New York: Vintage Books, 1989. First Vintage Books Edition, Later Printing. Paperback. 204pp. Octavo [20.25 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson’s “Dr. Gonzo,”..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 417pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 purple cloth with decorated cream colored boards. Orange endpapers. In clear mylar dust jacket as issued, with rubbing to the surface. The book has multiple shallow dings along the bottom edges of the covers..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. 60th Anniversary Edition - Later Printing. Paperback. 249pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. The 60th Anniversary edition of Bradbury's classic, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman. More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1901. Fifteenth edition. Hardcover. 587pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red cloth over boards ornately stamped in gilt and green. Lacking the frontispiece. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer, John Ruyle, with his name plate on the front pastedown. With Twenty Full-Page..... More
University of New Mexico Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 187pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light brown cloth over boards with a metallic red ink stamped title on the spine. With a red remainder stamp on the bottom edge of the text block, and fading to the jacket's front panel and..... More
New York: Scribner, 2018. Later printing. Paperback. 184pp. Octavo [20.5cm] Illustrated wraps. "This quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers." More
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Sam Wolfe Connelly. Hardcover. 197pp. Octavo [24cm]. Buckram over boards, blocked with a design by the illustrator. In a purple paper covered slipcase. Previous owner's ex libris stamp on half-title. Sporadic underlining in ink throughout text. More
New York: Harper Perennial, 2008. Reprint. Paperback. 305pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston's short fiction—most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime—reveals the evolution of one of the most important African American writers. Spanning her career from 1921 to 1955, these..... More
London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons / Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Charles E. Brock. Later printing. Leather bound. 254pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] 3/4 blue green leather with light blue cloth covered boards, raised bands, a gilt stamped red leather spine label, and gilt stamped decorations on the..... More
Hartford, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1961. Limited edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 354pp. Quarto [29 cm] Thickly woven natural beige cloth over thin card boards. Black top stain. Near fine, with just a small abraded area to the rear pastedown. In a very good slipcase, with light fading to the extremities..... More
New York: Random House, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. 320pp. Octavo [22cm]. 1/4 black paper over green boards. Title stamped in copper on spine. "An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day 2020. The..... More
New York: Signet Classics, 2013. Later printing. Paperback. 599pp. Duodecimo [17 cm]. Blue illustrated wraps. Herman Melville’s thrilling nautical adventure—a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea—and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1982. Miguel Covarrubias. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 409pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped designs on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Dark blue moire endsheets. Blue silk ribbon page marker. Near..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co. Publishers, 1903. Early printing. Hardcover. 254pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Red cloth over boards with black ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and with an ink stamped cat vignette on the front cover. Very good. The extremities are just a little bit..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1996. Fritz Kredel. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 175pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped decorative patterns on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Orange moire endsheets. Light brown ribbon page marker. Fine..... More
New York: Picador, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. 457pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. More
New York: Vintage Books, 2010. Reprint. Paperback. 639pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. In this affecting narrative, a defining masterpiece by the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times), Wallace Stegner portrays more than three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survivle during..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. 291pp. Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct..... More
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1965. Lynd Ward. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 900pp. Octavo [27 cm] Dark blue leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine and front cover, and gilt stamped vignettes on the covers. All edges gilt. Blue moire endsheets. Brown silk ribbon page marker. Designed..... More
New York: The Heritage Press, 1965. Lynd Ward. Heritage reprint. Hardcover. 302pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] In a silver paper covered slipcase. Navy blue cloth over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine, and silver stamped fleur de lis patterns and single ruled borders on the spine and front..... More
Oxford: Printed for the Limited Editions Club by the Oxford University Press, 1931. John Austen. Hardcover. Quarto [30 cm] 1/4 magenta cloth with floral-patterned paper over boards. Decorative endpapers. The boards are a bit darkened and foxed, and the backstrips are subtly faded. The free endpapers are heavily darkened, and..... More
New York: Vintage, 2021. Ralph Steadman. 50th Anniversary Edition - later printing. Paperback. 204pp. Octavo [20.5cm] Illustrated wraps. Thompson's classic drug-fueled romp through the American Dream. Featuring Ralph Steadman's classic illustrations. More
New York: Penguin, 2018. Reprint. Paperback. 164pp. Octavo [19.5cm]. Printed wraps. "Emma Lou Morgan’s skin is black. So black that it’s a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Idaho, but also among her lighter-skinned family and friends. Seeking a...... More
New York: Scribner, 2018. Later Printing. Paperback. 221pp. Octavo [20.3cm]. Glossy pictorial wraps. White spine with dark lettering. In The Blacker the Berry…, a classic yet provocative novel written during the Harlem Renaissance, a young woman must reckon with colorism in the Black community as she navigates 1920s New York..... More
New York: Random House, 1996. First edition thus. Hardcover. 418pp. Octavo [24 cm] White paper covered boards with a brown ink stamped title on the spine, and a brown ink stamped vignette on the front cover. Near fine. There is a subtle indentation in the top edge of the front..... More