Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. An attractive uniform edition of the works of Jane Austen (1775-1817), the beloved writer credited with giving the English novel its distinctly modern character through her..... More
London: Collins, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. The first UK edition. This is copy no. 466 of 526 signed by Clive Barker. In this ambitious fusion of fantasy and horror, The Art, the greatest power known..... More
New York and Hollywood: Samuel French, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Wraps. Signed and dated by Ray Bradbury on the front cover. Stage adaptation of the 1951 short story, one of the two main sources of..... More
Bradbury (1920-2012) writes to Robert and Blanche Campbell, owners of Campbell's Bookstore, responding to an invitation to the couple's fiftieth wedding anniversary reception and expressing his regrets: "I'll be up at the Santa Barbara Writer's..... More
Toledo, Ohio: circa 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Peter Bruner below his portrait opposite page 10. Small octavo: 54 pp. with 11 photographic illustrations. Original blue cloth binding, with white-stamped titling. Faint crease to..... More
Arcadia, California: Los Angeles Turf Club, Inc., 1941. Quarto: 83 p. with numerous photographic illustrations on tabbed leaves. Spiral bound in the original printed paper wrappers. A bit of wear along the fore-edge. The wrappers..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original green and blue cloth binding, with dark green-stamped titling. A nice copy, with a tiny bit of fading along the spine. The dust jacket ($3.00)..... More
Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1,263 copies. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Charles Clarke on the front flyleaf. "This highly regarded work contains..... More
London: T. Tegg, etc. 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in book form. By 1815, Napoleon was a figure of mockery in England. This vicious satire of Bonaparte (1769-1821) makes its intentions clear with the..... More
New York: Marvel Comics Group, 1975-1979. Wraps. Issues 1-21, plus issues 23 and 31, and the first Annual (1977). The character Howard the Duck first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 (December 1973) before..... More
Paris: Hachette, 1976. Wraps. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jeanne Cordelier “avec toute mon admiration” to Anaïs Nin on the half-title. The author’s literary debut, a powerful account of prostitution that served as the basis for..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo: xv, [1], 504 pp. In the publisher's deluxe red morocco binding, wiht dark red-stamped ruled borders, ornamental surrounds, floral ornamental spandrels, and central diamond-shaped ornamental surround on..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Elegant late Victorian gift book with selections by Andrew Marvell, Alexander Pope, and others. Quarto: [vi], 97, [1] pp. with frontispiece, decorated half title and chapter..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 350 copies. A Breton sea captain, Duhaut-Cilly (1790-1849) was possibly the first outlander to become intimately acquainted with Spanish California. He seems..... More
Los Angeles: Circa Publications, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Frank Gehry on the front and rear panels, "Frank" on the front and "Gehry" on the rear. Published to accompany the exhibition "Frank O. Gehry..... More
United Kingdom: Peaceville, 1992. From the personal collection of Fenriz, one half of the revered Norwegian black metal duo Darkthrone, accompanied by his extensive album-specific DJ notes, handwritten on the verso of a slip printed..... More
Small collection of Zionist material from the 1970s showing efforts to build both financial and political support in the United States for the struggling new nation of Israel. The group includes three memos issued..... More
New York: Doubleday, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Quincy Jones on the title page. Memoirs of one of the most powerful forces in..... More
Novato, California and Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. This is the limited edition number 76 of 175 copies signed by Stephen D. Korshak and Ray Bradbury. "Hannes Bok's fantastic illustrations graced the pages..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. In the first state dust jacket ($2.00), with the author's name misspelled on the spine. The recipient of the very first Caldecott Medal. Thirty richly..... More
Oxford: Media Publications, 1971-1983. Wraps. Six issues: Issue One (Revised Edition), Issue Two, Issue 3, Issue 4, and Issue 5, along with Delirium: A Guide to Italian Exploitation Cinema 1975-1979, a completely revised and updated..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ross Macdonald on the title page. The fifth hardboiled mystery featuring Southern California private detective Lew Archer. "Ross Macdonald" was the primary pseudonym employed..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 250 copies. With a typed letter signed (TLS) by Henry R. Wagner presenting this book to Frank Bennett of the Deep Well Guest Ranch..... More
Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Montessus de Ballore was one of the founders of scientific seismology. A pioneer at the same level of Perrey, Mallet, Milne, and Omori, he developed a fascination..... More
