Adler, Betty; Jane Wilhelm.
H.L.M. The Mencken Bibliography (Signed First Edition).
BAltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half title page. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Neat owner name to the verso of the front flyleaf. Rubbing and a few nicks to the jacket extremities. [Book #118551]. (read more)

Ahearn, Allen and Patricia.
Book Collecting 2000 (Signed First Edition).
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2000. First Edition. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED by Patricia and Allen Ahearn. An essential companion guide to the Ahearn's Collected Books volume, but completely different in its purpose. This bulk of this guide deals with an alphabetical listing of major authors' first books, with first edition values from 1986, 1995 and 2000. The other sections of the book deal with information essential for the knowledgeable collector, broken down by category. Most helpful also are the complete, chronological lists of award winners for every major book award (The Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award, The Hugo Award, The Caldecott Medal, etc.). Indispensable. [Book #79678]. (read more)

[Aldington, Richard] Kershaw, Alister.
A Bibliography of the Works of Richard Aldington from 1915 to 1948 (First Edition).
London: The Quadrant Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Some offsetting and light foxing to the endpapers, else Near Fine in a very lightly edgeworn, Very Good+ dust jacket. [Book #109983]. (read more)

Blanck, Jacob.
Peter Parley to Penrod: A Bibliographical Description of the Best-Loved American Juvenile Books (Hardcover).
Cambridge, MA: Research Classics, 1961. Hardcover. Third printing of this edition. A touch of soil to the front flyleaf, else Fine in green cloth with a red spine label and titles and rule in gilt. A lovely copy. [Book #110036]. (read more)

[Books about Books] Holroyd, Graham.
Paperback Prices and Checklist (First Edition).
Chattanooga, TN: IGuide, 2003. First Edition. First Edition, first printing. trade softcover. Fine condition. Holroyd's massive guide to vintage paperbacks is the stopper for any collector of books within the field. The most detailed book of its kind ever published, cross-referenced by publisher and author. Highly recommended. [Book #101451]. (read more)

Brittain, Robert.
The Booklover's Almanac (Hardcover).
New York: Frederic C Beil, 1986. Hardcover. Later printing, Fine in a Near Fine or better dust jacket. Jacket shows light rubbing with one short closed tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel. A compilation of events of literary significance for each day of the year. [Book #79245]. (read more)

Brussel, I.R.
Anglo-American First Editions, 1826-1900 East to West (First Edition).
London, Constable, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in marbled boards, lacking dust jacket. Describes First Editions of English authors who books were published in America before their publication in England. Illustrated with 8 plates. No. 9 in the Bibliographia Series edited by Michael Saddler. [Book #101906]. (read more)

Carter, John.
ABC For Book Collectors (Early edition, with typed letter signed from John Carter).
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Early printing (the first edition was in 1952). Attractive Reynolds Stone-designed bookplate belonging to Robert Elwell at the front pastedown, and laid in is a typed letter signed to Elwell from the book's author, John Carter, responding to Elwell's inquiries regarding the terms, "best edition" and "exhibition copy." Carter worked for Sotheby's London at the time, and the letter is on Sotheby's London airmail stationery. Near Fine in a Near Fine, slightly spine-toned dust jacket. [Book #108028]. (read more)

[Caxton, William] Childs, Edmund.
William Caxton: A Portrait in a Background (First Edition).
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. Paperclip impression at the top of the front flyleaf, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. [Book #110034]. (read more)

Cohn, Louis Henry .
A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway (First Edition).
New York: Haskell House, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine in dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, and no dust jacket, as issued. A touch of rubbing to the extremities, else as new. [Book #87611]. (read more)

Cooney, Seamus; Robert Kelly (introduction).
A Checklist of the First One Hundred Publications of the Black Sparrow Press (First Edition).
LA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. One of 200 numbered copies (this being No. 62), SIGNED by Cooney and by Robert Kelly who contributes an introduction. Near Fine in the publisher's Near Fine acetate jacket as issued. Book is faintly sunned along the top edge. Jacket is a touch rubbed overall with a small closed tear to the top front spine hinge. [Book #98364]. (read more)

Curle, Richard.
Collecting American First Editions: Its Pitfalls and Its Pleasures (Signed Limited Edition).
Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good+ lacking jacket and slipcase. Spine and paper label toned, board rubbed at spine edges and tips, lower edge of front board bumped. This edition limited to 1250 SIGNED and numbered copies, this being No. 370; SIGNED by Curle on the limitation page. [Book #102157]. (read more)

[Dr. Seuss] Younger, Helen and Mark; Dan Hirsch.
First Editions of Dr. Seuss Books: A Guide to Identification (First Edition).
Saco, ME: Custom Communications, 2002. First Edition. First Edition, first printing. Fine in bright yellow illustrated boards with no dust jacket as issued, SIGNED by Helen and Marc Younger on the title page. Years in the making, a full-color, indispensable guide to the many (and often obscure) points of issue in the Dr. Seuss oeuvre. One of 1000 copies printed. [Book #113051]. (read more)

Dwiggins, William Addison.
Contemporary Title Pages: 1931 (First Edition).
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition, no print number (assumed first). Black titles on the front wrapper, green titles on the spine panel, leaves rough cut. Very Good condition. Spine lean, closed tear at the lower front spine edge, spine ends moderately rubbed, stray black splash to the front panel at the fore-edge, front wrapper has light soil, spine creasing. A selection of title pages composed on the Mergenthaler machine during the year 1931. Included are: The Perfumed Tigers, The Personality of a House, and Treatise on the Gods, among others. Several publishing companies had their pages printed using the Mergenthaler Linotype, among them were Yale University Press, Simon and Schuster, and Bobbs-Merrill Company. Dwiggins, a type and book designer, helped operate the Linotype Company during the 1930's and 1940's, has prefaced this collection with a note on printing and its art. A nice reference for any bibliophile. [Book #117057]. (read more)

Grieve, Hilda E. P.
Examples of English Handwriting, 1150-1750 (UK Softcover).
Essex: Essex Education Committee, 1966. Softcover. Third UK printing. Near Fine in dark green wrappers. Grieve examines penmanship as it evolved over a period of roughly six-hundred years. A nice copy. [Book #116626]. (read more)

Harding, Walter.
Emerson's Library (First Edition).
Charlottesville, VA: The University Press of Virginia, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine in navy cloth with gilt titles to the front board and spine and no dust jacket, as issued. A catalogue of Ralph Waldo Emerson's personal library. 338 pages. [Book #81400]. (read more)

Hart, Horace.
Bibliotheca Typographica: A List of Books about Books .
New York: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Very Good+ lacking dust jacket. Boards rubbed at crown and tips. [Book #102161]. (read more)

[Hillerman, Tony] Hieb, Louis A.
Tony Hillerman: A Bibliography (Signed Limited Edition).
Tuscon: Press of the Gigantic Hound, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. One of 1000 copies SIGNED by the author on a limitation page. Fine in rust colored cloth without dust jacket as issued. [Book #108115]. (read more)

Hoogerwerf, Frank W.
John Hill Hewitt: Sources and Bibliography (First Edition, Review Copy).
Atlanta, GA: Emory University, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine in stapled pictorial wrappers. REVIEW COPY with publisher's slip laid in. [Book #81404]. (read more)

Howes, Wright (compiler).
U.S.Iana (1650-1950): A Selective Bibliography in Which Are Described 11,620 Uncommon and Significant Books Relating to the Continental Portion of the United States (Hardcover, Review Copy).
New York: R R Bowker Co / Newberry Library, 1960. Hardcover. Revised and Enlarged Edition, Good+ or better in brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine with no dust jacket, as issued. Rubbing to the cloth boards and extremities, else the pages are clean and the binding tight. Owner name to the lower page edges with publisher's review materials laid in with pertinent articles affixed to the pastedowns and notations to the front flyleaf relative to the number of alphabetized entries. [Book #80899]. (read more)

Hurlimann, Bettina.
Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe (First Edition).
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1968 [1959]. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, and first in English. Originally published in 1959 as Europaische Kinderbucher in Drei Jahrhunderten. Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket, lightly worn at the extremities. [Book #110041]. (read more)

Jarrell, Randall], Stuart Wright (author).
Randall Jarrell: A Descriptive Bibliography, 1929 - 1983 (First Edition).
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #55756]. (read more)

Johnson, Kevin; Guy Maddin (introduction).
The Dark Page II (Signed Limited Edition).
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by author Kevin Johnson and film director Guy Maddin (who contributes the foreword). A full color, 300-page guide to the first edition film sources for the American film noir cycle between 1950 and 1965. Profusely illustrated and fanatically detailed, covering 160 films, from the familiar to the obscure. Foreword by director Guy Maddin. Fine and unread in red cloth and matching slipcase, with no dust jacket as issued. [Book #109596]. (read more)

Johnson, Kevin; Paul Schrader (introduction).
The Dark Page (Signed Hardcover).
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Second edition, revised. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A full color, 400-page guide to the first edition sources for the American film noir cycle in the 1940s. Profusely illustrated and fanatically detailed, covering 160 films, from the familiar to the obscure. Foreword by director/screenwriter Paul Schrader. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #106212]. (read more)

Latimore, Sarah and Grace Haskell.
Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography (First Edition).
Jacksonville: San Marco Bookstore, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket has just a bit of soil along the spine hinges, else Fine. Library deaccession stamp to the front flyleaf with no other library markings. [Book #113489]. (read more)

MacDonald, Hugh.
John Dryden: A Bibliography of Early Editions and Drydeniana (First UK Edition).
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition, first printing. Very Good in black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, lacking the dust jacket. Exterior hinges are split, but the interior is firmly bound and the pages are all clean and intact. Owner name to the front flyleaf and a few discreet pencil notations to the text. [Book #87126]. (read more)

[Maugham, W. Somerset] Stott, Raymond Toole.
A Bibliography of the Works of W. Somerset Maugham (First Edition).
Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 1973. First Edition. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. [Book #99458]. (read more)

McBride, Bill.
A Pocket Guide to Identification of First Editions by Bill McBride (Sixth Revised Edition).
McBride, 2000. First Edition. Fine in yellow wrappers (softcover). The definitive pocket guide to first edition identification. [Book #77312]. (read more)

Meynell, Sir Francis, R. D. I. (appraisal).
Folio 21: A Bibliography of the Folio Society 1947-1967 (First Edition).
London: The Folio Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK Edition (and correct first), first printing, Fine in a Fine slipcase. Dark gray stamped boards with black and gilt leather label to the spine panel in a red and black paper-covered slipcase. Illustrated in both black and white and full color. 207 pages. [Book #79715]. (read more)

Morris, William.
The Ideal Book (Limited Edition).
New York: Broughton, -1899. Hardcover. Octavo. Limited Edition, one of 250 numbered copies (this being No. 249) printed on deckle-edge paper. Very good in cloth spine and paper covered boards without jacket, as issued. Partial splits along spine, small faint notation on title page. Slight sunning to extremities. Text derived from a paper read by Morris before the Bibliographical Society on June 19, 1893. [Book #115182]. (read more)

Muir,Percy.
English Children's Books (First Edition).
London: B T Batsford, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+, price clipped, dust jacket. Some soiling and shelf wear along the board edges of the book with a bit of foxing to the endpapers. Jacket is rubbed along the extremities with a few short closed tears at the panel edges. 256 pages with 107 illustrations, includes an index. [Book #113820]. (read more)

Newton, A. Edward.
Bibliography and Pseudo-Bibliography .
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. [Book #102353]. (read more)

[O'Neill, Eugene] Sanborn, Ralph & Barrett H. Clark.
A Bibliography of the Works of Eugene O'Neill together with The Collected Poems of Eugene O'Neill (First Edition).
New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine with no dust jacket as issued. Reprint of the 1931 edition. Tiny owner label to the front pastedown, else a pristine copy. [Book #78792]. (read more)

Orcut, William Dana.
In Quest of the Perfect Book (First Edition).
Boston: Little Brown, and Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Jacket chipped at spine ends. A nice copy overall. [Book #102159]. (read more)

Potter, Jack; John Dos Passos (introdcution).
A Bibliography of John Dos Passos (Limited Edition).
Chicago: Normandie House, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in brown cloth with gilt monogram to the front board and gilt titles to the spine, with no dust jacket as issued. One of 365 copies as noted on the colophon page. [Book #87175]. (read more)

Randall, David A.
Dukedom Large Enough, Reminiscences of a Rare Book Dealer 1929-1956 (First Edition).
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near fine in a strong Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Tiny scattered white stains to the front board with gift inscription to the half-title page, else Fine. [Book #83721]. (read more)

Russell, R.B.
Guide to First Edition Prices 2008/9 (First Edition).
London: Tartarus Press, 2007. First Edition. 2007 edition. Fine in large-format wrappers (softcover) as issued. An exhaustive, full-color guide to modern first edition prices, covering literature and genre fiction in every English-language issue. [Book #103536]. (read more)

Russo, Dorothy Ritter.
A Bibliography of George Ade, 1866-1944 (First Edition).
Indianaoplis: Indiana Historical Society, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine in light brown buckram, with no dust jacket. Rust quarterbinding and gilt titles to the spine. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. [Book #87171]. (read more)

[Sherlockiana] Hardwick, Michael and Mollie.
The Sherlock Holmes Companion (Bramhall House Edition, Signed by Hardwick).
New York: Bramhall House, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of this edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Micheal Hardwick (as "Michael and Mollie Hardwick") on the title page. Illustrations by Sidney Paget. A superb starter's guide to the endless details lying just beneath the surface of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon. [Book #77863]. (read more)

Shifreen, Lawrence and Roger Jackson.
Henry Miller: A Bibliography of Primary Sources (First Edition).
Ann Arbor: Rodger Jackson, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Near Fine in maroon cloth and gilt titles without jacket as issued. Light bump to spine ends with a bit of rubbing at the crown. [Book #112421]. (read more)

[Stevenson, Robert Louis].
Robert Louis Stevenson (Bookman Biographies Series).
New York: James Pott and Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, with no date on the title page or copyright page (nor mention of later printings/impressions). Some light foxing to the preliminary pages, a touch of rubbing at the corners, else a bright copy. [Book #110019]. (read more)

[Styron, William] West III, James L.; William Styron (preface).
William Styron: A Descriptive Bibliography (First Edition).
Boston: GK hall & Co, 1977. First Edition. First Edition, first printing. Fine in red cloth with gilt spine titles and rule, and no dust jacket, as issued. The definitive Styron bibliography. [Book #99440]. (read more)

Tillman, Lynne.
Bookstore: The Life and times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co. (Signed First Edition).
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. SIGNED by the Lynne Tillman and Jeanette Watson on the title page. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. [Book #117444]. (read more)

[Undset, Sigrid] Maman, Marie.
Sigrid Undset in America (First Edition).
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread with no dust jacket as issued. [Book #116354]. (read more)

Walker, J.
A Rhyming Dictionary: Answering, at the Same Time, the Purposes of Spelling and Pronouncing the English Language, on a Plan not Hitherto Attempted. .
London, 1806. First Edition. Second edition (stated). Publisher's brown leather, with black leather spine label and gilt titles. Edges worn, front board intact but with a crack at the hinge fold. Two owner names on the first blank. Pages foxed and occasionally water-stained at the edges. Good condition overall. 348 pages. [Book #113217]. (read more)

[Whittington Press] Randle, John and Rosalind (editors); Michael Richey, Gaylord Schanilec, Amanda Degener and Bridget O'Malley, Abigail Rorer, John Smith, Geri Waddington, James CLough, John Randle, Enrico Tallone, Andrew Anderson, Antony Penrose, H.
Matrix 27: A Review For Printers and Bibliophiles (First Edition).
Risbury: Whittington Press, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition, first printing. One of an edition of 680 copies. Fine in dark gray stiff-paper wrappers in a Fine gray printed dust jacket. 210 pages, set in Joanna, Goudy Modern, Times Roman, Poliphilus, Pastonchi, Menhart, Bell and Caslon types on Sommerville Laid, Zerkall mould-made Ingres, Silurian and Halbmatt, Hahnemuhle Bugra-Butten, and G.F. Smith Naturalis papers. Color and tritone plates printed by CTD Printers and by Apollo press. Tipped-in specimens on special paper, engravings,and color plates. [Book #117259]. (read more)

[Whittington Press] Various Authors.
Matrix 11: A Review For Printers and Bibliophiles (Deluxe Limited Edition).
Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. One of 105 deluxe numbered copies (this being No. I) quarter bound in green Oasis leather and matching marbled paper covered boards. Fine and unread in a Fine cloth and paper slipcase.Portfolio containing additional engravings of John O'Connor's "Twins" housed in the same slipcase, as issued. Set in 12-point Caslon , Fournier and Romulus and 11- point Bell and printed on Somerville, Zerkall and Tosa Butten papers. Plates printed by CTD Printers. [Book #117411]. (read more)

[Whittington Press] Various Authors.
Matrix 13: A Review For Printers and Bibliophiles (Deluxe Limited Edition).
Risbury: Whittington Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. One of 90 deluxe numbered copies (this being No. XXIII) quarter bound in brown Oasis leather and matching marbled paper covered boards. Fine and unread in a Fine cloth and paper slipcase. Portfolio containing additional examples of Chinese ceremonial papers housed in the same slipcase, as issued. Set in Caslon, Goudy Modern, Van Dijck and Cochin, and printed on Somerville Laid and Zerkall mould-made papers. Half-tone and Tri-tone plates printed by CTD printers and the Senecio Press,line blocks made by Keene Engraving. [Book #117373]. (read more)

[Whittington Press] Various Authors.
Matrix 15: A Review For Printers and Bibliophiles (Deluxe Limited Edition).
Risbury: Whittington Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. One of 95 deluxe numbered copies (this being No. LXXXIX, press copy) quarter bound in scarlet Oasis leather and matching marbled paper covered boards. Fine and unread in a Fine cloth and paper slipcase. Portfolio containing additional material housed in the same slipcase, as issued. Set in Caslon, Poliphilus, Blado, Perpetua and Fell types and printed on Somerville Laid, Zerkall Halbmatt and Hahnemule Bugra-Butten papers. Color and duotone plates printed by CTD Printers, others by Regency Press. [Book #117382]. (read more)

[Whittington Press] Various Authors.
Matrix 17: A Review For Printers and Bibliophiles (Deluxe Limited Edition).
Risbury: Whittington Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. One of 80 deluxe numbered copies (this being No. LXXIX) quarter bound in light blue Oasis leather and matching marbled paper covered boards. Just about Fine and unread in a Fine cloth and paper slipcase. Spine faintly sunned, else Fine. Portfolio containing engravingsby Joan Ellis housed in the same slipcase, as issued. Set in Caslon and Gill Sans and printed on Somerville Laid, Zerkall Halbmatt and Hahnemuhle Bugra-Butten papers. Color and duotone plates printed by CTD Printers, other inserts by Premiere Press. [Book #117377]. (read more)