Les debuts du petit chat Pompon..
Lausanne: Editions Novos, 1945. First Edition. Publisher’s illustrated boards; nearly fine; text in French, with illustrations in color. More
[Book #35193P]
New Arrivals
Songs of Innocence and Experience. Edited and Prefaced by Richard Herne Shepherd
London: Pickering, 1868. Later edition of Blake’s work; issued without his illustrations. Publisher’s cloth with a paper spine label (a little rubbed); an attractive copy; corner of a preface leaf torn, not affecting text; in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. More
[Book #35192P]
The Old Man And The Sea
New York: Scribner’s, 1952. First Edition. Minor spotting; ink gift inscription on the front free endpapers; very good in a price-clipped dust jacket. More
[Book #35191P]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
London: George Newnes, 1894. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; hinges cracked; a good copy. More
[Book #35190P]
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
London: George Newnes, 1894. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; some page stains; modern endpapers;owner’s signature and date on the title page; a good copy. More
[Book #35189P]
The Naked and the Dead
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1948. First Edition of Mailer’s first book. Bookplate on the front free endpaper; some edge rubbing; very good in a dust jacket with nearly invisible tissue repair at inner folds. More
[Book #35188P]
Lyrics
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First Edition. Very good or a little better in dust jacket; in a custom cloth clamshell box. An excellent association copy, inscribed “For Max and Mab with my love. Oscar.” The recipients were Maxwell Anderson and his longtime companion, whose stage name was Mab..... More
[Book #35187P]
The Man With the Golden Arm
Garden City: Doubleday, 1949. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket. Signed by the author. Basis for the film of the same title. More
[Book #35186P]
The Garston Murder Case
Garden City: Crime Club, 1930. First American Edition of the first Clunk book. Aside from a minor erasure on the front free endpaper, fine in a dust jacket with the original promotional wraparound band. More
[Book #35185P]
Skyscraper Mystery
New York: Scribner’s, 1937. First Edition. Very good in a good to very good dust jacket. More
[Book #35184P]
The Affair at Flower Acres
New York: Doran, 1923. First Edition. Name stamp on endpapers; very good in a dust jacket with a huge chunk out of the front panel. More
[Book #35183P]
The Hotel New Hampshire
New York: Dutton, 1981. First Edition. One of 550 numbered and signed copies. Fine in the publisher’s slipcase. More
[Book #35182P]
Telephone Despatch Co. (Bell's Patents)...List of Subscribers Connected With the Central Office Exchange System
Boston: Telephone Despatch Co., n.d. [c. 1890]. Original printed wrappers; 52 pages; minor wear; inscribed by the company manager. One of the earliest Boston phone directories, listing about 800 subscribers, mostly commercial enterprises, especially banks, insurance companies and railroads. Not all of the subscribers are listed with numbers, although by..... More
[Book #35181P]
Keeper of the Keys
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932. First Edition. A very good copy; inscribed by the author in 1932. More
[Book #35180P]
Leaves of Grass
Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860. Third Edition; printing 1 (BAL 21397- "probable sequence"); state 1 of the frontispiece portrait; binding B (no sequence established, but binding A was issued in wrappers for reviewers, and therefore those copies might have been issued prior to printed sheets being sent to the binder..... More
[Book #35179P]
The Day Of The Locust
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Bookplate; binder’s glue stains on the pastedowns; very nearly fine in a dust jacket with very minor wear at the extremities; in a custom morocco clamshell box. More
[Book #26993P]
H.M.S. Surprise
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973. First American Edition. Red rubber stamp of a symbol on the title page; about fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. More
[Book #35178P]
The Man With The Club-Foot
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1931. First printing by this publisher. About fine in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears. More
[Book #35177P]
Sherlock Holmes board game
No place of publication: Alga, n.d. [1960s?]. A Swedish game (in Swedish) consisting of a box (illustrated in color with Holmes) containing cards, instructions and pieces, as well as a game board with Holmes at its center. Minor ink scribbling; owner’s name and address on the board verso; some wear;..... More
[Book #35174P]
The Sign of Four
London: George Newnes, 1899. Bound without wrappers with other publications in a plainly bound volume, titled on the spine Reprints From The Strand Magazine, this collection includes Stories from the Diary of A Doctor, An African Millionaire, and Martin Hewitt, lacking wrappers. Vincent Starrett’s dated (1954) ownership inscription in ink..... More
[Book #35173P]
The Poorhouse Fair
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Fine in a lightly worn first issue dust jacket with a two inch, fairly unobtrusive, tear extending from the bottom of the spine into the back panel. Signed by Updike. More
[Book #35172J]
Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D
Chicago: Schulte, 1891. First published a year earlier, this utopian political novel, was one of the nineteenth-century’s great crackpot books. In Bleiler. Inscribed by the author the year before his death, "Every hour since this book was written has shown that it is prophecy. Ignatius Donnelly. Feb. 22, 1900." A...... More
[Book #35171P]
War and Peace
New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First Edition in English. Translated from the French by Clara Bell. Six volumes. Publisher’s decorated cloth; six volumes; an excellent set, with only very slight wear. Each pair of volumes in cloth (Before Tilsit, The Invasion, Borodino) was issued at $1.75. Like Ulysses, War..... More
[Book #35170P]
Freaky Friday
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition; library issue (a more durable binding); very good in dust jacket. Jacket illustration (repeating the cover) by Edward Gorey. Basis for the films of the same title. Daughter of a famous, successful father, the author did very well on her own. More
[Book #35169P]