Item 265744Cat's Eye.
Price: $65
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988. First Canadian edition. Short listed for the Booker Prize. Read More Item Details for Cat's Eye Add to Wish List
Item #265744
Price: $65
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988. First Canadian edition. Short listed for the Booker Prize. Read More Item Details for Cat's Eye Add to Wish List
Item #265744
Price: $1,250
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First U.S. edition. SIGNED. Read More Item Details for The Handmaid's Tale Add to Wish List
Item #346769
Price: $1,000
London: J.M. Dent and Company at Aldine House in Great Eastern Street, 1895-1896. The classic novels in a nice late nineteenth-century edition: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey. Read More Item Details for Jane Austen's Novels. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson Add to Wish List
Item #313135
Price: $3,500
London: Dent, [1933-4]. The first Vox edition of Austen, finely bound. The first edition illustrated in line drawings and watercolors by French artist Maxmilien Vox, whose prefatory letter to the publisher Dent states "I have tried to attune myself to an art which never stresses, records only the essential, draws..... Read More Item Details for The Works of Jane Austen Add to Wish List
Item #366276
Price: $100
Macon, Georgia: Press of The J. W. Burke Company, 1927 (published 1928). First edition [title page states "1927," but with "1928" copyright date on verso of title page]. The foreword states: "In the many stories of the colored folk of the South, the small-town descendants of the faithful servitors of..... Read More Item Details for Charcoal Sketches. Stories of the Present-Day Southern Negro Add to Wish List
Item #333516
Price: $3,000
Amsterdam: Gedrukt [by Hendrik Harmensz] voor d'Autheur, waar by dit werk ook te bekomen is, op de Bloemgraft, omtrent de drukkery van d'Heer Blaauw : en by Timotheus ten Hoorn, Boekverkooper in de Nes, naast de Brakke-Gront, 1685. First edition. Prophets, Oracles, and Sacrifices. Four-part work on religion in the..... Read More Item Details for Spiegel der Sibyllen, van Vierderley Vertooningen ... Seer rykelijk verçiert met allerhande raare Kopere platen, waar onder de XII Sibyllen Add to Wish List
Item #221921
Price: $250
New York: St. Martins, [1985]. First Edition. Read More Item Details for The Price of the Ticket Add to Wish List
Item #365084
Price: $650
Buenos Aires: Editorial Pleamar, 1946. Ravenet. First edition. A multilingual collection of poetry on the concept of Blackness, with poems in the original as well as in Spanish translation, featuring poetry from the United States (Whitman, Longfellow, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen), Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba..... Read More Item Details for Mapa de la Poesía Negra Americana Add to Wish List
Item #334481
Price: $300
n.p: January 1975. Self-portrait of Balliett playing the drums, the kick labeled “Big Sid Catlett,” done at the request of collector Burt Britton. INSCRIBED “Dreams of glory don’t / ever really die. / Whitney Balliett / January 1975”. Read More Item Details for Self-portrait Add to Wish List
Item #245800
Price: $250
New York: 1975. Abstract self-portrait done at the request of collector Burt Britton. Titled and SIGNED “Whitney Balliett / 1975 N.Y.C.”. Read More Item Details for Self-portrait, “The Author on the Mark : Morning” Add to Wish List
Item #245801
Price: $1,250
New York: January 3, 1962. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones) Add to Wish List
Item #258605
Price: $300
Milano: Luigi Mussi & Giovanni Pirotta, 1813-1820. Read More Item Details for Opere di Giuseppe Baretti Scritte in Lingua Itlaiano Add to Wish List
Item #307426
Price: $800
London: T. Davies … and L. Davis, 1770. First English edition. A work suggested by Baretti's friend Samuel Johnson, "It was he that exhorted me to write daily and with all possible minuteness: it was he that pointed out the topics which would most interest and most delight in a...... Read More Item Details for A Journey from London to Genoa, Through England, Portugal, Spain, and France Add to Wish List
Item #307451
Price: $950
Hartford, Connecticut: June 14, 1787. Barlow to Hayley, Student to Mentor. An important letter on the state of art and literature in early America. Hayley was a major influence on Barlow. Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed. To William Hayley Esq. "The character you sustain in the literary world induces me to request your acceptance of the Poem [not present] herewith forwarded to the care of Doct. Price. The cultivation of the arts on this side of the Atlantic has hitherto been attended with very little ... , whether it be most owing to a defect in native genius, or the want of libraries & a Metropolis favourable to the institution ... " Add to Wish List
Item #232874
Price: $300
Ca. 1970s. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Djuna Barnes Add to Wish List
Item #304681
Price: $150
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, (1950). Second edition. Read More Item Details for Nightwood … with a Preface by T.S. Eliot Add to Wish List
Item #304723
Price: $750
London: Printed for John Wilkins at the Sign of the Maiden-Head in New Cheap-side in Moor-field, 1671. First Edition in English. see pp. 100 for Peter Martyr; p. 102 for Peru; p. 91 for Columbus. Read More Item Details for The History of the Administration of Cardinal Ximenes, Great Minister of State in Spain...and Translated into English by W. Vaughan Add to Wish List
Item #251029
Price: $150
London: Faber and Faber, [1962]. First UK edition. Read More Item Details for Happy Days Add to Wish List
Item #311737
Price: $400
Paris: The Traveller's Companion No. 71, [1959]. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable A Trilogy Add to Wish List
Item #323699
Price: $75
New York: L. B. Fischer, 1945. First Edition. This was the first US Merchant Marine ship under a Negro commander with white and colored men working together as officers and crew. The story of how well this worked is told by the great-grand nephew of Harriet Beecher Stowe who was..... Read More Item Details for All Brave Sailors. The Story of the SS Booker T. Washington Add to Wish List
Item #31840
Price: $300
New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First American Edition, #66 of 100 copies. First Book. Read More Item Details for The Quare Fellow. A Comedy-Drama Add to Wish List
Item #323653
Price: $75
New York: May 19, 1960 and January 19 (n.y.). Two items of correspondence from Eric Bentley (b.1916), the prominent translator, editor, and critic. In the letter he thanks Aaron Asher, longtime editor at Meridian Books, for the "handsome edition of Mayakovsky", referring to the 1960 collection The Bedbug and selected..... Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed and typed postcard signed, to Aaron Asher and a Mr. Cohen, respectively, regarding editions of Mayakovsky, Pirandello, etc Add to Wish List
Item #311840
Price: $4,500
Copenhagen: Trykt hos Andreas Seidelein, 1820. First edition in Danish, and the second complete translation in any language. The second translation of Beowulf, Very Scarce. A handsome first edition copy of N.F.S. Grundtvig's (1783-1872) Danish translation of the classic epic poem Beowulf. Grundtvig was a bishop and the first great..... Read More Item Details for Bjowulfs Drape. Et gothisk helte-digt fra forrige aar-tusinde, af angel-saxisk paa danske riim Add to Wish List
Item #345988
Price: $150
Paris: E. Basset, Éditeur 3, Rue Dante, 1912. INSCRIBED. Inscribed by the publisher. Read More Item Details for Les Morts Lyriques. Contes Add to Wish List
Item #61647
Price: $150
Boston: Published for the American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton-Mifflin, 1899. First edition, No. 109 of 500 copies. Inscribed on the first blank leaf, “To Mr. + Mrs. Robinson from F.D. B. 9.29.1899”. Read More Item Details for Animal and Plant-Lore. Collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk. Edited and Annotated by Fanny D. Bergen, With an Introduction by Joseph Y. Bergen Add to Wish List
Item #22579