New York: Automatic Photograph Co., 1895. Wraps. Features 10 tipped in black and white photographs, accompanied by biographies of those pictured. Includes an essay about how the photographs were made using a new patent-protected process..... More
Five promissory notes made by Henry Clay Jr. (1811-47), the Kentucky legislator and soldier who was the third son of the U.S. Senator Henry Clay. Four of the loans totaling $900 were advanced in June..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 295 p. This collection contains many of the shorter pieces Balliett wrote for The New Yorker during the 1980s, as well as a few previously unpublished..... More
Sun City, California: Pictus Orbis Press, 1998. First Edition. Trade paperback. Numerous textual illustrations. Sun City, California: Pictus Orbis Press, 1998. First edition, #48 of 1,000 copies signed by the author. Examines the publishing and..... More
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. One of only 3,112 copies printed. Signed and dated by Ray Bradbury on the front flyleaf. The author's first book, a collection of some of his..... More
New York: William Morrow, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher’s slip and promotional materials laid in. Inscribed by Mary Higgins Clark and signed by the other seven contributors on the half-title. A...... More
A collection of twenty letters comprising the outgoing exchange between California residents Margaret “Nellie” Crosson and her brother, James “Clarence” Allison, between 1927 and 1932, mainly concerning health and family matters and a visit a...... More
Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 393 p. Foreword by George T. Simon. Numerous textual photographs. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press and the Institute of Jazz..... More
Los Angeles: Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Of 50 copies, this is No. 32 signed by Bernard Forrest. "Another early Pegacycle Lady effort was a book of poems by the local..... More
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English. Critical study of the Russian genius, based on a series of six lectures Gide delivered in 1922. Harry..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Hardcover. Collector's Edition, signed by Sara Gruen. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from The Easton Press. This historical circus novel served as the basis for..... More
Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1855. First edition. Soft cover. 184 p. First American edition, with the publisher's ads at the front and rear. "General Sir Edward (1824-93)[,] who illustrated his account with his own drawings..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. This is #129 of 375 copies signed by Harlow and printer Grant Dahlstrom. A significant work of scholarship, which "makes clear that one hundred years passed..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. There are four variants of this first edition. This particular example contains the title page in state B, and page 33 in state A. There is no..... More
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. "Here, available for the first time in English, are all Kandinsky's writings on art. Editors Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Vergo have taken their translations firsthand from Kandinsky's..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 771 p. Introduction by J.S. Holliday. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Indispensable in every regard, Kurutz's bibliography revamps and expands Carl I. Wheat's..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2002. Hardcover. Collector's Edition, signed by Ursula K. Le Guin and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from the publisher. This copy is additionally signed by Joan D. Vinge, who..... More
The U.S.S. Ranger was a United States Navy gunboat converted into a survey vessel in 1881. From 1881 to 1890, she was engaged in hydrographic survey work off Mexico and Central America and in the..... More
An undated and unsigned holographic letter believed to have been written by First Lady Dolley Todd Madison (1768–1849), the wife of James Madison, fourth President of the United States (1809-17). This letter was written to..... More
London: Collins Crime Club, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printings (1984-93). The fifth through ninth volumes are signed by John Malcolm on the title page. The first ten crime novels in the Tim..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Marshall (1842-1924) was one of the most influential economists of his time in England. This book in an adaptation of his most famous work, Principles of Economics..... More
Chicago: Printed by J.H.N. for Friends of Henry Miller, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Though the limitation states only 250 copies were printed, the actual number is believed to be between 750 and 1,000. Signed by..... More
New York: Tor, 1991-2014. First Edition. Hardcover. First editions, first printings. The first seventeen volumes are signed by Modesitt on the title page. A collection of the first eighteen novels in the ongoing Saga of..... More
Bombay: Jehangir B. Karani's Sons, 1937. Second Edition. Hardcover. Scarce monograph on the religious customs of the Parsees (or Parsis), an ethnoreligious group who migrated to the Indian subcontinent from Persia during the Muslim conquest..... More
