Peter L. Stern

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1970. First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to an editor. [With] the publisher’s promotional brochure reproducing part of the ms., and a short typed letter, signed “Jim.” Few novels have been as well-adapted to film as this one was. All books described.....

More info about Deliverance

Chicago: Fanlight Press, 1947. First Edition. Limited to 250 copies; this example is not numbered. Fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Gleanings by Gaslight

No place of publication: Printed by the Author, 1941. First Edition. One of 94 copies, from the Donald Wandrei collection. Fine in wrappers. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about In Memoriam: Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Appreciations, Recollections, Estimates

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition; publisher’s wrappers. A few small stains; very good in a like dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about The Naked Lunch

Chicago and Summit, New Jersey: Argus Books/ Pamphlet House, 1948. First Edition. Binding mended; penciled notes in the text; good. Both supplements are laid in. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about An Irregular Guide to Sherlock Holmes

Berlin: Herman Weist, Berlin-Mariendorf Verlag, n.d. [1937]. Eight pages, heavily illustrated, for the 1937 film directed by Karl Lamac. Some creasing and minor tears; very good. As endorsements go, it might have been an unfortunate one that this was one of two films found in Hitler’s bunker. All books described.....

More info about Original Program for Der Hund von Baskerville

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1935. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author to another artist, “Much love to Isabel [Bishop] from her admiring friend, P.B.” Below the inscription is a detailed, half-page pen and ink drawing of a girl rummaging through a trash.....

More info about Cat-Calls. With Drawings by the Author

C. 1885-1887. A total of 42 pages; various sizes; mostly in ink, but with some in pencil; minor soiling and wear; an archive that demonstrates the extensive research and planning that Doyle devoted to his historical novels. This book is set against the invasion of England by James, Duke of.....

More info about Holograph Notes for his early novel Micah Clarke

New York: Trow, Printer, 1868. Later edition (one of many) of an apparently self-published book. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “ ‘A Place in thy memory, dearest, and a memory in thy prayers!’ ” S. Helen DeKroyft. March 30th 1868.” Contemporary owner (or recipient’s) signature below. Original cloth; spine.....

More info about A Place In Thy Memory

New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/ The Dial Press, 1929. First Edition. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a chipped spine, losing lettering at the crown. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Little Caesar

Jamaica, New York: Minia Press, n.d. (1940s). Miniature book; publisher’s gilt stamped cloth; spine a little rubbed; very good. Welsh/Weber 2506. Evidently the first miniature edition, including Tenniel’s illustrations. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

More info about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

New York: P.F. Collier, 1891. First American Edition; publisher's printed wrappers; Green & Gibson A7b; some staining to the wrappers and loss of lettering from tape removal along the edges of the front and back wrappers where they meet the spine; considerable archival restoration to those areas; very good; in.....

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