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Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2019. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 4 Volume Set. All four volumes are SIGNED by Carlos Ruiz Zafon on limited page. The Shadow of the Wind: published in 2008, special signed edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. This is copy 935. The Prisoner of Heaven: published in 2014, special signed edition limited to 500 numbered copies. This is copy 115. The Angel's Game: published in 2011, special signed edition limited to 750 numbered copies. This is copy 115. The Labyrinth of the Spirits: published in 2019, special signed edition limited to 500 numbered copies. This is copy 115. Minor shelfwear. DJs in mylar. All four volumes are tightly bound, no marks. Set is in Near Fine condition..

[Likely Denver: The Author, 1907. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 41; 54; [i.e. 95pp.]. Frontispiece and five plates from photographs. Printed buff wrappers. Small tear at head of the spine, front wrap with faint crease lines, very good or better. Inscribed by the author, a White soldier in the Civil War, Edwin Lucius Hoyt: "To J. M. Schenck with Compliments of 'The Boy Veteran' 4/9/07 Denver." The book has occasionally cited as being published in 1909, but given the authorial inscription and two internal dates, it was most likely published between 1905-1907. The book consists of various texts. The first part incorporates the Civil War diary of George W. Reese (p.4-17); the second part is entitled *History of 58th United States Colored Infantry* (p.19-41). Pagination then ceases and 54pp. of "Original Addenda" begins, primarily discussing the history and actions of the Twenty-Eight Illinois Veteran Volunteers. We could find no auction records or any other copies being offered in the trade.

(Leamington Spa): The Sixth Chamber Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, deluxe issue. Full Nigerian morocco gilt. Fine in fine slipcase. Copy number 8 of 50 numbered copies issued in this binding and Signed by Golding.

Unbound. Fine. Gelatin silver photograph. 4.25" x 5.75". Fine. Good quality gelatin silver portrait of Baker. Signed by Baker in the lower right corner: "Souvenir du Josephine Baker." Baker is depicted full length, dressed in a caftan-type garment, with an elaborate head turban, her hands clutched below her throat. No evidence of photographer's mark. Accompanied by a lot slip from an auction indicating that the photograph sold in 2020 for $1300 plus premium.

Boston: Published for the Author, 1875. First Revised Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); dark blue-green cloth, with titling and portrait of the author stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; xii,[13]-324pp, with an engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, and the errata slip tipped onto the preface at gutter. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to front pastedown ("L.G. Ransom's Book" - possibly Limon G. Ransom, a Methodist churchman from Iowa), with a holograph correction and marginal annotation on the Preface page in an editorial hand. Light wear to spine ends and corner tips, a tiny rubbed spot to right edge of rear cover, hint of sunning to spine, with faint creases to a handful of page corners, subtle toning to the edges of the frontispiece, and a brief (early) holograph note in pencil on p.324; hinges sound, with the text notably fresh and without foxing; Near Fine. "Her given name was Isabella. Standing six feet tall with a deep, resonant voice, this… Read More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.282. Octavo (23.75cm); printed paper-covered boards and coarse royal blue cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [ii],[xiv],15-232,[10]pp. Faint, tiny stain to lower right margin of p.[v], else Fine in a lightly rubbed dustjacket. A substantial selection of Bukowski's best work from the late 1950s-early 1970s. Many of these poems first appeared in It Catches My Heart in Its Hands, Crucifix in a Deathhand, and At Terror Street and Agony Way. Krumhansl 46c.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); evergreen cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],[8],9-347,[1]pp. Small, faint dampstain to upper left corner of rear cover, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped, showing light wear, mild dust-soil, a few small tears and creases, and a corresponding faint dampstain to upper rear flap fold; Very Good+. Lengthy volume by the former assistant attorney general for the Justice Department, responsible for enforcing the Volstead Act from 1921-1929. "She worked closely with both the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League to build public support for the federal efforts. She also used liquor prosecutions to generate headlines. A number of times, Willebrandt sat in the courtroom while one of her assistants pressed a case. Since women government lawyers were quite a novelty in the 1920s, her actions generated press coverage.… Read More

(London): Andre Deutsch, 1958. First printing. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of Southern's first novel, inscribed to legendary editor and critic Malcolm Cowley, who appreciated the younger writer as well as he was able. FLASH AND FILIGREE is a whirlwind satire on Los Angeles, on patients so irritating the best-behaved dermatologist must bludgeon them with ashtrays, on quiz shows and social disruptions and assorted other abstractions which defy (in typical Southern fashion) a summary started even with the best of intentions. David Ulin claimed it as the best of Southern's novels, calling it a "twisted parable about hypocrisy," which is certainly plausible. This copy is so little worn and so handsome to look upon one might suspect its first recipient of reading it no more than once, if that. Inscribed to Malcolm Cowley, who had something of an ambivalent relationship to Southern, once calling the PARIS REVIEW (which Southern helped found) an ''enterprise in the service of art.'' "[Southern] is… Read More

New York: The Dial Press, 1979. Fine in fine slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of Baldwin's last and longest novel, an attempt to "face [his] own legends," built around the story of a Black musician's life told by his brother. Baldwin's epic and ambitious late novel, written from the author's house in St-Paul-de-Vence, works toward a glimpse of a "utopian domestic space occupied by two black men in love" (Zaborowska) in its final pages: a much longed for, hard-won, and briefly held space for work and happiness. "It was beautiful to watch them; freedom is an extraordinary spectacle." 9'' x 6''. Original burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered spine and front board. All edges gilt, cream endpapers. In original burgundy cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt to one side. 597, [1] pages. Signed by Baldwin on limitation page, number 258 of 500 specially printed signed and numbered copies.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1958. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket.. First US edition of Southern's first novel (published just after the UK edition), inscribed "with great admiration" to V.S. Pritchett. FLASH AND FILIGREE is a whirlwind satire on Los Angeles, on patients so irritating the best-behaved dermatologist must bludgeon them with ashtrays, on quiz shows and social disruptions and assorted other abstractions which defy (in typical Southern fashion) a summary started even with the best of intentions. David Ulin claimed it as the best of Southern's novels, calling it a "twisted parable about hypocrisy," which is certainly plausible. This copy is inscribed to V.S. Pritchett, who, like Southern, was a friend and great admirer of Henry Green, the "writer's writer's writer" (Southern) whose praise graces the dust jacket of FLASH AND FILIGREE and whose influence first assisted it to publication. In the same year his novel was published, Southern's interview with Green -in which he… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1940. Very good plus.. Sylvia Plath's childhood copy of this YA novel - signed twice by Plath, with an original drawing by her and her bookplate laid in - the almost-too-apt story of a young Roman girl exiled to the soggy shores of Britain and burdened with a literal-minded mother named Aurelia. On February 21, 1944, a middle-school-aged Plath visited Wellesley's Hathaway House Bookshop and purchased a copy of Caroline Dale Snedeker's THE WHITE ISLE. Snedeker was the author of several popular historical novels set in the ancient world, writing a few years before Rosemary Sutcliffe and possessing a similar appeal; Plath read this novel a month after writing a school paper on "Roman People Places and Things" (Rollyson). The heroine Lavinia, like Plath, is barely 13 and the daughter of an "Aurelia" - the same name as Plath's mother, which Plath has carefully underlined three times in the book. Plath apparently enjoyed the book beyond these parallels; according to… Read More

These rare volumes contatin portraits and short biographies of persons of notoriety in 17th and 18th century Britiain, including highwaymen, convicts, preachers, misers, beggars, aristocrats, murderers, rebels, etc. Each entry has an engaved plate of the individual.
Marbled boards are intact but scuffed, rubbed and soiled so as to obscure most of the marbling. End pages are still beautifully marbled. However 2 of the four volumes (# 1 & 3) have a loose first register (10 pages) that include the FFEP, title page, table of contents, etc. Volume 4 has the first engraved plate loose (see images). With a little care, these can be repaired. Due to the age of the books, there is moderate foxing and some staining to pages, but all of the text is clear and readable. Spines still show most of the gilt titles and design and are bumped at head and foot. A printed bookseller's description of the volumes is pasted to Volume 1 end paper.
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited… Read More

This is a handsome collection of nine volumes from "The Novels of JANE AUSTEN" - nine volumes of a ten-volume set (volume 6 "Persuasion" is not present). 1908; Duffield & Company; New York. The volumes are beautifully illustrated with full-page color plates. Nicely bound in three-quarter burgundy morocco leather with gilt top page edges, gilt lettering and decorations on the spines, marbled covers and end papers, and five raised bands on the spines. With an Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson (biographer, critic, and editor who specialized in 19th century English literature and literary figures).The following five works are included: Pride and Prejudice (complete in 2 volumes); Sense and Sensibility (complete in 2 volumes); Northanger Abbey (complete in 1 volume); Emma (complete in 2 volumes); Mansfield Park (complete in 2 volumes).Condition:All volumes are tightly bound with no cracks. All covers are firmly attached. Page 88/89 in volume 5 has pulled from the spine and is detached. Some of the cover… Read More

London?: NP, 1897 March. Oblong Quarto. Original 1897

London, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1937, 1939 and 1979-1986: The Golden Cockerel Press. Limited Editions. Quarto. Owen Rutter 1889-1944 was an English historian who wrote many important books on travel and history around the globe. He became a partner with The Golden Cockerel in 1933 and he began writing this important collection on Bligh and the Bounty. He edited the series that began in 1934 and was concluded in 1939 in five quarto volumes in six volumes. Each was issued in small print runs of no more than 300 to 350 copies. All are issued in the original 'sail-type' canvas of various colors and designs with top edges and spines gilt. The following are in order of publication. Vol. I. The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch as Related in William Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. 86 pages. #230 of 300 copies. Vol. II. The Journal of James Morrison, Boatswain's Mate of the Bounty: Describing the Mutiny & Subsequent Misfortunes of the Mutineers,… Read More

New York: William Heinemann, 1910. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 1150 copies signed by Rackham. The present copy is #1137 of 150 copies reserved for the United States. ix, 159(1) pages translated by Margaret Armour, with 34 tipped in colored plates by Arthur Rackham. Each color plate is tipped onto a stiff brown paper and accompanied by a tissue guard with descriptive letterpress, textual illustrations in black and white. C.S. Lewis, who called these lovely images "the very music made visible." Bound in three-quarter vellum over brown paper covered boards, brown spine labels gilt but rubbed. A very nice copy, internally clean and lacking the usual foxing to the images. Early bookseller's catalog description mounted to front pastedown.

Harrison, AR: Atlan Formularies, 1988. Softcover. A nice set comprising three famous survivalist manuals. Includes the following titles: 1) The New Improved Poor Man's James Bond; 1st edition (revised, corrected, enlarged), 1988. 2) The Poor Man's James Bond Vol. 2; 2nd printing, 1988. 3) The Poor Man's James Bond Vol. 3; 1st edition, 1988. All three books are signed and inscribed by Kurt Saxon on the title page. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Toning to pages, rubbing to covers. Very good overall. Uncommon signed. ; Quarto; Signed by Author.

"Porgy" by Du Bose Heyward1925 - First Edition, First Printing with Publisher's Seal on the Copyright PageAntique Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket8" x 5 1/2"196 PagesThe jacket is in fair condition with edge chips, tears, and overall wear. The jacket is protected with a removable Mylar cover. The hardcover book is in good minus condition, free from rips, tear, bends, stains, and writing. There is light toning on the end pages and along the page edges. The boards are in good minus condition with edge wear. The binding is tight and square.

Hong Kong: Visual Dharma Publications, 1981. 1st Edition . Leatherette. Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. In English. First printing of the first edition. This is copy no. 102 of 500 copies of the first edition. Printed in Hong Kong by South China Printing Co. 13.75 x 9.5 inches. Bound in deep red leatherette, with crisp gilt-stamped lettering and images to the front board and the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, and with sharp corners. Exceptionally clean binding. Text block firmly bound in. Handsome map pastedowns/FEPs. With 576 numbered pages. Text includes glossary, bibliography and index as well as a list of present locations of the illustrated bronzes. With XVIII full-page, full-color, tipped-in plates. Plates V & XVI were originally printed in negative reverse, a printer's error. This error was corrected by enclosing with each copy so affected the properly printed color plates. In fact this copy of the book has two of each of the corrected prints, slipped in and in… Read More

Full tan leather binding. Raised banding and missing title plate on the spine.
A fine complete rendition in twelve books with the Life of Milton and Index Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. It is considered to be Milton's masterpiece, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time. The poem concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Synopsis: The poem follows the epic tradition of starting in medias res (in the midst of things), the background story being recounted later. Milton's story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan (Lucifer) and the other, Adam and Eve.… Read More