The Easton Press / The Overlook Press, 1992. Later printing. Hardcover. 279pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Maroon leather over boards with gilt text on spine and boards. Photo pastedown on front board. Three raised bands on spine. Bottom corner of front board is beginning to splay ever so slightly. Text block edges... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2005. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 312pp. Octavo [22cm]; brown leather boards with gilt text and decoration on spine and boards. Text block edges gilted. Ribbon marker intact. This namesake novel was written immediately after Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines." It is one of many sequels in the... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2005. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 190pp. Octavo [22cm]; brown leather over boards, raised bands on spine, gilt decoration and title on spine and boards, gilt edges of text block, ribbon marker present. Also known as The War of Little Hand, the story follows Haggard's recurring protagonist... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2010. Signed Collector's Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED: 570pp. Octavo [23.5cm]; red leather boards with gilt text and decoration on boards and spine and raised bands on spine. Gilt edges of text block. Ribbon marker intact. Signed by Carter on limitation page with certificate of authenticity laid... More
Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 283pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Olive green cloth over boards, with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. The pages have yellow borders. "Patent Applied For" label at head of title page. The extremities are a bit soiled and rubbed, there... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2016. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 350pp. Octavo [22cm]; brown leather with raised bands on spine, gilt lettering and text on spine and boards. Boards lightly cocked. Small scuffing to leather of boards. Frontispiece by Dennis Lyall. Bound in Genuine Leather. More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2005. Collector Edition. Hardcover. 346pp. Octavo [22cm]; brown leather over boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and boards, raised bands on spine, ribbon marker present. Bound in genuine leather. More
Mariner Books, 2012. First Mariner Books edition: later printing. Paperback. 278pp. Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. "The writing is humorous, painful, awesome in its effect on both mind and heart . . . There are few modern novels to match it."-- Rolling Stone On an arid Mars, local bigwigs compete with Earth-bound... More
Brooklyn, NY: Mesorah Publications, ltd, 2011. Kleinman Edition: Personal-Size. Paperback. 10 pocketsize volumes in slipcase. Sextodecimo [15.5cm]; illustrated wraps. Previous owner's inscription inside front wrap of first book in series. A concise guide that covers Jewish Law. It has been reprinted many times. The Kleinman edition uses the Lemberg edition... More
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2003. Second printing of the deluxe edition in a slipcase. Hardcover. 870pp. Thick octavo [24 cm] Black diamond-patterned cloth over boards. There is a numerical notation on the front free endpaper. A deluxe edition of the fifth installment in the immensely popular series. More
New York: Penguin Press, 2018. Later printing. Hardcover. 465pp. Octavo [24cm]; blue and gray paper wraps with text on spine and front board. The #1 New York Times bestseller. A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs–and the spellbinding story of his own..... More
New York: Ballantine, 1996. Later printing. Paperback. 273pp. Octavo [20.5cm] Paperback. Pictorial Wraps. New. From the back cover: "The barbarians are no longer at the city gates...they are in the city! and Hunter S. Thompson, America's most brazen and ballsy journalist, tells their story as no one else can!" Another... More
New York: Vintage, 2000. Later printing. Paperback. 204pp. Octavo [20.5cm] Paperback. Pictorial Wraps. New. Thompson's classic drug-fueled romp through the American Dream. Movie edition. More
New York: Plume / Penguin Book Group, 1991. Later Printing. Paperback. 242pp. [20.5cm] Illustrated wraps. New book with no flaws. "Down the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness... More
Tryst Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Short oblong duodecimo [13.5 cm x 17.5 cm] There is a minor indentation along the top edge of the front board. "Beauty" was set in 14 pt. Goudy Cursive and 36 pt. Bankers Script. The decorations are a combination of wood engraving and collagraph... More
Provo, UT: 1962. Third printing. Paperback. Very thin quarto [29 cm] Printed wraps, in a folder with a clear plastic wrap over the front wrap. Small sticker stain on the final page. From the Preface- "No attempt is made, or desire felt, to reveal or expose any of the sacred... More
Portland,Oregon: Nazraeli Press, 2009. Edward Bateman. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Thin duodecimo [19 cm] Burgundy paper over boards. There is a minor indentation along the bottom edge of the front board. A book of twelve reproductions and one original pigment print by digital wizard, Edward Bateman. Nazaraeli Press One Picture... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint LLC, 2014. Later printing. Paperback. 40pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. "During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become "mad" at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems... More
New York: Gallery Books, 2002. Later printing. Paperback. 395 pp. Octavo [21 cm]; Illustrated wraps. "When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of... More
Illinois: Urantia Foundation, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. 2097 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]; Illustrated wraps. "You have just discovered the literary masterpiece that answers your questions about God, life in the inhabited universe, the history and future of this world, and the life of Jesus. The Urantia Book harmonizes history, science... More
New York: Scribner, 1998. Later printing. Paperback. 827 pp. Octavo [20.5]; Illustrated wraps. "Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2010. Later printing. Paperback. 275 pp. Octavo [23 cm]. "Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2011. Later printing. Paperback. 247 pp. Octavo [20 cm]; Illustrated wraps. "After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly found fame in 1967 with his autobiographical newspaper column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," and a book of that name in 1969. He continued... More
New York: Open Road Media, 2018. Later printing. Paperback. 183 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; Illustrated wraps. "Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, intellectual, and social theorist best known for her writings on existentialist ethics and feminist existentialism, as well as for her infamous polyamorous relationship with fellow... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 45pp. Quarto [26 cm] Blue cloth over boards. The cloth on the boards is foxed, the boards are negligibly warped, and the hinges are weak. In the pictorial dust jacket, which is darkened in areas, has periodic tears to... More