BLEAK HOUSE
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
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THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND
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
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. With Illustrations by Phiz.
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
THE FERN HERBAL including the Ferns, the Horsetails, and the Club Mosses
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
FIGHTING CARAVANS
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
THE MAN OF THE FOREST
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
A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF FRESNO, TULARE, AND KERN, CALIFORNIA
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
THE REZANOV VOYAGE TO NUEVA CALIFORNIA IN 1806: The Report of Count Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov of His Voyage to That Provincia of Nueva España from New Archangel
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
1001 AFTERNOONS IN NEW YORK
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
A CHILD OF THE CENTURY
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
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF FREDDY THE PIG
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
DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
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
THE PIG IN THE BARBER SHOP
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
NACH DEM SACRAMENTO: Reisebilder eines Heimgekehrten
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
MISTER ZIP
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
THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated, with a small sketch, by John Nichols on the title page, with a handwritten postcard from Nichols laid in. A quixotic effort..... More
CARDBOARD CASTLE
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
OXFORD DOORS
Marcham: The Alembic Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 5 of 40 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. A unique combination of text, illustration and innovative format that explores some of..... More
MR. KLEIN'S KAMPF or His Life as Hitler's Double
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
THE BAR 20 RIDES AGAIN
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
THE FOX OF PEAPACK AND OTHER POEMS
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
SON OF RHUBARB
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
FREDDY AND THE SPACE SHIP
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Freddy and friends decide to take a trip to Mars in Benjamin Bean's fabulous space ship. But the intrepid explorers are knocked off course and find..... More
THE BALLAD OF CAT BALLOU
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. This "lusty, picaresque novel of Old Wyoming" served as the basis for the 1965 western comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an..... More