Women at the Hague: The...
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1915. First edition. Inscribed inside the front cover by Sophinisba Preston Breckinridge. Near Fine in like jacket. Scarce original brown paper dust jacket; light toning..... (Item #2011)
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Jack Sheppard. A Romance (in...
London: Bentley, 1839. First edition. Finely bound in half morocco over marbled boards by Stikeman & Co. Top edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners gently bumped and faint offsetting to..... (Item #2824)
Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with title to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of the Medievalist Allan Heywood Bright to front..... (Item #2862)
Les Fleurs du Mal (Presentation...
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857. First edition. First issue with the running title misprint "Feurs" on p. 31 and 108, p.45 misnumbered 44, and the misprint "captieux" on p...... (Item #1829)
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 (Manuscript Edition...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First edition. Four volumes finely bound in crushed three-quarter morocco with gilt to spines. Top edges brightly gilt. Small bumps to corners of volumes I and..... (Item #3097)
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A Lady's Life in the...
London: John Murray, 1879. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title: "To the 'Pro' and Mrs. Blackie with the affectionate regards and good wishes of the author. Christmas Day 1879." Blue..... (Item #2864)
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ALL THE ASSHOLES IN THE...
Bensenville, Ill. Open Skull Press, 1966. First edition. Publisher's illustrated saddle-stitched wrappers, 12 unpaginated leaves, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. One of about 400 copies. This copy in Fine condition with..... (Item #639)
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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)
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Everybody Does It (Presentation Copy)...
New York: Signet Books, 1949. First Edition. No. 759. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / With my..... (Item #2069)
Galatea (Presentation Copy)
New York: Signet Books, 1954. First Edition. No. 1152. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / Another in..... (Item #2066)
Love's Lovely Counterfeit (Presentation Copy)...
New York: Signet Books, 1957. First Edition. No. 1445. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / With warmest..... (Item #2065)
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The Moth (Presentation Copy)
New York: Signet Books, 1950. First Thus. No. 811. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / 'Long may..... (Item #2067)
Serenade (Inscribed)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. 2nd Printing. Inscribed by the author in the year after publication: "To Miriam Geiger / In memory of pleasant times / James M. Cain..... (Item #1917)
Serenade (Signed Association Copy)
New York: Penguin Books, 1947. First Thus. No. 621. First printing of this edition. SIGNED by James M. Cain on the first blank. From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a...... (Item #2071)
Tobacco Road: A Three Act...
New York: A Signet Book, 1952. Inscribed by Caldwell to the publisher: "To Kurt Enoch with the grateful thanks of Erskine Caldwell." A lovely, just about Fine copy with little..... (Item #2064)
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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)
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The Friend of Man; And...
London: George Bell & Sons, 1889. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Spine slightly rubbed and soiled; gentle shelfwear to extremities. Black coated..... (Item #2811)
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The Tour of Doctor Syntax...
London: R. Ackermann, 1813. Third edition. A presentation copy from William Combe inscribed: "To Miss Emily Gouldsmith, with the affectionate regards of the Author." Additionally, Combe has written and initialed..... (Item #1058)
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Works [National Edition]
London: Chapman and Hall, 1906 - 1908. The National Edition. Limited to 750 sets printed for England and America., this set unnumbered. Forty large octavo volumes. With approximately 1,000 illustrations..... (Item #1599)
Jericho The South Beheld
Birmingham: Oxmoor House, 1974. First Edition. Folio (measures 406 x 330 mm). Number seven of ten numbered copies signed by Dickey and the book's production team. Publisher's full leather with..... (Item #2482)
An American Tragedy (Presentation copy)...
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Limited Edition. Two volumes in original publishers' boards. One of 795 deluxe copies, this one marked for Presentation, signed on the limitation page and..... (Item #2644)
Small archive of 10 books...
London: various, 1915 - 1928. First editions. Each book inscribed by the author for his wife, Kathleen "Toby" Drinkwater, and also signed by her. Swords and Ploughshares - Sidgwick and..... (Item #1871)
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The Fine Art of Mixing...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1948. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author: "To my very good friend and associate, Ernst Lampe. Cordial-ly yours, Dave Embury." A lovely just about..... (Item #1031)
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Absalom, Absalom! (Signed Ltd.)
New York: Random House, 1936. First Edition. One of three hundred signed copies (copy 96). Complete with author's signature on the limitation page and the folding map in the rear..... (Item #2153)
A Fable (Signed, Limited Edition)...
New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. One of a thousand of the signed limited edition, this being number 245. A just about Fine copy of the book that appears..... (Item #3045)