A Death in the Family
The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine limited edition from The Franklin Library. Pulitzer Prize winning novel in 1958. Full leather bound with gilt detailing and a satin ribbon book marker.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1941. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in an about very good dust jacket with wear on the folds of the jacket. Issued in a small edition, an extended essay on rural poverty with arresting images by Evans. Aside.....
The Quadrupeds of North America
Audubon, 1849. first octavo edition. softcover. First octavo edition, in original wrappers. This is vol. 10 only. With 5 colored plates. In very good condition, rear cover almost separated from spine.
Another Country
New York: Dial Press, 1962. First. hardcover. A near fine first edition (1962 on title page and no mention of later printings on copyright page) in a very good dust jacket with original price of $5.95 on front flap of the dust jacket and 1 1/2 inch long residue from.....
Go Tell It On The Mountain
Franklin Library, 1979. limited. hardcover. Signed limited edition. Leather-bound. Book in fine condition.
Going to Meet the Man
Dial Press, 1965. first. hardcover. First edition. Book near fine. Dust jacket very good, minor wear and tear, minor foxing to inside of dj.
Notes of a Native Son
The Beacon Press, 1955. first. hardcover. First edition. Book near fine, very slight rubbing to spine ends, very faint water stain to foredge. Dust jacket very good, some wear and tear especially to hinges and along edges, faint water stains onside of dj to hinges.
The Fire Next Time
Taschen, 2019. hardcover. Illustrated edition, with photos by Steve Schapiro. Still in shrinkwrap.
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Franklin Library, 1979. signed limited. hardcover. SIGNED limited edition, leather-bound. In fine condition.
American Cookery
Little Brown. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. A very good fifth printing, inscribed by James Beard on the half title page. Housed in a custom-made collector's cloth slipcase. Laid in is a letter of provenance from the owner named in the inscription, an owner of a Napa Valley winery visited.....
Earthman Come Home
G.P. Puntam's Sons, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good to near fine dust jacket. First Edition with no mention of later printings on the copyright page. Near fine book, pages crisp, endpapers immaculate, no names or marks, bumping to top and bottom of spine. DJ also.....
Jack of Eagles
Greenburg, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First edition with no mention of later printings on the copyright page. A nice clean, square copy. Dust jacket has original price of $2.75 printed on front flap. Minor soiling on back cover and rubbing at bottom edge.....
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Baldwin, for Dilly, 1791. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first issue (with "gve" for "give" on page 135, line 10), in what may be the incredibly scarce original boards. Two volumes, quarto. Very good. Some soiling to pages of the second volume. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. This copy.....
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Henry Baldwin, 1791. first. hardcover. First edition, first issue. Two volumes, leather. Engraved portrait frontis after Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the first volume. Second volume illustrated with two plates of Dr. Johnson's handwriting in facsimile. Both volumes in very good condition, minor foxing to pages, some rubbing to edges. Housed.....
The Life of Samuel Johnson LLD. Comprehending an account of his Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; A Series of his Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of his Composition, never before Published
Andrews, 1807. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Published by W[illiam] Andrews and L[emuel] Blake, Greenough and Stebbins, Printers, Boston, 1807. First American in Boards, Uncut. From the fifth London edition. 3 vols. 8vo First American from the fifth London Edition (1807, edited by Edmund Malone). The First edition was published in 1791.....
The Life of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D
London, UK: John Murray, 1835. later. hardcover. 10 volumes, small octavo. Spines lightly sunned. An excellent set of Boswell's great biography, first published in 1791. Engraved frontispieces and vignettes title pages with tissue guards. Condition is near fine.
Cadillac Jukebox
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Hyperion Books, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NY: Hyperion, 1996. Copyright page states FIRST EDITION and has 1 on the number sequence. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Book fine, in fine dust jacket. DJ flap price reads $22.95.
Cadillac Jukebox (signed)
Hyperion, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. F/F. signed by the author. 1st edition. First Edition and number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 stated on copyright page.
Serenade
Knopf, 1937. first. hardcover. First edition, as stated on copyright page. Book near fine. Dust jacket good, some wear, some pieces were missing and have been previously repaired with some white paper.
Embezzler
Avon, 1944. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition thus, very good in wrappers. Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #20, 1944. Digest Size Paperback. Book Condition: Very good. Jack Deckter (illustrator). 1st Thus. First separate edition.
Jealous Woman
Avon, 1951. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First mass market paperback edition, first thus, in near fine condition. Avon 348, with 348 printing at bottom of spine. First edition, thus. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Avon #348. First trade paperback edition, this first appeared as Avon Murder Mystery Monthly #17. A beautiful near.....
Mildred Pierce
1st Edition. first edition, book in fine condition, no DJ.
Mildred Pierce
Alfred A. Knopf. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition, 1941, Advance Issue. Advance Review Copy, in good condition. Back cover slightly detached from book, some wear and tear, some discoloration on front free end-paper and front paste-down. In specially made slipcase.
Mildred Pierce
Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First Edition stated on the copyright page, very slightly leaning, at front and rear paste-downs some wear, tiny bookstore sticker at bottom of rear paste-down. Dust jacket has some chipping and rubbed edges. Obvious wear.....
Mildred Pierce
Knopf, 1941. first. hardcover. First edition, as stated on copyright page. Book near fine, glue shining through to rear of front and rear paste-downs, two tiny holes to rear cover that go through to rear paste-down. Dust jacket very good, some wear, price-clipped.