London: Penguin / Viking, 2026. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition, first printing of the UK edition, signed by author Elif Shafak on a special leaf bound in by the publisher. From the publisher: A luminous novel of the life of Gustave Flaubert, the iconic author of Madame Bovary, told..... More
Penguin USA, 2026. First Thus. Hardcover. A first edition, first printing of the deluxe anniversary edition signed by author Amor Towles on the title page. This deluxe hardcover edition of A Gentleman in Moscow includes: A limited edition jacket with gold foil Beautifully designed sprayed and stenciled edges Illustrated endpapers..... More
Horn (album maker), c. 1918–1924. Hardcover. Folio scrapbook, 12.5" x 10.5". 54 pages on 27 unnumbered leaves of heavy album stock, with about fifty mounted clippings, chiefly color plates cut from American magazines, especially the Ladies’ Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post. Nearly all leaves filled with only a handful..... More
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Second English-Language Edition, Revised, with an extended new preface by Freyre: the History Book Club issue, with “H. B. C.” printed on the copyright page and “The History Book Club Edition” on the front flap. Translated by Samuel Putnam. Green cloth..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, issued by Regnery using sheets printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (the London Gollancz edition appeared the same year). 322 pages. Translated by John Andrews. Black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Unclipped dust jacket ($3.75), plain..... More
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 464 pages including index. Charcoal cloth, title in silver on blue panels on the front board and spine, top edge stained blue, blue endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket ($7.95) designed by Robert Jonas, author photo by Jerry Bauer. The rear..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing (stated). 636 pages, with 32 pages of photographic plates and a full bibliography. Blue cloth, red spine label lettered in gilt, top edge stained red. Unclipped dust jacket ($12.50) designed by Lawrence Ratzkin, with an author photo..... More
New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with figures and plates. Gray cloth lettered in red and black on the spine, orange endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket ($15.00) designed by Ronald Clyne, with rear-flap blurbs from Sir Peter Medawar, René Dubos, and Arthur R...... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, first printing (stated), preceded by the Gollancz London edition the same year. With “A Word to American Readers” by A. J. Liebling. Dedicated to Mrs. Thomasina Probert, mother of Timothy John Evans. Octavo. Purple paper boards with orange..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, published the same year as the London edition (George Allen & Unwin) and likewise printed in Great Britain. In the original unclipped dust jacket priced $3.25. 8.75" x 5.5". Publisher’s grey-blue cloth, front board and spine lettered in..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, in the original unclipped dust jacket priced $3.75. 8.75" x 5.75" Publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in black. The Edward Douglass White Lectures on Citizenship, delivered at LSU in 1956. Very good in a very good jacket. Cloth..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing, with no later printing statement on the copyright page, in the original unclipped dust jacket priced $10.00. 9.5" x 6.25". 651 pp. Charts and tables. Publisher’s red cloth, spine lettered in silver between black rules. Very..... More
Hyperion, 2021. 1. Hardcover. First edition, first printing, signed by author Dhonielle Clayton to title page. In 1920s New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Zora, banished after an incident in Harlem, struggles with her overbearing family, magical powers, love of jazz, and forbidden romance with a white man. More
Psychology, 2001. 1. Hardcover. A bright, clean, almost like new copy. This book provides a broad survey of many of the major areas in neuroplasticity research by leading investigators in the field. The topics considered range across all levels of nervous system organization from the molecular to behavioral levels for..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Early Printing. Hardcover. Early printing (title page undated; the first printing carries the date 1955 on the title page), acquired and read by its owner by December 1956. Red cloth stamped in silver, with the 1932 New Yorker market-crash cartoon as frontispiece. In the dust..... More
New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing of the author’s first book, distributed by E. P. Dutton. Green boards lettered in white on the spine, blue endpapers. In the striking blue and cream dust jacket designed by Hess and/or Antupit, unclipped ($6.95), with the..... More
London: Folio Society, 2026. Banerjee, Anagh. First Thus. Hardcover. 9½ inches × 6¾ inches (25 × 18 cm). Bookplate signed by author Robin Wall Kimmerer laid inside front cover, not attached. Colour frontispiece and 6 full-page colour illustrations by Anagh Banerjee. Three-quarter bound in blocked cloth with a printed textured..... More
New York: Atria Books, 2026. First Deluxe Edition. Hardcover. RELEASED NOVEMBER 3RD Signed "from my front porch" by Allen Levi to a leaf specially bound in by the publisher (see picture). From the publisher: A LIMITED HARDCOVER DELUXE EDITION OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON One man’s quiet..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, American issue, published simultaneously in Australia (Maitland) and the United Kingdom (Stevens), and printed in Sydney by Halstead Press. Salmon colored cloth hardcover, spine lettered in black, in the white typographic dust jacket with grid design..... More
Alfred K. Knopf. First Thus. Hardcover. First thus, the first American edition of the abridgment, stated. The authorized abridgment was prepared by Helmut Werner with the blessing of the Spengler estate, using Charles Francis Atkinson’s complete English translation, with connecting passages translated by Arthur Helps. Typography, binding, and dust jacket..... More
New York: Meridian Books, 1959. First Thus. Hardcover. First thus, revised edition first printing, 1959. Greenwich Editions Original GE 7. Illustrated. The dust jacket was designed by Elaine Lustig (Cohen): black medal and order silhouettes over a bold orange, white, and red tricolor field. It is unclipped ($7.50), with an..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1959. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Mild wear to cover, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket, with original $6.95 price to front flap. Blue cloth hardcover with black and silver lettering to spine. Aside from brief previous owner notation at the back (see below)..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, hardcover, from the series Studies Religion and Society. Charcoal cloth with spine lettered in red and white, red endpapers, in the striking black, white and red photographic dust jacket (unclipped, $12.50). Very mild shelf wear, an unusually clean and..... More
Chicago: American Bar Association, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. First edition, the original 1969 issue of four papers, in cream leatherette-grain cover wraps. An expanded edition followed in 1970–71, adding a fifth essay by Sidney Hook (“Academic Freedom and Academic Anarchy”) and issued in a different brown and gold geometric wrapper..... More
New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition, first printing, with “First Edition” and the number line 98 765432 on the copyright page. Brown cloth in the unclipped $6.95 first-issue dust jacket, code 5/70 on the rear flap. The jacket was designed by Bob Antler, with..... More
