Rare books from Rare Book Cellar

New York: Random House. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 039482167x . Very Good in boards. Scarce signature from this renown children's book author. ; Signed by the author. ; 12.30 X 9.10 X 0.60 inches; 69 pages; Signed by Author .

General Motors Acceptance Corporation / Calvin E. Nelson. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Bound lease agreement. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: The Viking Press. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Jacket and book are both first state -- first state dust jacket with the Kerouac blurb and the unrevised text and in the book on page 9 the uncorrected reference to the "fool Red Cross woman and and with "It's the plump Red Cross woman named Gwen-doe-lin, with the blond hair the patients are always arguing about." on pp. 85-86.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: D. Appleton and Company. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Limited to 1000 copies; these are all copy 126. Very good or better. Owner name plate in each volume. Tan linen boards with paper spine label, top edge gilt and with clean and bright steel engravings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Poseidon Press. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 067163870X . Near Fine in in boards; Signed by Frank Zappa on the first free end page. ; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches; 352 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Stain to spine crown. True First Edition, First Issue with the six line colophon [printing information] on the last page. This was cut to five lines in the second issue. Correct first printing jacket without ISBN number to lower rear panel. Original red cloth, title device to upper board in blind, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained purple, mustard endpapers, original dustjacket. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. This US edition precedes the English by three years. Dahl's story was first immortalized on the screen in the 1971 movie (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) starring Gene Wilder. With the release of the Tim Burton version starring Johnny Depp this first edition has continued to rise in collectibility and value. .

London: Bloomsbury. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0747538492 . Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Pages are toned and some light edge wear to the jacket. Authenticated by Beckett with the sticker on the page J K Rowling has signed with a matched COA from Beckett. ; Signed by J. K. Rowling on title page. ; 7.9 X 5.1 X 1.1 inches; 251 pages; Original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Brodart cover. All domestic orders shipped protected in a Box. ; Signed by Author .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. In the first issue dust jacket, with Wolfe's portrait on the rear panel and the original price of 2.50 on the front flap. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket is evenly faded on the spine panel, with chipping on the front flap fold, spine ends, and tips, light edgewear, and a number of old tape reinforcements on the verso. ; All domestic orders shipped protected in a Box. .

New York: Simon and Schuster. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Owner name, small inscription on FEP. Faint tape residue on top/bottom of rear panel. FIRST STATE ("none" instead of "done" on p621) ; Personalized by John LeCarre on FEP. ; Signed by Actor .

Boston: R. H. Hinkley Company. N.D.. First Edition. Fine binding. All 14 volumes Very Good+ or better. Number 795 of 1,000 limited edition numbered sets. Each volume leatherbound with hubbed spines and gilt filligree surrounding inner pastedown edges. Top text block edge of each volume gilt. Vol. XIV and Vol. I FEP detached. Hinges undergoing various states of starting. .

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company. 1885. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Contains the three first printing points: "Huck Decided to Leave" on p. 9; "Him and another Man" listed on p. 87; and "with the was" on p. 57. Photogravure frontispiece of Karl Gerhardt's portrait bust of Clemens, illustrations after E. W. Kemble in the text throughout. Both hinges starting. Rubbing along panel edges. Bumping at panel corners and spine crown. Chipping at spine heel. Light staining on rear end page and both sides of FEP. .

New York: MacMillan Company. 1936. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. First issue with "Published May 1936" on copyright page in first issue jacket with rear panel headed "Macmillan Spring Novels" listing Gone with The Wind as the second title in the second column. Binding tight and square. Original full-bound cloth boards present, in exceptional condition for their age, with slight wear to corners as shown. Minimal wear present to boards and text block, with some wear evident to the original dust jacket, with a repaired tears on both the front and back covers, as well as some chipping losses at spine corners, and wear to the edges at bottom and top. Clipped (as is typical) at the top corner, with original price of $3 not clipped at the bottom left. Overall a very nice example. ; Signed by Margaret Mitchell on the first free end page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1037 pages; Signed by Author .

London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.. 1966-1967. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. All three volumes Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. The Fellowship of the Ring 2nd impresssion, faint stain on FEP. Marring on both The Two Towers and The Return of the King front flaps. ; The Return of the King signed by J. R. R. Tolkien on title page. ; Signed by Author .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1925. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in the original third state dust jacket professionally restored Very Good+. Scribners Seal Errors not corrected that verify true first printing: p.60, line 16–“chatter”; p. 119, line 22–“northern”; p. 165, line 29–“away”; p. 205–lines 9-10–“sick in tired”; p. 211, lines 7-8–“Union Street station”. With 3,000 third state jackets printed this is exceedingly harder find than the first two jackets. .

Connecticut: Easton Press. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in leather boards. Boards starting to bow. Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. Notes from editor neatly laid in. ; First Easton Press Edition. .