TAILCHASER"S SONG. A Novel
New York: Daw Books, 1985. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Uncommon first book - a feline fantasy. Stated first printing with full number line. A nice copy. 8vo boards & cloth. #29009
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THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE. A Novel
New York: Doubleday, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & dated 2006 by Lethem on the title page. Major work by the author of AMNESIA MOON, GUN WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC, and... #29008
WATCH REPAIR. Poem with Art by Mare Blocker.
Seattle. WA: M Kimberly Press, 1987. First Edition. Copy #23 of only 25 numbered & signed by Simic & Blocker. A beautiful Artist's Book incorporating some actual watch parts, along... #29007
THIS I REMEMBER.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First Deluxe Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Copy #356 of 1,000 numbered & signed by Eleanor Roosevelt. 387 pages with index & photos. Large 8vo blue... #29006
FATAL FORECAST. An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea.
New York: Scribner, 2007. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Tougias on front flyleaf. First printing with full number line. Lobstermen caught in an unexpected major storm 130... #29005
THE FIRST SALUTE. A View of the American Revolution.
New York: Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Tuchman on a tipped-in leaf. Stated first edition, first printing, with no mention of a later printing on copyright page. From... #29001
THE MAN FROM KILSHEELAN. Preface by Coppard and Woodcut by Robert Gibbings. A Story
London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #445 of 550 signed by Coppard. Printed at the Chiswick Press. This is title #3 of the Furnival Book series... #29000
HEED THE THUNDER. Introduction by James Ellroy. A Novel
New York: Armchair Detective Library, 1991. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Copy #71 of 100 numbered & signed by James Ellroy who writes a brief introduction to this 1946... #28999
BLUESMAN. A Novel
New York: Faber, 1993. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Dubus on the title-page; also warmly inscribed & dated Dec. 16, 1993 to a budding author Andre has... #28998
WELCOME. A Romance of Jamaica A Novel
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1942. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. A novel set in Jamaica by the prolific English Catholic writer. 8vo cloth. Unusually nice copy for this wartime... #28992
THE RUSHDIE LETTERS. Freedom to Speak, Freedom to Write. Edited by Steve MacDonogh in association with Article 19.
Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. First Edition / First Printing. Softcover. Letters from a number of intellectuals, writers, and prominent people about the fatwa that called for the... #28991
GRIMUS. A Novel
New York: Overlook Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition of Rushdie's first book. 8vo black cloth. #28990
BROWNOUT ON BREADFRUIT BOULEVARD. A Novel
London: Paddleless Press, 1995. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. By a the author of THE MONKEY KING, THE REDUNDANCY OF COURAGE, AN INSULAR POSSESSION, and SOUR SWEET. 8vo boards. #28988
AN INSULAR POSSESSION. A Novel
New York: Random House, 1986. First U.S. Edition / First printing. Hardcover. Massive historical novel set near China at the time of the Opium War. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize... #28987
RIOT AT MISRI MANDI.
London: Phoenix Paperback, 1996. First Edition / First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Seth on the title-page. Small paperback, a 60-page self-contained excerpt from Seth's lengthy 1993 novel A SUITABLE BOY... #28986
RENEGADE or HALO 2. A Novel
London: Paddleless Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Unusual novel by the author of THE REDUNDANCY OF COURAGE and AN INSULAR POSSESSION. 8vo boards. #28983
THE COLOPHON; The Quarterly for Bookmen. New Graphic Series Number One, March 1939.
New York: The Colophon, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Virginia printer William Parks struggles & partly overcomes a ban on printing in the 1690's; Charles Dickens tries to remaon anonymous as... #28979
THE COLOPHON; The Quarterly for Bookmen. New Graphic Series Number Three, September 1939.
New York: The Colophon, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Nathaniel & Elizabeth Hawthorne as editors; "Naughty, Naughty!": a brief retrospective of bawdy and censored literature; Bibliography of Bacon-Shakespeare controversy; Jewett's Deephaven... #28978
THE COLOPHON; The Quarterly for Bookmen. New Graphic Series Number Two, June 1939.
New York: The Colophon, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Rollo G. Silver on "Rollo" first editions; "Thomas Nast as we don't know him" by Kouwenhoven; a phrenological reading of autocrat O.W.... #28977
THE COLOPHON; A Quarterly for Booklovers. New Graphic Series Number 4, Volume One. February 1940.
New York: The Colophon, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Carolyn Wells on collecting Whitman; L. C. Powell on D.H. Lawrence & his critics; some of the earliest H.C. Andersen tales were..... #28976
THE COLOPHON; A Book Collector's Quarterly. Part 15, October 1933.
New York: The Colophon, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Reflections on unenduring fame prompted by Elizabeth Akers; "The Sixth Man" - an essay by Benet; exhuming Rossetti's poems; Stephen Fosteriana; about... #28974
THE COLOPHON; A Book Collector's Quarterly. Part 14, June 1933.
New York: The Colophon, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. On collecting Sir Walter Scott; H. Martineau: deaf bluestocking; te Unicorn in early books & prints; Mather collection; on Herbert Hoover's translation... #28973
THE COLOPHON; A Book Collector's Quarterly. Part 16, March 1934.
New York: The Colophon, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Lady Burton, unusual wife; some odd facts about Thoreau; first edition of the famed Encyclopedia Britannica; imprint collection; Aldine British poet editions;... #28972
THE COLOPHON; A Quarterly for Collectors and Lovers of Books. Part 3, September 1930.
New York: The Colophon, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Eighth Sin" by Christopher Morley; Van Vechten's "Notes for an Autobiography"; Oscar Lewis on the California school of printing; Essay on... #28952
THE COLOPHON; A Quarterly for Collectors and Lovers of Books. Part 12, December 1932.
New York: The Colophon, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Little-known incident when Oscar Wilde was cheated by a grifter in New York in a rigged craps game during his U.S. visit... #28949