Modern First Editions

London: Herbert Jenkins [1965], 1st printing. (Hardcover) 224pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription, spine slightly cocked, rear bottom corner is bumped, the dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn including small chips along the top edge. (Humor).

London: Newnes Circa 1937. Publisher's original blue cloth, black lettering to spine. pp.252. Stated on half-title verso: Uniform with this volume "Steeley" Books by the same author: Sky High and Steeley Flies Again. Cloth lightly worn on edges with several very tiny spots to covers. Ffep has small erasure indentation to top edge and small bookstore stamp to lower edge. Neatly printed gift inscription in fine-tipped blue ink on half-title page - unnamed recipient. Occasional fox mark. Binding is firm. Nice Copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

First edition 1st printing, Near Fine to Fine, unread, book with slight crimping at spine ends and touch of shelf wear; in a Fine minus jacket with very slight wear at spine ends. Woodrell’s surprisingly scarce eighth novel. This copy signed by Woodrell on the title page.

Michael Joseph, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Firmly bound and has been carefully read. SIGNED & inscribed on the endpaper ' Martyn Love Roald Dahl 6/10/85' No further inscriptions or ownership markings. The top edge is dust spotted & there is a small amount of foxing to the endpaper but inside the pages are clean. The original jacket is discoloured at the edges ( not noticeable from the outside) but & there is some light edge wear but no tears or loss.

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1929. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1929, first printing. 8vo., 253pp. Bright orange cloth with black titles. Very scarce second mystery novel by the author of Scarface. Light fray to the cloth at the lower spine end, gentle rub at the lower tips, else fine, clean, bright, unmarked, binding square and tight in good, internally repaired dust jacket missing the front inner flap. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Good. 8vo.

SIGNED BY BOB COUSY AND CERTIFIED AUTHENTIC BY PSA! Includes their ironclad Certificate of Authenticity. Briefly inscribed as shown. Appears unread, boards look like new. Mild wear on jacket but still looks terrific with a new mylar cover. Expedited shipping is welcome; Bk 3, signed by author.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972. First Edition. 8vo. 286pp. Publisher's original tan cloth titled in gilt to the spine, in a very good, clean, and sharp example of the dustjacket, some minor edgewear, and a little spotting to the top edge and the inside flap, but essentially a near fine copy of an outstanding book. Inscribed by the author to the title page:"To Lisa - Best Wishes, Angela"The recipient is Lisa Tuttle, award winning science fiction author who very much shared Carter's desire for feminist interrogation of existing tropes, or the practice of asking "New questions of old texts", a direct quote from Tuttle, in the service of a kind of feminist revisionist mythology, the practice of which Angela Carter all but perfected in works like The Bloody Chamber, and The Magic Toyshop. A nice association in lovely condition.

London: Percival Marshall & Co Ltd, 1951. 21 macabre, humorous, & fantastic tales by this well-regarded but now obscure author, comprising his entire known output. Original edition, hardcover in jacket, as pictured; evocative art by "Eisner". Should appeal to fans of Walter De La Mare and John Metcalfe, according to Douglas A. Anderson's foreword in the 2002 reprint. Light wear to book, minor corner bumps, couple of tiny spots of foxing; jacket shows light rubbing, minor creasing, a few small chips, tiny stain to rear panel, some fading to spine; pages lightly tanned. Text clean; ix, blank, 233 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

London: Faber and Faber , 1967 First printing of the first edition. A tiny crimp to upper front corner, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a small chip to upper front spine fold and mild wear to corners and foot of spine, light toning to spine/back cover margins, and light soiling to back cover, else fine.

0 First Edition/First Printing Published by Chapman & Hall, London 1950. With the very scarce Daily Mail wraparound band. VG clean and tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Occasional spotting. Very clean Blue cloth covers with few dust marks DJ has Wood effect front and Yellow spine & Rear Dustjacket not price clipped. Minor chipping to top of spine. Protected in archive cover.

London: George Newnes Limited, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Thomas Henry & Henry Ford. Original green cloth gilt, coloured top edge, pp. 191. llustrated by both Thomas Henry and Henry Ford. Dustjacket unclipped with price of 10/6 net at the front flap. About as bright and clean a copy as you are now likely to find, difficult to fault, excellent. The high-resolution images which accompany this listing are photographs of the actual book for sale.

London: Jonathan Cape , 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover with illustration on front cover and silver lettering on spine. In unclipped (9s 6d. net), illustrated dust jacket. First UK edition, first printing, preceding the first American edition. Binding is tight with slight lean, boards with minor wear and fading, spine ends a bit pushed. Inside clean, no marks or inscriptions. The dust jacket has vibrant colors. Light wear and rubbing to spine ends and corners. 254 pp. 20 x 13,5 cm. .

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2022. Signed and dated 9/17/22 by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Eight years before Covid, Quammen warned us about the dangers of zoonosis, or the cross species transfer of disease. Breathless directly address the science and history of Covid. Quammen did little in the way of publicity and appearances for this book. He did a pre-publication appearance at Town Hall in Seattle in mid-September. Our copy was signed and dated 2.5 weeks before publication. Breathless was a Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. Song of the Dodo was awarded the 1997 John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, the 1996 New York Public Library/Helen Bernstein Award, and the 1996 BP Natural World Book Prize. It was Selected One of the Eight Best Books of 1996 by The New York Times Book Review. Boilerplate Rhino won the 2001 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the… Read More

Mamico omi omo teatro de jose milian primera edicion habana cuba ediciones el puente 1965 el libro lo componen tres obras ''mamico omi omo'',''paraiso;; y ''camino para llegar a viejo''.impreso por las ediciones ''el puente''.de muy rara circulacion en cuba Ediciones El Puente fue un proyecto literario concebido por y para autores jóvenes en Cuba, inmediatamente posterior a la Revolución de 1959. Entre 1961 y 1965, Ediciones El Puente publicó varios títulos, introduciendo docenas de nuevas voces y realizando lecturas y performances.

Algunos importantes escritores comenzaron allí su carrera literaria, incluyendo a la poetisa y traductora Nancy Morejón, el dramaturgo Gerardo Fulleda León, ahora director de la compañía de teatro Rita Montaner en La Habana, la dramaturgo y activista Ana María Simo, codirectora del proyecto editorial y el folclorista Miguel Barnet.

Sin embargo, Ediciones El Puente es recordado principalmente como una de las víctimas de la represión social en Cuba en las… Read More

New York: Putnam, 1990. First trade edition / First printing. White cloth spine, white paper-covered boards, Very fine in fine dust jacket.