New York: Macmillan, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Lovely tale of a little girl in Maine and author's poetry. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of soiling to boards, penciled name on ffep (partially erased), small tape ghost on ffep, small stain on fore-edge, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, blue.....
Price: $25.00
Washington, D.C. National Academy of Sciences, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. A well crafted history of this storied organization and the those who comprise it. Minor shelf wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Dark gray cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. 694pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.
Price: $35.00
New York: Bodley Press, 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Lily Pons. Light shelf/edge wear (focused at head and tail), minor sun at spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ lacking. Black cloth boards, blue ink lettering. marbled endpages. Oblong 8vo. 53pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $25.00
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1958. First Grove Edition, Third Printing. Original Wraps. Inscription on ffep: "With love"--Oliver Sacks. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his.....
Price: $100.00
Hardcover/Wrappers. Books include. Signed by Oliver Sacks. The Master of Petersburg, 1995. Inner Workings: Literary Essays. in DJ, 2007. Diary of a Bad Year. in DJ., 2008. Various states of wear, mostly bumped corners, scuffing to edges, toning overall. Moderately shelfworn, chipped, and toned, with elements of dampstaining. Mostly 8vo.....
Price: $75.00
New York: Penguin Books, 1982, 1998, 2002. Paperback Edition. Original Wraps. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate.....
Price: $75.00
Bisbee, AZ: Pequeno Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator and Publisher. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Embroidered cloth boards, pop-ups, frontispiece. 63x55mm. 34pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 15 of 55.
Price: $125.00
Sacramento, CA: Grande Ronde Press, 1968. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Signed by the author. Minor shelf/edge wear, signed by the author, else tight, bright, and unmarred. White paper wraps, black ink lettering. 12mo. np. Numbered limited edition, this being 62 of 100 [from a total edition of 126].
Price: $25.00
New York: Sterling Press, 2008. First Edition. Wraps. With this lavishly illustrated and authoritative A-Z guide, Brian Cogan leads readers through the fiery history of a furious, rebellious, contradictory and boundary-redefining musical genre and cultural movement that remains as massively influential as it is wildly misunderstood. As "The Encyclopedia of.....
Price: $100.00
New York: Vintage Books, 1995. First Vintage book edition. Original Wraps. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver’s, incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. Includes laid in letter from Doubleday Publishers. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his.....
Price: $50.00
New York: Random House, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscription on ffep: "Met Rachel Cohen in New York, Feb. '04" Signed and dated by Oliver Sacks on tp. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to.....
Price: $350.00
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on ffep. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver’s, incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his.....
Price: $50.00
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001. First US Edition. Wraps. From the Collection of Jenny Lens. Toning and shelfwear around edges, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Color paper wrappers. Large 8vo, 399pp. illus (b/w, color).
Price: $100.00
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1972. Second Edition. Hardcover. A richly illustrated history of Kentucky. Overall, a very presentable copy. Very minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, minor wear at head, heel and tips, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, gilt.....
Price: $35.00
London: Oxford University Press, 1927. Later Edition. Hardcover. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. "The aim of the present edition is to furnish an accurate reprint of the edition of 1817, with such additional matter as may contribute to a fuller understanding of the text. For this purpose there have been.....
Price: $100.00
London: William Pickering, 1844. Later Edition. Hardcover. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. S.T. Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian, who with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Coleridge coined many familiar words.....
Price: $150.00
New York. Third Edition. Hardcover. Overall, a very nice set of this well known reference set. Very minimal shelf wear, touch of foxing at text block edges, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. xxxiii, 773pp; xxv, 800pp; xxv, 787pp; xxv, 840pp; xxv.....
Price: $75.00
San Francisco, CA: Juniper Von Phitzer, 1998. [miniature]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Printed letterpress. Designed, handset, printed, and bound by Juniper Von Phitzer. Signed by Collin and Phitzer. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Cloth boards, silver paper onlay, black ink lettering and pictorial element, cloth endpages, burgundy endpages. 2 7/16x2 3/4. 44pp.....
Price: $125.00
New York: Turner and Hayden, 1844. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, spine label missing, bump to head of spine, very minor foxing at preliminaries, else tight, bright and unmarred. Full brown leather boards, marbled endpages and textblock edges, frontispiece, boarder to all pages. 12mo. 308pp plus np Index.....
Price: $25.00
Cincinnati, OH: Miniature Book Society, 2003. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, gold lettering and decorative elements, printed endpapers, frontispiece. 64x51mm. 33pp. Illus. (b/w photographs). Limited edition of 400.
Price: $25.00
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1916. First Edition Thus (no additional printings indicated). Hardcover. White ink on front board very bright and clean. Gift from ___________ to his grandchildren. Overall, a rather pleasing copy with an interesting association. Light shelf/edge wear, light sunning at spine, touch of foxing at.....
Price: $45.00
Loket, Czech Republic: Jarmila Sobota, 2013. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The original wood covers were selected and finished by Rosie and Kim Batcheller utilizing various types of wood including Bogota, Wenge, Cherry, Paduak, Walnut, Purpleheart, Leopard Wood, Birds’s Eye Maple, and Honduran Rosewood. Signed by Jarmila Sobota. Tight, bright, and unmarred.....
Price: $450.00
Toledo, OH: Chittenden Press, 1937. First Edition. Original Wraps. Inscribed by author. A handsome copy of this increasingly uncommon volume. Light shelf/edge wear, inscribed by author at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green overlapped stiff wraps, gilt label, black ink lettering and decorative elements, tipped in plate. Small 8vo.....
Price: $75.00
San Francisco, CA: Last Gasp, 2006. First Edition. Wraps. For over 25 years, Edward Colver has been one of the main documentarians of the Southern California punk rock scene. This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition Blight at the End of the Funnel, Edward Colver for the.....
Price: $150.00
London: Penguin Books, 1952; 1954. First Edition [Reprint]. Hardcover. Two volumes, A history of the University of Cambridge, it colleges, halls and public buildings.. Oxford University. Formerly owned by Oliver Sacks. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated.....
Price: $75.00