London: Faber and Faber, 1969. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 281pp, [3]. Touch of softening to spine ends, with light foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly shelfworn, with a few tiny tears; Near..... More
Praha: Nakladatelstvi Vl. Orel, n.d., 1931? First Czech Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 280pp. Spine rather heavily cocked, jacket extremities a bit shelf worn, rear panel shows some dustiness, front hinge starting to crack but holding, else a Near Very Good copy. Exceedingly scarce Czech edition..... More
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Company, n.d. [circa 1880s]. Reprint. Octavo (19cm); cobalt blue pictorial publisher's cloth-backed boards, embossed and gilt-stamped; no dustwrapper; frontis.,579pp. 5 plates. Foxing on frontispiece and textblock edges; toning to top edge and spine; binding slightly split for first few pages. Boards scuffed with some soiling; gilding/embossing..... More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in grey decorative dust jacket printed in blue, blue topstain; xv,[3],120pp.; title page printed in red and black within typographically decorative border; color frontispiece, 6 plates with printed tissue guards. A few very short closed tears to..... More
![To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed]. Eleanor ARNASON](/pictures/medium/47817.jpg?v=1592620265)
New York: Avon, 1986. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed "To Laurie" on title page; signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass market paperback; 276pp. Wrappers lightly creased and worn; small abrasion to rear wrapper; Very Good. More
![To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed]. Eleanor ARNASON](/pictures/medium/49985.jpg?v=1592620265)
New York: Avon, 1986. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed on title page: "For John - Best wishes," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass market paperback; 276pp. Trace of rubbing at base of rear cover, else a tight, Near Fine copy with minimal tanning to the text..... More
Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2010. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 142,(6)pp. Fine. Inscribed by the author on half-title to Minnesota poet John Calvin Rezmerski. More
New York: The Simons Press, 1934. First Edition. Uncommon lost-race fantasy with a Judaic theme and utopian elements. BLEILER (1979) p.11. Inscribed on verso of frontispiece: "To - Lenard and Elliot M. Baritz. May life be to them a glorious adventure! Sincerely, Uncle Ben Aronin," undated but apparently contemporary with..... More
New York: Beechhurst Press, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; 400pp. Jacket upper panel and extremities a bit rubbed with a few short closed tears and very shallow chipping to spine ends. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Includes works by Isaac Asimov, Ray..... More
![Isaac Asimov's Robot City. Robots and Aliens Book 5: Maverick [Inscribed]. ASIMOV, Bruce BETHKE](/pictures/medium/49968.jpg?v=1592511426)
New York: Ace Books, 1990. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed and signed by Bethke on title page to Minnesota poet and science-fiction writer John Calvin Rezmerski: "To Rez / ARF!," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass-market paperback; 184,(12)pp. Apparently unread, but with a hint of toning..... More
West Kingston, R.I. Donald M. Grant, 1978. First Trade Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto. Inscribed by Alicia Austin on title page, "To Elisabeth/with love," with small original drawing of a winged heart. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; unpaged; 40 color plates and numerous b/w text illustrations. A tight, Near Fine copy..... More
![The War-God Walks Again [Inscribed and Signed]. F. Britten AUSTIN, intro Major-General Sir Ernest...](/pictures/medium/25845.jpg?v=1529353477)
London: Williams & Norgate, 1926. First U.K. Edition. One of the author's fictional "Future War" works, this a collection of eight short stories dealing with potential wars involving Great Britain. Austin, a former Captain during World War I, was known for detailing the dangers of modern military technology in his..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1966]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in olive pictorial dust jacket, green topstain; [8],181pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few short closed tears and creasing; Fine in About Very Good jacket. Paranormal young adult novel twice adapted for television, in 1971 and 1996. More
New York: Global Communications, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 68pp.; illus. Light soil and wear from handling, else Near Fine. This edition unlocated in OCLC as of February, 2018, though two variants have been catalogued. More
New York: Global Communications, 1981. Second Printing. First Printing. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's cream pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 68pp.; illus. Previous owner has neatly colored in a few illustrations, else Fine. This edition unlocated in OCLC as of February, 2018, though two variants have been catalogued. More
New Haven: Privately Printed, 1958. First Thus. 12mo (16cm.); original plain and tan double wrappers, French flaps, decorative plate printed on grey stock mounted to upper wrapper; unpaged; illus. Fine. "Printed for the Lunar friends of Richard Gimbel" - colophon. Publication of a letter written by Benet to Richard Halliday..... More
New York: Authors and Newspapers Association, 1906. First American Edition. A semi-fantastic romance (Bleiler-listed) of Christian Science and opium addiction, set among the British upper-crust. Includes four attractive plates after watercolors by H. Richard Boehm, including the much-admired female fly-fishing plate. Extremely attractive copy in the pictorial trade binding, which..... More
![Aqua Regia [Signed/Inscribed by Author]. F. J. BERGMANN](/pictures/medium/47268.jpg?v=1579735403)
Madison, WI: Fibitz Reality Adjustment, 2003. First Edition. 12mo(14.5cm); blue marbled cloth covered boards, with gold leaf; viii,40pp. Handmade/marbled paper preliminaries; textblock in blue stock; attached gold foil ribbon marker. Spine cocked, bumped on front hinge; trivial wear and soiling to boards, some flaking to gold leaf. Author signature and..... More
London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, [1898]. As one contemporary reviewer describes it, "'The Sword of the Pyramids' has enough adventure and fighting to satisfy any lover of the marvelous. The action... [furnishes] enough wars to accomodate the hero, who is a soldier of fortune" (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1918]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow dust jacket printed in single rule; [6],279,[1],[2](ads)pp. Shallow chips and tears along jacket extremities, the whole quite dust-soiled and a bit foxed, cloth spine slightly toned, else a Very Good copy in the..... More
Cincinnati: A.B. Volney, 1858. First Edition. A volume of fictional vignettes including, besides the title story, five others: "The way the world goes"; "The wheel of fortune; or, The ups and downs of life"; "Autobiography of Ben Boaz"; "The fallen angel"; andl "Light from heaven; or, The great revival of..... More
New York: AMS, n.d., ca. 1980s. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's teal blind-ruled cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; [2],367pp.; frontispiece. Fine condition. Facsimile reprint of the original 1890 edition of this classic anti-capitalist utopian novel, forming part of the "Communal Societies in America" reprint series. More
![Monkey Planet [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Pierre BOULLE, Xan FIELDING, novel, translation](/pictures/medium/19419.jpg?v=1580771745)
London: Secker & Warburg, 1964. First U.K. Edition. One of the French author's most enduring works, and the source for a host of related film adaptations since 1968. First Impression. Octavo; dark green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 223pp. Bookplate signed by Boulle loosely laid..... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1971]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],247pp. Price-clipped dust jacket with later price cancel (£1.50); old Strand price sticker to front pastedown, else Near Fine. Third title in the author's Watchmen series, originally published in the U.S. in 1969..... More
![1984 Will Not Arrive: A Prediction for the Greening of Scripps [Signed]. Ray BRADBURY](/pictures/medium/39893.jpg?v=1529353969)
[Pasadena: Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press], 1975. First Edition. An elegant edition, containing the text of a lecture Bradbury presented at Scripps College in Claremon, CA. Bradbury would deliver variations of the lecture several more times between 1975-1977, and it was included in a 2002 fine press edition (27..... More
