A PLEASURE TO BURN: Fahrenheit 451 Stories
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. A fine tight unread copy in a fine dust jacket. 300 pp. A nice collectable copy. More
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MOBY DICK: A Screenplay
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Stated first edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Beautiful tight, clean copy. 191 pp. More
Who is Ayn Rand?
New York: Random House, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. vi, 239 pp. A fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. More
Mark Twain Son of Missouri
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 294 pages. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with small loss at spine ends and a short closed tear on front spine fold. More
Evangelische Zeugnisse Der Wahrheit (Protestant Testimonies of Truth)
Germany (Kirchheim Unter Teck): Johann Franz Schwarz, 1855. Full-Leather. Quarto. 1103 pages; title page in red and black. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped sheepskin; original metal clasps are lacking. Previous owner's names and dates on paste-downs and rear end paper; original metal clasps are lacking; internally clean and bright. A very..... More
What About Murder? (Inscribed)
New Jersey & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1981. First Edition. Octavo, 157 pages; publisher's black cloth, printed in gilt; as issued, without dust jacket. INSCRIBED to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson on ffep thus: "Milwaukee / 10-10-81 / For Arthur Parson / with best wishes / Jon L Breen"..... More
THE BODY ON THE BEACH. A Fethering Mystery
London: Macmillan, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY SIMON BRETT ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 327 pp. More
END RUN. A Drew Gavin Mystery
Philadelphia: Intrigue Press, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "THANKS SO MUCH! READ ON!" TO BOOK COLLECTOR ARTHUR PARSON BY STEVE BREWER ON TITLE PAGE. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 314pp. More
BUMPS AND THUMPS
New York: H. M. Caldwell. Hard Cover. Quarter. Bound in gray cloth with past-down color illustration front cover. Very good- copy with mild cover edge wear, stains cover, gift inscription ffep, first few pages pulling away from binding. More
UNTIL THEY EAT STONES
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY RUSSELL BRINES. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with chips and short closed tears. 340 pp. More
CIVIL WAR BOOKS. A Price Checklist with Advice
Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1996. Hard Cover. Large Octavo. Fourth Edition. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering spine and front cover. Gilt illustration front cover. A near fine copy with minimal edge wear. A nice reference book. xxxiii, 936 pp. More
Handbook of the United States of America, and Guide to Emigration; Giving the Latest and Most Complete Statistics of the Government, Army, Navy, Etc....necessary Information for the Settler, Business Man, Merchant, Farmer, Importer & Professional Man
New York: Gaylord Watson, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Octavo, 176 pages, 4 pages of ads at rear; frontis; original brown cloth, decorated in gilt and black. A very near fine copy, with light browning to fore-edge of title page. More
Awake and Rehearse
New York (1929): Frederick A. Stokes Company. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. SIGNED BY LOUIS BROMFIELD ON COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. LIMITED EDITION OF 550 SIGNED COPIES. THIS IS No. 248. Octavo, silver cloth spine over boards, silver dust jacket, lettered in red, tipped onto board edges, a little wrinkled..... More
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With a Memoir
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1927. Beautifully bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, for Marshall Field, in full tan leather, with felt lined slipcase, covered in decorative paper matching the endpapers. Octavo, all edges gilt; 16th printing. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase. More
Death Has Many Doors
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1951. First Edition. 12mo, 215 pages; pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.50 on front flap. First edition, stated. Light marginal stain on fore-edge of final three blank endpapers. Owner name and date on ffep. More
Knock Three-one-two
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1959. First Edition. Small octavo, 190 pages; pictorial dust jacket is price-clipped. A little spotting on page edges, owner name and date on ffep. Dust jacket with light wear at extremities. More
One for the Road
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1958. First Edition. 12mo, 189 pages; pictorial dust jacket by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., is price-clipped. Text is uniformly age-toned, as are endpapers. Owner name and date on ffep. Small check marks by two titles of author's list of books. More
Essays on the Characteristics of the Earl of Shaftesbury
London: C. Davis, 1751. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Octavo. 408 pages, engraved vignette on title page; late 20th century full leather binding by Peter Geraty, new end papers, spine with raised bands and panels decorated in gilt; red leather lettering piece on spine. Bound to style, edges stained red. Marginal browning..... More
Blue Hills Diary. Mystical Journey Into Mania
Essex, UK: Chipmunkapublishing, 2012. First Edition. Original Wraps. 12mo, 288 pages; paperback. Blue Hills Diary captures the author's ascension into the astonishing heights of bipolar mania as it intensifies over a few short months. Written as lyrical prose and comprised of a series of rapidly flashing vignettes, this books sings..... More
GUNS AND GUNNING
Chicopee Falls, MA: J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co., 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. 105pp., (3)pp. ads at rear, bound in dark green pictorial cloth depicting a hunting scene, lettering black and gilt; yellow coated endpapers. Light wear at extremities, light spotting on front and rear panels; small owner..... More
CASA GUIDI WINDOWS. A POEM
London: Chapman and Hall, 1851. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. 140pp. Half-title, bound in publisher's original embossed cloth, spine lettering gilt, neat previous owner's name to title page, spine slightly darkened. Light wear at spine ends. Small repair to front inner hinge. In the primary binding, with the word "London"..... More
Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1887. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. First issue, with the dedication page wrongly dated 1586 (MDLXXXI). 268 pages, plus 4 pages of ads. bound in original brown cloth, beveled edges. Just a trace of edge wear; unopened, near fine. More
TRENDS IN THE WORLD ALUMINUM INDUSTRY
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with darkening spine, soil front cover of dust jacket. xiv, 260 pp. More
THANATOPSIS and THE FLOOD OF YEARS
New York: G. P. Putnam. Folio. Designed and engraved by W. J. Linton. 75 COPIES PRINTED. THIS IS No. 16. SIGNED BY G. P. PUTNAM. 46 loose sheets laid-in folding brown leather and cloth portfolio with gilt lettering top and bottom of front cover. Missing ribbon ties. Edges of portfolio..... More
THIRTY POEMS
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1863. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Second state in original publisher's brown cloth binding D, spine lettering gilt, scattered foxing, only the slightest of overall wear. A very nice copy. More