New York: The Broom Publishing Company, 1923. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Translated from the French with a Biographical Notice and Notes by Matthew Josephson. One of 1,250 hand numbered copies. A very good plus copy in pale blue boards with vellum spine. Unclipped dustwrapper shows wear and..... More
New York: Zone, 1980. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 52 pp. Translation and introduction by Barbara Gerber. A play. This is a clean very good or better copy in printed and bound blue wrappers. Uncommon title. More
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1954. First edition thus. Cloth. Four clothbound quartos contained in two hard slipcases. These volumes contain the sixty-five stories told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to divert Shahryar the Sultan from the execution of a vow he had made to avenge the disloyalty of his first Sultness..... More
Mountain Home, AR: Sheids Corporation, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Small hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 250 pp. A memoir of Vada Sheid and her life in the Arkansas statehouse. A fine copy in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by Vada Sheid's son, Richard. More
New York: Duell Sloane & Pearce, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this novel of the American West. Made into the film Broken Arrow starring Jimmie Stewart. A very good copy in cloth binding in a good price clipped dustwrapper. Some chipping to spine ends and a tape repair..... More
New York: Glenn Horowitz, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this book of paintings by Gornik with introduction by Kurt Vonnegut. One of 100 SIGNED copies by Gornik and Vonnegut. A fine copy in blue cloth in fine slipcase. No dustwrapper, as issued. Signed by Author. More
Germany: Thalia Theatre, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Oblong paperbound quarto. 63 pp. With illustrations by Robert Wilson. A new "take" on the Alice In Wonderland story by Wilson, Waits and Schmidt. Clear tape reinforcement to spine else a very good copy in bound wrappers. Laid into this copy are several..... More
London: Collin's Clear-Type Press, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this title, an adventure story illustrated by Arthur Rackham with all six colour plates present. Very good indeed in variant red decorated boards. No date specified but 1904. One of the earlier books to feature Arthur Rackham's work and..... More
Candia: John LeBow, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Trade paper book. 42 pp. Edited by Bob Wilson, Kenneth Doubrava and John LeBow. Reminiscences on visits to Bob Wilson's Phoenix Book Shop. A fine unread copy in stapled printed wrappers. One of 200 paper copies, hand-numbered, and SIGNED by Baraka, McClure, Bob..... More
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected page proof of Auster's breakout novel, the first in the New York Trilogy. Near fine in gray wrappers. One of the scarcest uncorrected proofs of the last 30 years. More
New York: Station Hill Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Fine copy in decorated wrappers, one of 1,000 unnumbered copies. There was no hardcover edition. More
New York: Sun, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound original. Early volume of prose by the author of Unearth. A sharp, well-bound copy in photo-illustrated bound wrappers. 173 pp. Stated first edition. More
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected page PROOF of the third book in Auster's New York Trilogy. A near fine copy in beige wrappers. A scarce proof. More
New York: Henry Holt, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. A 180 pp novel by the author of The Music of Chance and Oracle Night. A fine copy in dustwrapper. Front panel of wrapper has faint evidence of a sticker removal. SIGNED by Auster on the title page..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound octavo in dustwrapper. 303 pp. An autobiography of life in Rhondda Valley, the worst of England's derelict mining areas, and beyond to the author's participation in the Boer War. Preface by the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George. A handsome very..... More
New York: Alfred Knopf, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Stated first edition. 430 pp autobiography by the author of Honor Thy Father and Thy Neighbor's Wife among other bestsellers. A fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in 2006 on the title page... More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1955. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 304 pp. Autobiography of a self-described fair-skinned woman who voluntarily called herself and identified as a negro growing up in the American South. Founder of the Chicago branch of the International Friendship House and staff member of the National..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1929. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 337 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Red cloth covers printed in black. Minor soiling. With the scarce illustrated dustwrapper. Wrapper is clipped at front flap and has some small chips and tears at edges, but a handsome example..... More
Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co., 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's first book, a moving story set during the American Civil War. A fine copy in fine price intact dustwrapper. This copy signed by the author. Collector's copy. Highly recommended. Signed by Author. More
Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Small paperbound volume. A 64 pp memory play by Bailey and Temple. Fine condition in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. This copy has been INSCRIBED by Dura Temple on the title page. More
Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2011. Second printing. Hardcover. Second printing. A book about Islam and the West. Near fine copy in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. More
New York: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine first edition in near fine plus clipped jacket. Author's celebrated first book which takes place entirely during the span of time that it takes a young man to ride an escalator. SIGNED by Baker on the front endpaper. Light..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1852. First edition. Cloth. Two uniform 8vo's. First edition of this translation (done by F. J. Bunbury). Dark green blindstamped cloth covers in excellent condition. Both books have a sticker on the inside front pastedown (Volume One statesW. D. Worthington No. 1607, and W. D. Worthington No..... More
No Place: Visionaireworld.Com, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Square hardbound volume. Issued without dustwrapper. A single volume from this publisher's box set. The set originally included eleven different volumes, many with collaborations between artists and writers with fairytale themes. This volume sold separately. Fine condition. With black and white illustrations by..... More
