New York: The Macaulay Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 8" X 5 1/2". 315pp. Lacking dust jacket. Presumed first, with no other printings listed. Green cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in black. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to extremities, crease to spine, and scattered... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1934. Twelfth Printing. Hardcover. 8 7/8" X 6 3/8". 354pp. Blue-green cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding, with heavy scattered rubbing to cloth, small tears to bumped corners, gilt faded to sunned spine, light... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". 298pp. Lacking dust jacket. Black cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in red. Moderate wear to binding, with lettering faded entirely from sunned spine, bumping to extremities, and slight lean to... More
Los Angeles: Camera Obscura, 1983. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 160pp. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with edgewear, bumping to extremities, light toning and soiling, and sunning to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this eleventh issue of Camera Obscura: A Journal... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8" X 5 1/2". 225pp, plus about the author pages. Heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket, with significant chipping and open tears to edges and extremities, soiling and foxing to rear panel, dust soiling, and loss of publisher's device... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 8" X 5 1/4". viii, 372pp. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, with small tears to extremities and toning to rear panel. Light gray cloth over boards, with spine lettered in black. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to extremities and... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1949. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 248pp. Rather heavy edgewear to dust jacket, with several 1/2-1" tears, closed and open, to extremities, soiling to rear panel, sunning to spine, and dust soiling. Yellow cloth over boards, with spine... More
New York: Penguin Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". 818pp. Inscribed to previous owner by Ron Chernow at title page and dated 11/13/04. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, with edgewear, small nicks to extremities, and faint lines of soiling to front panel. Red paper over... More
1963-1987. Hardcover. Various sizes and paginations. A solid set of these ten books by and about Henry Miller and Anais Nin. All hardcover with dust jacket, except Anais Nin: An Introduction and Always Merry and Bright, which are paper backs. Moderate wear to bindings and dust jackets, with edgewear, sunning... More
New York: Avon Books, 1978. Paperback. 7 1/8" X 5" X 4 3/8" slipcase, all volumes 6 7/8" X 4 1/8". Moderate edgewear to paper wraps, with occasional small creases and nicks to extremities. Bindings are firm, tight, and sound, with the exception of The Untried Years, with crease to... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1967. First American Paperback Edition. Paperback. 7" X 4 1/4". xii, 799pp. An Evergreen Black Cat Book BC-138. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with faint dampstains to upper wrap, edgewear, creasing to spine, and small tears to extremities. Blue edgestain faded to all edges. Binding... More
Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1997. Hardcover. 12 X 8 1/4". Unpaginated. Mild edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, with light surface scratching. Bound in white paper over boards, showing light edgewear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A very nice 1998 edition of "Japan's standard in nudity,"... More
Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1992. Paperback. 12 X 8 1/4". Unpaginated. Mild edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, with light surface scratching. Bound in white wraps, showing light edgewear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A very nice 1993 edition of "Japan's standard in nudity," Sha-Girl, gathering... More
Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1991. Paperback. 12 X 8 1/4". Unpaginated. Mild edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, with light surface scratching. Bound in white wraps, showing light edgewear and faint dust soiling. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A very nice 1992 edition of "Japan's standard... More
Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1991-1999. Hardcover. 12 X 8 1/4". Various paginations. Text in Japanese, with limited text in English. Pictorial dust jackets show mild edgewear and surface scratching. Small closed tear to spine panel of dust jacket of Sha-Girl '98. Small tears to head of spine of dust jacket... More
Knoxville, Tennessee: Holmes-Darst Coal Corporation, 1942. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". vii, 280pp. Green cloth over boards, with silhouette with smoking firearm stamped in black to upper board and upper board and spine lettered in black. Moderate wear to binding, with scattered rubbing, edgewear, and sunning to spine. Heavy... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1866. Hardcover. 9 1/8" X 6 1/8". 394pp. Tan cloth over boards, with spine lettered in brown. Heavy wear to binding, with mottling to cloth, soiling, sunning, lacking last 1 1/4" of cloth backign spine, small tears to head of spine, and bumping to extremities... More
Montezuma, Iowa: F. Brownell & Son, 1980, 1983. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". viii, 496pp; vii, 496pp. Gunsmith Kinks is a sixteenth printing; Gunsmith Kinks II is a first printing. Gunsmith Kinks lacking dust jacket. Heavy wear to dust jacket of Gunsmith Kinks II, with front flap separated and... More
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xii, 250pp. Edition limited to twelve hundred and fifty, this being number 390. Red cloth over boards, ruled in gilt, with pictorial paper label to upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Glossy film covering pictorial... More
New York: Paradox Press, 1998, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. 10 7/8" X 8 1/2". 191pp each. Each stated first printing. Mild edgewear and cover wear to glossy pictorial wraps. Bindings are firm and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A great set of two books from Factoid Books' Big Book... More
New York: Paradox Press, 1995-1999. First Edition. Paperback. 10 7/8" X 8 1/2". 191-223pp each. Each stated first printing. Mild edgewear to glossy pictorial wraps. Bindings are firm and sound. Pages are clean and bright. The Big Book of Vice is in good only condition, with dampstaining and wrinkling to... More
Milano: Casa Editrice Bietti, 1889. Hardcover. 5 3/4" X 3 3/8". viii, 1052pp. Text in Italian. Black ribbed cloth over boards, stamped to boards. Lettering to spine faded and illegible. Heavy wear to binding, with edges and extremities rubbed to boards, tears to cloth, scattered rubbing, and soiling. Both hinges... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 11" X 8 1/2". xvii, 329pp. Green cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Severe wear to binding, with splits to cloth, boards exposed and torn at extremities, soiling and dampstaining to cloth, lettering dimmed to... More
International Grapho Analysis Society, Inc., 1952. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8 5/8" X 5 5/8". 92pp. Edition limited to 1,239, this being number 848. BLack cloth over boards, with upper board lettered in faded gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear, white stain to edge of upper board, and dust soiling... More
London: Laurence King, 2001. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 9 5/8". 224pp. Moderate wear to dust jacket featuring Untitled by Jun Kaneko, with several closed tears to edges, bumping to extremities, and edgewear. Pictorial paper over boards. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to extremities. Binding is firm and sound... More
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