New York: Filmhaus Inc, 1974. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. Unpaginated, approx 56 pages. Octavo [24.2cm]. Black pictorial wraps with off-white lettering. Very minor shelfwear at extremities. Beautiful textured grey endpapers. Front free endpaper is has a neat gift inscription form a previous owner in brown ink and is signed by..... More
New York: Harper Teen, 2018. Later printing. Paperback. 416pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. More
New York: Back Bay Books, 2010. Reprint. Paperback. 277pp.Octavo [20.5 cm]. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caufield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes..... More
Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2017. Later printing. Paperback. 245pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that..... More
New York: Hogarth Books, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. 199pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Reprint. Paperback. 527pp. [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. More than 160 tales from eighty tribal groups gives us a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From across the continent comes tales of creation and love; heroes and war; animals, tricksters, and the..... More
[London]: [Printed for T. Cox], [1736]. [Second edition]. Leather bound. Folio [36 cm] Full brown leather with raised bands, a gilt tooled spine, and a black leather gilt stamped spine label. Fair condition. The front cover is completely detached, but present. The back cover is hanging on by the chords..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Early printing. Hardcover. 212pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Orange cloth over boards with a white and black ink stamped title on the spine. With only a very minor warping to the front board, and a very subtle slant to the spine. In a price-clipped..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2007. Neil Packer. Second printing. Hardcover. 401pp. Octavo [26 cm] Dark green buckram over boards, with gilt and white ink stamped title on the spine, and a gilt stamped vignette on the front board. Illustrated endsheets. In a dark green slipcase with a vividly illustrated paper..... More
Small unmounted albumen photo [4 1/2 x 3 3/4"]. Corners clipped and lightly creased. More
New York: Penguin Books, 2003. Later printing. Paperback. 265pp.Octavo [20 cm]. Illustrated wraps. The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life ranks among his most enjoyable works. More
New York: Penguin Books, 2003. Later printing. Paperback. 230pp. Octavo [20 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2007. Later printing. Paperback. 327pp. Octavo [19.7 cm]. Pictorial wraps. Freud’s landmark writings on love and sexuality, including the famous case study of Dora newly translated and in one volume for the first time. More
New York: Penguin Books, 2006. Reprint. Paperback. 120pp. Duodecimo. White wraps with black and blue text. The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about..... More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005. Second edition. Paperback. 224 Pages. Octavo [18.41cm x 12.7cm]. Matte illustrated wraps. Scarlet spine with white lettering. A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes “Bloodchild,” winner of both the Hugo and the..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. 335pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. More
New York: Vintage International, 2001. Later printing. Paperback. 255pp. [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "The novel’s protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, begins and ends his life at the Cimetière des Innocents. But in the meantime, a most unusual—and unbelievable—life unfolds. Born with no odor of his own, Grenouille soon develops a...... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2003. Later printing. Paperback. 751 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Like no other book of the twentieth century, Manly P. Hall’s legendary The Secret Teachings of All Ages is a codex to the ancient occult and esoteric traditions of the world. Students of hidden wisdom..... More
New York: ACE, 2019. Matt Griffin. Second edition; later printing. Hardcover. 658pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Black paper with title stamped in gilt on spine, and blind stamped "Fear is the Mind Killer" on front board. Illustrated endpapers. Textblock edges stained teal. "Dune" is the first novel in a series that follows..... More
Columbia, SC: Self-Published, 2021. Limited Edition. Paperback. 134pp. Octavo [22.7cm]. Purple illustrated wraps. From Publisher: Waleed continued this poetic analysis of life in this insightful work that is as brutally honest as it is composed. If forgiveness was a major theme in his first work, the damage we do to..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2021. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 320pp. Octavo [21 cm]. Illustrated wraps. It’s 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked. It’s almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant, but that’s exactly what sixteen-year-old Vali is doing. She and her..... More
Signet Classics, 2010. Centennial Edition; later printing. Paperback. 271pp. Duodecimo [17.25 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Filled with the spectacle of the Paris Opera House in the nineteenth century, this classic work of suspense remains a riveting journey into the dark regions of the human heart. The tale begins as an investigation into..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. 223pp. Quarto [28.6cm]. Red-orange cloth over boards. Corners are ever so slightly rubbed and there is a very slight lean to the spine. In an illustrated dust jacket, rubbed at extremities. From Publisher: Created over the span of some ten years..... More
Basel, Hamburg, Wien: Basilius Presse, 1965. First Basilius Press edition. Oblong sexto-decimo [12 cm x 18 cm] Accordion-folding book composed of white, orange, and black paper over boards with folding color litographic interior. The extremities are lightly rubbed, the front board is foxed and has a very small, light moisture..... More
