The Book of Nods.
New York: Penguin Books, 1986. 1st. Softcover. 1st paperback edition. Signed by the author on half title page without any presentation. More
New Arrivals
The Football Calendar 1917
n. p. Sully & Kleinteich, 1917. Paperback. Bound in the publisher's original football shaped wrappers. More
Santa Rita: The University of Texas Oil Discovery.
Austin: University State Historical Association, 1943. 1st. Hardcover. Illustrated by Tom Lea. One of 440 numbered copies designed by Carl Hertzog. Bound in full yellow cloth. Fine condition. Lowman 23. More
Address Before the Rocky Mountain Medical Association June 6, 1877, Containing some Observations on the Geological Age of the World
Washington, D. C. Published for the Rocky Moountain Medical Association, 1877. 1st. Hardcover. Front hinge cracked, otherwise a very good copy. More
Grigsby's Cowboys; Third United States Volunteer Cavalry, Spanish-American War; A Historical Review of the Regiment and Compendium of Biographies of the Noted Men Comprising the Same.
Salem, South Dakota: James E. Patten, 1900. 1st. Hardcover. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Bound in publisher's original blue-green cloth with the front cover stamped in dark blue and the spine stamped in gilt. Decorated endpapers. Minor wear to the extremities. More
Andersen's Sammtliche Marchen. Four volumes.
Leipzig: Phiipp Reclam, n. d. Hardcover. Text in German. Bound in half leather with five raised bands on spine, with spine elaborately stamped in gilt, marbled paper on boards, and marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. 5 3/4 inches tall, 649, 498, 413, 346 pages. More
Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stamhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stamhope, Esq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together With Several Other Pieces on Various Subjects. Four volumes.
London: Dodsley, 1775. Hardcover. Bound in half polished calf with marbled boards. Spines elaborately stamped in gilt with five raised bands, top edge gilt. More
Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. 2nd. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in silver. Reference of crime and mystery literature through 1985. 1,094 pages. More
Works of George Eliot. Ten volumes.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1901. Hardcover. Bound by Hatchard's in half green straight grain morocco with green cloth on boards, five raised bands on spine, with spine lettered in gilt with gilt ruling and gilt leaf designs, boards ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers. Spine is sun-faded to..... More
Organic Trains
(New York): (Penny Press), (1967). 1st. Original Wraps. Author's first book. Stapled pamphlet. Jim Carroll was the first student of Trinity School, New York, to be published of the Class of '68. More
Void of Course. Poems 1994 - 1997
New York: Pengiun, 1998. 1st. Paperback. Paperback. Written in the author's own inimitable and powerful style. Seventy-five poems, often mingling dreams and reality. More
Forced Entries; The Downtown Diaries: 1971 - 1973
New York: Penguin, 1987. 1st. Paperback. First paperback edition. Sequel to The Basketball Diaries. Memoir of an era of cultural experimentation and ferment. More
Living at the Movies.
New York: Grossman, 1973. 1st. Paperback. First paperback edition. Signed by the author on the half title page. More
The Basketball Diaries 1963 - 1966
Bolinas: Tombouctou, 1978. 1st. Stiff Wraps. Signed by the author on the title page. Bound in publisher's original stiff wraps. Introduction by Tom Clark. Small water stain on botttom edge, otherwise fine. Autobiographical novel about a young basketball player who becomes addicted to heroin, More
The Book of Nods
New York: Viking, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Review copy of first edition with publisher's review letter laid in. Bound in publisher's original quarter grey cloth with spine lettered in black and blue cloth on boards. Faint remainder ink on bottom edge. More
Fear of Dreaming
New York: Penguin, 1993. 2nd. Paperback. Paperbound. Penguin Poets series. Poems and poetic reflections. More
Armenian Carpet
Yerevan: Erebouni, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original printed cloth with spine lettered in white and carpet designs printed on covers. Endpapers printed with map of Armenia and surrounding political region of the time. Profusely illustrated with full-page color plates of Armenian carpets. 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches..... More
Mackenzie & Harris Type Faces
San Francisco: M & H, ca. 1915. Metal spiral. Bound in publisher's original metal spiral binding. Monotype, Intertype, and foundary type faces available from M & H are shown. More
WESTVACO Insprations for Printers: 1944 1945
New York: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 1944. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Shows typography, photography, art work and other graphic elements on papers manufactured at WESTVACO mills, demonstrating printing processes and papers, Many World War II themed illustrations. More
The Angel of History
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Presentation signed by the author on the title page. Bound in quarter black cloth with spine stamped in silver, brown endpapers. A long, mystical poem. More
American Encyclopedia of Printing
Philadelphia: Menamin & Ringwalt, and J. Lippincott, 1871. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine and front cover elaborately stamped in gilt, rear cover elaborately stamped in blind. Edges worn through at extremities, half-inch tear at head of spine, small chips at heel of spine, front hinge..... More
Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian State and Worship bound with Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in Three Books. I. Collected from the Scriptures. II. Composed on Divine Subjects. III. Prepared for The Lord's Supper.
Rochester, N. Y. E. Peck, 1822. Hardcover. Two volumes bound dos-à-dos in full red leather with spines and boards stamped in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, top and bottom edges marbled. 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. 604 pages. More
Origin of the American Point System For Printers' Type Measurement
Terra Alta: Hill & Dale Press, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. More
The Treasure of the Humble
London: Humphreys, 1906. Hardcover. Translation by Alfred Sutro. Bound in full leather by Monastery Hill bindery with five raised bands on spine stamped in gilt and boards ruled in gilt, Inner dentelles gilt with silk on endpapers. Top edge gilt. Philosophical essays of Maeterlinck. More