London: G.G. Harrap & Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 509 of 525 copies signed by Willy Pogany. Striking presentation of this operatic reimagining of two German legends: Tannhäuser, the mythologized medieval German..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. Hardcover. Later printing. Inscribed and dated by Chris Van Allsburg on the half-title. "A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive..... More
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. The first printing, consisting of 3,041 copies. Inscribed by August Derleth on the front flyleaf. According to Jack Chalker and Mark Owings, this is 'the best..... More
New York: Random House, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. A play in three acts concerning the efforts of a young woman to choose between a conventional fiance who puts her to sleep and a a poor..... More
New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. A tale of love, secrets, and passion set in and around the old French port of Marseille, this musical is based on Marcel Pagnol's trilogy of works..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. The seventh musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, which premiered at the Shubert Theatre in New York on November 30, 1955. Set in Monterey, California, it tells..... More
New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Winner of the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this play in three acts is set in the mental ward of a city hospital..... More
New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The hit Broadway play pillorying big business and corrupt businessmen. Josephine Hull and Loring Smith appeared as the leads in the original Broadway..... More
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The Tony Award-winning musical about two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress, respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in..... More
New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A play about the bittersweet romance between a single American executive secretary vacationing in Europe and a shopkeeper she meets in Venice. Directed..... More
New York: Random House, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A play in three acts concerning a bickering show business couple touring Europe doing a phony, high-end vaudeville mind-reading act. The Great Sebastians..... More
New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The Tony Award-winning musical set in a fictional Baghdad in the times of The Arabian Nights. The story concerns a wily poet who..... More
London: John Murray, 1890. Second Edition. Hardcover. The author's third major work of evolutionary theory, following On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871). Initially intended as a chapter in The..... More
Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated by Stuart McConnell on a preliminary blank leaf. "The Grand Army of the Republic, the largest of all..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by David Maraniss to Jim Tranquada, former Director of Communications at Occidental College, which Barack Obama attended prior to transferring to Columbia University..... More
Brea, California: Lawrence Clark Powell, 1996. First Edition. Wraps. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the half-title. A keepsake privately printed for L.C.P. and designed by Ward Ritchie for members of the Zamorano and Roxburghe..... More
New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lane Smith on the title page. A delightful manifesto on behalf of print in the digital age, with colorful illustrations by the author. Quarto..... More
Prag: Druck und Verlag von Heinr. Mercy, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. "One of the most comprehensive descriptions of Los Angeles and the surrounding county in the 1870s was a German account published in Prague by..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher's press release laid in. Noble Sissle (1889-1975) and Eubie Blake (1887-1983) recollect more than 50 years of their musical careers, as..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Andrew Clements to Charlotte Huck on the title page. Huck (1922-2005) was an internationally renowned children's literature expert whose classic textbook, Children's..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. "Through a study if their theatrical technique this book brings out the skill and sophistication of the first tragic dramatists rather than their primitiveness. It explores the..... More
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. A companion to and continuation of Wecklein's famous edition and Appendix of 1885. Octavo: 179 p. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket..... More
London: Bell and Dalby, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first major published work, which was largely self-funded by Morris (1834-96) who dedicated the work to his friend, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The poems that make..... More
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Petrum Vander Aa, 1710. Hardcover. Scarce second enlarged Latin edition of Borelli's landmark work on biomechanics, which extended to biology the rigorous analytical methods developed by Galileo in the field of mechanics..... More
