The Novels of Jane Austen.
London: Grant Richards 9 Henrietta Street, 1898. Winchester Edition. Missing Vol. 1 of Sense and Sensiblity. Read More about The Novels of Jane Austen
Price: $1,250
Holiday Selections 2022
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The End of the Game.
New York: The Viking Press, [1965]. First edition. "In addition to being singularly beautiful (with its luscious printing and scrapbook aesthetic), THE END OF THE GAME is thoughful as well. Long taken as a seminal book on wildlife conservation, it is actually an epic visual poem on the subject of..... Read More about The End of the Game
Price: $950
Christmas & New Year's Gifts ... Games for the...
Exeter: Dec. 12, 1854. Albert W. Lovering (1823-1907) would become one of the largest booksellers of the 19th century, operating a thriving business in Boston and subsequently in New York. But prior to opening those stores he operated a shop in his hometown of Exeter, New Hampshire. The present broadside..... Read More about Christmas & New Year's Gifts ... Games for the Juveniles, viz; Goody Two Shoes, Dr. Busby,...
Price: $1,500
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
Price: $200
Signed by Burroughs on the title page
Naked Lunch.
New York: Grove Press, [1959]. First American edition. Signed by Burroughs on the title page. SIGNED. Read More about Naked Lunch
Price: $3,500
In Presentation Bindings
A History of the English Speaking Peoples. [Volume I....
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: $4,500
Presentation Copy, Inscribed
An Outcast of the Islands.
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
Price: $7,500
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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
La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Vision of Dante...
[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
Finely Bound
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
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
Beautiful Copy of a Classic
The Hound of the Baskervilles.
London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition. Beautiful Copy of a Classic. “Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!” A beautiful copy of the rare first edition of the most famous of the Sherlock Holmes novels. Read More about The Hound of the Baskervilles
Price: $7,500
PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Beacon Search-Lights on Pioneers and Millionaires.
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
Price: $500
Representative Men.
London: George G Harrap &Co, 1910. Read More about Representative Men
Price: $750
Mountain Interval.
New York: 1916. First edition, second issue with errors corrected. Read More about Mountain Interval
Price: $1,750
NEW HAMPSHIRE with 11-line HOLOGRAPH POEM, with UNRECORDED TITLE
New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes.
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
Superb copy of the Greatest Boom Novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish...
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First American edition with a first state jacket (with the exclamation point). Superb copy of the Greatest Boom Novel. A superb copy of García Márquez’s masterpiece, regarded as the greatest novel of the latter half of the 20th century, and certainly..... Read More about One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
Price: $10,000
SIGNED BY GERSHWIN AND ALAJALOV
George Gershwin's Song-book.
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
The Wind in the Willows. With an Introduction by...
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
The Phantom Tollbooth.
New York: Epstein & Carroll. Distributed by Random House, [1961]. First edition. Review copy with review slip laid in. Adam Gopnick, in his appreciation of the novel, called it "the closest thing that American literature has to an Alice in Wonderland of its own...with illustrations, by Jules Feiffer, that are..... Read More about The Phantom Tollbooth
Price: $1,500
Inscribed
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
New York: Signet Books, [February, 1963]. First paperback edition, first printing. Inscribed. Inscribed under the epigraph, "For Mat, There could be disciplinary action against the plotters of this coup." SIGNED by Kesey. Read More about One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Price: $500
"Keynes’ Best Book"
The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
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
The Stand.
New York: Doubleday, 1978. First edition. Choice copy of King’s dark dystopian tale, here inscribed by the author: “For Stan with all good wishes, Stephen King”. Read More about The Stand
Price: $6,000
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Fifth edition. Read More about The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Price: $450
The Bikeriders.
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
Lady Lisa Lyon.
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
First Edition
The House at Pooh Corner.
London: Methuen, [1928]. E.H. Shepard. First edition. First Edition. Choice copy of the second collection of Pooh stories. Read More about The House at Pooh Corner
Price: $2,250
Deluxe Issue
Now We Are Six.
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: $750
Obama's First Book
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and...
New York: Times Books/ Random House, 1995. First edition, first printing, with number line from 2 through 9, as called for. Obama's First Book. Barack Obama's moving and lyrical memoir, recounting his early life through his work as a community organizer in Chicago and enrollment in Harvard Law School. Read More about Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Price: $950
Animal Farm.
London: Martin Secker, 1945. First edition. Attractive copy of this great postwar satire. Read More about Animal Farm
Price: $9,000
Speculation! The Wall Street Game-Book.
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
Roget's International Thesaurus.
London and Glasgow: Collins, [1971]. Third Edition. Read More about Roget's International Thesaurus
Price: $250
African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First trade edition, issue with Scribner's seal on verso of title (published simultaneously with subscriber’s edition). Read More about African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
Price: $450
Crackers.
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
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
London: John Cassell, 1852. Cruikshank, George. First Cruikshank edition. Immensely best-selling in England and America. BAL identifies one edition (BAL 19518) — not illustrated — which precedes this edition by a few weeks, but the Cassell edition, being by far the more desirable, has traditionally been called the English first..... Read More about Uncle Tom's Cabin
Price: $1,250
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
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
Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers Vol. 2 Tales of...
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
Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade. A Duty-Dance with Death.
[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
Andy Warhol's Index (Book).
New York: Random House, 1967. First edition. Read More about Andy Warhol's Index (Book
Price: $750
Signed "AW"
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]. First edition. Signed "AW" Signed with initials. Read More about The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Price: $1,000
The Voyage Out.
London: Duckworth, 1927. “Cheap Edition”, i.e., first American edition, English issue. Read More about The Voyage Out
Price: $3,750
Original Illustration of Winkle by Wyeth
Ink drawing of Rip Van Winkle.
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
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