Collected Works (in 5 vols)
London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First Collected Edition. 5 volumes, octavo (161 x 103 mm). Recent blue half calf, red morocco labels with gilt ornaments to spines, marbled boards. Bound without... (Item #2304)
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Tight Lines (Author's own copy...
Los Angeles: Tight Lines Publishers, 1932. First edition. The author's own copy of his popular work on big game fishing. "Author's copy" written by Bandini on the limitation page. Inscribed... (Item #1440)
The Amorous Prince, or The...
London: J. M. for Thomas Dring, 1671. First edition. Modern full panelled calf binding with raised bands and a red morocco spine label. Quarto (pages 126 x 116 mm) collates... (Item #2078)
Sir Patient Fancy: A Comedy.
London: Printed by E. Flesher for Richard Tonson, 1678. First Edition. Expertly bound in full red straight-grained morocco, gilt stamping to boards and spine, marbled end-papers, page edges stained yellow... (Item #2156)
FLOWER, FIST AND BESTIAL WAIL...
Eureka, CA: Hearse Press, [1960]. First edition. One of 200 copies of Bukowski's debut chapbook. This copy one of approximately five "author's edition" copies with an original illustration by the... (Item #1041)
Chronicon
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 13 September 1483. Second Edition. After the undated first edition printed in Milan ca. 1475 and the first edition to mention Gutenberg as the inventor of printing... (Item #2417)
The Novels and Stories of...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937, 1938, 1941. First edition. A Fine set. One of 950 copies (of which this No. 61) signed by the author at the front of volume one... (Item #1918)
The Workes of our Ancient...
London: Adam Islip, 1602. First Thus. Second appearance of the Thomas Speght edition of Chaucer, and the seventh edition of Chaucer's works overall. Folio (pages 315 x 209 mm) collating... (Item #2611)
The Story of a Puppet...
New York: Cassell Publishing Co., 1892. First American edition. Published simultaneously with the British Unwin edition, using the same sheets, but with a canceled title page. Part of the Children's... (Item #1567)
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...
London: printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, 1784. First edition. Three quarto volumes (11 7/16 x 9 inches; 290 x 230 mm.)... (Item #2022)
CORYATS CRUDITIES. Hastily gobled up...
London: Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby], 1611. First edition. Quarto in eights (8 1/8 x 6 inches; 206 x 153 mm). [-]2; a8-b8 ([-]1 inserted after a3); b4; c8-g8; h4-l4; B8-D8... (Item #897)
Trattato della pittura...
Paris: Appresso Giacomo Langlois, 1651. First Edition. First edition (not to be confused with the French edition which published later the same year, the Italian edition being much more rare)... (Item #2178)
The Descent of Man, and...
London: John Murray, 1871. First Edition. Original green publisher’s cloth binding stamped in blind with spines lettered in gilt. Black coated endpapers. With errata on the verso of the title..... (Item #2382)
The Brothers Karamazov
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. First American edition. One of the towering classics of Russian literature. First translated into English in the 20th century by Constance Garnett, as the... (Item #1877)
Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist Edited by...
Evanston, Illinois: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949. First edition. Limited to 760 numbered copies, signed by Einstein ("Albert Einstein. 49"). This being copy 279. Octavo (9 5/16 x.... (Item #2591)
Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. First Edition. The first separate printing of Einstein's influential work on relativity. Octavo, 64pp. Original tan wrappers with printer's imprint "Druck von Metzger & Wittig... (Item #2406)
The Waste Land
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition. Flexible covers. A remarkably well preserved copy of T. S. Eliot's magnum opus. A true first state copy with flexible boards and... (Item #464)
Tender is the Night
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First edition. A Fine copy of the book with bright spine gilt and clean boards. In a Very Good second issue dust jacket with... (Item #2554)
The Author's Original Typed Manuscript...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941 - 1943. The author's original hand-corrected typescript for his most important work, "Journey in the Dark," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944. Donated... (Item #1098)
Political, Miscellaneous and Philosophical Pieces...
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1779. First edition. A lovely copy of this important work by Franklin. Bound in contemporary tree calf, recently rebacked to style. Occasional browning or spotting... (Item #1698)
De Partibus Aedium
[Parma]: Angelus Ugoletus, [1494]. First edition. Quarto (200 × 144 mm). Contemporary blindstamped calf backing beech boards, clasps and catches (clasps gone), early spine label lettered by hand. Contemporary marginalia... (Item #968)
Hunger
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First English language edition. Extremely rare wrappers issue of the first English translation of Hunger. Unrestored wrappers in Very Good+ to Near Fine condition... (Item #1994)
Green Hills of Africa (Inscribed...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. First printing: with Scribner "A" on copyright page. First issue dust jacket with green bar on rear panel extending "through seven lines... (Item #2146)
Historiae. Herodoti Halicarnasei libri novem...
Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 8 Mar. [after 30 Mar.] 1494. Third edition. Folio (12 7/16 x 8 3/8 inches; 316 x 213 mm). [8], 134 leaves... (Item #1962)
A Mirour for Magistrates: Being...
London: Felix Kyngston, 1610. First Collected Edition. Small quarto in eights (pages 190 x 133 mm), collates [20], 875, [1, blank]: complete. Leaf Oo4 is a cancel as usual. Leaf... (Item #2388)