-ix, [3], 3-237, [7] pp. Quarter blue cloth over green paper boards with gold and silver lettering on the spine; light orange topstain. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. A very attractive copy of this..... More
Stranger than Fiction; True Stories
New York: Doubleday (2004), 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], xv-xxii, [2], 3-233, [1] pp. Quarter brown cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket. More
The Casket: A Gift Book for All Seasons
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company [1853], ca. 1853. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [3], 10-322, [4] pp. Bilndstamped black leather boards, spine lettered and decorated in gold; all edges gilt. Pictorial title page and dedication page, with space for the gift-giver to inscribe a message to the book's recipient..... More
Things Themselves; Essays and Scenes
New York: Atheneum, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], viii-xv, [4], 4-269, [1] pp. Bound in patterned white cloth with gold lettering on the spine and the front board, dark brown topstain. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs. Ahearn..... More
Shifting Landscape: A Composite, 1925-1987
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society Of America, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xviii, [2], 3-301, [1] pp. Half blue cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on rear panel of dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Mario Materassi. Ahearn APG 003b..... More
The Sound of Mountain Water
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 9-286, [2] pp. Quarter dark green cloth over light green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $5.95 printed on front flap of dust jacket. Second issue (with credits on the tipped..... More
Generation of Swine; Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's
New York: Summit Books (1988), 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 304 pp. Price of $18.95 on front flap of jacket. '100' written on front pastedown; jacket has some mild mild age toning to rear panel and the flaps. More
The Great Shark Hunt; Strange Tales from a Strange Time
New York: Summit Books [1979], 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [12], 11-602, [4] pp. Black paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with white lettering on the spine and white gonzo emblem on front board. Price of $14.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 005b. A...... More
Pigeon Feathers
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 3-278, [8] pp. Quarter orange cloth over green paper boards with silver lettering on the front board and silver and gold lettering on the spine; grey topstain. Price of $4.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A collection of..... More
Living By the Word; Selected Writings 1973-1987
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers [1988], 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], xv-xxi, [3], 196, [2] pp. Quarter beige cloth over purple paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of poignant essays from Alice Walker..... More
The Writings of George Washington; Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private; Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
Boston: American Stationers' Company; Hilliard, Gray, and Company; Russell, Odiorne, and Co.; Russell, Shattuck, and Williams, [1833]; 1834; 1835; 1836; 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 12 vol. Large 8vo. [5], viii-xxix, [3], 586, [4]; [7], x-xvi, 534, [2]; [5], viii-xix, [1], 540, [2]; [6], 560, [2]; [6], 558, [4]; [6], 556..... More
The Eye of the Story; Selected Essays and Reviews
New York: Random House [1978], 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], x, [3], 4-355, [3] pp. Quarter blue cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. Polk A22. A Fine book in a very near Fine..... More
Walt Whitman: The Correspondence Volume IV: 1886 - 1889
New York: New York University, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 458 pp. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with mild age toning to the spine panel and to the edges. More
Collected Stories
New York: New Directions (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], v-xxv, [3], 574, [6] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. Introduction by Gore Vidal, cover painting by Andy Warhol. A Very Good book with some age toning..... More