Cincinnati: E Morgan and Co., 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. 4-5/8 x 7-1/2", brown cloth embossed with a design of stems and flowers with yellow title label, 180pp. A collection of short stories of the West, many set in the region near the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, by Benjamin Drake, founding.....
(New York): The Criterion Collection, 2001. First Printing. DVD. 4 DVD special edition box set of Dreyer's sound films - Day of Wrath, Ordet, and Gertud. Each is an intense exloration of the clash between individual desire and social expectations, with Dreyer's famously perfectionist attention to detail shining through. The.....
New York: Doubleday, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, 1/2 burgundy cloth, grey paper over boards, ix, 645pp. A modern classic set in the Pacific Northwest and spanning decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. A father whose dreams of glory on a......
New York: Doubleday, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 off-white cloth, buff paper over boards, 259pp. Boldly signed by the author on the title page in blue ink. In River Teeth, Duncan brings us stories of indelible characters: a solitary woman struggling to corral a flock of idiot sheep; a......
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, 1/2 turquoise cloth, gold paper over boards, ix, 294pp. Inscribed "To Mark" and signed by the author on the title page. Gus Orviston sets out to find the perfect fishing hole and finds himself and a greater appreciation for.....
New York: Scribner, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2", 1/2 blue cloth, blue paper over boards, 369pp. Cop-turned-rare-book-dealer Cliff Janeway returns in a new "Bookman" mystery set in the arcane world of collectible books. A deathbed request finds Janeway searching for a fabulous lost library of books.....
London: Jarrolds Publishers, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. 5 x 7-1/2", gilt titled & decorated black cloth, 176pp. First Edition. Fourth in a series of six collections of Irish fantasy author Lord Dunsany's short stories featuring Joseph Jorkens. The stories in the series were written between 1925 and 1957. Jorkens is.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, black cloth, 274pp. Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts.....
Las Vegas, NV: Morpheus International, 2006. 3rd Printing Revised & Expanded Edition. Paperbound. 6 x 9-1/8", stiff picctorial wrappers, 1249pp, xvi, afterword, 4pp ads. Edited and introduced by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap & Gil Lamont. 50 years of the best Harlan Ellison encompassing fiction, essays, personal reminiscences, reviews and.....
London: Hutchinson, 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo, black paper over boards, 615pp. #196 of a Limited Edition of 1000 copies. Signed by the author on limitation page. Two young men interested in the new disciplines of psychiatry and psychoanalysis open a clinic in turn-of-the-century Austria and grapple with evolving perspectives.....
Portland, Oregon: Frank Amato, 1985. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, silver decorated grey leather, 8pp color plates, apps. biblio., index, fully illus., ribbon marker, in publisher's leatherbound slip-case. #129 of a deluxe limited edition of 300 numbered copies, signed by all three authors on limitation page with tissue guard. Pasted-on folding.....
Evanston, Illinois: TriQuarterly Books / Northwestern University Press, (2011). First Edition. Paperback. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, 97pp. Fine. National Book Award winner 2011. Ms. Finney's poems embrace a "sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of.....
Zurich: Edition Olms, 1985. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, xii, 463p, illus. In addition to detailing the 67 games and 53 problems that made up the First American Chess Congress, Fiske explores the history and literature of chess in the US through 1859. Acclaimed chess phenom Paul Morphy (1837-1884) won the.....
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, gilt titled brown pebbled cloth with publisher's embossed emblem center of both boards, brown endpapers, xii, 563pp,diagrams, biblio., list of subscribers, accounts, solutions, indexes, 12pp ads, gilt decorated chromolithographic frontis. with tissue guard depicting Paul Morphy's winning game in 68.....
New York: New Directions, 1953. 4 x 4-1/4", wrappers with illustration of Flaubert front panel, 8pp, single staple. Printed at Christmas 1953 for the friends of J. Laughlin and New Directions. "Jacques Barzun has translated the complete text of Dictionnnaire des Idees Recues, and it will be published by New.....
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1994. Hardcover. Quart, 8-1/2 x 11-1/8", blue cloth,702pp, dictionary of painters, bibliography, index, 860 black & white illustrations, 165 colour plates. Combines "Collecting Miniatures" (1979) with the revised and updated biographical details of some 4,400 artists from the "Dictionary of British Miniature Painters" (first published.....
No place: Ardsley Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Softcover. Dust wrapper with folding flaps over stiff paper wraps, unpaginated, frontis. portrait of the poet. #209 of a limited edition of 400 numbered copies. This one signed by the author on title page.Light verse and observations by Amherst poet Robert Francis (1901-1987).The.....
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press, 1999. Illustrated by Saxton Freymann & Joost Elffers. First Edition. Hardcover. Square quarto, 9-7/8 x 10-7/8", glossy pictorial paper over boards, pictorial endpapers, fully illustrated in vivid and moving color. Signed by both artists on the title page. First Edition. A......
Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson Inc., 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4", gilt titled and decorated black cloth, black endpapers, top-edge tinted blue, 432pp, includes introduction, explanation on how to use the book, and list of abbrevations. First Edition, First Printing. This work, with entries from Rav Abba to.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Illustrated by Herbert Tauss. Leatherbound. 6-1/8" x 9-3/8", xix, 570pp, gilt decorated brown full leather, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire endpapers, ribbon marker, index of first lines. From the Franklin Library limited edition series "100 Greatest Books of All Time." Edited by.....
Paris: Firmin Didot, Brothers, Sons & Co., 1866. First English Language Edition. 3/4 Leatherbound. 6-3/4 x 10-1/2", 3/4 pebbled maroon leather, marbled paper over thick boards, gilt decorated raised spine bands, gilt titled and gilt decorated spine compartments, ix, 224pp, half-title is lithographic plate with Lima in the background bordered.....
North Conway, New Hampshire: Fly Tyer Inc., 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8-5/8 x 11-1/8", gilt decorated blue cloth, 181pp, 3pp for Personal Fly Tying Patterns, biblio., index, 6 full-page color plates (5 plates illustrating 40 flies in color & a full-page artist's rendering of "Reflections-A Miramichi salmon fishing scene by.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 taupe cloth, burgundy paper over boards, 230pp. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. A hundred-year natural history of a meadow in the arid mountains of Colorado/Wyoming interwoven with a family’s struggle to live on an.....
New York: Harper, 2014. Special limited slip-cased edition. Hardcover. 6-3/8 x 9-5/8", 1/2 black cloth, black paper over boards, green endpapers, 432pp, hardcover in slipcase. In 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude launched Gabriel García Márquez to international fame, and cemented his reputation as a literary legend. A central figure.....
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8-3/4 x 11-1/4", green paper over boards, x, 286pp, glossary, index, fully illustrated in color throughout. Signed by the author on half-title. With roots in the mid-1800s on Scotland's River Spey, spey casting is an efficient and graceful way for.....
