Abbey's Road.
E. P. Dutton, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the ffep.
E. P. Dutton, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the ffep.
E. P. Dutton, 1979. First pbk edition, first printing. Endearingly inscribed by the author on the half title page in the year of publication.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First American edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. This is Allende's first book. Signed by Allende with small doodle of a flower on bookplate adhered to half-title.
Random House, 1950. First edition, first printing. Signed/Lined by Auden on the title page. Taking its name from Shakespeare's Othello, this book contains Auden's three Page-Barbour Lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in 1949. The principal works he examines are Coleridge's The ancient Mariner, Lewis.....
Dial Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Original white cloth.
Los Angeles: Tight Lines Publishers, 1932. Deluxe edition, 500 copies. Full wraparound decorated leather. Moire silk endpapers, double full page map front, tipped in frontispiece portrait of the author, black and white photographs and pen and ink sketches throughout. This is one of three important books Bandini wrote chronicling his.....
Doubleday & Co., 1967. Revised edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Signed by Barth on the half-title page.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. Signed/Limited edition. Full maroon cloth, housed in matching publisher's slipcase. Limited to 500 signed and numbered copies, of which this is 217.
Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1996. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Signed by Beatty on the title page.
Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First edition, Signed/Limited. Quarter red cloth-backed paper boards, in publisher's clear acetate jacket. 281pp. Signed by the author on the colophon and limited to just 350 signed and numbered copies, of which this is 44.
Burn Again Press [i.e. Black Sparrow Press], 1990. First edition, Signed/Limited. Blue green paper boards, paper spine and cover labels, lacking publisher's acetate jacket. Signed by Bukowski with accompanying doodle on the colophon. Limited to a mere 50 signed/numbered copies, of which this is number 32.
Mendocino, CA: Felicia Rice/Mutant Drone Press, 1982. Drawings from Mendocino Beacon newspaper for a local production of “Oliver,” acquired with 1906 Colts Armory letterpress in 1978. First edition, first printing. Hand sewn with white thread and wrapped in blue and black mottled paper, paper title label. Printed in black on.....
New York City: Bookfinger, 1980. Reprint. Black cloth, spine stamped in silver. Noted during his lifetime for his literature for boys, Burrage would become known after his death for his horror, particularly in the form of ghost stories. This collection is his first collection of such stories, originally published in.....
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880, 1881, 1884. First editions. One-half crushed red morocco over marbled boards by Zaehnsdorf, spines decoratively gilt. Sometimes compared to Homer's Odyssey, The Lusiads is Camoens masterpiece and is considered by some to be Portugal's national epic. Burton's translation and work on Camoens was originally projected to.....
Hamish Hamilton, 1955. First English Translation, first printing. It's difficult to find a more beautiful copy of this monumental absurdist text. Originally written in 1942, The Myth of Sisyphus is, in many ways, the literary companion to The Stranger––published that same year. As an introduction to.....
Simon & Schuster, 1979. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
Random House, 1940. First edition, first printing.
New York: Charles Francis Press, 1903. Second edition [sic]. Gray cloth decoratively stamped in rust, gilt and brown with vertical gilt leafy vine pattern overlapping title and prominent autumnal fallen leaf. Octavo. 291pp. FINDING THE STORY It could be that the source point of an author's first book is.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First English translation edition, first printing. Publisher's grey cloth, stamped in black and blue, top edge stain grey. The final pages have been left unopened, awaiting their first ever reader. Translated by Edwin and Willa Muir. With an introduction by Edwin Muir, this is the first.....
Princeton U. Press, 1944. First English Translation edition. Kierkegaard is widely considered the father of Existentialism and is perhaps the most important Christian philosopher of the past 200 years. Either/Or is largely considered Kierkegaard's magnum opus and contrasts the Aesthetic Life and the Ethical Life. Though his first major philosophical.....
Chatto and Windus, 1927. First edition, first issue. Full red cloth, gilt spine title, top edge stain red. Unrecorded variant binding, lacking blind rule. A philosophical "exposé of the modern philosophy of Time and the 'historical' and literary tendencies of the doctrine," in which he attacks such modern writers and.....
Granata, 2003. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half-title.
London: George Allen & Co., 1912. First Detmold printing. Cream cloth stamped in gilt.
Harper & Row, 1970. First printing, second issue dust jacket. With no number line to rear endpaper and period at end of first paragraph on jacket flap.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928. Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. All volumes are first editions in original dust jackets, with the exception of When We Were Very Young, which is the second state with numbered page ix. Teg. Bindings sequentially bound in blue, green, red and.....