San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Title and some reproductions in color. Divisional titles in red, marginal decorations in red and black. Inserts with some initials and decorations in color..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy 22 of 100 signed by J.G. Ballard. In this startling and miraculous novel by the visionary author of The Crystal World and Empire of..... More
Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Four folding maps, with textual decorations. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1927. First edition. This curious book, steeped in the music and lore of..... More
Brooklyn, New York: Vice Books, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Photography by Peter Beste. Edited by Johan Kugelberg. Introduction by Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen. First edition, #111 of 666 copies signed by Beste on a printed slip..... More
Northridge, California: Santa Susana Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy "O" of 15 deluxe copies with illustrations hand-colored by Nanda Currant. A book of poems for children written by Jill Block and illustrated..... More
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Story of the complex and progressively tenuous friendship between F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), from their first meeting as Expatriates in Paris in..... More
New York: Russell & Russell, 1962. Hardcover. Enlarged and Edited by Charles Rochester Eastman. Three volumes. New York: Russell & Russell, Inc., 1962. Limited to 350 sets. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. An..... More
Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 158 p. 112 figures. Practical guide to the operation and usefulness of the Magic Lantern, Porte Lumiere, and similar apparatus in the teaching of physical science..... More
New York: Random House, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Dr. Seuss in his typical manner, opposite the title page. The Yooks and Zooks share a love of buttered bread, but..... More
London: George Philip & Son, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. 268 p. Three maps, including the folding frontispiece. The so-called "cheap edition" of this Klondike Gold Rush guidebook, also published as The Routes and Mineral Resources..... More
Maestricht: Chez J.E. Dufour and Ph. Roux, 1776. Second Edition. Hardcover. The first encyclopaedia of the Islamic world. Herbelot dedicated most of his life to this monumental work, which was completed in 1697 by Antoine..... More
Paris: J. Dumaine, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. 379 p. Fourteen plates, including one folding, with three folding maps. Fay was the aide de camp of Pierre Bosquet (1810-61), the French general who played a key..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. A copy of the first trade edition, together with the author's typescript of the manuscript with the original hand-drawn maps. The second emperor of the Tang Dynasty..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second state with "and" on line 6 of page 232. Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories includes three of his best known works: May..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Sue Grafton on the title page. The author’s second published novel and far and away the scarcest of her books, preceding the..... More
Cambridge: Charles W. Sever, 1875. First Edition. Wraps. An American drama thought to be inspired in part by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Greenough (1833-1901) was a classical scholar who served as professor..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 375 copies, this is an unnumbered presentation copy inscribed by Harlow to scholar and collector Ed Carpenter and signed by printer Grant Dahlstrom and..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Few telegrams shocked the fashionable world in the United States more than that received in mid-August 1880 announcing the sudden death in a French hotel of..... More
London: Regency Press, [1956]. First Edition. Hardcover. The author’s second book, inscribed by Howard on the verso of the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original yellow cloth binding, with gilt titles. Small bit of offsetting from an..... More
London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington; G. Robinson; T. Cadell; T. Evans; and R. Baldwin, 1783. New Edition. Hardcover. One of the first of the immensely popular 18th-century “it-narratives”, Chrysal (1760) tells the..... More
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Eight pp. photographs. First edition, preceding the American by two years. Standard biography of the Canadian-born classically-trained pianist who burst onto the American jazz scene in..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1992. Hardcover. This is copy 143 of 400 signed by David Mamet and illustrator Michael McCurdy. A deceptively small-scale tragedy concerning three high-minded grifters who plot to rob a man..... More
Boston: Base Canard, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece by John Hudak. Boston: Base Canard, 2001. First edition, a limited edition of 200 copies, of which 20 are printed on Arches paper. This is one of..... More
