Adelaide, South Australia: The Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. This is copy number 507 of 1500 printed at The Griffin Press. Arguably the most significant work of science in the Western canon, The Origin of..... More
Buenos Aires: The Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. This is copy number 992 of 1500 signed by the book's designer, Alberto Kraft, and illustrator Raul Rosarivo. First published in 1918, this passionate memoir of youth..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. This is copy number 507 of 1500 designed by Adrian Wilson and printed at The Thistle Press. In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s infamous protagonist sets off on..... More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 69 of 200 copies. An autograph letter signed (ALS) by Bliss Carman is tipped in at the front, and a small card inscribed and..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. The first issue, with the correct points on page 19, 209, and 275, respectively. With an original cheque, handwritten and signed by Charles Dickens, bound in at..... More
London: Published at the Punch Office, 1847-1848. First Edition. Wraps. Original twenty parts in nineteen, published from July 1946 to February 1848. Octavo: xii, 320; xii, 304 p. Twenty colored steel-engravings after designs by John..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in book form, mixed state, with the corrected text, "sister" instead of "visiter" on p.123, line 17, but with the uncorrected text, "latter" for "letter"..... More
Manchester Center, Vermont: Press of Elfriede Abbe, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 134 of 150 copies signed by Elfriede Abbe. Unique in the vegetable kingdom for the characteristic structure of their leaves and..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. First edition, first printing the "H-D" code on the copyright page. In this action-packed adventure of the American West, 28 wagons loaded with families, supplies..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. The first printing, with the code "A-U" on the copyright page. In this classic Western, a lone camper in the forest overhears a conversation..... More
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. "Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of..... More
San Francisco: The Private Press of Thomas C. Russell, 1926. Hardcover. Limited Edition, this is No. 230 of 260 copies signed by the publisher. This is the report of Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov (1764-1807) to the..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. A follow-up to the author's A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (1922), featuring 86 stories set in "the addle-headed city of New York - the..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. The author recounts his childhood, education, and career as journalist, playwright, and screenwriter, describes famous political and literary acquaintances, and examines U.S. efforts to aid Jews..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. The poetic musings of Freddy, the world's most distinguished pig. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with purple stamping. Minor offsetting from a...... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. The first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Historical novel about settlers in the central Mohawk Valley of the New York frontier during..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by H. Allen Smith on a prefatory blank leaf. Riotous tour of Central Mexico with a leading American humorist. "He tells of brightly painted graveyards..... More
Aarau: Druck und Verlag von H.R. Sauerlander, 1855. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo: [iv], 365, [1] p. (p.230-1 misnumbered 330-1). Original pink paper wrappers, with engraved illlustrations on both panels. Occasional mild foxing to the contents..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by H. Allen Smith to film director Arthur Lubin on the front flyleaf. Lubin directed the adaptation of Smith's comic..... More
London: John Murray, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Novel of intrigue concening a woman, reputedly widowed when her husband was officially declared dead, encounters him alive many years later and suddenly finds her new life threatened..... More
New York: Stackpole Sons, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by H. Allen Smith on the front flyleaf. In this screwball face, a Jew takes over from his look-alike, Hitler, and declares Germany to be the..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. The seventeenth book in the Hopalong Cassidy series, this novel served as the basis for the 1935 Howard Bretherton film starring William Boyd..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. The first printing, with the "H-N" code on the copyright page. White's second collection of poems, including many from the pages of The New Yorker. Octavo..... More
New York: Trident Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by H. Allen Smith on the front flyleaf. In this sequel to "Rhubarb" (1946), The Tiger attempts to secure his inheritance, leading to frenetic litigation and..... More
