New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1982. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (23.5cm); grayish-green paper-covered boards and beige cloth backstrip, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],212,[2]pp; illus. Small spot to upper front cover, a few foxed spots..... More
Cambridge: John Owen, 1841. An unnoted and quite pretty American trade binding. BAL 12279, noting only copies in boards for this and for the 1839 first edition. This edition not in Wilson (Thirteen Author Collections) or Howe Library. The printing was presumably small, as only nine OCLC institutions have catalogued..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); first binding in dark brown paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [viii],160pp. Tiny scuff to lower edge of textblock, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (first state, priced..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); white cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [10],11-225,[3]pp. Very faint remainder mark to lower edge of textblock, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with some trivial rubbing to..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); orange paper and brown cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in dark yellow on spine; dustjacket; [12],13-176,[4]pp. Discreet remainder mark to lower edge of textblock, with two tiny indentations to lower board edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced..... More
[Golden, CO: Brewery Workers Local 366, n.d. - ca. 1978]. Local 366 of the International Brewery, Bottling, Can and Allied Industrial Union struck the Coors brewery in Golden, Colorado in 1977, citing discriminatory hiring practices and, especially, the company's intrusive use of polygraph tests to terminate "undesirable" employees. By 1979..... More
Toronto: McLelland and Stewart, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth boards, lettered in blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 87pp; illus. Fine, tight copy in lightly rubbed and edgeworn dustwrapper, Very Good. MId-career collection by the acclaimed Canadian poet. Purdy won the Governor General's Award in 1965 for The..... More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1958. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue linen boards with paper spine label; dustjacket; 71pp. Near Fine in lightly aged and spine-sunned dustwrapper, Very Good or better. The poet's second book. Emma Swan (later Swan-Hall), poet and noted Egyptologist, born ca. 1915. Not to be confused..... More
Sunderland: Ceolfrith Press, 1978. First Edition. First printing, limited issue. No. 39 of 50 signed copies. Printed stiff card wrappers in pictorial dustwrapper; 54pp. Faint crease to front wrapper, else Fine in dustwrapper. Anglo-Canadian poet and anarchist philosopher. More
[Ottawa]: Oberon Press, 1988. First Edition. First printing, cloth issue. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 72pp. Fine in barely edge-rubbed, Near Fine dustwrapper. Issued simultaneously in paperback. More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1907. First American Edition. 12mo. Russet linen boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xi (i.e., ix), 120pp. Originally published London, 1906, by Burns & Oates. A small number of copies were issued in America with a cancel title page bearing the..... More
![Houdini [Inscribed to James Baker Hall]. Lynn SUCKENICK](/pictures/medium/52591.jpg?v=1612823168)
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers; unpaged. Fine copy, inscribed to poet James Baker Hall on front endpaper: "For Jim / with warmest wishes / Lynn," dated November 1973. From the library of James Baker Hall. More
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; blue cloth boards, stamped in black and silver on spine; dustjacket; 100pp. Tight, fine and unmarked copy in crisp, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $5.95), Near Fine. Maine poet's fourth published collection. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1868. Second American edition. Two crown octavo volumes (19cm). Publisher's beveled maroon cloth boards, titled in gilt on spines; brown clay-coated endpapers; xxx,[1]-371; xii,[1]-372pp; 2 colored maps (one folding); text illus; frontispieces, 12 inserted leaves of engraved plates. Short tear into margin of folding map (at gutter)..... More
![Locations [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Jim HARRISON](/pictures/medium/52586.jpg?v=1612844603)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1968. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21.75cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-62,[2]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, clipped at lower corner of front flap but..... More
![The Bastard [Inscribed to Richard Johns]. Erskine CALDWELL, Ty Mahon](/pictures/medium/52585.jpg?v=1612823168)
New York: Heron Press Incorporated, 1929. First Edition. A significant association copy of Caldwell's first book. Johns (1904-1970) was at this time the editor of Pagany, a short-lived but influential experimental magazine in which Caldwell succeeded in placing a number of early stories. Caldwell's and Johns's correspondence, held at the..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; viii,245,[3]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.95), with some pinpoint wear to extremities and a hint of sunning to the white..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. Second American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); teal cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in green on spine and in blind on front cover; dustjacket; x,214pp. Light wear to lower board edges, gentle sunning to upper board edges, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped..... More
London: for Henry Mortlock, 1685. First Edition. Folio, 32cm. Early mottled calf boards, sympathetically rebacked with new spine label; [2], lxxiii, [9], 364 pp. A catalog of the author's works appears following the table of contents. A crisp, attractive copy, the text fresh and firm. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown..... More
Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; pictorial pictorial paper-covered boards (hardcover); xii,336pp; maps. Includes selected bibliography. Fine and unmarked; an apparently unread copy. More
New York: J.A. Rogers, 1952. First Edition. First printing. Edition of 2000 copies. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; [6],242pp.; full-page illus. throughout. Jacket unclipped ($5.00 price); a bit soiled and dampstained at margins, with a few short closed tears to extremities; book clean and tight, with..... More
Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; 434p; photographicallly illustrated (halftones); frontispiece; includes glossary and index. Cracks to front and rear hinges (holding); mild external wear and soil; complete and Good. Small ownership stamp ("Dr. J. Madison Taylor, Philadelphia") to front pastedown. The author, an African-American doctor..... More
Brooklyn: Who's Who in Colored America, (1929). Second Edition. Quarto (26.75cm.); original brown gilt-titled cloth; xiv,470pp; photographic plates throughout. Ex-library copy, with white ink call number at base of spine, removed bookplate and large "Discard" stamp to front endpaper. Spine and extremities rubbed and worn, but text block is sound..... More
Brooklyn: Who's Who in Colored America, [1933]. Third Edition. Quarto (26.75cm.); original green gilt-lettered cloth; xiv,[2],499,[12](ads)pp.; photographic plates throughout. Extremities rubbed and worn; textblock quite shaken in binding, front hinge cracked. Text, however, is complete, clean and unmarked. A reading copy, no better than "Good," of an early edition of..... More
![In Between the Sheets and Other Stories [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Ian MCEWAN](/pictures/medium/52537.jpg?v=1612844602)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [11],12-144pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Spine ends gently nudged, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £3.50 net), with light wear to..... More
