London: James Blackwood, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Victorian era Christmas story with illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne, 1815-82). 16mo. In a full brown calf binding by Morrell of London, with a red morocco spine..... 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
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Edward Abbey to his friend, the New Mexico writer and publisher Ernie Bulow, on the front flyleaf: "for Ernie..... More
Los Angeles: Con Safos, Inc., 1970. Wraps. The sixth issue of this important Chicano literary magazine, with three letters from Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, a Mexican-American lawyer who was immortalized as the heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr..... More
London: The Fortune Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Kingsley Amis to English crime writer Edmund Crispin (pseudonym of Bruce Montgomery, 1921-1978) on the front..... More
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. This is Number 11 of 15 copies printed on Saunders cream laid paper and signed by the author. This fantastic Sherlock Holmes pastiche was first published in..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. #89 of 250 copies signed by the author. Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Octavo. Original marbled paper-covered boards over a brown cloth spine, with gilt titles. A fine..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition. A manual for prospective agents on how to live like Agent 007, interspersed with excerpts from the Fleming canon. Brilliant design and..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's second novel, a parody of Agatha Christie's country house mysteries, concerning a group of friends who convene at a rural manor to take drugs. A number..... More
London: Penguin Books, 1995. Wraps. To celebrate its 60th anniversary circa 1995, Penguin Books released several boxed sets of "Penguin 60s", miniature books about sixty pages in length. The UK set with orange spines focused..... More
New York: Dutton, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Andreasen on the title page. The author's first book, this collection explores hope, love, and loss across a series of surreal landscapes and wild..... More
New York: Razorbill, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The true first edition, first printing (blank endpapers, etc.) in the first issue dust jacket. Signed by Jay Asher on the title page. Best-selling young adult novel about..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Mary Austin to Alice Henderson Evans, the daughter of artist William Penhallow Henderson and poet Alice Corbin Henderson, on the half-title. Composed..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. The first major study in English of Swiss novelist Robert Walser (1878-1956), one of the most important European writers of the modernist period and an acknowledged..... More
Los Angeles: Precocious Publishing, 1992. Hardcover. Second printing thus. Inscribed by Donald Bakeer on the front flyleaf: "From Soweto to South Central - Oppression is dead. Peace, Bakeer 12/28/93". This novel about the gang wars..... More
New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. This story of an American actor at the peak of his career powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy 22 of 100 signed by J.G. Ballard. In this startling and miraculous novel by the visionary author of The Crystal World and Empire of..... More
London: Collins, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy no. 47 of 526 signed by Clive Barker. Dark fantasy novel concerning the Seerkind, an ancient magical people who preserved their culture in the face of..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. The first publication of the play, which was first performed in 1904 - seven years before the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy. Both versions tell the story..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1898. Hardcover. A New Edition, with Eighty-Five Portraits. From the library of the Bohemian Club, with the bookplate of the elite, invitation-only San Francisco institution to the front pastedown and a...... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ann Beattie on the front flyleaf. The author's first novel. It served as the basis for the Joan Micklin Silver romantic..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969. Hardcover. Second printing. Inscribed by Jackson Benson to writer and poet Vernon "Pat" Patterson on the front flyleaf, with a pair of typed letters signed (TLS) by Benson and..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. The author's second novel. Set in the critical year of 1945, it focuses on farmer Mat..... More
San Francisco and New York: Western Authors Publishing Company, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume of satirical verses and sketches collected from Bierce’'s journalism. A reviewer for the Californian Illustrated Magazine observed that the "black..... More