The Collected Poems.
London: Printed for Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, by the Chiswick Press, 1919. No. 296 of 1013 copies printed in the Riccardi Press fount on Riccardi paper. Read More about The Collected Poems
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London: Printed for Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, by the Chiswick Press, 1919. No. 296 of 1013 copies printed in the Riccardi Press fount on Riccardi paper. Read More about The Collected Poems
Price: $200
New York: Grove Press, [1959]. First American edition. Signed by Burroughs on the title page. SIGNED. Read More about Naked Lunch
Price: $3,500
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956; 1956; 1957; 1958. First American Editions. In Presentation Bindings. We have had and seen one other deluxe set of this edition, done for the president of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Read More about A History of the English Speaking Peoples. [Volume I: The Birth of Britain; Volume II: The New...
Price: $5,400
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. First edition, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, l. 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, l. 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, l. 26. Presentation Copy, Inscribed. Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed "From the author"..... Read More about An Outcast of the Islands
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First edition, first issue with 6 line colophon. The US edition precedes the British by 3 years. Read More about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Price: $6,000
[London]: Nonesuch Press, 1928. No. 293 of 1475 copies. Read More about La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian and English. The Italian...
Price: $1,500
Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merriam Company, [1967]. Finely Bound. Binder's stamp on inside front cover smudged and illegible. Read More about Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary
Price: $300
Boston: The Cushman Press, January, 1905. First edition. PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS ALVA EDISON. Brady was an immigrant from Ireland and a Methodist minister who did much of his ministering in New Jeresy. Read More about Beacon Search-Lights on Pioneers and Millionaires
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London: George G Harrap &Co, 1910. Read More about Representative Men
Price: $900
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First edition, trade issue. NEW HAMPSHIRE with 11-line HOLOGRAPH POEM, with UNRECORDED TITLE. Inscribed and signed by Robert Frost, with an eleven-line poem in ink holograph on front flyleaf, with unrecorded title ("Winter Will Go") with eight variant textual differences from the final..... Read More about New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
Price: $13,500
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First American edition, first state dust jacket (with the exclamation point). Superb Copy of the Classic of Magical Realism. An outstanding copy of the generation-spanning novel of Colombian village life, García Márquez’s masterpiece and the defining work of late twentieth-century magical..... Read More about One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
Price: $10,000
New York: Randon House, 1932. First Edition. One of 300 copies signed by Gershwin and Alajalov. SIGNED BY GERSHWIN AND ALAJALOV. Containing the words and music to some of the best known American music ever written: "Lady be Good," "I Got Rhythm," "Swanee." The list goes on and on. The..... Read More about George Gershwin's Song-book
Price: $8,000
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Rackham, Arthur. First Rackham edition, one of 2020 copies, designed and printed under the supervision of Bruce Rogers, who signed the colophon. Rackham's last work, a beautiful interpretation of this beloved classic, and a choice book designed by Bruce Rogers. Read More about The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by A.A. Milne
Price: $1,250
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First American Edition. "Keynes’ Best Book" A book whose prophetic insight into the terms imposed on the Central Powers at the end of World War I is now legendary.“[It]…Has the claim to be regarded as Keynes's best book. In none of the others..... Read More about The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Price: $350
oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Fifth edition. Read More about The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Price: $450
New York: Macmillan Company, Collier-Macmillan, 1968. First printing. Life with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang. Attractive copy of a pioneering American photography book. Read More about The Bikeriders
Price: $1,500
New York: A Studio Book/ The Viking Press, -1983. First edition, wrappered issued, of Mapplethorpe's first book. Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe, and Lisa Lyon, on the half-title page. Read More about Lady Lisa Lyon
Price: $1,000
London: Methuen, 1927. First edition, first impression, deluxe issue, one of 1,500 copies bound in green leather. Deluxe Issue. Increasingly scares in the original publisher's limp sheep. Read More about Now We Are Six
Price: $900
London: Martin Secker, 1945. First edition. The most celebrated political satire of the Twentieth Century. An attractive copy of the greatest of postwar political satires. Read More about Animal Farm
Price: $9,000
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. First edition. "Disguised and designed in the form of a book, Speculation! stands out as a vivid memento of the twenties bull market. It reproduces stock reports, city pages, and the movement of the tape, 'For Wall Street sharks it may be played, however..... Read More about Speculation! The Wall Street Game-Book
Price: $800
London: George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd, [1933]. First edition. One of 460 copies signed by the artist. Beautiful Copy of Rackham's Iconic Fairy Illustrations. One of the greatest publications from the Golden Age of British book illustration, Rackham's anthology collects and illustrates some of the best-known fairy stories from..... Read More about The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites with New Illustrations
Price: $2,750
London and Glasgow: Collins, [1971]. Third Edition. Read More about Roget's International Thesaurus
Price: $250
Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications, 1969. First edition, edition of 5000. Stills taken from a film based on Mason Williams’ essay How To Derive The Maximum Enjoyment from Eating Crackers in Bed. Read More about Crackers
Price: $900
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. Steadman, Ralph. First edition, first printing, second state jacket. Read More about Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Price: $450
New York: Summit Books, 1988. Read More about Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers Vol. 2 Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's
Price: $250
[New York]: A Seymour Lawrence Book, Delacorte Press, [1969]. First edition. A beautiful copy of this 20th century high-spot. Vonnegut’s most powerful novel, for which he drew on his experience as a prisoner of war during the firebombing of Dresden. Read More about Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade. A Duty-Dance with Death
Price: $4,000
New York: Random House, 1967. First edition. Read More about Andy Warhol's Index (Book
Price: $750
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]. First edition. Signed by Warhol. Signed by the artist on the half title with initials “AW”. Read More about The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Price: $1,200
London: Duckworth, 1927. “Cheap Edition”, i.e., first American edition, English issue. Read More about The Voyage Out
Price: $3,750
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, c. 1921. Original Illustration of Winkle by Wyeth. A charming pen-and-ink sketch of Rip Van Winkle inscribed to Veronica S. Hutchinson. Hutchinson was a Carnegie Institute of Technology-trained librarian who worked first as a children's librarian at the Cleveland Public Library before joining the rare book..... Read More about Ink drawing of Rip Van Winkle
Price: $9,000