Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 111 pp. Color frontis. This is number 380 of 550 hand-numbered copies. An excellent reference work on book illustrator Arthur Rackham. Sunning to spine else a clean very good copy in decorated boards. Comes in matching decorated hard slipcase. Slipcase has splits..... More
Ireland: Dolmen Editions, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto in dustwrapper. A fine hardbound copy in dustwrapper. Illustrated bibliography of twenty five years of publications by the Dolmen Press. Compiled by Liam Miller. One of 650 trade copies. Beautiful and useful. More
London: TQ Publications, 1977. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 28 pp. A detailed checklist of the works of Wesker compiled by Glenda Leeming. SIGNED and dated by Wesker in 1978. A near fine example in stapled wraps. More
Endicott: Castalio Press, 1987. First edition. Cloth. Thick clothbound 8vo. 658 pp. Includes an introductory essay by Herbert Warren Wind. Some light handling wear else a near fine copy in green cloth binding in a very good unclipped dustwrapper. Superb golf reference book. Illustrated with some pictures... More
Endicott: Castalio Press, 1988. First edition. Leather Bound. Full green leatherbound book illustrated and printed in gilt. 8vo. 658 pp. Includes an introductory essay by Herbert Warren Wind. Some light handling wear else a near fine copy. Superb golf reference book. Illustrated with some pictures. This is one of only..... More
New York: Broadway Books, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. A 246 pp memoir by the famous and imfamous cyclist (with an assist by Sally Jenkins.) The book has some odd indentations to the front panel, but do not affect any of the res of the book. The dustwrapper is..... More
Cambridge: Harvard Cooperative Society, 1940. First edition. Cloth. Cloth octavo in dustwrapper. 335 pp. Biography of this Harvard educator. A near fine copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs. More
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1941. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 300 pp plus index. Stated first edition. A very good clothbound copy in lightly used dustwrapper. Biography of the late 19th century - early 20th century American editor, author, lecturer and his associates as told by his son..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1908. First edition. Cloth. Handome two volume hardbound set of books on the life of actor Henry Irving. 381 and 364 pp, respectively. Each volume with photo frontispiece protected by a sheer piece of cello. Both volumes with illustrations. Volume I with twelve collotype..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 528 pp biography on the renowned British playwright. Illustrated with photographs. A very good copy in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by Heilpern on the title page. Intriguing loose photograph laid in to this copy. Provenance unknown. More
New York: Random House, 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. Sold here together are the first three volumes of Michael Holroyd's monumental biography of one of the greatest playrights in English from the last century. All volumes in clean very good condition. Volume three's front flap is clipped, otherwise are are..... More
London: Weifenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Handsome first British edition of this 467 pp biography of the great actor and director Kenneth Tynan. With 24 pages of illustrations. A clean near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by Ms. Tynan on the title page. More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1942. First edition. Cloth. Hardbound octavo. 376 pp. With 24 illustrations. Bookplate of Margaret Hallberg Rankin afixed to the front endpaper. A very good copy in rough green cloth binding. Spine lettering a bit dulled with age. More
Paris: Points, 1950. First edition. Paperback. The rare 8th issue of this literary magazine edited by Bisiaux and Vail. Notable for the inclusion of "Shades of Darkness (Three Impressions)" by a young Canadian writer named Mordecai Richler. His first published work. This magazine in good condition. Paper is toned with..... More
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1928. First edition. Paperback. Wide 4to. Paper wrappers with cello cover. First edition, one of only 100 copies, this being number 76. Small amounts of expected wear to delicate cello wrapper, else near fine. Scarce. More
Knoxville, TN: Darkpool Press, 1972. First edition. Cloth. Small quarto. Limited edition volume pairing the florid prose of William Blake with the imaginative drawings of Clark Stewart. One of only one hundred copies printed. As far as we can tell, the only book ever published by this press. A very..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. 189 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Quarter cloth over boards. Light staining to board edges. A very good copy in lightly used (price-intact) dustwrapper. Somewhat uncommon in the hardbound edition. More
New York: Henry Holt, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. An illustrated novel. Stated first edition. With a handsome bookplate afixed to the inside front pastedown. Otherwise a sound clean very good copy in dustwrapper. Wrapper has closed tears and a few small chips. In good condition... More
Baltimore: Apathay Press Poets, 1992. First edition. Paperback. 8 pp chapbook by the enigmatic Ms. Blowdryer. Contains three short prose pieces. A very good example in stapled illustrated wrappers. Uncommon little book. More
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 123 pp. Dust soiled topstain else a fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by Bogosian on the title page. Review Copy with author photo and publisher's promo sheet laid in. More
North Pomfret, VT: Asphodel Editions, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound quarto. One of 300 hand-numbered copies. 140 pp. Binding is hand-sewn, brown paper boards, with a one-quarter linen spine. The book reproduces catalogues produced by the bookseller Michael DeHartington who specialized in homosexual literature. Minor handling wear. A very good..... More
London: Bertram Rota Ltd, 1974. First edition. Paperback. Paperbound book. 154 pp. Catalogue No. 192 from the esteemed antiquarian Bertram Rota. Not dated, but from 1974. Stiil considered a superb reference work on the printed book. Light soiling to covers. A very good example. Some enterprising collector had a cloth..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada S.A., 1952. Second edition. Paperback. Paperbound octavo. Stated segundo edicion of this seminal work by Borges. 157 pp. Text in Spanish. Some tearing and chipping near spine crown. A worn, but still solid copy of this collection of fictions that adds four new tales not included..... More
Buenos Aires: Emece Editores, 1966. Later printing. Paperback. Bound wrappers. 197 pp. Text in Spanish. Septima Impresion of the Argentinian author's most famous book, a collection of fantastic stories. A very good copy in bound printed wrappers. This copy notable as it has been INSCRIBED by the author in Buenos..... More
Buffalo: Shuffaloff, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Sewn wrappers. An unpaginated chapbook published in an impossibly slender edition of only ten copies of which this is number 9. A very good example. SIGNED as well as INSCRIBED by the author and dated in year of publication. A short story... More
