New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1968. Groth, John. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, two volumes (complete), quarto size, 612 total pp., signed by John Groth. Margaret Mitchell's (1900-1949) classic Civil War-era novel "Gone with the Wind" was immensely popular upon publication; it won her the Pulitzer..... More
New York: Young Scott Books, 1968. Gorey, Edward. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, oblong sixmo, [48] pp., signed by Edward Gorey. Edward Lear (1812-1888), although being an artist and illustrator himself, is remembered mostlhy today for his nonsensical works, particularly his limericks. One of the most recognizable of these is..... More
New York: Young Scott Books (1969), 1969. Gorey, Edward. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, sixmo size, 48 pp., signed by Edward Gorey. Gorey's artwork so perfectly complements the nonsensical poetry of Edward Lear (1812-1888) that it amazes one that they lived a century apart. This book, a companion volume to..... More
New York: Young Scott Books, (1970). Gorey, Edward. Hardcover. Sixmo size, 36 pp., signed by Edward Gorey. A delightful story, drawn mostly with white illustrations/lettering on a black background, with some orange scattered throughout, of why we have darkness at night. Signed by Gorey on the title page, drawing a...... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc. / Viking Penguin, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing (see below for dates and specifics on the subsequent three volumes), all octavo size, 1132 total pp., [first and third volumes] signed by the author using both names, [second volume only] signed as "Anne Rice" The..... More
London: The Haymarket Press, 1928. Flint, W. Russell. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 642 of 875 copies of the Ordinary Edition, quarto size, 66 pp. The famous story of the headhunting heroine whose bold act has inspired painters, poets, sculptors and writers for centuries. This version was finely printed by The..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 284 pp., inscribed by Judith Rossner. No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list for three weeks - and on the list for thirty-six weeks - "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" was an immediate, and enormous, success..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 316 pp. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) almost defined the values and issues of the sixties, and in fact she has sometimes been referred to as "one of the most influential critics of her generation" (n.b., per Wiki)..... More
Fresno: Mid-Cal Publishers, 1983. Third Edition. Hardcover. The "Enlarged Third Edition", quarto size, 427 pp., signed by James J. Sinnott. Downieville, named after Major William Downie (1820-1893), the town's founder, was founded in late 1849 during the California Gold Rush. This book documents the town's early history and provides a...... More
The Bronte Press, (2006). Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 30 of 35, miniature book, [30] pp., signed by Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki. Ballet experienced serious development as an art form in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russia, and art critic and ballet patron Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) had a defining influence on..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, unnumbered, Second Series of Rare Americana, No. 4, quarto size, 60 pp. This collection of miscellany was carefully selected to give an honest and authentic viewpoint of the early mining days in California from the..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2005). Mackay, Andrew; Busby, John. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, 675 pp. The 17th work in the series "Bird Families of the World", the series chief editor being C.M. Perrins. From the dust jacket flap: "The pelecaniformes are a large and important group of seabirds..... More
San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co., 1998. First and Limited Edition. Original wraps. No. 182 of 200 copies (plus 26 lettered), octavo size, approx. 60 pp. An imaginative compendium of a wide variety of materials, submissions, and artwork, assembled and published by Johnny Brewton, an "artist, musician, designer, letterpress printer and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 379 pp., inscribed by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson to "Mrs. Olcott" (Clara L. Olcott?]. Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (1858-1919), the 26th President of the United States, is remembered for many things: the establishment of national parks, the champion of..... More
Berkeley: Ramparts Press, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. Octavo size, 263 pp., inscribed by Dave Meggyesy. Dave Meggyesy (b. 1941), a former American football player and coach, was deeply involved in the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), a union for football players; he authored the memoir "Out of Their League", a...... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, ca 1970s. Darling, Louis. Hardcover. 34th printing of the 1950 edition (likely published in the 1970s), octavo size, 155 pp., inscribed by Bevely Cleary. Beverly Cleary (born Beverly Atlee Bunn, 1916-2021) is remembered by generations of children for her wonderful stories with characters with..... More
Paris: Société du Livre d'Art, 1923. Jacquemot, Charles. Limited Edition. Wraps. No. XI of XXV copies on Japon imperial (Japan vellum), octavo size, 112 pp., with an extra suite of plates, all illustrations signed in pencil by the artist. Adrien Pierre Bagarry was a French Impressionist and Modern artist (1898-1949);..... More
Vancouver, B.C. Canada: BiTech Publishers Ltd., 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first printing, quarto size, 368 pp., inscribed by Ralph Peck to Ben C. Gerwick. Dr. Ralph Brazelton Peck (1912-2008) was eminent in his field, winning multiple awards, authoring over 200 publications, and teaching for 33 years at the University..... More
Denver, Colorado: The Old West Publishing Company, 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 deluxe versions (this copy out of series), signed by Dale L. Morgan. William H. Ashley (ca. 1778-1838) was a prominent player in the fur trade in the western United States, forming the company Rocky Mountain Fur..... More
Potsdam: Gustav Keipenheuer, 1920. Limited Edition. Vellum. No. 164 of 200 copies bound in full vellum, quarto size, 383 pp., entirely in German. John-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) remains a cornerstone today of modern philosophical thought; his work greatly influenced the Enlightenment and "the development of modern political, economic and educational thought."..... More
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1985. Neel, Alice. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1500 copies, this volume a Proof copy, folio size, 33 pp., signed by Raphael Soyer. This lovely edition of Edgar Allan Poe's (1809-1849) narrative short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" is hauntingly illustrated..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Sendak, Maurice. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing with Maurice Sendak illustrations, two volumes (complete), duodecimo size, 362 total pp. A collection of beloved tales by Jacob and Wilheim Grimm (1785-1863 and 1786-1859, respectively), this two-volume set contains classic fairy tales such as "Repunzel"..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 1339 total pp. This extensive reference work sets forth, chronologically, the works published in the English language from 1474 to 2000. This work grew out of a prior work of the Press, the "Annals of English Literature"..... More
Westport, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Ackermann, Helmut. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1600 copies, quarto size, 193 pp., signed by Helmut Ackermann, with LEC Monthly Letter. The tenth novel by acclaimed German author Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), "Steppenwolf" deals with the protagonist's spiritual crisis as he is torn..... More
Venice: S. Rosen Publishers, 1906. Hardcover. Miniature book, 104 pp. Nearly everyone is familiar with the hauntingly beautiful love poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), and some of us with the story of her romance with her husband, Robert Browning (1812-1889). This 1906 publication of "Sonnets from the Portuguese" not..... More