New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. 8vo. Full red cloth. 179 pp. Slight sunning to spine and offsetting to front board, light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Bookplate to front pastedown. Age toning to pages. Dust jacket is cropped to flaps, stained and sunned..... More
Makati City, Philippines: Bookmark, Inc., 1996. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full navy cloth. 452 pp. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners. A few bumps to extremities of dust jacket. Else fine. Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal, national hero of the Philippines, is the novel with the greatest impact on..... More
New York: Charles Scribener's Sons, 1986. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter cream cloth, tan paper boards. 247 pp. Slight age toning to pages. Dust jacket lightly bumped and sunned to extremities. A story of love and obsession, The Garden of Eden is about a young American writer and his wife on..... More
London: George Allen and Unwin. Soper, George. Hard Cover. 8vo. [N.d., ca. 1911] Full burgundy cloth. Pictorial flyleaves. 192 pp. [6] plate illustrations, plus B&W line illustration in text. Rubbing to corners. Some foxing and small stains to interior. Gift inscription to front flyleaf. .1.5" tear to outer margin of..... More
New York: Pocket Books, 1950. Soft Cover. 12mo. Paperback. A.E.G. 243 pp. Spine tilted, light rubbing to extremities. Stamp reading "#3" to tail edge. Stamp of Athena Used Books to blurb page. The ingredients for murder were: a poisoned kitten; a missing uncle; a slow-speaking gardener; a prospective bride-groom's "accident";..... More
New York: Unmuzzled Ox, 1976. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 160 pp. B&W photos and illustrations. Staining to covers, faded library stamp to lower front cover. Interior clean. More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2007. Hard Cover. 8vo. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Collector's Edition. Brown genuine leather boards with gilt decoration. Moire endpapers. A.E.G. Gold ribbon marker. x, 174 pp. Fine condition. Laid in are a note about the book and the author, two Easton Press ex libris bookplate..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1957. Soft Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 160 pp. B&W illustration. Some wear to spine ends, slight toning to edges, else fine. More
New York: Grove Press, 1959. Soft Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 256 pp. B&W illustrations. Edges slightly foxed, spine ends lightly rubbed, very slight chipping to spine head. A relatively early copy of this classical periodical. With contributions by Anthony West, Boris Pasternak, e.e. cummings..... More
Paris: Librarie Hachette. Soft Cover. 16mo. New edition. [Incomplete date to foot of title page, ca. 1920s]. French. Original orange paper wrappers. 432 pp. + ads. Unopened copy. Some staining and foxing to covers, fading to spine, wear to joints, creasing to corners. Some light foxing to interior. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo. Orig. brown cloth, paper labels to spine and upper front board. 231 pp. Spine sunned, small spots of wear to tail edges of boards. Light rubbing to spine label. Ink ownership inscriptions to ffep. The winner of the 1935..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd., 1889. Hard Cover. 12mo. Chandos Classics. Translated by Bayard Taylor, in the original metres. Original decorated red publisher's cloth. Ad endpapers. 424 pp. A few spots of rubbing, some light damp staining, sunning to spine and bumping to spine ends. A lovely copy of..... More
New York: Bantam Spectra, 1992. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. 8vo. First Book Club Edition of Stephenson's third novel, his first forray into the cyberpunk genre that he is best known for. Full black paper boards. 470 pp. Scuff to inner fore edge of rear board, light bump to spine..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition, second impression. Full red cloth with "Downgraded to unclassified" stamp vignette to front board. Black endpapers. 255 pp. Fine condition. Dust jacket is price clipped and has some damp staining to spine ends, bumping to extremities, short tear to..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 1996. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Stated First US Edition, full number line. Full black paper. v, 279 pp. Light age toning to extremities of pages, else fine in a fine dust jacket. The concluding volume of Len Deighton's superb trilogy that began with Faith..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stated first published 1966. Full brown cloth. 95 pp. Ffep is clipped to upper corner, else fine. Dust jacket price clipped, small damp stain to spine head, else a very nice copy of two of..... More
New York: The New American Library, 1946. Soft Cover. 4.25" x 7" Paperback. 128 pp. Light wear to extremities, sunning to front joint. Foxing to covers, edges of text block, and first page. Ink ownership inscription to first page. This remarkable book has been described in many ways - as..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Full printed cream cloth. 278 pp. Fine condition. When Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 hand-written index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The..... More
