Portland, ME: The Evening Express Publishing Co., 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. A richly detailed autobiography the man once nominated by the National Prohibition Party for President. Also discusses his experiences as part of the 13th Maine in the Civil War and his time in Libby prison (he was exchanged for.....
Price: $65.00
Mt. Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, nd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Even sunning at spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred; slipcase shows light shelf/edge wear, else tight. Quarterbound, blue cloth spine, floral printed paper boards, paper onlay spine label. Small 8vo. 68pp.
Price: $45.00
London: Watts & Co., 1920. First Edition. Original Wraps. The text of a debate held at the Queen's Hall, London, on March 11, 1920; Sir Edward Marshall-Hall, K.C. in the Chair. Tight, bright, and unmarred. In very good visible condition. Octavo. vi + 58 pages.
Price: $175.00
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1897. First American Edition. Hardcover. Non-Sherlockian fiction set in the Fench Empire period. A very handsome copy. Minimal shelf wear, light sun toning, else tight, bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, silver gilt decorative elements, brown endpages. Small 8vo.....
Price: $45.00
New York: George H. Doran Co., 1912. First American Edition. Hardcover. Oscar Slater, a German Jew, was wrongfully accused, convicted and imprisoned for a murder that he did not commit. Doyle investigated the case for over three years and ultimately published this volume. The resulting clamor lead to Slater being.....
Price: $145.00
Boston: Luthur Stevens, 1856. First Edition. Originally issued in sixteen parts from 1852 to 1856 "He was fond of literary pursuits, and in 1828 he went to Boston, where he established an antiquarian bookstore — the first of its kind in the United States — and devoted himself to the.....
Price: $750.00
[New York]: Pooté Press, 1989. Limited Edition. Stiff Boards. "Henrik Drescher, born 1955, is known mainly as a commercial illustrator, working for Rolling Stone, Time, etc., and an illustrator of children’s books, Simon’s Book and McFig and McFly. However, throughout his career he has, and continues to, produce an immense.....
Price: $1,500.00
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first novel. Includes both DJs (inner: "The Man Who W[rot]e Dirty B[ook]s"; outer: [Kraft paper] "This is a Plain Brown Wrapper"). Overall, a handsome copy. Minor shelf/edge wear, owner signature at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ(s) shows very.....
Price: $45.00
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Arnold Bennett. Light shelf/edge wear, light toning and soiling to boards and spine label, discrete pencil ownership signature at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, dark blue cloth spine, printed spine label, pale blue paper boards, black ink lettering.....
Price: $45.00
Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin Company/Riverside Press, 1925. First Edition/Review Copy. Hardcover. Association copy. Previously owned by renowned poet Arthur Guiterman. Lovely bookplate indicates it "From the Library of Vita and Arthur Guiterman." Original "To the Literary Editor" presentation sheet, indicating original price of $1.25, laid in. A very handsome.....
Price: $45.00
Evanston, IL: The Schori Press, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Burgundy faux leather boards, gilt lettering, printed endpapers. 48x43mm. 63pp. Numbered limited edition, this being 63 of unknown [?200?].
Price: $25.00
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. Three-act comedy, set in a house on a Cornish estuary (starring Gertrude Lawrence). Originally published in Great Britain in 1949. A very hansome copy. Light shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minor shelf/edge wear, on small, closed.....
Price: $45.00
Self-published, nd [circa 1930]. First Edition. Original Wraps. Early 20th century fetish erotica, this involving submission and flagellation. Identified as 'Book 1', but there is no record of a later volume, nor is there any indication that it was, in fact, 'translated from the French.' Early mimeo sexually explicit series.....
Price: $65.00
[Privately printed], 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited and privately printed edition of one thousand copies for sale only to adult collectors of curiousa and students of psychology. Illustrated in color with bright color block mono printing. Scarce and out-of-print, limited edition novel for those engaged and otherwise interested in sadomasochistic.....
Price: $200.00
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd., 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Light soiling at boards, wear to head and tail, ex libris marks, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative element, frontispiece. 8vo. 219pp. Illus. (b/w and sepia plates). Index.
Price: $45.00
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1889. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Several dozen steel engravings by Lynch. With noted endpage replacement notwithstanding, a very handsome copy of this wonderfully illustrated volume. Light shelf/edge wear (focused at head, heel and tips), front bottom corner shows minor rubbing/stain, appears to be repaired endpages/pastedowns, else.....
Price: $150.00
Philadelphia, PA: Blanchard and Lea, 1860. Revised and enlarged edition. Hardcover. Overall, a rather handsome copy of this noted medical dictionary. Light/moderate shelf/edge wear, tips through, few small stains, small pull at rear, light foxing and age toning at preliminaries, ownership inscription at ffep else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full.....
Price: $50.00
Augusta, ME: Privately Printed, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Difficult to find in presentable condition. Minor shelf/edge wear, engraved bookplate at front pastedown, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, in blind decorative elements, frontispiece. 4to. xiii, 338pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.
Price: $45.00
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959-1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Apparently purchased as a set just as Vol. 4 was being issued (based on ephemera laid in). Each volume includes approximately 150 types. Ultimately, this series spanned 6 volumes. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJs show minor shelf/edge wear, else.....
Price: $225.00
Leipzig: Weygandschen Buchhandlung, 1797. First Edition. Calf over boards. Translation to English: Latest news from and from Switzerland: topographical, physical and political content: with special regard to the cantons Basel and Bern, an excerpt from Durand's Statistique elementaire de la Suisse. In German. Durand, a French Protestant minister, was born.....
Price: $550.00
A. S. Barnes and Company, 1952. First edition. Full Leather. Wonderful text covering period sports heros from all major and many minor sports played in the US. A very nice copy of a very scarce volume. Wear at head and heal of spine, edge wear at all corners (some through.....
Price: $75.00
New York: William Wood & Co, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes fifteen full-page drawings from nature by H.P. Quincy. A century or so before CAT scans and MRIs, this work offered detailed tomogrpahic images. Remarkably important (and one of the great titles in publishing). First edition of a classical work.....
Price: $225.00
San Diego, CA: The Ash Ranch Press, 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Binder/Printer. Faded gilt lettering and decorative elements on spine, else tight and unmarred. Red leather boards, matching gilt red slipcase, patterned endpapers, frontispiece, handmade paper. 60x50mm. 78pp. Lettered deluxe edition, this being S of 26.
Price: $150.00
Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1998. First Edition. Original Wraps. First printed book of renowned pen & ink and watercolor artist Marcel Dzama. Emerging as one of this generations great illustrators, in recent years he has come from obscurity to being one of the hottest and more significant young.....
Price: $525.00
Chicago, IL: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece designed by Frank Hazenplug. "In ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much of interest that has not.....
Price: $75.00