New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1865. First Edition. Cloth. 247 (4 adverts) pp. Illustrations from drawings by the Author. Original green cloth; gilt spine titling. 5" x 7 1/2". Bookplate of Roger K. Larson on front pastedown. Two small booksellers' stamps: Front pastedown:Geo. H. Bell, San Francisco. Rear pastedown: Gelber Lilienthal..... More
New York: Penguin Group (A Perigee Book), 2012. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth-backed Boards. (xxiii) (2) 293 pages.laid in. Illustrated dust jacket. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth-backed boards. Small octavo. Index. Profusely illustrated, including many vintage photographs. From the jacket: "In To Have and Have Another, Hemingway enthusiast and cocktail..... More
Berlin: Grieben-verlag, 1929. First Thus. Illustrated Cloth. 209 (3 adverts) pages. Text in English. Seven (7) folding maps of Paris and environs. List of Streets. Alphabetical Index. Flexible Illustated cloth. 4" x 6". A detailed guide book of Paris as it was in 1929. Useful in studying and writing about..... More
Millburn, N.J. Paper Mill Playhouse, 1983. First Edition. Illustrated Wrappers. This is an ORIGINAL program for the 1983 production of "YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU" at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, New Jersey (The "State Theater of New Jersey"). It is SIGNED in ink twice by star Jason Robards;..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. (xvi) 221 pages. First Edition. Dust jacket. Foreword by A. Walton Litz. Appendices. Notes. Index. Illustrated primarily from vintage black and white photographs. Cloth. Octavo. From Thomas F. Staley of the University of Texas: "A well-documented correspondence of the very important relationship..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1989. First Edition. Cloth-backed Boards. 232 pages. Illustrated silver dust jacket. Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin. Illustrated primarily from L'Amour vintage family photographs. Bibliography (L'Amour's reading lists). Octavo. Cloth-qbacked red boards. A memoir published after Western writer L'Amour's death in 1988, describing his self-education through a...... More
New York: The Century Co., 1912. First Edition. Illustrated Cloth. 385 pages. First Edition. Illustrated from drawings by P. J. Monahan. Blue-Gray illustrated cloth. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4". Having left Macmillan, this is the first of Jack London's publications with The Century Company. A series of adventures of a...... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Cloth. (xv) 576 pages. SIGNED by Henry Miller in ink on a front free endpaper, "Henry Miller / 11/28/76". Illustrated unclipped dust jacket, including drawing of Henry Miller by Norris Church, who was Mrs. Norman Mailer. Cloth. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2"..... More
New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1863. First Edition. Cloth. (viii) 371 (8 adverts.) pp. Illustrated "With Many Comic Illustrations By Mullen". Brown embossed cloth. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Repaired by Coriander Reisbord, including re-backing with original spine laid down (Reisbord's notes laid in). Cataloger's notes affixed to rear pastedown. Per..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. (xxvi) 356 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Frontispiece facsimile of handwritten Miller letter. Black Cloth. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4". The edited letters of Henry Miller to Anais Nin from 1931 to 1946; the most important years of Miller's life as..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. First Edition, First Issue. Illustrated Cloth. (xiv) 276 pages. Illustrated from vintage photographs. Introduction by Gifford Pinchot. Brown illustrated cloth. Octavo. This is the first issue of this book and contains the later suppressed material covering the author's work as a Pinkerton agent. The colorful memoirs..... More
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1904. First Edition. Illustrated Cloth. 204 (1) pages. First American Edition (preceding the English edition by two months). Illustrated cloth. TEG. 4 1/2" x 7". Printed at The University Press, Cambridge. This short South Seas novel was written by Stevenson and his stepson, Osbourne, and was..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1957. First Edition. Cloth-backed decorated boards. 117 pp. Illustrated, including a photograph of Mark Twain, taken about 1865 in San Francisco. Edition limited to 400 un-numbered copies printed by The Allen Press of San Francisco. Prospectus and other publication material laid in. 8..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. First Edition. Cloth. (xxxiii) 347 pages. First Edition; First Printing. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated from vintage black and white photographs. Foreword by Beach biographer Noel Riley Fitch. Chronology. Index. Glossary of Correspondents. Appendices. Introduction including Notes and References. Cloth. Octavo. A well-organized accumulation of..... More
Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University press, 1975. First Edition, Stated. Cloth. (xi)209 (3) pages. First Edition. Frontispiece photograph of West books. 5 3/4" x 9". Red cloth. Index. The well-researched and complete bibliography of Nathanael West, the author of The Day of the Locust, Miss Lonleyhearts, A Cool Million..... More
