Philadelphia, PA: M. Carey, 1813. First Edition. Three Quarter Leather. First US Edition, first published in England in 1808. [2] ads, 286 pp. 16mo. Three quarter leather binding with considerable wear and scuffing, top copvers, losses to corners. First free endpaper missing, darkening to pages from age and foxing throughout.....
New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Third Printing. 226 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by Nicholson Baker on the title page.
New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Printing. 165 pp. 8vo. Light wear to dust jacket, including small creases at base, now in mylar cover. Full vertical crease to first three pages. Clean within. Signed by Nicholson Baker on the title page.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First/First. Hardcover. 309 pp. 8vo. Signed/dated by Banks on title page. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, some sunning to spine of dj. Grey cloth boards with bronze/gilt lettering on spine, some toning to top/bottom/fore-edges, clean within. .
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. Feinburg, Sydney. First/First. Hardcover. 183 pp. 8vo. Signed by Banks on title page. Near Fine+ dust jacket, in mylar cover. Brown boards with tan cloth spine with gold/gilt lettering, clean/tight/bright within.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Review Copy. Hardcover. 242 pp. 8vo. Review Copy signed by Banks on the title page, includes the dated advance copy card from Houghton Mifflin's publicity department. Near Fine dust jacket, slight shelf wear on top and bottom of dj's spine, in sturdy mylar sleeve. Light blue/slate.....
New York: Doubleday, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. 356 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by the author on the second free endpaper. Basis for the successful television series of the same name starring Kaley Cuoco of "Big Bang Theory" fame...
Limited Edition. Wraps. Unpag. 18mo. Black paper wraps, clean and tight. A surreal little limited edition chapbook produced in an edition of 100 copies, this being #89 and signed by the author on the last free endpaper.
San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1985. Signed Limited Edition #41. Hardcover. 91 pp. 8vo. Signed copy #41/100. No dust jacket as issued, in protective cover that has a few chips (no damage to the book). Brown boards, clean within. She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her is a 1985 collection of short.....
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. Lies, Jeffery. First UK Edition. Hardcover. 184 pp. 8vo. Near Fine+ dust jacket with very light toning to spine, no chips or tears, very light scuffing, in mylar cover. Burgundy cloth boards with silver lettering, crisp and clean within, stamp from an old bookstore on the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (I-C). viii, 180 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small chips at edges, 3/8" loss at head of spine, slight age toning to rear panel and spine, now in mylar cover. Yellow cloth boards, green cloth.....
Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1979. Dacey, Bob. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. 194 pp. 8vo. Brown leather with gold stamping, hubbed spine, silk moire endpapers with a matching ribbon marker, all edges gilded. Unread, tight, and bright copy. .
New York: Harper, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. 430 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by Michael Chabon on the title page where he also drew a small, waning moon.
New York: Harper, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. 451 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by the author on the title page.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1961. Wilson, Edward A. Limited Edition. Hardcover. xiv, 510 pp. 4to. Marbled paper boards with a light brown leather spine and a paper title label gold. Slightly musty smell within. No dust jacket, as issued. Brown paper slipcase with paste paper label on spine.....
Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1999. Signed Limited First Edition. Hardcover. 450 pp. 8vo. Dark blue leather binding with extensive gilt lettering and intricate decorative stamping on both the cover and spine, all edges gilt, sewn in silk bookmark. Privately printed exclusively for members of the signed first edition society. Signed by.....
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. vii, 328 pp. 8vo. Green cloth boards that have faded with time, slightly more along spine; bumping to cornes. Light spotting to endpapers, clean within. A scarce novel.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Twelfth Edition. Full Leather. 175 pp. 12mo. 13 illustrations. Full red leather binding with bold embossed titling to cover as well as a holly sprig, borders on both front and rear boards; five raised band at spine, gold titling, and green leather patch titles that.....
London: Chapman & Hall, 1840. Browne, Halbot; Cattermole, George. First. Hardcover. Master Humphrey's Clock in three volumes. Original brown blind-stamped cloth with vignette stamped in gilt on the upper boards, the clock hands on each volume pointing to the corresponding time. Some edge wear on spines, pages clean within. Bookplates.....
Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1994. Limited Signed First Edition. Hardcover. 494pp. 8vo. Uncracked Dark blue leather boards with intricate gold-stamped designs, a hubbed spine with raised bands, gilded page edges, and a silk ribbon marker. Signed by Dunne.
San Francisco: McSweeney's. First/First. Hardcover. 577 pp. 8vo. Signed by Eggers on front end paper. Fine Dust jacket in the light blue variant of this cover, now in mylar. Grey boards with black lettering, some shelf wear/bumping on top/bottom of spine, clean within.
New York: The John Day Company, 1927. Blaine, Mahlon. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, 338 pp. 8vo. Terracotta cloth boards with black and gold embossed decoration and titling to cover and spine with slight shelf wear. Wonderfully illustrated with fully decorated endpapers.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. 276 pp. 8vo. Scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, small tears at dust jacket corners, 1-1/2" tear at lower left flap hinge on rear panel that has been tape-repaired on verso. Clean within. Signed by the author on.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. 297 pp. 8vo. Slight wear to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Richard Ford's first novel.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 177 pp. 8vo. Green cloth boards with green silk ribbon bookmark. No dust jacket, as issued. Black cloth slipcase has slight suning at edges, in Very Good condition. Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies, this is copy #149 and.....