New York: Doubleday, 2025. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 599pp. Octavo [24cm]. Black paper over boards. "Raised by scientifically minded parents, Margaret Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. It was an unfettered..... More
New York: William Morrow, 2000. Second edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 259pp. Octavo [24 cm] in boards. Spine ends gently bruised. Light rubbing and scratching to the panels of the jacket. Inscribed by Barger on the tipped-in half title page: "To Michael, Sonny" More
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2025. First Edition. Paperback. 91pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. "In this brisk and riveting biography, Alex Beam takes readers on a journey through Wallace Stegner’s life and complicated legacy as one of the twentieth century’s best storytellers and chroniclers of the American West. In..... More
Bath, UK: George Bayntun, 1925. Newly edited edition. Leather Bound. 1172pp. Quarto [24 cm] 3/4 red leather with pale green cloth, raised bands, and gilt stamping on the spines. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities lightly rubbed and subtly sunned. Underlying boards peeking through at the corners. Presentation bookplates awarding..... More
Boston: A Marc Jaffe Book, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 436pp. Large octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with light blue paper covered boards. Near fine / Near fine. From the jacket- "Judgment Day is a passionately written, highly theatrical memoir and a psychological tour de force. It is the drama..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo [24cm]. Blue paper over boards. "May Swenson (1913–1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Limited trade hardcover. Hardcover. 153 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. 1/4 dark green cloth over paper covered boards. With the original glacine dust jacket cover from the publisher, which is scuffed, most noticeably at spine. Paper label featuring title mounted to spine. This is the..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 373 pp. Octavo [22 cm]; Black cloth over boards with silver title on spine and blind-stamped signatures on front cover in bright red. Edges are gently rubbed with slight creasing of book cloth at spine ends. In a good, price-clipped, photo..... More
New York: Avant Garde Books, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 35pp. Thin octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a white ink stamped title on the spine and a decorative blind stamped title on the covers. Near fine. The edges of the covers are very slightly faded. The dust jacket..... More
United States of America: Crown, 2020. Later printing. Hardcover. 239pp. [21.5 cm] Cream colored paper over boards with red text on spine. Red and taupe illustrated dust jacket. "In the story of Baldwin’s crucible, Glaude suggests, we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, this Trumpian era..... More
Berkeley: The Wednesday Table, 2017. First edition. Paperback. 12pp. Elephant Folio [45cm]; hand-stiched with dark gray wrappers. Title glit stamped on front wrapper. Corner at head of spine is bumped. Number 218 of 400 numbered copies printed in letterpress by Richard Seibert. More
Phoenix, AZ: Hennacy Press, 2008. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 156pp. Octavo [21.2cm.] Pictorial wraps with black lettering. Signed by author on first page in blue ink. A collection of poems and prose memorializing Thomas' third husband, Leon Maclean. This collection details the deterioration of his mental and physical health as..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 277pp. Octavo [22 cm] Publisher's red topstain. Illustrated endpapers. Spine rolled. 2 and 1/2" light scratch to the front board. Previous owner's name and brief numerical notation along the top edge of the front endpaper. In the dust jacket illustrated by..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2025. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 272 pp. Octavo [ cm]. Yellow paper over boards. Black lettering pressed onto back strip. From the publisher: "Scaachi Koul’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love..... More
New York: Harper, 2018. First Edition thus; Reprint. Hardcover. 48 pp. Quarto [28.6 cm]. Illustrated wraps over boards. From the publisher: "This picture book biography is the story of "Ruthless Ruthie," a warrior for equality, a tireless defender of justice, and an inspiring trailblazer for girls everywhere. Ruth Bader Ginsburg..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 436pp. Octavo [22 cm] Burgundy cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the backstrip and front board. Publisher's blue topstain. Minor bruising at the head of the spine. In a price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing to the surface and light edge..... More
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 261pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light and dark brown illustrated cloth covered boards. Good only. Ex-library. There are 4 pieces of tape adhered to the edges of the covers. The rear board is slightly soiled. There are 4 library marks on the endsheets..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938. First UK edition. Hardcover. 369pp. Octavo [22.2cm]. Brown cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. Spine rolled. Boards are slightly rubbed along tail and head edge. A few slight bumps to the top edge, most notably to the corners. Tan illustrated dust jacket..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 588 pp. Very good+ with like dustjacket. Corners lightly bumped. Minor wear and soiling to dustjacket. Internally fine. More
Missoula, Montana: The Vital Ground Foundation, 2024. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 236 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. From the publisher: "Lynne Seus and her husband, Doug Seus, started with twenty-five cents and a dream they were told was preposterous. Their family and friends repeated, “You can’t..... More
Wellesley College: Oxford University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 79 pp. Octavo. Blue cloth over boards. Head and tail of spine torn and scuffed, corners rubbed. Paste-downs and endpapers toned. A prolific English poet, Elizabeth Barrett fought for the abolition of slavery and the rights of child workers. Her letters..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. Later printing. Hardcover. 736pp. Large Octavo [26cm] Hardcover in dustjacket. From the publisher: "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost..... More
New York: Penguin Classics, 1986. Later printing. Paperback. 332pp. [19.5 cm] Pictoral wraps. In Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his life—from slave to educator. The early sections deal with his upbringing as a slave and his efforts to get an education. Washington details his transition from student..... More
Folkestone, Kent, England: Wm Dawson & Sons Ltd, 1979. Revised Dawson Edition. Hardcover. 340 pp. Octavo. [22.5 cm]. Light brown cloth over boards with gilt title stamped on spine. Original dust jacket is in VG+ condition with some creasing and wear to right fore edges. This is the foremost reference..... More
Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1979. First edition thus. Hardcover. 340 pp. Small quarto. [23 cm].Tan cloth over boards with gilt title stamped on spine. With a frontispiece featuring a black and white reproduction photograph of Carroll. Dust jacket is mildly scuffed at corners and toned at edges of flaps. Corners..... More