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Englewood Cliffs [NJ]: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1977. first edition. A modern tale of horror based on the true crimes of Ronald DeFeo Jr. and the alleged paranormal experiences by the Lutz family that was the basis of the 1979 movie. Read More about The Amityville Horror. A True Story
Price: $300
Rome, Georgia: January 1867. Carrier's Address. Scarce Carrier's Address for a Reconstruction-era Georgia newspaper. The text begins: "Gentle-folks, one and all, how do you do? / The Old year is dead, and we are now in the New / It ne'er would have happened had not your poor Hugh /..... Read More about New Year's Address of the Carrier of the Rome Courier January 1, 1867
Price: $650
np: s.n [1822]. Song in sixteen stanzas; first line: Höret, ich thu euch erzählen Text in two columns; printed area, including ornamental border. This sixteen-stanza "New Song of the Murder-Story of Joseph Miller" is attributed to Johannes Koppelberger. It tells the sad story of a murder-suicide committed by Miller, a...... Read More about BROADSIDE: Ein neues Lied, von der Mord Geschichte des Joseph Miller welcher in Januar 1822, ...
Price: $650
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. First Edition. "When the Wilmot Proviso against slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico produced angry debates, Benton denounced the proviso, but he also refused to support the southern demand for territorial expansion. He insisted that slavery where it existed was in no..... Read More about Historical and Legal Examination of that part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United...
Price: $750
Cincinnati, O: 13 January 1888. Henshall writes to Mr. Elliott B. Hodge, of Plymouth, N.H., concerning an unidentified specimen of Sunapee trout (in part), “The taxidermist, Mr. Dury, after skinning the specimen sent, had the flesh cooked, and he informed me that the largest on (‘what is it’) was the..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed (“J.A. Henshall”), to Elliott B. Hodge, 13 January 1888
Price: $400
Cynthiana, Ky: 7 July 1883. the ‘Henshall Black Bass Line’. Dr. J.A. Henshall, author of The Book of the Black Bass (1881), a landmark of nineteenth century American angling, writes to tackle manufacturers Henry Hall & Sons: “I am very glad to learn that you will so soon begin the..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed (“J.A. Henshall”), to tackle manufacturers Henry Hall & Sons, 7...
Price: $750
Cynthiana, Ky: 24 April 1883. Dr. J.A. Henshall, author of The Book of the Black Bass (1881), a landmark of nineteenth century American angling, writes to tackle manufacturers Henry Hall & Sons, “… you stated your intention of making a small & hard-braided raw silk line, such as I recommenfed..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed (“J.A. Henshall”), to tackle manufacturers Henry Hall & Sons, 24...
Price: $400
Manchester, Vt: 15 November 1880. Nice autograph letter, signed, from Charles Orvis (1831–1915), , Vermont angler, rod maker and outfitter, to New York manufacturer Henry Hall & Sons, reading in part: “I have for two years bought my fly lines of Bradford & Anthony and the lines are very fine—..... Read More about Autograph letter, signed (“C.F. Orvis”), 15 November 1880, to Henry Hall & Sons,...
Price: $750
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1958]. Burne-Jones, Edward. First edition thus. Read More about The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer...Together...
Price: $200
Narrandera, Australia: [Privately Printed for the Author], [No Date, but circa 1930's]. First edition, author's complimentary copy. A short story about a beautiful jeweler's clock and a five-year-old girl. Scarce [2 copies located by OCLC Worldwide]. Read More about The Watch by Neil Hunt, the Author of 'The Thistledown Fairy Queen's Party. A Fairy Story.'
Price: $300
London: Dean and Son 11 Ludgate Hill, [1859]. Read More about Shakespere fresh chiselled on stone
Price: $400
New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation, successor to Dick & Fitzgerald 18 Vesey St, nd (prob. after 1900). Read More about Practical Distiller. An Exhaurstive Treatise on the Art of Distilling and Rectifying Spiriituous...
Price: $250
New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First printing of this edition. The first edition of Thomas's book, published in 1862, is the first cocktail manual. This First Knopf edition features an introduction by Herbert Asbury (author of "THe Gangs of New York") with a biography of the author..... Read More about The Bon Vivant's Companion, or How to Mix Drinks...Edited, with an Introduction by Herbert Asbury
Price: $600
Kansas City, MO: Nabuisco, 1911. Inscribed on ffep. Read More about A Descriptive and Pictorial Review of the Luncheon and Reception given by the National BIscuit...
Price: $300
Privately Printed, 1972. Revised and Edited by her Grandson Matthew Mellon. No Part of this book can be printed for sale without the permision of the Mellon family. Read More about William Penn. A Short Account of His Life and Views
Price: $100
[Upper Montclair, New Jersey]: The Nutmeg Point District Mail, 2022. First edition, one of 25 copies for members and friends of the Avram Davidson Society (edition of 160). Publications of the Avram Davidson Society, number six. Published in Napoli on 11 September 2022. NAPLES is a fine press edition of..... Read More about Naples
Price: $200
Paris: Gallimard, [1951]. First edition, one of 210 copies on velin pur fil Navarre (numbered 31-230, this being no. 214). His Most Celebrated Novel. Giono’s most celebrated novel, Le Hussard sur le toit [The Horseman on the Roof], is set in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1830 and follows..... Read More about Le Hussard sur le toit
Price: $1,500
1981. Inscribed on the title-page to Denise Levertov and with a 3 page ALS to her laid in from Scahlow. Read More about Stone Lion Fall 81
Price: $125
New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1906. First edition. Mary Ives Todd (novelist and playwright), 'Nineteen century feminist and novelist of sexual equality,' was born in 1849 [Mormon Literature & Creative Arts/ Brigham Young University website]. Her other titles include: The New Adam and Eve. A Love Story (1890); Deborah, the..... Read More about A PREMATURE SOCIALIST. Ouida's Wittiest Story Built Into a Comedy. [A Play in Three Acts] by Mary...
Price: $75
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Napoli: Luigi Pierro, Printers, July, 1906. Edition of 250 copies. Presentation Copy to J. E. Brooks. Three Monographs consists of the fourth, fifth and sixth of the Capri pamphlets, issued anonymously by Douglas, with a separate title page for each monograph and paginated continuously. Inscribed on the first title page..... Read More about Three Monographs [Cover title]. [Comprising:] The Lost Literature of Capri [and] Tiberius [and]...
Price: $7,500
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, MDCCCXIV [but actually 1894]. First American edition, limited to 450 copies. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF YEATS' FIRST ACTED PLAY. First American edition of Yeats' first acted play; frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. Read More about The Land of Heart's Desire
Price: $500
[Florence]: Privately Printed, 1927. First edition, no. 154 of 550 copies, signed by the author. Printed by the Tipografia Giunta. Read More about Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology
Price: $375
London: Chatto & Windus, 1961; 1973. First editions. Superior set of the ambitious work which long preoccupied Richard Hughes (1900-1976), author of A High Wind in Jamaica (1929). Hughes worked as a bureaucrat in the Admiarly during the secon world war, with little time for his own writings. As John..... Read More about The Fox in the Attic. [And:] The Wooden Shepherdess. [At head of title:] The Human Predicament
Price: $175
New York: G. P. Putnam, 1883. Memorial Edition. Large paper edition of 300 copies, signed and dated May 17, 1883 by the publisher in each volume. Read More about The Life and letters of Washington Irving by his Nephew Pierre M. Irving
Price: $150