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 about The Catcher In The Rye
[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 about Dictionnaire Raisonne du Mobilier Francais de l'Epoque Carlovingienne a la Renaissance
[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 about Busman's Honeymoon: A Detective Comedy In Three Acts
[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 about What Makes Sammy Run?
[Book #23205J]
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition. Ink date on the title page below the author’s name; pages browned and brittle as always; very good in a good dust jacket with a fingernail-sized chip at the foot of the spine. The front panel is a color illustration of..... More about The Bride of Frankenstein (Sequel to Frankenstein
[Book #22928P]
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 about Journey's End
[Book #26810P]
New York: Covici-Friede, 1936. First Edition. Signed by the author in 1936; signature a little blotted; a good copy in a worn and mended dust jacket. More about In Dubious Battle
[Book #11839P]
London: Heinemann, 1957. First English Edition. A very good copy in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "Dear Betty and Gerald [Wellesley], This is a silly little book but I hope it will have a chuckle or two in it for you. Actually, in the long run, I think it... More about The Short Reign of Pippin IV
[Book #14707P]
New York: Presbyterian Hospital, 1947. First Edition. Wrappers; only minute wear; a fine copy. Written by Steinbeck in appreciation of the care shown to him and his family by the hospital. More about Vanderbilt Clinic
[Book #15979P]
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. First Edition of the author’s first book. Aside from a small tear in the front free endpaper, a fine copy in a dust jacket with minor wear and soiling. More about Lie Down In Darkness
[Book #13491P]
New York: Bernard Geis, 1966. First Edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author in 1966. A highlight of bestselling trashy fiction. More about Valley Of The Dolls
[Book #18966P]
London: Methuen, 1908. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; front hinge cracked; slight page staining; very good plus in a custom clamshell box. Presentation copy; inscribed on the half-title by Jacobs, “To Mark Twain with the author’s compliments. Oct. 1908.” With the “S.L. Clemens - 1908” signature inside the front cover. Below..... More about Salthaven
[Book #19133P]
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1899. First American Edition. Aside from minute rubbing, a fine copy. While the English edition is dated 1898, and presumed to precede, this copy has a pencil gift inscription dated “Xmas 1898.”. More about An Antarctic Mystery
[Book #30004P]
New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1965. First Edition. Very slight marginal stains on a few leaves; a very good plus copy in a very good dust jacket; in a custom cloth clamshell box. An excellent presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “ For Dean Wayne C. Booth, In thanks for his... More about God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
[Book #26049P]
Los Angeles: Vion Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition. Very good plus in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Weissmuller and also signed by his wife with her first name. More about Water, World & Weissmuller
[Book #26689P]
Boston: L.C. Page, 1918. First Edition. A very good copy; with the author’s presentation inscription on the front free endpaper, apparently to a fellow W.W. I flyer, “Sept. 12, 1918. For Joe: One of the six originals. A token of ‘niggers luck’ in the air. May it please and help..... More about Go, Get 'Em!
[Book #22463P]
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 about The Invisible Man
[Book #16058P]
New York: Wm. Morrow, 1941. First Edition. Bookshop stamp on the front free endpaper; very good in dust jacket. The author wrote mysteries as Brett Halliday. More about Lynch-Rope Law
[Book #19258P]
London: Printed by T. Bensley; for B. White and Son, 1789. First Edition; including the errata leaf and all plates (two folding). A classic of natural history, and, as one of the first volumes explicitly detailing birds and their habitats, a cornerstone of ornithology. A beautifully clean copy with wide... More about The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton: With Engravings...
[Book #24450P]
London: Ward, Lock, 1891. First English Edition; trade issue. Publisher’s vellum-backed boards; an exceptional copy; fine in the rare dust jacket. There are some small chips and tears. Six old tape mends have been removed from inside the corners and edges of the dust jacket, leaving stains that have bled..... More about The Picture of Dorian Gray
[Book #23581P]
New York: W. J. Watt, 1914. First American Edition. Bookplate; about fine. More about The Little Nugget
[Book #11927P]
London: Hogarth Press, 1958. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket; with the wrap-around “Book Society” band. More about Granite & Rainbow
[Book #26465P]
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932. First American Edition. A fine copy in a very lightly used dust jacket; in a custom quarter morocco slipcase; presentation copy; inscribed by Woolf two months after publication. More about The Second Common Reader
[Book #18601P]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First Edition. Some cloth spotting and wear; ink date and number on the front free endpaper; a very good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear and tear. Woolrich’s first suspense novel, an inspiration for film noir, and the basis for a...... More about The Bride Wore Black
[Book #20757P]
Boston: Luce, 1921. First Edition. Fine in a lightly worn price-clipped dust jacket. More about The Haunted Inn: A Play in Four Acts. Translated by Isaac Goldberg
[Book #20251P]