London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Uncorrected galley proofs of the first edition. 136 unbound sheets printed on rectos only plus one final blank sheet; without illustrations. Textual pages dated 23.11.87 at tops; question marks in the heading of the Contents page indicate no printer had been appointed yet; chapter pages on.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First American edition, first printing with a handwritten inscription by Alice B. Toklas of her legendary "Haschich Fudge" recipe written across one and a quarter blank pages at the rear of the book. Pretty rad indeed. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth boards over.....
[np]: [H.H. Smith Publications], 1928. Signed deluxe limited first edition, No. 5 of 100 copies printed on Van Gelder mould made paper in the "Edicion Imperial." Signed by Addison Mizner on limitation page. [39] pp. Frontispiece portrait and 184 plates from photographs. Folio finely bound by the James McDonald Co.....
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black and white Art Deco style boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and top and bottom edges of covers. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First edition, first printing. The dedication copy of the author's first published novel, signed and inscribed by Robert A. Heinlein in the year of publication "with best wishes to my nephew Lawrence Lewis 'Buddy' Heinlein [signed] Robert Heinlein Nov. 1947" with an arrow pointing.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition, first printing, first issue without ads at rear. [vi], 533 pp. with frontispiece and seven illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's red ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding; slight darkening to spine and mottling to cloth. Former.....
Solvyns, Frans Balthazar; Mary Anne Greenwood [Translator]
Paris: L'auteur, H. Nicolle (impr. des freres Mame), 1808-1812. First edition. Complete in four volumes, including all 288 colored plates, four frontispieces, and half titles. Bound in contemporary boards, sympathetically rebacked recently with gilt stamping, morocco labels, touch-ups to corners. Large folios, measuring 17.5" x 23" x 2", with wide.....
New York: Random House, 1958. First edition, first printing. Signed by Truman Capote on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's canary yellow cloth with gilt titles blocked in black on the spine. Near Fine with spine stamping rubbed, backstrip faintly creased and pages toned. In a Near Fine.....
Doyle, Arthur Conan; Kerr, Charles [Illustrations]
London: Spencer Blackett, 1890. First edition, second issue with typo "13" for "138" in contents and "w shed" for "wished" on page 56, line 16; "Griffith Farran & Cos. Standard Library" on spine. [Green & Gibson A7 a.i.]. [4], 283, [1] pp. sans ads at rear, as was the case.....
London: The Egoist Ltd., 1917. First edition. 40 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps printed in black. From the library of Modernist poet and publisher John Rodker, with laid in typed correspondence between Rodker's daughter Joan and a British bookseller regarding the sale of some of Rodker's books, with an.....
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2000-2017. 124 Volumes [100 titles + five multi-volume deluxe sets, and duplicates of several titles, several labeled AP for Artist's Proof.] A complete run of the celebrated series, which features 100 uniformly sized books of various colors, giving each artist a 16-page canvas to exhibit a......
[New York]: [Dead Language Press], [1962]. First edition. Signed by Jack Smith on verso of front wrap, inscribed to poet Kirby Congdon "To Kirby with choked up strangled emotions...... Jack." [20] pp. Illustrated with 19 gelatin silver contact prints, comprising 18 photographs by Smith mounted on yellow pages, and one.....