Naked Lunch
Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. Original wraps. More
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One Thousand American Fungi: How to Select and Cook the Edible; How to Distinguish and Avoid the Poisonous ("Author's Edition"--The Signed/Limited) SIGNED
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1900. Decorative Cloth. A handsome copy of the 1900 original edition of this exhaustive, highly-regarded examination of American fungi. The signed/limited "Author's Edition" to boot, #347 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY CHARLES MCILVAINE at the limitation. Solid and VG+ in its green cloth, with bright gilt-titling..... More
Mushrooms Edible, Poisonous, Etc.
Ithaca, NY: Andrus & Church, Publshers, 1900. F.R. Rathbun. Decorative Cloth. A very solid copy of the 1900 1st edition. Tight and VG+, with crisp silver-titling along the front panel and spine. A touch of light wear at the front inner hinge, tasteful former owner bookplate to the front panel..... More
Oue Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. W. Hamilton Gibson. Decorative Cloth. A very solid copy of the 1895 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its light-brown cloth, with gilt-decorations and crisp, unrubbed gilt-lettering along the front panel and spine. Tasteful former owner bookplate at the front pastedown, otherwise clean..... More
The Borrowers Afloat
New York: Harcourt, 1959. Beth and Joe Krush. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1959 stated 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact (and price-clipped), Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of very light soiling at the rear panel. Octavo, illustrated thruout by Beth and..... More
The Borrowers Afield
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. Beth and Joe Krush. Cloth. The 1955 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($2.50), VG+ dustjacket, with very light wear at the spine ends and one very small abrasion to the front panel. Octavo, illustrated thruout by Beth..... More
The Rabbits' Wedding
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. Garth Williams. Pictorial boards. A very presentable copy of the 1958 1st edition (with all the required codes at the jacket flaps). Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($2.50), VG dustjacket, with chipping along the spine ends (internally re-inforced at the crown..... More
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AND Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (2 Volumes -- Both Illustrated by Peter Newell)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901 and 1902. Peter Newell. Vellum. Very sharp copies of the 1901 and 1902 original appearances of these Peter Newell-illustrated editions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass respectively. Both volumes clean and VG+ to Near Fine, Alice in her gilt-decorated full paper..... More
The Crooked Colt
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. C.W. Anderson. The 1954 stated 1st printing. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-clipped (AND price-intact), VG dustjacxket, with light chipping at the spine ends and very light chipping and creasing --with several tiny closed tears-- along the top edges. Square octavo, wonderfully..... More
Mr. Papadilly and Willy
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1964. Florence and Louis Slobodkin. Cloth. A crisp, very presentable copy of the 1964 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (very light spotting to the boards) in a bright, price-clipped (AND price-intact), VG+ dustjacket, with just a touch of very light chipping along the spine crown..... More
Hortus Floridus -- The First Book AND The Second Book (Of Only 50 Copies and 30 Copies Respectively)
London: The Cresset Press Limited, 1928 and 1929. Boards. Handsome examples of the 1928 and 1929 re-issues, both in very limited editions and both in impressive condition. The 1928 "First Book" is #12 of only 50 copies issued "on Arnold hand-made paper" and the 1929 "Second Book" is #23 of..... More
Eloise in Paris
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Hilary Knight. Boards. A superb copy of the 1957 stated 1st printing. Tight and Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine to Fine dustjacket, Just the faintest hint of light, very subtle creasing at the rear panel's top-edge, otherwise legitimately apporaching pristine. Quarto, wonderfully..... More
Hattie the Backstage Bat
New York: The Viking Press, 1970. Don Freeman. Cloth. An impressive copy of the 1970 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (very light soiling to the panels) in a crisp, price-intact ($3.50), VG+ dustjcket, with light wear along the spine ends and very light chipping --with several tiny closed tears--..... More
The Little Fir Tree
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1954. Barbara Cooney. Cloth. A crisp, lovely copy of the 1954 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in a bright, price-clipped, Near Fine dustjacket, with just the faintest hint of light soiling to the front panel. Oblong octavo, wonderfully illustrated in rich color by..... More
A Pussycat's Christmas
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1949. Helen Stone. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1949 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with just a touch of very light chipping at the spine ends and very minor creasing to the rear panel's lower-edge..... More
The Water Babies
London: Boots the Chemist (for Hodder and Stoughton), 1929. Decorative Cloth. Lovely 1929 illustrated edition, published by Boots the Chemist and lavishly illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Solid and VG in its gilt-decorated bright green cloth, with light spotting to the endsheets and pastedowns (and a bit to the preliminaries)..... More
Early American Wrought Iron (Complete in 3 Volumes -- All with Their Scarce Printed Dustjackets)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Albert H. Sonn. Cloth. The 1928 1st edition of one of the great examinations of early American wrought iron. Complete in 3 volumes and including the fragile, very uncommon dustjackets. Each volume tight and Near Fine, with no writing or markings of any kind..... More
Fly Fishing (Limited to 150 Signed Copies) SIGNED
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1930. Eric Fitch Daglish. Vellum. A lovely copy of the 1930 1st thus, the 1st edition with the Eric Fitch Daglish wood engravings. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES (eighty-five for sale in Great Britain, fifty for sale in the United States) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR..... More
Horsemanship; or, the Art of Riding and Managing a Horse, Adapted for the Guidance of Ladies and Gentlemen, on the Road and in the Field: with Instructions for Breaking in Colts and Young Horses.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. 1/2 leather. The 1853 1st edition, elegantly bound in 1/2 red morocco over marbled boards. 5 raised bands, wonderful gilt-decorations (a fox, a hound, a buck, etc.) within the compartments. Tight, solid and VG+, with just a touch of very light wear along..... More
The Little White Bird or Adventures in Kensington Gardens (The First Appearance of Peter Pan)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Decorative Cloth. A crisp, lovely copy of the November 1902 1st American edition of the book which featured the very first appearance of the character Peter Pan. Tight and Fine in its dark-green cloth, with brilliant gilt-design and titling along the front panel and..... More
Mourning Becomes Electra -- The Signed/Limited (In the Original Printed Slipcase) SIGNED
New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. Vellum. A handsome copy of the 1931 signed/limited. #363 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY EUGENE O'NEILL at the limitation and bound in a full vellum. Tight, very clean and easily Near Fine. Mounted title label (with bright gilt-lettering) and gilt-rule along the spine. Octavo..... More
The Lady Is Cold & Other Poems (Salesman's Sample)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Cloth. The uncommon 1929 Salesman's Sample of E.B. White's 2nd book (and 1st credited book), following his 1927 "Less Than Nothing -- or The Life and Times of Sterling Finney". Solid and VG in its dark cloth, with a bit of light rubbing at..... More
Pet Sounds (The First 2 Issues)
Leaf Publications, 1977. Original wraps. The first 2 issues (February and June, 1977) of this quarterly newspaper devoted to the music of the Beach Boys. Its mission is not driven by gossip or salacious tid bits but rather by the music itself. "The music will be our business. We will..... More
Monster World (The First 10 Issues)
Philadelphia: James Warren (Warren Publishing Company), 1964-1966. Original wraps. A very nice run of the first 10 issues (spanning November 1964-September 1966) of "Monster World", the brain child of publisher James Warren and Forrest Ackerman, the redoubtable editor-in-chief of this important bi-monthly monster magazine. All 10 issues are crisp, very..... More
2 Books of Bettie Page Contact Sheets -- Both Presented by Photographer Eric Kroll
Original wraps. 2 one-of-a-kind collections of Bettie Page contact sheets. The first, called "The Dave Stevens/Eric Kroll Travelling Show Part I", was purchased by the renowned fetish photographer Eric Kroll in 1989. As he wrote in pencil on the rear pastedown, "These are the contact sheets I made from the..... More