Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 275pp. Octavo [21.5 cm]; Blue cloth boards. The extremities are just a bit faded and rubbed. In the pictorial dust jacket, with periodic small closed tears and chips in the edges. Inscribed by the author on the front... More
New York: Sheridan House, 1941. Eighth printing. Hardcover. 329pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue cloth over boards. The head of the backstrip is a bit bumped. In the pictorial dust jacket, with occasional small chips and closed tears in the edges, light creasing, and just a bit of staining to the... More
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1982. Robert Heindel. A limited edition. Leather bound. 510pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the spine, gilt stamped decorative patterns on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Gray moire endpapers. With foxing to the text... More
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1977. Helen Sewell. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 411pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue leather with a gilt stamped title on the spine, raised bands, and gilt stamped decorative embellishments on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Pale pink moire endsheets. Silk ribbon page marker. Light scratching... More
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 470pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] in grey cloth stamped in gilt and black. Soiling and wear to boards and cocked spine, front board lower corners bumped and exposed, rumpling to rear board; hinges cracked (but holding), ink inscription on front free endpaper. More
Paris: The Obelisk Press. Early edition. Paperback. 364pp. Small octavo [19 cm] Red, black and white printed wraps. With Errata Page. Very good. The edges of the covers are subtly rubbed, and the pages are mildly browned. In very nice condition. Miller entered into the writer's circle with Tropic of... More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 300pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with gray paper over boards. The covers are slightly cocked. In a dust jacket which is sharp and bright. Inscribed by the author on the tipped-in half title page: "For ____ / Kem Nunn / Jan 11, 1988." More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers Inc., 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 217pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 yellow cloth, with rust-colored paper over boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Light scratching to the surface of the dust jacket. 5" crease to the rear flap. This is the author's second book. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 284 pp. Octavo [22 cm]; 1/4 brown cloth with brown paper covered boards and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good. The top edge of the text block is lightly soiled. Very slight spine slant. The dust jacket is... More
New York: The Overlook Press, 2012. First Overlook Press paperback edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 317pp. Octavo [20 cm] Pictorial wraps. "Many powerful and important novels have been written about Vietnam, including, most recently, Karl Marlantes's Matterhorn, (also by a Marine and published more than 30 years later), but none captures the... More
New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2019. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 419 pp. Octavo [24 cm x 16 cm]; blue paper boards with silver gilt on spine and blind stamping on cover; illustrated dust jacket. "SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. 127 pp. Octavo [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and... More
Boston, MA: Later printing, 2012. First Beacon Paperback; Later Printing. Paperback. 179pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; illustrated wraps. From back of book: Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2016. Reprint. Paperback. 467 pp. Octavo [19.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin's iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These... More
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition, first state. Hardcover. 366pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Publisher's green cloth with title and illustration stamped in gilt and black on the front panel and backstrip. Housed in a custom natural beige cloth clamshell. Good. Light rubbing to extremities of... More
New York: Dial Press, 2009. Dial Press Trade Paperback Edition; Later Printing. Paperback. 275pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. Vonnegut's Dresden novel that follows Billy Pilgrim through time and space. More
New York: Dial Press, 2011. Later Printing. Paperback. 302pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Printed wraps. More
New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Later Printing. Paperback. 287pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by... More