"A Tree of Night And Other Stories" by Truman Capote, first printing, 1949. In very good overall condition with dust jacket and plastic cover. No discoloration, marks or bends found.
"Nova Express" by William S. Burroughs, first printing, 1964. In very good condition with dust jacket in plastic cover. No discoloration, marks or bends found.
Charles Dickens "Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son" (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-1848). First Edition. 20 parts bound in 19. Original wrappers. Spines restored. Very good condition. Full green morocco case.
This set does not include the advertisements cited by Hatton and Cleaver in the earliest copies issued. In Part 14, page 26, line 9, the word "if" is omitted, indicating the earliest copy according to Hatton and Cleaver.
Mark Twain's (Samuel Clemens) copy of Moncure Daniel Conway's "Autobiography Memories and Experiences" (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1904). First Edition, association copy of Samuel Clemens, with his signature dated October 1905 in each volume and copious annotations in his hand totaling over 500 words. Two volumes. xv, 451 pp; xi, 482 pp. 11 plates, 9 facsimiles of letters to Conway. Original blue cloth, rebacked preserving spines. Very good. Slipcase.
Great lot of four rare books on witchcraft, alchemy & spiritualism featuring "The Discoverie of Witchcraft", "Alchemy: Its Science and Romance", "The Original Letters from the Spirit World" and "Lectures on Witchcraft/The Delusion in Salem 1692". "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" is by Reginald Scot, with an introduction by Rev. Montague Summers, 1930, and is a rich, full account of charges against witches, witch trials and the practice of blac ...click for details
First edition of "Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks" by Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan, 1897. Original blue cloth with gilt-stamped image of sea scene. Light marks to rear board, spine slightly rolled, else fine.
First edition in English of "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank, 1952. Translated from the original Dutch version, with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1952. Original cloth and dust jacket. Very good condition.
An outstanding American atlas is "Mitchell's New General Atlas", Philadelphia, 1871. Folio. Original half roan, cloth boards stamped in gilt. Complete with all 59 hand-colored plates, many double-page. In very good condition.
True first edition of "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs, Paris 1959. The Traveller's Companion series. Published by The Olympia Press, Paris, France. Copyright by William Burroughs, 1959. In very fine condition.
First Edition, Second State of the wonderfully dramatic, classic novel "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Copyright 1943 by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, New York. Printed by the Cornwall Press, Inc., Cornwall, N.Y. The book is in very good condition with a tight binding and very little discoloration of the pages. The dust jacket has come apart at the binding and is in a plastic protective covering. This state has "referred" on page 321, "G W." on page 381 and " ...click for details