New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Kang to Irma Wyckoff, who served as secretary to Maxwell Perkins at Charles Scribner's Sons..... More
Modesto, California: Bloodletting Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 26 lettered deluxe hardcovers signed by the author and Alex McVey, the illustrator. This is an unlettered presentation copy, with "PC" on the colophon. Additionally..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 80 p. Illustrated with full-page facsimiles, many in color. San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1958. First..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. George Abram Miller (1863-1951) was an early group theorist whose many mathematical papers and texts were considered important by his contemporaries. Original burgundy cloth binding, with..... More
New York: The American Geographical Society, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 631 p. Frontispiece map, with 119 illustrations (the map pocket and map case are not present, as is the case with most copies). Among the..... More
Taipei, Taiwan: Rainbow-Bridge Book Co., 1972. Hardcover. 36 illustrations, with nine tables. Reprint. The first volume in the Science and Civilisation in China, a series of monumental books initiated and edited by British biochemist and..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Nin on the front flyleaf. The fifth of seven, this volume describes Nin's first trip to Acapulco, the beginning of her double life..... More
Tokyo: Mitumura, 1982. First Edition. Trade paperback. Features 242 posters, most in color. Text in Japanese and English. Quarto. Original paper wrappers, with an illustrated dust jacket. Minimal edgewear; else near fine. More
San Francisco: Holden-Day, Inc., 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 509 p. Profusely illustrated, partially in color. Carl Sagan's first book, a collaborative extension and revision of Shklovskii's book "Universe, Life, Intelligence" (1962). This was the first..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925. Hardcover. Eleven volumes. Limited to 780 copies printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon. A Scottish poet and author, Smollett (1721-71) is best known for his picaresque novels, such as The..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. With sixteen illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards. A minutely observed tragedy of manners, seen through the eyes of the beautiful, selfish Lady Julia Ongar..... More
Los Angeles: Percy H. Booth, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 100 copies, and signed and dated by publisher Percy Booth on the title page. A native of Tennessee, Walker (1798-1876) became a frontiersman in..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. This posthumously published collection includes pieces on Goldsmith, Ruskin, Turgenev, Hardy, Conrad, and Woolf's own father, Leslie Stephen, as well as the feminist article "Memories of a...... More
A collection of photographs, letters, telegrams, newspaper clippings, and other material documenting the life of Myron Kendall Strickland of Huron, South Dakota, presumably assembled by his mother, Muriel Strickland. His original birth certificate accompanies more..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wurdemann to poet Stephen Vincent Benet on the front flyleaf. Wurdemann (1911-60) was the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for..... More