New York: Limited Editions Club, 1968. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Quarto. SIGNED BY JOHN GROTH ON LIMITATION PAGE. TWO VOLUMES. Two near fine volumes with owner bookplate front paste downs. In original slipcase. 593 pp. More about GONE WITH THE WIND Limited Edition
Boston: Berke Brothers, 1951. Hard Cover. Small Octavo. Ninth Printing. Bound in brown cloth with small color portrait illustration, gilt lettering and design front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Color illustrations. Very Good++ copy with minimal scuffs and edge wear covers. Text and illustrations clean and bright. A nice copy. 157 pp. More about OLD MR. BOSTON DE LUXE OFFICIAL BARTENDER'S GUIDE. AWealth of Recipes for Mixed Drinks to Suit...
London (1968): Heinemann. First Edition. Small octavo, 306 pages; a beautiful copy in a first issue dust jacket, with plain rear panel, price clipped. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. More about A Small Town in Germany
Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press, 1966. First Edition. Octavo, 388 pages; first printing of the first edition. A beautiful, fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, with price of $10.00 and 75s on front flap; jacket with a couple of small scuffs. Text was divided into two... More about Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata. Edited and Completed By Arthur W. Burks
1885. Offered is an AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED (ANS) BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE and framed with a photograph of Stowe. The ANS and photograph are in a museum quality frame with engraved biographical plate. ANS reads "Trust in the Lord and do good/Yours Truely/Harriet Beecher Stowe/49 Forest St Hartford Con/January 29..... More about AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED (ANS) BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
London (1859-1867): Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Octavo, printed in double columns, comprising 9 issues of the Christmas numbers, 1859-1867; contemporary (or possibly publisher's) green pebble-grained cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; all edges gilt. Front end paper supplied; light wear at extremities. A very good copy. More about The Christmas Numbers of All the Year Round
Cambridge: Addson-Welsley Press, Inc, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. With special reference to the EDSAC and the uses of a library of subroutines. 167, (2)pp, Bound in original cloth. This was the first textbook written on the subject of computers, computer programming and software. Wilkes, Director of the Mathematical... More about THE PREPARATION OF PROGRAMS FOR AN ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER
London (1933-34): George Newnes. First Edition. Original Wraps. First edition, quarto, in the original 26 fortnightly parts; original pictorial wrappers; illustrated with photographs, drawings and maps. Owner name written in pencil on front wrap of part 17 thus: "Lt. D. K. Buchanan Dunlop HMS Douglas." The crew of HMS Douglas... More about The Great War. Signed By Royal Navy Lt. D. K. Buchanan-Dunlop, Who Served on Admiralty Destroyer...
London (1883-1895 & 1897): George Routledge & Sons; J. M. Dent & Co. First Edition. A complete set of the Almanacks, including some varieties we have not seen; 17 volumes, one in dust jacket (1886). Almanack for 1883-1895. London; George Routledge & Sons, 1883-1895 (none was issued for 1896), together... More about Almanacks for 1883-1895 and 1897, A Complete Set, 17 Volumes (3 are duplicates) Almanack
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Original blue cloth, xvi[226]12 pages. SIGNED BY JAMES D. WATSON ON HALF TITLE PAGE without personalization. A fine first edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid-in. Dust jacket is so near fine. Housed in a custom made half calf morocco and cloth... More about The Double Helix. A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Review Copy
London (1852, 1853, 1854): Bradbury and Evans. First Edition. 12mo. Three volumes in original reddish-brown cloth; first issue of all three volumes, with first state ads in volumes I, II and III, as well as the textual points called for by Walter Smith in his bibliography. Marbled edges and marbled... More about A Child's History of England
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. First Printing. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket with $10.00 price on front flap. We have not seen this nice a dust jacket come to market in years. A beautiful copy. xii, 1245 pp. More about The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
New York (1955): The Johnny Gruelle Company. Octavo, 95 pages, 1 page of ads; pictorial dust jacket, with light wear at extremities. More about Raggedy Ann in the Deep Deep Woods
New York (1934): The Modern Library. 12mo, 404 pages, 8 pages of ads; owner name on front pastedown. $1.95 on front flap of dust jacket, "300 titles" on rear panel. An early printing. More about The Theory of the Leisure Class
N.P. (1976): Northland Press. First Edition. Large octavo, 212 pages; number 94 of 250 copies, signed by Bower and Rosenstock. Maroon cloth over marbled boards, with cloth-covered slipcase, printed in gilt. Forward by Frank Waters. Book and slipcase are fine. More about Fred Rosenstock. A Legend in Books & Art
Occupied Japan (1948): Japan Travel Bureau. First Edition. Quarto, 40 pages; ribbon tied stiff pictorial wrappers, illustrated in color and black and white; price of 250 Yen on label on rear pastedown. Lacking the glassine dust jacket. More about Kimono. A Pictorial Story of the Kimono
London: Rowland Ward Ltd., 1962. Octavo, 374 pages, folding table at rear. Bound in Zebra skin - one of a small number of copies specially bound. Illustrated in color and black and white; internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. More about Rowland Ward's Record of Big Game. XI Edition (Africa) Zebra Skin Binding
New York (1950): Exposition Press. First Edition. Octavo, 62 pages; Inscribed thus on FEP: "To Mrs. Jennings / William Hardy Cowan / Nov. 13, 1950" - pictorial dust jacket with edgewear, light stain and a small hole on front panel. More about Freedom Versus Slavery (Signed
N.P. (1943): David McKay. First Edition. Octavo, unpaginated; illustrated in color; pictorial boards, pictorial dust jacket, front flap corner-clipped, but price of $1.00 on rear flap; small loss at spine ends. "Reproduced from comic strip in the Saturday Evening Post." Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. More about Oh, Little Lulu
California: King Zany, 1938. First Edition. Uniquely and artistically bound in the flexible wood of the Joshua tree; 8vo, 19 leaves, printed in rust-colored ink; illustrated by the author. String-tied with leather. Charles Dill was a silent screen actor (as King Zany) who appeared with such stars as Mary Astor... More about Carols from Cactus Land (Bound in Wood from the Joshua Tree
Fresno: Wilson Press, Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. 17th Printing. SIGNED, INSCRIBED, AND DATED BY "PAPPY" BOYINGTON ON FRONTIS PAGE. Bound in publisher's green boards, with silver lettering spine. Fine copy in a very good++ dust jacket with short closed tear on front and rear panels of dust jacket... More about BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP
England: Whitehall Silver & Plate Co. Address book, with 4 angels in silver bas-relief on front panel; binding is black full leather; 16mo, (4 3/4" x 3 1/4"), 104 pages, alphabetical tabs. Silver Makers Marks show Whitehill Silver & Plate Co., 1989 - 2004., Sheffield. No entries, no markings of... More about Address Book, with Four Angels in Silver Bas-Relief on Front Panel
Chicago: Sam Stone, 1904. First Edition. A miniature book (1 3/4" x 2 1/4"). A promotional book for the Campaign of Theodore Roosevelt; the appendix lists Electoral College votes by state. Yellow pictorial wrappers, printed in black; this copy is in English, but was also printed in Danish, German and Yiddish. More about The Facts About the Candidate (Theodore Roosevelt
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1911. First Edition. Publisher's light blue vertical grained cloth, with paper label portrait on front panel. Fifth impression. Light soiling to cloth, owner name on FEP and Dedication leaf; internally clean and bright. More about The Story Girl
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First Edition. 12mo, 76 pages; original printed boards. Author's first trade publication, one of 500 copies printed. Light, occasional foxing on some leaves. Bookplate, neat owner name on front end paper, news article affixed to front free end paper. Housed in a handsome quarter-leather slipcase, with chemise. More about The Black Riders and Other Lines