New York: Ace Books, 1970. Third Paperback Edition. Octavo. (18 cm.) 541 pp. ii ill. Pictorial mass market paperback. Bright and fresh. Fine. Complete and Unabridged Writer Frank Herbert used the shifting, expansive sands of the Oregon coast as his inspiration for his epic Science Fiction novel, "Dune". Now recognized as...
New York: Bantam Books, 1976. First Paperback Edition. Small Octavo. (8 cm.) 148 pp. xvi ills. Pictorial mass market paperback. Minor color stain to verso otherwise exceptionally bright and fresh. Near Fine. Your fate is in the palm of your hand. 1976, America's Bicentennial year. The ceaseless fireworks set the stage...
San Francisco: Determined Productions, Inc., 1962. First Edition. Small square octavo. (14.5 cm.) Paper pictorial boards with matching pictorial dust jacket. Colored thick paper stock. Mild creasing to left corner of jacket and very short closed tear to verso. Mild abrasion to bottom right of front free endpaper from sticker...
San Francisco: Determined Productions, Inc., 1963-1970. First Edition. Small square octavos. (14.5 cm.) Paper pictorial boards with matching pictorial dust jackets. Colored thick paper stock. Five titles with colored edges. Very mild wear to the dustjacket edges of all volumes. "Home" with slightly more edgewear. All bright and vivid. Overall...
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Small Folio. (37 cm.) 140 pp. Stiff photographic paper wrappers. Photo-pictorial gatefold dust jacket. Presentation copy with "The University Club" luncheon menu pastedown to blank verso of front wrapper and invitation to same 1992 luncheon honoring museum curator, Richard Martin, attached...
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1936. First Edition. Octavo. (22.5 cm.) 313 pp. Golden wheat colored full cloth. Red and green stamped decorative panel to front with titles in red and like titles on spine with details in green. Endpapers with map of South Africa. Original owner's bookplate...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm.) 2 volumes, xix, 481 pp; xiii, 611 pp. First Edition. Union-Army Blue cloth boards with two sets of horizontal gold banding framing black lettered title on front boards and blind-stamped horizontal banding on rear boards. Decorative gold banding...
New York: Olympia Press, 1968. First Trade Edition. Small Octavo. (18cm.) 105pp. Pictorial paper wrappers. Titles in white on red monochrome image, like titles in black on spine. Verso with pictorial reproduction in red and white titles. Edges stained in green with two sides faded. Dampstaining to gutter affecting front...
Rouzan, 1989. Broadside (56 x 35.5 cm.) Half-tone reprint of Billie Holiday appearance on yellow paperboard with surrounding pictorial graphics in red and titles in black. Verso with ownership stamp of reknowned jazz photographer, Jack Bradley. Slight bumping to corners and minor edgewear. A Fine, unmarked example. Custom printed vintage...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (23.5 cm.) 401 pp. Half grey cloth. Initials of author in silver gilt on front board, titles in silver gilt on spine. Photo pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by author. When John Hope Franklin was 6, in 1921, he was forcibly...
Kankakee, Illinois: Imperial International Learning Corporation, circa 1970. 10 Audio Cassettes (24 cm.), each housed with accompanying 35 educational booklets inside a photo pictorial cardboard case. Titles on box in black and white on front and spine. Most cassettes rest in white packing material with instructional booklets beneath. Ex-Libris with...
Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1972-1979. Mixed Editions. Octavo. (24.5 cm.) 5 volumes. Photo pictorial dust jackets. Half cloth, blindstamped publisher logo on front boards. Edgewear to dust jackets on all volumes including some minor closed tears and scuffing. Dampstaining to cloth spine of volume 2, minor foxing to...
Joilet, Illinois: P.F. Volland Company, 1929. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. (23.5 x 30 cm) Unpaginated. Half-cloth, pictorial paper boards with titles in script in yellow and blue. Green buckram spine. Pictorial endpapers. Some wear and loss of paper to corners and edges, unaffecting illustrations. Very slight soiling to boards but...
San Diego: Idea and Design Works, 2009. Square Folio. (31 cm.) Unpaginated. Illustrated paper boards. Titles in black on spine and verso. Bleak but beautiful, "World War Robot" depicts the epic battle on Mars where human soldiers and their robots fight against an invading, organized force. Artist and illustrator, Ashley...
New York: Zone Books, 1992. First Edition. Oblong Folio. (20cm x 25cm.) Unpaginated. Full black cloth with titles in silver gilt on spine. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Jacket with two closed tears to top of front upper panel and very light edgewear to corners. Else clean, tight and Fine. Photoplay Book...
San Francisco: Fearon Publishers, 1957. First Edition. Octavo. (26 cm.) 77 pp. Full wheat-colored cloth. Text in black on front board and spine. Photo pictorial black and white dust jacket of San Francisco streets and streetcar. Dampstain to lower spine of jacket with light edgewear and minor chipping. Author signature...
Loughborough: Willis & Hepworth, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. (18 cm.) 54 pp. Pictorial orange paper boards with text in black and white and Ladybird logo on front and verso, like text on spine. Very minor foxing to edges of text block. Book exceptionally bright and clean. A Near Fine example...
Washington DC: Sun Dog Propaganda, 1995. Fourth Edition. Octavo. (27.5 cm) 176 pp. Stiff paper photo-pictorial boards. Extremely light edgewear. Bright and tight. Fine. "I was unconscious for two minutes or so." - John Stabb The American Hardcore Punk music scene began in Washington D.C.. Wild, fast, underground shows set...
London: Grey Walls Press, 1953. Edward Pagram. First UK Revised Edition. Octavo. (19 cm.) 418 pp. Full dark gold cloth. Titles in gilt on spine. Pictorial dust jacket grey-toned illustration of gentleman smoking a cigarette against a nightlife in the city backdrop. Mild offset toning to front free endpapers and...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957. Lucille Webster Holling. First Edition. Tall Octavo. (28.5 cm.) 87 pp. Sea-foam green full cloth, titles and illustration of Hermit Crab in yellow on front board, like titles on spine. Color illustrated pictorial dust jacket. xx ills. Small hole on spine of jacket not affecting type...
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1969. First Printing. Small octavo. (18 cm.) 320 pp. Paperback original. Photo-illustrated titles in black on front and spine, with photo-image of author on verso. Publisher serial number #HH-176 above title and on spine indicating First Printing. Stray penmark on spine, not affecting type. Minor edgewear...
New York: Hyperion, 2004. Call. First Edition. Octavo. (20.5 cm.) 451 pp. Full photo-illustrated paper boards in red and green imitation of half cloth. Dust jacket with like photo-illustration.Signed by both authors on the half-title. Fine Condition. Friends and authors, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson wanted to collaborate on a....
New York: De Capo Press, W.W. Norton & Company, 2000, 2006. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo. (22 cm., 24 cm.) 223 pp., 338 pp. Book 1, Half-black paper boards, titles in silver on spine, photo-illustrated dust jacket of trumpeter, Miles Davis. Book 2, Half-orange paper boards, Impulse logo blindstamped on...
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, Circa 1908. Unknown. Small Octavos. (17 cm.) Seven volumes. Half cloth, paper boards in colorful, abstract art bindings. Titles on paper paste downs on front boards. Three volumes with owner signatures on front free endpaper. One volume with some soiling to edge of front board...
New York: Random House, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). 496 pp. Murder-black, half-cloth, with like boards. Titles on spine in gilded-age copper gilt. Very minor edge wear to dust jacket. Overall, a solid, clean, beautiful copy. Fine. Caleb Carr's true debut as a popular novelist. "The Alienist" is fast-paced detective...
