Mardi: and A Voyage Thither
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849. First American edition. Preceded by the English edition of the same year. Read More about Mardi: and A Voyage Thither
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Animal Lore in English Literature. A Study of Superstitious Beliefs and Travellers' Tales.
London: John Murray, 1932. First Edition. This book belonged to Critic William York Tindall and has his signature on the end-paper. Read More about Animal Lore in English Literature. A Study of Superstitious Beliefs and Travellers' Tales
Price: $125
Amish Love. Adventures in a Puritan Cult.
Printed in Florence, Italy: Micheal Angelino Press. Read More about Amish Love. Adventures in a Puritan Cult
Price: $1,500
L'asino d'oro di … tradotto nuouamente in lingua volgare dal ... Sig. Pompeo Vizani ... Nuouamente ristampato, & aggiuntoui le...
Venice: Alessandro Zatta, 1668. " ... novamente ristampato, & aggiuntovi le Figure ... " Read More about L'asino d'oro di … tradotto nuouamente in lingua volgare dal ... Sig. Pompeo Vizani ......
Price: $400
The Arabian Nights Entertainments...from the Text of Dr. Jonathan Scott (1754–1829).
London: Pickering and Chatto, 1890. The "Aldine" Edition. The Scott translation was first published first in 1811 and again in 1882, this third edition was issued in 1890. Read More about The Arabian Nights Entertainments...from the Text of Dr. Jonathan Scott (1754–1829
Price: $300
The Arabian Nights Entertainment: or, The Thousand and One Nights. Accurately describing the Manners, Customs, Laws, and Religion, of the...
London: Printed for Mathews and Leigh, Strand, by J. Moyes, Greville Street, Hatton Garden, 1811. First edition. Read More about The Arabian Nights Entertainment: or, The Thousand and One Nights. Accurately describing the...
Price: $500
Gymnasium Arabicum. In quo tres Priores Davidis Odae cum versione Latina, et notis critico-analyticus ….
Wittenberg: Impensis Georgii Marci Knochii, 1724. Arabic and Latin texts of the first three Psalms of David, with discussion of the Arabic grammar and vocabulary. Read More about Gymnasium Arabicum. In quo tres Priores Davidis Odae cum versione Latina, et notis...
Price: $250
An Appendix to John Bull Still in his Senses: or, Law is a Bottomless Pit. Printed from a manuscript found...
London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationer's-hall, 1712. Third edition (price from imprint “3 d”). Read More about An Appendix to John Bull Still in his Senses: or, Law is a Bottomless Pit. Printed from a...
Price: $600
John Bull Still in his Senses: being the third part of Law is a Bottomless Pit. Printed for a manuscript...
London: printed for John Morphew, near Stationer's-Hall, 1712. Second edition. Dated by the first purchaser at the foot of p. [3] “Aprl. 16, 1712”, the date of publication (see Bower & Erickson). This is the third of Arbuthnot's series, in Bower & Erickson's permutation (b), i.e., with p. 25 in..... Read More about John Bull Still in his Senses: being the third part of Law is a Bottomless Pit. Printed for a...
Price: $750
Lewis Baboon turned Honest and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. [bound with:] A....
London: Printed for John Morphew, 1712. First edition. Read More about Lewis Baboon turned Honest and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a...
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Robert of Artois. An Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century.
London: Published by E. Farrington, n.d. [1846]. Parts reissue. Though the usual progression for successful penny dreadful and parts publications was from parts issue to book issue, some works, such as the present, were issued in the opposite sequence (cf. James & Smith, “Penny Dreadful and Boys’ Adventures,” p. xii)..... Read More about Robert of Artois. An Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century
Price: $400
Self-portrait.
n.p: January 1975. Self-portrait done at the request of collector Burt Britton, SIGNED “Michael Arlen” and dated. Read More about Self-portrait
Price: $250
Seven Simeons.
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Second printing, July 1937. Winner of the First Caldecott Prize. Read More about Seven Simeons
Price: $200
Seven Simeons.
New York: Cassell and Company Limited, (1947). Second English Edition. Winner of the First Caldecott Prize. Read More about Seven Simeons
Price: $50
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The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories. [Introduction by Michael Cox].
Pennyffordd: Ash-tree Press, 1995. One of 250 copies. Nicely produced new edition of this classic of the supernatural, with an introduction by Michael Cox. Munbay, Librarian at King’s College, wrote these while he was intererned in a German prison camp near Eichstätt. Read More about The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories. [Introduction by Michael Cox
Price: $225
Pygmies, Gulos, Vegetable Lambs, Centaurs, Lami, and More
Curious Creatures in Zoology.
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, [n.d., 1890]. Pygmies, Gulos, Vegetable Lambs, Centaurs, Lami, and More. Read More about Curious Creatures in Zoology
Price: $150
INSCRIBED TO JUDY-LYNN DEL REY
The Gods Themselves.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. First edition. INSCRIBED TO JUDY-LYNN DEL REY. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: "To Judy-Lynn-the Chinese-cookie girl Isaac (to Lester, too) 11 April 72." Judy Lynn del Rey (1983-1986) started her career as an editor at Galaxy magazine. She moved..... Read More about The Gods Themselves
Price: $1,500
The Bejeweled Boy.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1971. First edition. Read More about The Bejeweled Boy
Price: $75
The Last of the Giant Killers or the Exploits of Sir Jack of Danby Dale.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1891. First Edition. Read More about The Last of the Giant Killers or the Exploits of Sir Jack of Danby Dale
Price: $90
Cat's Eye.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988. First Canadian edition. Short listed for the Booker Prize. Read More about Cat's Eye
Price: $65
SIGNED
The Handmaid's Tale.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First U.S. edition. SIGNED. Read More about The Handmaid's Tale
Price: $1,250
Jane Austen's Novels. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
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 about Jane Austen's Novels. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson
Price: $1,000
‘a truth universally acknowledged’
Elizabeth Bennet; or, Pride and Prejudice. A Novel. In Two Volumes.
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American edition from the third London. ‘a truth universally acknowledged’. The first American edition of Jane Austen’s masterpiece. Gilson notes, “the reason for the publisher’s chocice of the title of Elizabeth Bennet is not recorded, nor the reason for the title page anonymity.” This..... Read More about Elizabeth Bennet; or, Pride and Prejudice. A Novel. In Two Volumes
Price: $35,000
Charcoal Sketches. Stories of the Present-Day Southern Negro.
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 about Charcoal Sketches. Stories of the Present-Day Southern Negro
Price: $100
Baldwin's First and Most Iconic Work
Go Tell It On the Mountain.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Baldwin's First and Most Iconic Work. Read More about Go Tell It On the Mountain
Price: $3,250
Just Above My Head.
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First edition, #90 of 500 deluxe copies, signed by the author. His last and longest and most ambitous novel. Read More about Just Above My Head
Price: $1,500