London: Punch Office, 1847-48. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Full tan calf, tooled in gilt at board edges, spine, and turn-ins, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; xii,320pp; xii,394pp; xii,308pp; 30 hand-colored etchings and numerous in-text wood engravings by John Leech. Straight volumes, with faint staining to bindings at lower spine and..... More

Chicago: Afro-Am Publishing Company, (1963). First Edition. First printing. Quarto; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; x, 182pp; illus. Clean, straight, and tight, free of markings or notable wear; about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap), slightly ragged at extremities but with no significant losses, Very Good. A...... More

Elkins Park, PA: Uhuru Publications, 1970. First Edition. The Philadelphia activist and author's first book of poetry. Strongly influenced by the upsurge in black militancy during the early sixties, Jones speaks through his poetry about the experience of being a black man in America. None found in the trade (October..... More

Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1989. First English Language Edition. First English language printing. Quarto (29.5cm); black textured paper wrappers with gilt text in full color/metallic pictorial dust jacket; 98 color plates, 134 illustrations total. Amano's fourth published collection features examples of his exquisite fantasy artwork (acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink) in..... More

Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1956. First, Limited Edition. Superbly produced collection of Owen's anti-war poems, accompanied by Shahn's graphic depictions of the brutality of war. The colophon states that only the first thirty-five "deluxe" copies were bound in half-leather; in fact the entire edition appears to have been bound thus; but..... More

New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1955. Second Edition. Quarto (26cm.); light red publisher's cloth in color pictorial dustwrapper; [48pp]. Dustwrapper toned, with intermittent soiling and chipping to extremities; tear along rear spine hinge; inner panels price-clipped; interior text clean, sound. Near Fine in VG+ dustwrapper. Author and illustrator Edward..... More

London: Published by the Author at the Stock Exchange, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original plum cloth, upper cover double ruled in black, gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers; vi,183pp.; double frontispiece, one additional plate, text illus. throughout. Boards rather rubbed with shallow losses at spine ends, spine a bit sunned..... More

London: Faber and Faber, [1994]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); original simulated cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket by Art Spiegelman; [4],278pp. Fine. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. First Edition. First American. Octavo (19cm). Designer bookbinding in grey-green cloth, with pictorial design in red and blue on front and back boards, titled in gold on front and spine, with the monogram of Eric Pape; green and brick red patterned endpapers; [ii], [i]-[x], 1-[425], [iii]ppp;..... More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. First U.K. Trade Edition. Basis for Lewis Gilbert's 1957 British comedy film of the same name, starring Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil parker and Sally Ann Howes. Thick quarto; crimson cloth, with titling and elaborative decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; viii..... More

New Castle: Johnson Reprint Corporation, [1974]. Limited Edition. One of 1000 copies printed. Elephant folio (50cm). In chartreuse cloth stamped in gold on front; plain endpapers; x, 12, [164]pp; 40 color plates. A bright, clean copy, rubbed and sunned lightly at upper edge, else Near Fine. Facsimile of Bateman's 1837-43..... More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1971. Limited Edition. Two volumes. No. 310 of 1500 copies, hand-numbered on colophon, signed by illustrator Pierre-Yves Trémois on colophon of v.1. First volume (English text): quarto (289.5cm); full maroon cloth with printed titles to spine and front cover; 201pp; illus. Second volume (French..... More

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. First Trade Edition. An extraordinary association copy of this exquisitely-illustrated edition of Baum's beloved 1900 novel. Among his many accomplishments, Holder (1930-2014) was responsible for directing and designing the original Broadway production of The Wiz, an African-American retelling of The Wizard..... More