New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1935. First Edition. Near fine in a dust jacket with minor soiling and some tiny chips; with an unfaded spine; a better than usual example. The film version was a starring vehicle for Elizabeth Taylor. More
[Book #21645P]
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1983. First Edition. One of 32 specially bound and cased copies reserved for the artist; signed by Karsh, and including an original signed print. This copy is from the library of Carl Zahn, who was responsible for all aspects of the book’s production and design..... More
[Book #26079P]
![Original Photograph of Louella Parsons [At the Opera]. PHOTOGRAPHY, WEEGEE](/pictures/thumb/19328P.jpg?v=1539713411)
Silver print; 11 x 14”; inscribed, legibly, but in dark ink on a dark background, “To Jimmy/ Weegee.” With the photographer’s address stamp, “Arthur (Weegee) Fellig” on the verso. A two page typed letter is included (November 31 [sic] 1950), signed, corrected and with a long postscript in the photographer’s..... More
[Book #19328P]
New York: Putnam's, 1940. First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some minor tape stains. More
[Book #12064P]
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
[Book #22217P]
London: Ernest Benn, 1931. First English Edition. Goldstone bookplate; minor staining on the endpapers; near fine in dust jacket. More
[Book #19777P]
Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. First Edition. Minor cloth stains; very good or slightly better in a very good dust jacket with some small chips at the top edge and very moderate soiling and wear. More
[Book #14800P]
Paris: Bance, Editeur, 1858. First Edition of the first volume in what was to become a six volume series by the French architect and theorist. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. The artist John Singer Sargent’s copy with his bookplate on the front paste-down. In addition, the volume has the..... More
[Book #26164P]
London: Gollancz, 1937. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers (also issued in cloth); owner’s signature; minor spotting and wear; very good. The novel was published in England four months after this play. More
[Book #26751N]
New York: Random House, 1941. First Edition. Advance copy; bound in the dust jacket; spine faded; minor wear; at least very good; in a custom clamshell box. Contemporary presentation copy; inscribed by the author in November, 1941. A powerful, brutal novel of Hollywood, perhaps equaled in this regard by only..... More
[Book #23205J]
Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1917. First Edition. Aside from a little foxing, a fine copy in the publisher’s illustrated cloth, and in the scarce dust jacket which has a number of stains and very minor wear. More
[Book #19039P]
An exceptionally large poster; 64 x 44”; backed with slightly larger linen for preservation, enabling it to be unrolled without damage. Numerous creases from folds; some small chips, tears and minor discolorations; printed in two colors. At the start of his “Farewell Tour,” in New York’s New Amsterdam Theater, November..... More
[Book #24456P]
London: Gollancz, 1929. Later printing. Bound with a printed cover label in home made wrappers (apparently wallpaper); very good. Some fifteen original individual photographs of the cast, in character, are mounted and interleaved, each signed on the mount by the photographer “Tanqueray.” The leaves are approximately 4 x 7”, and..... More
[Book #26810P]
New York: George H. Doran, 1924. First American Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with a number of small chips and tears. More
[Book #17480P]
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989. First Trade Edition (there was a Franklin Library Edition with an unspecified limitation). A near fine copy in a slightly faded dust jacket. A Mike Hammer novel, with an extraordinary full page presentation inscription by Spillane to cartoonist Frank Borth and his wife, “Suddenly I’m..... More
[Book #21893P]
New York: Robert Ballou, 1933. First Edition. Just a touch of fading at the edges; a fine copy in a dust jacket with two tiny tears at the bottom of the back panel; slight spine darkening; a lovely example. In a custom clamshell box. More
[Book #13313P]
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939. First Edition. Very good in a good to very good price-clipped dust jacket. More
[Book #24071P]
One page; titled “MY MAIDEN”; 24 lines; signed in ink by the author, “Celia Thaxter.” Folded twice; tender and splitting at the folds, but overall very good. Undated, but likely from 1886 or 1887. Thaxter was an early user of the typewriter, even endorsing a machine in contemporary advertising. This..... More
[Book #22331P]
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1870. Later edition; rebacked with the original spine cloth laid down; minor foxing; still attractive. Inscribed by the author with an aphorism on the front pastedown, “Mrs. Catherine Haley, Do your duty today and repent tomorrow. Truly yours, Mark Twain. March 28/06.”. More
[Book #21834P]
New York: The Merriam Company, n.d. [1894]. First American Edition. Very light foxing; an exceptionally bright and fine copy. More
[Book #24268P]
New York: Edward Arnold, 1897. First American Edition; with some minor textual differences and an epilogue not included in the English edition. Some cloth soiling and wear; some old, hardly noticeable mending to the front endpaper; very good in a custom clamshell box. Presentation copy; inscribed by Wells with two..... More
[Book #16058P]
New York: Cameron & Kahn, 1955. First Edition. Spine cloth mended; very good in dust jacket, and in a publisher’s slipcase (cracked) with the Rockwell Kent illustrated jacket front panel on on side. We have never seen the slipcase before and presume that it was provided for author’s or publisher’s..... More
[Book #26134P]
London: Elkin Mathews, n.d. [c. 1901]. First Edition. Presented in the style of juvenile drama (meant for the toy, miniature, theatre), but written for adults; printed wrappers with a hand-colored cover illustration and two black and white illustrations in the text; unopened; minor browning; about fine. More
[Book #26507P]
