New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Attractive first US edition of the author's second mystery novel. Fine book with no writing, bookplates etc. Spine ends lightly bumped. Unclipped jacket is bright and unrubbed with negligible chips to upper spine end and one wrinkle to bottom of..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 222 pp. Subtitled "Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time". Review copy with publisher review slip laid in. A very good copy in dustwrapper. The wrapper is somewhat soiled and has a chip at the top..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth over decorated boards. 360 pp including index. Illustrated with photographs. Covers are a bit worn, but the book is clean and still well-bound. Small sticker afixed to the inside front pastedown else no other plates or markings other than a...... More
New York: Dial Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing stated of this uncommon early novel of suspense by Dean Koontz. Spine lettering a bit dulled else a clean clothbound copy in bright near fine price intact dustwrapper. One of the nicer examples of this title we have seen. More
Nottingham: Ritter Press, 1954. First edition. Paperback. Rare first issue of this periodical edited and written primarily by Paul and Jean Ritter. Called " an independent, scientific publication, integrating facts on the basis of the work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich". 46 pp plus diagram at rear of the Orgone Accumulator..... More
No Place [San Francisco]: Open Space, No Date [1964]. First edition. Paperback. Issue Number 9 of Stan Persky's small press mimeo poetry journal featuring mostly a contingent of poets from the Bay Area. Unpaginated and printed on rectos only. A particularly clean, tight copy with just a tiny speck or..... More
Frankfurt Am Main und Koln: Portikus und Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Light sunning to board edges as often seen else a fine copy. Published on the occasion of a 1991 exhibition in Germany. Printed boards. Issued without dustwrapper. Despite an ample limitation of..... More
Brooklyn: powerHouse Books, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Wide, hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 251 pp. Stated first edition with complete number row on the colophon page. The Burns Archive is known for its 1980's studies of derangement of the mind and body and photographic histories of medicine and death and now..... More
Tokyo: Heibon-sha, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound quarto. Dark gray leatherette binding printed in gilt. A thick unpaginated volume of color photographs by Shinoyama. Very brief text in both English and Japanese. Some light age spotting to preliminary pages else an exceptional near fine copy. Lacking the printed acetate jacket..... More
Barcelona: Producciones Editorales, 1977. First edition. Paperback. 4to. 96 pp. Text in Espanol. Introduction by Jordi Vargas. Very good copy of this uncommon book of grainy black and white photographs of the early players on the Punk stage. johnny Moped, Johhny Rotten, X-T-C, Cherry Vailla, The Jam, The Cortinas et..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. First edition with publisher seal and the letter "A" to copyright page. A play by the author of Waterloo Bridge. A nearly fine copy in printed red boards in good dustwrapper, toned at spine and with several chips and tears along..... More
No Place: Greenhouse Review Press, No Date. First edition. Loose Sheets. Single sheet illustrated broadside poem by Simic. Woodcut artist not identified. A fine copy of this poem printed in a slender edition of only 90 copies by the Greenhouse Review Press. Not dated. Printed on handmade paper. Although not..... More
New York and London: Paddington Press, 1978. First American edition. Hardcover. Tall hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. A volume illustrated by Steadman of a story told to him by Dimitri Sidjanski. Unpaginated. Illustrated in vivid color by Steadman. A clean very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED..... More
Geneve: Galerie Motte, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Thick paperbound quarto. 130 numbered pages followed by a Table Des Oeuvres Reproduites. Correct first edition of this extraordinary volume on the influences of modern art movements on the evolution of typography. With essay in French by Jacques Damase and including extensive examples..... More
