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: The Museum of Modern Art, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. It has spent its life in the original slipcase and it shows. A very handsome copy. Minimal shelf/edge wear, light sunning at spine, hint of toning at preliminaries, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear (focused.....
Price: $150.00
London: Edward Moxon, 1845. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. In a signed armorial binding by Wiseman [based in Cambridge]. Light shelf/edge wear, light wear at hinges, a few small dings in boards, touch of toning/foxing at preliminaries, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Signed armorial/fine binding, full tan leather, gilt lettering and.....
Price: $75.00
New York: Typophile Monograph 125, 1973. Limited Edition. Hardcover. [The Printing Week Library]. "This keepsake is the twentieth book in The Printing Week Library of Benjamin Franklin Keepsakes. It was published in connection with Printing Week in New York 1973 commemorating the 267th birthday of Benjamin Franklin." Light sun at.....
Price: $45.00
Springfiled MA: Gurdon Bill, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. An early biography of Lincoln published shortly after his assassination. This set bears the ownership bookplate of the Library Association of Dark Harbor, ME and indicates that it was donated by Mrs. E.P. Kinnicutt, [the Kinnicutt family was important in New England.....
Price: $145.00
New York: Typophiles/Ward Ritchie Press, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Owner signature at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred; glassine DJ lacking. Yellow cloth boards, red ink lettering, frontispiece. 12mo. 24pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $45.00
Berkeley, CA: California Univ. Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Special research report to the Commission on Race and Housing. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, small chip at the head with related closed tear, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, white ink.....
Price: $45.00
Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1972 - 1979. First Edition(s). Hardcover. Vol. I: Beginnings Of Education, 1900-1941. Vol. II: Washington To Springfield, 1941-1948. Vol. III: Governor Of Illinois, 1949-1953. Vol IV: "Let's Talk Sense To The American People", 1952-1955. Vol. V: Visit To Asia, The Middle East, And Europe, March-August.....
Price: $275.00
New York: Viking Press, 1966. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Slipcased reissue with corrections of the 1957 first issue. Overall, a presentable set. Noted for it's collection and presentation of unpublished and unfamiliar photographs in addition of facsimiles of various mss pieces, etc. Includes previously unpublished letters of others as well.....
Price: $145.00
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1947-1951. First American Edition. Hardcover. This set embodies the personal journals of the life of the 1947 Nobel Laureate for Literature. Translated from the French, with an introduction and notes, by Justin O'Brien. Overall, a handsome set. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJs.....
Price: $125.00
[Paris]: De l'Imprimerie de la Société littéraire-typographique, 1784. First Edition. Hardcover. Richly illustrated with beautifully executed plates (13 full page plates plus laid in, unrelated plate). Light shelf/edge wear, tips through, wear at head and tail, unusual wear at top tips, light rubbing at hinges, else tight, bright, and unmarred.....
Price: $75.00
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. First American Edition. Hardcover. The library plate of the Dark Harbor Library (an affluent enclave on an island off the coast of Maine) indicates that the set was given to the library by “Mr. Philler” [George Philler]. A wealthy banker from Philadelphia, Philler was one.....
Price: $325.00
Boston, MA: Webster & Co., nd [circa 1920]. First Printing. Unusual and scarce ephemera from the renowned and now lost Islesboro Inn. "[T]rains are run daily from Philadelphia, New York, and Boston to Rockland, ME ... in addition from Boston the S.S. Corporation's boats leave daily at 5 P.M." Noting the.....
Price: $45.00
New York; Denver, CO: Continental Spectator; Odyssey Group;, Various [1960s-1980s]. First Printing[s]. Original Wraps. Titles include: 1: Odyssey: Jan. 1988 2: Odyssey Express: No. 38 3: Continental S;pectator: Vol. 6, No. 1 4: Looking Glass: Issue No. 33 "More than Just a Swingers' Magazine" 5: ConneXion: No. 38 6: ConneXion: No. 49 7: ConneXion: No. 50 Nice small.....
Price: $75.00
CA: Gourmet and Swedish Erotica, nd. First Printing[s]. Original Wraps. Three scarce titles: Bisexual Lust: Gourmet Edition BV01 The Bisexuals: Swedish Erotica 317 Bi-Bi Love: Gourmet Edition BB22. Minor shelf/edge wear, one small pricing sticker at front, one crease at rear wrapper, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Glossy pictorial wraps. 4to. np. Illus.....
Price: $75.00
Beverly Hills, CA: Ultacolor Publications, 1994. First Printing. Original Wraps. "Amateur Grand Slammers: Especially for Gay Men, Lesbians, Transvestites, & Bi-sexual Contacts". Richly, graphically illustrated collection of available partners from around the country. Scarce. Minor shelf/edge wear, discrete ink date at top of page 3, else tight, bright, and unmarred.....
Price: $45.00
North Hollywood, CA: Stroke, 1989. First Printing. Original Wraps. Stroke archives are held in National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California. "The brotherhood of uncut men..." A very presentable copy of a rather scarce and sought after magazine. Light shelf/edge wear, light rubbing to wraps, bit.....
Price: $45.00
Gourmet, nd [circa 1982. First Printing. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Neither title appears in any institutional holdings, though "Hard TV IV" is listed among banned titles in an Australian governmental ruling. N.B. both titles are very graphic. Hard TV IV: Gourmet Special #43. Hung & Horny TV's: A Gourmet Special. Vol. 1.....
Price: $45.00
New York: Grove Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. "Two volumes complete in one." Minor dust staining to the top of the textblock, small bump near head of front board, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, hint of age toning, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards.....
Price: $145.00
New York: Grove Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, hint of foxing at endpages, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, a few small closed tears, bit of soiling, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, white ink lettering. 8vo. 224pp.
Price: $45.00
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. Original published and banned in France in 1956 due to the sadomasochistic erotica nature. Light shelf/edge wear, hint of age toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, light rubbing, else bright and clean. White cloth boards.....
Price: $145.00
New York: Erika Press, 1970. First Edition. Original Wraps. Richly illustrated with graphic/hardcore color plates. A quasi-scholarly study of sex clubs, parties, group sex, orgies, wife swapping etc. Light shelf/edge wear, light soiling/fosing (focused at preliminaries), price on front in black marker, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Glossy printed wraps.....
Price: $45.00
New York: Grove Press, 1968 [1901]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Orginally published in Paris by Charles Carrington in three volumes in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies [1901]. It is widely considered a classic of modern erotica. Published anonymously, it appears likely the slang lexicographer John S. Farmer.....
Price: $35.00
Rhode Island: Joseph Knowles, 1849. First Printing. Unbound. Completely unsophisticated copy, punch bound. As issued by the press. First leaf shows light toning/soiling, else bright and clean. 8vo. 48pp.
Price: $125.00
Portland, ME: 1828. First Printing. Unbound. Eight page, uncut sheet. Review copy printed for legislators. Mss reads, "Reuben Brown Baldwin / County of Cumberland". It appears he was a local postmaster. "When Maine separated from Massachusetts and became a state in 1820, a number of cities and towns sought the honor.....
Price: $250.00