The Viking Press, 1987. Small 8vo, black quarter cloth over sky blue paper boards, black metallic blue stamped titles, green endpapers, 467pp. First Edition, with ‘first published in 1987 by Viking Penguin Inc’ to copyright statement. Unclipped dust jacket (18.95) with light creasing and toning to flap edges, the faintest.....
Silver Spring, MD: The Preservation of the Faith Press, 1938. 8vo, brick red cloth, white titles, blindstamped boards, bevelled edges, 173pp. Stated First Printing, November 1938. Review copy, with a tipped in photo slide featuring a press portrait of Day, and a hand-signed letter from the publisher addressed to Newsweek.....
University of Chicago Press, 1995. 8vo, drab green cloth, gilt titles, 128pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (18.95) with mild toning to flaps and panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. An early work by the young Cioran, inspired from a stint studying the lives.....
Random House, 1979. 8vo, dark burgundy cloth with silver titles, 151pp. Stated First Edition with number line ending in 2, according to Random House convention. Signed ‘Elizabeth Hardwick’ to the free front endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket (8.95) mildly creased and rubbed. Contents clean, binding sharp and firm. The third and.....
Ditchling: St. Dominic’s Press, 1919. 16mo, plain typographic sewn pamphlet, superfine paper, 24pp. Limited issue, unnumbered. Wrappers and pages show slight rippling and toning. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The third volume in the Welfare Handbook series by St. Dominic’s Press, printed and designed by Eric Gill. ‘Being extracts.....
Sheed and Ward, 1949. 4to, quarter burgundy cloth over pictorial paper boards, gilt titles, 187pp. First issue. Boards heavily spotted with abrasion and chipping to edges and corners. Titles faded, toning and residue to endpapers, light foxing present to pages. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. Biographies of the Carmelite.....
Harper & Row, 1968. 8vo, quarter purple cloth over orange paper boards, silver titles, black top stain, 385pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (6.95) with wear to corner edges of panels, light creasing and chipping to spine edges, toning and rubbing to rear panel. Ownership signature to front endpaper, light.....
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1971. Square 8vo (9x9), white cloth with black and gilt blind stamped titles, black endpapers. 95pp plus 48 photographic plates. First edition with no other printings listed. Price clipped dust jacket mildly worn to panels, a few faint soil marks to front panel, creasing.....
Random House, 1974. Random House, 1974. First printing of the Random House edition. Octavo, quarter turquoise cloth over teal paper boards, gilt titles, 139pp. Ex-college library. A collection of nine short stories by the Black American poet, Southern-born writer and Midwestern university professor who was mistaken for the wrong man.....
Doubleday and Co., 1961. 8vo, black cloth, gilt titles, 474pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (4.95) with chipping to spine crown, quarter loss to rear panel at spine. Ownership inscription to front endpaper, pages lightly age toned. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first edition of the celebrated.....
George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1965. 3 Volume Set. Fourteenth Impression [Fellowship of the Ring], Eleventh Impression [Two Towers], Eleventh Impression [Return of the King]. 8vos, uniform red buckram cloth, gilt titles, red top stain, 423pp [I], 352pp [II], 416pp [III]. All volumes with illustrated maps in fine condition. Unclipped.....
Talisman House, 1994. 8vo, pictorial softcover wrappers, 169pp. First softcover edition. Very light wear to wrappers, ownership signature and toning to reverse of wrap. Contents clean, binding firm. The long out of print only novel by the San Francisco Renaissance poet, a detective fiction of a poet’s murder and an.....
Librarie Plon, 1925. 8vo, softcover wrappers, uncut page leaves, 282pp. First edition, the principal volume in the Roseau d’Or series by Plon. Ex-libris copy from the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame University. Association copy, inscribed by the philosopher to Noemi Renan, daughter of Ernest Renan (1823-1892), French orientalist scholar.....
W.W. Norton and Company, 1966. 8vo, half teal blue cloth over white paper boards, gilt titles, 190pp. First American Edition, with full number line beginning in 1. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50) with light wear to edges, small creases to lower edge of front panel, short closed tear to spine crown.....
Black Sparrow Press, 1982. 8vo, quarter blue cloth over khaki pictorial boards, blue and red titles, sea blue endpapers. 147pp. First edition, limited to 193 signed and numbered copies, numbered 193 to colophon. Signed by John Fante to the blank page following title page and copyright statement. The lightest of.....
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. 8vo, contemporary binding, 430pp plus 127p appendix. Bound in red calf over marbleized paper, gilt decorated spine with five raised bands, marbleized endpapers, all edges marbleized. First one volume edition, following the serial publication in seven separate tracts with the “Answer to.....
Harper & Row, 1986. 8vo, white buckram cloth over mustard yellow papered boards, gilt titles, 226pp. Stated First Edition with full number line. Price clipped dust jacket mildly creased and worn at edges, faint damp stain to lower corner of front panel. Contents clean, binding firm. Signed by Johnny Cash.....
Sheed and Ward, 1947. 8vo, beige buckram cloth, green titles, 356pp. First American printing by the publisher [from the original UK edition by Sheed and Ward in 1939]. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) with foxing and rubbing to panels, small chips and short closed tears to edges, faint dampstain to rear.....
The Viking Press, 1966. 8vo, black cloth, gilt and silver titles, 243pp. First printing. Unclipped dust jacket (5.75) with light edge wear to panels, fading to corners. Ownership signature, toning to front endpapers, boards slightly bowed upwards, fading and spotting to cloth. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The second.....
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1980. 8vo, quarter blue cloth over teal paper boards, gilt titles, 219pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (10.95) moderately rubbed to panels, toned to flaps. Ownership signature to front endpaper, trace of fading to board edges, light bump to lower corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and.....
J.B. Lippincott Company, 1957. 8vo, blue cloth, blue titles, 224pp. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) with rubbing and spotting to panels, a large closed tear to spine at rear panel, chipping to spine crown and lower edge of front panel. Ownership signature, toning to front endpaper. Contents clean, binding.....
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. 8vo, single stitch hand sewn blue paper wrappers, French folds, 10pp. #260 of an edition of 300 copies, signed and numbered to the colophon by Paul Bowles. Gathers nine short poems by Bowles, with a woodcut drawing by Henry Shire. Faintest of wear and.....
W.W. Norton & Company, 1939. 8vo, beige buckram cloth, titles stamped in maroon and blue, bevelled edges, 130pp. Price-clipped dust jacket (with 3.00 stamped price to lower corner of front flap) faintly toned with small chips and creases to top edge of panels. Contents clean, binding firm and sharp. The.....
Benziger Brothers, 1898. 16mo (4.5 x 6), black flexible cloth, gilt titles, all edges stained red, 639pp. Ostensible first printing, with 1898 copyright date, advertisement for Manual of the Holy Eucharist (1897) present to copyright statement. Minor fading to edges of cloth, front hinge soft with subtle exposure at title.....
The University Press of Kentucky, 1989. Tall 8vo, black cloth, silver titles, 349pp. First edition. Unpriced dust jacket toned to outer edges. Faint toning to text block edges and endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. This hardcover facsimile anthology gathers the four mimeographic poetry and photo zines published by.....