H.M.S. Surprise
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973. First American Edition. Rubber stamp of a symbol on the title page; about fine in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. More
[Book #35178P]
New Arrivals
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, all without wrappers. Vincent Starrett’s dated (1954) ownership inscription in..... 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 great crackpot books of the nineteenth-century. 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..... 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 was highly successful on her own. More
[Book #35169P]
Freaky Friday
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition. Gorey designed bookplate of “A. Regensburg” (handwritten); very good in a Gorey designed binding; Inscribed by the author, “For Alice with warmest love - Mary.” Basis for the films of the same title. More
[Book #35168P]
The Wild Garden
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1938. First Edition. 1000 copies of this story were issued in advance of its appearance in Wind, Sand and Stars the following year. Nearly fine. More
[Book #35167P]
Enter Psmith
New York: Macmillan, 1935. First Edition; American issue; comprising chapters 30-59 of Mike (1909), with some changes. Very good in a price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear and chipping. More
[Book #35166P]
The Public Enemy. Illustrated with Scenes from the Photoplay: A First National Picture
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. First Edition. Bookplate on the front free endpaper; a very good copy in a dust jacket with very light wear and tear. This novelization appends a glossary of gangster vocabulary. Preceded by Little Caesar and followed by Scarface, this early talkie gangster picture still..... More
[Book #35165P]
A Bell For Adano
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket; Inscribed by the author, “For Don Burke - sorry to hear you’re down, hope this doesn’t get you downer - John.” Pulitzer Prize winner for 1945. More
[Book #35164P]
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins now first published. Edited with Notes by Robert Bridges
London: Humphrey Milford, 1918. First Edition of the author’s first book. Very good plus in a very good dust jacket with a 3/4 inch chip at the foot of the spine, other minor chips and soiling; in a custom slipcase. Hopkins, a Catholic priest, saw only a few poems published..... More
[Book #35163P]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First American Edition. Publisher’s “library” (sheep binding with morocco labels). This is a typically mixed state copy with the following points: p. , “Him and another man” incorrectly listed as at p.88; page 57, “..with the was...” as opposed to “...with the saw...”; the..... More
[Book #35162P]
The Call of the Wild
New York: Macmillan, 1903. First Edition of Jack London’s best-known book. Neat ownership signature on the half-title, a tiny bump at the foot of the spine, only the most minute wear; just about as fine a copy as we’ve had. In a fine example of the dust jacket, not worn..... More
[Book #35161P]
Three Russian Poets: Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev
New York: New Directions, 1944. First Edition. Small address label on the front free endpaper; very good in dust jacket. More
[Book #35160P]
The Modern Movement: 100 Key Books From England, France and America: 1880-1950
London: Andre Deutsch and Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First Edition. Fine in a wrinkled dust jacket. More
[Book #35159P]
Lie Down In Darkness
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951. First Edition of the author’s first book. Fine in dust jacket. More
[Book #35158P]
The Spirit of St. Louis
New York: Scribner’s, 1953. First Edition. A presentation copy of Lindbergh's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, inscribed the month before publication, "To Carl Allen, in appreciation of years of friendship, and in thanks for criticism of the manuscript of 'The Spirit of St. Louis'. Charles A. Lindbergh, Aug. 1953. Publication date is..... More
[Book #35157P]
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
New York: C.H. Webb, 1867. First Edition; first printing of Twain’s first book. This copy is in the publisher’s original blue cloth, very possibly the least common of the various binding colors that the book was issued in. A handsome copy that has had some cloth repair (but not apparently..... More
[Book #35155P]
Laughter in the Dark
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1938. First American Edition; first binding. A little cloth wear; very good in a dust jacket with very moderate rubbing and soiling. More
[Book #35154P]
The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan
London: Longmans, Green, 1899. First Edition. Two volumes; original publisher’s pictorial cloth; spines a little creased; very minor foxing and wear; a very good set of this superb narrative, which is especially remarkable for the author’s eyewitness account of the Battle of Omdurman. More
[Book #35153P]
Goodbye To Berlin
London: Hogarth Press, 1939. First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with minute wear and tear. This collection of six pieces, including "Sally Bowles," published earlier in a separate edition, was the basis for “Cabaret.” Connally 100; "Berlin under the emergent Nazis [provided]... tragedy here in his moving..... More
[Book #35152P]