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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's fourth book, a work of hardboiled noir concerning the relationship between Peggy Henderson, a young leftist working at a bookstore, and O’Hara’s alter..... More
London: L. Houghton & Co., 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. An eccentric play in verse on the coming Millennium, billed as an apology for Hebrew prophecy. Not to be confused with the author's other works on..... More
Claremont, California: Saunders Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on a prefatory blank leaf by Donald Pflueger to John W. Robinson, the revered outdoorsman, author of popular hiking guides, and historian of Southern California mountains..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Powell’s penultimate novel, the story of a young woman from a small town in upstate New York who works as the personal assistant and factotum to a...... More
Chicago: The Caxton Club, The Club of Odd Volumes, The Johnsonians, The Rowfant Club, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 225 copies. Tribute volume dedication to the noted Chicago lawyer and bibliophile. Ruxin (1943-2016) was..... More
Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2006-2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A complete set, albeit mixed, of the definitive collection of Robert Silverberg's short work. Volumes One, Three, and Four are first trade editions. Each is signed by..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Hudson Talbott on the half-title. A book made "after the fact" from the greatly popular 1987 Broadway musical of the same name, which weaves..... More
Santa Ana, California: Fine Arts Press, 1936. Hardcover. Limited to 250 copies. "A good account of a trip over the Santa Fe Trail, apparently in 1841, by a large party whose captain was named Houck..... More
London: Abstract Sounds Books Ltd, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. An idiosyncratic survey of the pre-Christian religious practices of Scandinavia. The notoriously outspoken Varg Vikernes (b.1973) rose to prominence in the Norwegian black metal scene as..... More
London: Duckworth, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. This book comprises all that the author wished to preserve of the travel books Labels (1930), Remote People (1931), Ninety-Two Days (1934), and Waugh In Abyssinia (1936). Octavo: 318..... More
London: Printed by S. Gosnell, for T. Chapman, 1799. First Edition. Hardcover. "The London Missionary Society was founded in 1795, mainly to send missions to Polynesia. The voyage of the Duff was undertaken for the..... More
Portland, Oregon: Employed Women’s Protective League, circa 1933. Small broadside (9 ¼” x 6”), printed on the recto only. Two minor folds, with some general toning; otherwise very good. OCLC locates no holdings. Scarce..... More
Ojai, California: Dillingham Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. An American artist and studio potter, who late in life was dubbed the "Mama of Dada," Wood (1893-1998) served as a partial inspiration for the character of..... More
A collection of seven newsletters by New York-based Relief for Americans in the Philippines. Included here are issues 14, 17, 23, 27, and 28, the final issue, which were published between 1943 and 1945. The..... More