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Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine [Inscribed, with doodles]

KENNEDY, William and Brendan Kennedy; Glen Baxter (Illustrates) · 1986

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Boston The Atlantic Monthly Press First Printing First Edition (so stated) of first children's book by the author of Ironweed, signed by both William Kennedy and the illustrator. Demy 8vo (229 x 214mm): 40pp, with frontispiece and sixteen full-page color plates. Publisher's f...

The Grand Piano: an Experiment in Collective Autobiography. San Francisco, 1975-1980 [Inscribed Association Copies]

MANDEL, Tom; Bob Perelman; Barrett Watten; Steve Benson; Carla Harryman; Ron Silliman; Kit Robinson; Lyn Hejinian; Rae Armantrout, and Ted Pearson · 2006

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

Detroit Mode A [through 2010] First Edition First Edition of this experiment in collective autobiography, complete in ten volumes. Crown 8vo (173 x 104mm): 79,[1]; 90,[6]; 127,[1]; 159,[1]; 143,[1]; 159,[1]; 207,[1]; 207,[1]; 223,[1]; 271,[1]pp. Publisher's white stiff card co...

The Return of A. J. Raffles [Signed]

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991) · 1975

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Bodley Head Limited Edition No. 132 of 250 signed limited-edition copies bound in boards (of which only 170 were for sale); the first trade edition was issued as a paperback original. Small, slim 8vo (189 x 113mm): 80pp. Publisher's copper-colored paper over boards, spi...

Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse [Wm. Rossetti's Copy, Signed]

WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) · 1819

$1,999.00 (€1,813.68 | £1,513.09 | ¥319,214)

London Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street | For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orne, and Brown, Paternoster-Row So-called "Second Edition," but largely a reprinting from standing type of the first edition, with first gathering reset and advertisement added to half tit...

Panoramic San Francisco, from California Street Hill, 1877; [Photobook] [offered with:] One City / Two Visions : San Francisco panoramas, 1878 and 1990 [Signed]

MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard (1830-1904); KLETT, Mark · 19101990

$851.00 (€772.10 | £644.14 | ¥135,894)

San Francisco Thomas C. Russell [and] Bedford Arts Folding halftone (11 panels) of Eadweard Muybridge’s famed 360-degree panoramic view of San Francisco made from the original seventeen-foot-long photograph. With margins, the folding halftone measures 1511 x 171mm and folds in...

Will Bradley: His Work, An Exhibition

BRADLEY, Will (1868-1962) Carey S. Bliss; Grant Edward Dahlstrom; Bruce Rogers · 1951

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

San Marino Huntington Library Limited Edition of this exhibition handlist, one of unnumbered 1000 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Introduced by Robert O. Schad. Demy 8vo (229 x 152mm): [2],27,[3]pp, with frontispiece portrait, five further illustrations ...

[Exhibition Catalog] American Girl in Italy : The Making of a Classic

ORKIN, Ruth; Mary Engel [introduces]; Ninalee Allen Craig and Shaun Considine [contribute] · 2005

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

New York Published by Howard Greenberg Gallery First Printing of a catalogue for an exhibition, "Jinx Allen in Florence," September 16 to October 22, 2005, at Howard Greenberg Gallery, in New York, devoted entirely to images Orkin made over the course of a day, one of which wa...

[Whaling] De Walvischvangst, met Veele Byzonderheden Daartoe Betrekkelyk. Met plaaten.

[JONG, Dirk de (active 1779-1805)] · 1784

$4,249.00 (€3,855.08 | £3,216.16 | ¥678,510)

Amsterdam / Harlingen Peter Conrad / Volkert van der Plaats [through 1786] First Edition Rare complete copy of this early classic in the literature of whaling, illustrated with finely engraved maps of the polar regions, including one of the earliest maps showing the whole of ...

[Photobook] The American Monument

FRIEDLANDER, Lee (b. 1934) · 1976

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

New York Eakins Press Limited Edition First Printing, one of 2000 unnumbered copies, of this "encylopaedic lesson in how to put a picture together." (Parr and Badger) Oblong 8vo (293 x 418mm): unpaginated; [2]ff (title page and Walt Whitman quote), [77]ff (photographs), [6]ff ...

Death of a Salesman : certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem

MILLER, Arthur (1915-2005) · 1949

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London The Cresset Press First British Edition First Impression ("First published in Great Britain in 1949") of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century by one of the greatest American playwrights. Small, slim 8vo (185 x 119 cm): 133,[1]pp. Publisher's vivid sc...

[Original Cloth] Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

SPEKE, John Hanning (1827-1864) · 1864

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

New York Harper & Brothers First American Edition of this controversial account, but an "absolutely vital source of evidence on the history of east Africa in the nineteenth century." (ODNB) Thick demy 8vo (233 x 140mm): xxx,31-590,[6]pp. with tissue-guarded photogravure portra...

The American grape grower's guide : intended especially for the American climate. Being a practical treatise on the cultivation of the grape-vine in each department of hot house, cold grapery, retarding house, and out door culture. With plans for the construction of the requisite buildings, and giving the best methods of heating the same. Every department being fully illustrated [Original Cloth]

CHORLTON, William (1811-1889) · 1862

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

New York C. M. Saxton, 25 Park Row Early printing of this detailed guide to cultivating grapes in the New World. Crown 8vo (182 x 114mm): xii,[1],12-204pp, with frontispiece and 32 illustrations in text. Publisher's brown cloth, covers elaborately blind-stamped with grape-and-...

[Scottish Satire] Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M. before the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Sense, and A Special Jury. By the Author of The "Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, A. M." [Hand-Colored]

[FLEMING, James] · 1825

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Printed for Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-Row First edition of this anonymous tract, complete with both hand-colored aquatint caricatures (one the frontispiece). Demy 8vo (212 x 120mm): 8,111,[1],24pp, with aquatints attributed to Isaac and Robert Cruikshank. Recent clo...

The Poetry Quartos, Twelve brochures each containing a new poem by an American poet comprising: Monologue for Mothers, The Lovely Shall be Choosers, Rigamarole, Rigamarole, The Prodigal Son, Adirondack Cycle, Body and Stone, Red Roses for Bronze, Birthday Sonnet, The Aspirant, Sagacity, Prelude, Roots

[JOHNSTON, Paul, edits and designs]; Genevieve Taggard, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Louis Untermeyer, Alfred Kreymborg, HD, Elinor Wylie, Theodore Dreiser, William Rose Benet, Conrad Aiken, Witter Bynner · 1929

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

New York Random House Limited Edition One of 475 sets of twelve royal octavo chapbooks, designed, illustrated, and printed by Paul Johnston, each being the first appearance of a poem by a contemporary American. (253 x 158mm) [4]pp. Original variously colored handmade string-bo...

A survey of the cathedral-church of Worcester; with an account of the bishops thereof, from the foundation of the see, to the year 1600. Also an appendix of many Original Papers and Records, never before Printed

THOMAS, William (1670-1738) · 1737

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

London printed for the author, and to be had of him at his house in Worcester; and of John Clarke, [London], Bookseller, at the Golden-Ball in Duck-Lane, near Little-Britain Reissue of the 1736 edition (with cancel title page printed in red and black) of this account of the b...

Baseballogy

COOKE, Edmund Vance (1866-1932) or cooks? · 1912

$326.00 (€295.78 | £246.76 | ¥52,058)

Chicago Forbes & Co. First Edition First Printing of this charming paean to America's pastime, featuring 24 lighthearted and impertinent poems. Small, slim 8vo: 88pp, with baseball-themed spot illustrations from drawings in lower margin of each page. Publisher's pictorial pape...

Door Into the Dark

HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013) · 1969

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

New York Oxford University Press First Printing First American edition, from British sheets, of the Nobel prize-winner's second commercially published work (preceded by Death of a Naturalist, in 1966), one of only 1,000 copies (purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London p...

The Merchant of Yonkers : A Play [Hello Dolly!]

WILDER, Thornton (1897-1975) · 1939

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

New York Harper & Brothers First Printing First Edition (so stated) of Wilder's classic play and basis for "Hello Dolly." 8vo: [8],180pp. Publisher's peach-colored cloth, burgundy title block stamped gilt laid onto spine and front cover; illustrated end papers by Donald McKay,...

A Compleat key to The dispensary

GARTH, Samuel Sir (1661-1719) · 1726

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

London printed for T. Wotton, at the three Daggers, and Queen’s-Head; J. Lacy, at the Ship; J. Shuckburgh, at the Sun; and C. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate, all in Fleet-Street First Edition thus The first edition of the key to interpreting Garth's famous and widely reprin...

[Hand-Colored] A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817: with Notes Taken on a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois and Environs of Paris

FELLOWES, W. D. (William Dorset, 1769 - 1852) · 1820

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

London Thomas M'Lean [McLean] Early Reprint Third Edition of this classic travelogue, the plates by J. Clark after Fellowes's romantic views of the French countryside. Crown 8vo (210 x 127mm): xii,188pp, with 12 hand-colored aquatints, 2 uncolored line engravings, and one colo...