Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1913. First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with a large chip in the back panel. More about The Lady and The Pirate

[Book #19078P]

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1908. First Edition. The color pictures and text are by Rawnsley. Bookplate; minor foxing; about fine in a very lightly worn dust jacket. More about Country Sketches for City Dwellers

[Book #26758P]

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888. First Edition. Ex-library; with the usual attendant faults; bookplate; good. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “To Louise Imogen Guiney from Sarah O. Jewett (to remember Fifth of January 1889).”. More about The King of Folly Island

[Book #22298P]

New York: Huebsch, 1918. First American Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with minor wear and tear and a small gouge in the center of the spine in a blank area between the imprint and the price; in a custom quarter-morocco slipcase. More about Exiles: A Play in Three Acts

[Book #23783P]

Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1954. First English Edition. Minor foxing, else near fine in very good dust jacket with foxing and some small chips. Basis for a 1969 mini-series. More about Christ Recrucified

[Book #25733P]

Writing on the back of an envelope addressed to Burroughs, postmarked March 22, 1988 in Eugene Oregon, “Dear Bill - This is from the members of my novel class. They liked the idea of sending you an invite. Ken Kesey.” The invitation for a cocktail party is in the envelope. More about Holograph Note to William S. Burroughs

[Book #15193P]

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868. First Edition. Three volumes; original publisher’s cloth; some cloth wear; spines cocked; occasional page staining and foxing; a good to very good set. This is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his sister-in-law, “Mrs. W. LeFanu from The Author.” Le Fanu was one of..... More about Haunted Lives. A Novel

[Book #15195P]

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First Edition. Illustrated by Lewis. Very good in a dust jacket with some fading. More about Beyond This Limit

[Book #25671P]

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1895, 1896 [actually 1912]. First Edition. Two short stories; in Bleiler. The paper seal is still bound in around the second story, but has been broken. Very good in dust jacket. This copy has a cancel title page with only the magazine copyright dates; there is another... More about The Mysterious Card/ The Mysterious Card Unveiled

[Book #23219P]

London: Henry & Co, 1897. First Edition of the second volume of this annual publication; the first volume was issued a year earlier in the same format. Cloth spotted; some foxing; bookplate; very good in the rare pictorial jacket, which has some chips and creasing and interior archival mending (the... More about The Pageant

[Book #21090P]

New York: Macmillan, 1932. First Edition. Cloth faded and waterstained; minor page waterstaining; a good copy. Inscribed by Hine shortly after publication, “Harold Rugg/ New York City/ From L.W.H. Oct. 18, 1932.” A fine association; Rugg was then teaching at Columbia, and was eventually hounded from public life for harboring..... More about Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Men and Machines

[Book #26033P]

New York: Rinehart, 1957. First American Edition. Fine in a very lightly worn dust jacket. Powell is best known for The Red Shoes, but this book was preceded by his Battle for the River Plate (on the sinking of the Graf Spee). More about Death in the South Atlantic: The Last Voyage of the Graf Spee

[Book #26834P]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First Edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author to his publisher at Knopf, “To Nat [Zecher] - Sometimes I think you’re a tougher boss than all my others. But if you keep pushing I could grow..... More about The Dream Merchants

[Book #22217P]