Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. Hardcover. Bored with her sleepy hometown, Patti Randall awakens to feverish excitement when her tomcat, D.C. (Darn Cat), delivers an important clue in a mysterious kidnapping... More about UNDERCOVER CAT
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. The plot of this, the ninth book in the James Bond series and the eighth full-length novel featuring 007, centers on the theft of two atomic... More about THUNDERBALL
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 3,490 copies, with dust jacket art by Ronald Clyne. The last collection of new Blackwood to be published, consisting of two novelettes: The Doll... More about THE DOLL AND ONE OTHER
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1,559 copies, with dust jacket art by Gary Gore. "Werewolves in New York City. A real hit when it ran in Weird Tales in... More about INVADERS FROM THE DARK
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 2,000 copies, with dust jacket art by Frank Utpatel. The second collection of stories, encompassing fantasy, science fiction, and macabre themes, by Donald Wandrei... More about STRANGE HARVEST
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Willie Mays on the front flyleaf. Arguably the greatest all-around baseball player of all-time, Willie Mays (b.1931) spent the majority of his career (1951-73)... More about SAY HEY: The Autobiography of Willie Mays
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 2,000 copies, with dust jacket art by Richard Taylor. The story of a statue that comes to love and drinks blood, this novel originally... More about THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner (1926-2017), with a gift inscription from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Richard Brooks on the half-title: "To Hef-... More about THE MANLY ART: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America
Oxford: James Parker and Co., circa 1870. Hardcover. First composed in Latin circa 1418-27, The Imitation is regarded as a devotional and religious classic, and is perhaps the most widely read Christian devotional work next... More about OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST IN FOUR BOOKS
Philadelphia: The Oshiver Studio Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Edgerly on the front flyleaf. This whimsical retelling of the story of Noah's Ark pokes fun at the New Deal, WPA, Walter Winchell, etc.... More about ARARAT COCKTAIL: Doggerel and Drawings
New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. "A curious goulash of fact and fancy, with a base of statistics about conditions on other planets of our solar system, seasoned with Well?ian condiments, astounding... More about MEN OF OTHER PLANETS
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. This delightful tale about a hunting dog seeking admision to heaven received the 1955 Boys' Clubs of America award. Pictures by William Gropper. Octavo. Original... More about HOUND DOG MOSES AND THE PROMISED LAND
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. An early graphic novel, featuring the further adventures of the Mexican-American characters from Arriola's popular comic strip Gordo, which ran from 1941 to... More about GORDO
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. "A fairy tale for adults, this is the story of a centaur, of how he was born and spirited away from his native land, of how he... More about THE REFUGEE CENTAUR
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980. Second Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Barnes to sculptor Helene Webb on the front flyleaf. This selection of writings includes Barnes' fiery and enigmatic masterpiece, Nightwood (1936), one of... More about SELECTED WORKS OF DJUNA BARNES: Spillway / The Antiphon / Nightwood
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Tells of the haunting of unimpressive, run of the mill housewife, Mrs. Helmakobbler, who, in the family's move from New York City to Staten Island, acquires... More about DEAR GUEST AND GHOST
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. #206 of 1,500 copies signed by the artist, Rockwell Kent. Also, laid in is a typed letter signed by Rockwell Kent on... More about THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO: Translated by Richard Aldington
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, translated from the Italian by William Weaver. The author's debut novel, a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the... More about THE NAME OF THE ROSE
Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of twenty-three tales by the critically-acclaimed short story writer and essayist, including two stories never before published in book form. Signed by Dubus on... More about SELECTED STORIES
Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Elzevirios, 1637. Hardcover. Presumed to be the first edition thus: Elzevier produced two editions in 1637; in this example, pages 207 and 209 are erroneously numbered 107 and 109 which, according to... More about EUPHORMIONIS LUSININI SIVE IOANNIS BARCLAII SATYRICON PARTES QUINQUE CUM CLAVE. Accessit...
New York: HarperCollins, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Through Carle’s vibrant collages and simple instructions, children learn the importance of listening, exercising, and taking on a new challenge. Carle (b.1929) is best known for the beloved..... More about FROM HEAD TO TOE
Boston: The Page Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume in the See America First Series. Sixty plates, including twelve in color, with a folding map. Tall octavo. Original green cloth binding, with a pictorial... More about ARIZONA THE WONDERLAND: The History of its Ancient Cliff and Cave Dwellings, Ruined Pueblos,...
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Hardcover. Quarto. Full burgundy leather binding, with an image of The Vatican inset on the front board, elaborate gilt decorations, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon... More about THE VATICAN
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Hardcover. Octavo. Full green leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in... More about ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1906. Hardcover. An early printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by James to California's second Poet Laureate, Henry Meade Bland (1863-1931), on the half-title. No less an authority on the missions than... More about IN AND OUT OF THE OLD MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA: An Historical and Pictorial Account of the...