![The Compleat Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing for the Perusal of Anglers. With Instructions, How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton [Limited Edition, Signed by Gorsline]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/102/076/1489076102.0.m.jpg)
The Compleat Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing for the Perusal of Anglers. With Instructions, How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton [Limited Edition, Signed by Gorsline]
by Izaak Walton; Charles Cotton; James Russell Lowell [intro.]; Douglas W. Gorsline [illus.]
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. Very Good. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948. First Thus; Limited Edition of 1500 copies signed by Gorsline, this being #432. Quarto. 316 pp. Copper engravings and wash-drawings. Bound in half ivory calfskin over charcoal paper with gilt decorating to spine. Dark topstain. Publisher's prospectus and monthly newsletter laid in... Read More
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Guess Again
by L.J. Bridgman
New York: H.M. Caldwell Company Publishers, 1902. Very Good. New York: H.M. Caldwell Company Publishers, 1902. First Edition. Square octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Red cloth spine with pictorial pastedowns to front and rear. Pictorial endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards roughly worn along edges. Boards shaken at rear, but overall binding holding. Colors remain bright and... Read More
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![Maya Quartos 1970 [Complete Set] [Limited Editions] [Signed by Hirschman and Corman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/056/565/1699565056.0.m.jpg)
Maya Quartos 1970 [Complete Set] [Limited Editions] [Signed by Hirschman and Corman]
by Jack Hirschman, Cid Corman, Robert Duncan, Philip Whalen et al.
San Francisco, CA: Maya Quarto / Cranium Press, 1969. Very Good. [San Francisco, CA]: Maya Quarto / Cranium Press, 1969-1970. First Editions, all limited to 300 copies. Large, slim octavos (25.5cm); publisher's variously colored stitched card wrappers, printed paper paste-ons to upper covers; illus. Light wear to wrapper margins, a few spine edges sunned, the upper wrapper of... Read More
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![Jack Allen's Kitchen: Celebrating the Tastes of Texas [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/699/1609699262.0.m.jpg)
Jack Allen's Kitchen: Celebrating the Tastes of Texas [Signed]
by Jack Allen; Jack Gilmore; Jessica Dupuy; Kenny Braun [photog.]
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Very Good +. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. First Edition. Quarto (28.5 cm), [viii], [328]pp. No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated cover with red stamping. Red ribbon. Board corners bumped and covers lightly soiled. Spine joint corners bumped and one small dent on the tail of the spine. Pages clean throughout.... Read More
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![Fritsch/Koons/Ray: Sculpture After Sculpture [Signed and Inscribed Card Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/996/816/1420816996.0.m.0.jpg)
Fritsch/Koons/Ray: Sculpture After Sculpture [Signed and Inscribed Card Laid in]
by Jack Bankowsky; [et al.]
Ostfildern [Berlin]: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014. Very Good/Very Good. Ostfildern [Berlin]: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014. First Edition. Presentation note on Artforum card stationery from editor Jack Bankowsky to recipient Brenda Richardson is laid in: "12/11/14. Dear Brenda, I wanted you to have the catalogue for my most recent effort 'Sculpture After Sculpture.' Happy Holidays! All my Best, Jack." ... Read More
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The Splendid Outcast
by E.W. Savi; Irving Politzer [dust jacket]
New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, 1929. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, [1929]. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Irving Polizer; 310pp. Jacket margins rather rubbed and worn with a few small losses and closed gears, corners bumped, textblock lightly toned, else Very Good and sound. Romance novel set in... Read More
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The Silver Fang
by George F. Worts; J. Allen St. John [dust jacket]
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1930. Very Good/Very Good -. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1930. Later Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket attributed to J. Allen St. John retaining price ($2.00); [8],300pp. Jacket significantly restored with color touch-up along front panel extremities and spine ends, verso discreetly backed though the whole rather cockled as a... Read More
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![To Bedlam and Part Way Back [Inscribed and Signed by Sexton]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/686/559/1699559686.0.m.jpg)
To Bedlam and Part Way Back [Inscribed and Signed by Sexton]
by Anne Sexton; Ellen Raskin [dust jacket]
Boston / Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1960. Very Good +/Very Good +. Boston / Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1960. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, red topstain, in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [10],67pp. Very light wear and dust-soil to dust jacket margins,... Read More
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And Left for Dead
by Frances and Richard Lockridge; Arthur Hawkins [dust jacket]
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962. Very Good-/Very Good-. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's boards, mint green topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); 188pp. Moderate wear and rather dark foxing to jacket margins, closed tear mid-spine panel, faint glue residue to boards from removed tape, spine a bit cocked,... Read More
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![The Diaries [Jacket signed by designer]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/182/627/1702627182.0.m.jpg)
The Diaries [Jacket signed by designer]
by Franz Kafka; Ross Benjamin [trans.]; Peter Mendelsund [jacket]
New York: Schocken Books, 2022. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Schocken Books, 2022. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo (24.2cm); illustrated dust jacket with $45.00 price intact; charcoal boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering; [xxiv],670pp. Jacket is crisp with very faint rubbing at extremities. Boards sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages... Read More
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![The Sheikh and the Dustbin and Other McAuslan Stories [Bookplate Signed by Fraser Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/362/452/1605452362.0.m.jpg)
The Sheikh and the Dustbin and Other McAuslan Stories [Bookplate Signed by Fraser Laid in]
by George MacDonald Fraser; Quentin Blake [dust jacket]
London: Collins Harvill, 1988. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Collins Harvill, 1988. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket by Quentin Blake retaining original price; 189pp. A hint of shelf wear to jacket and board margins, faint dust-soil to textblock edges, else a Near Fine copy. Bookplate signed by Fraser laid in. The final short... Read More
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![Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/828/558/1699558828.0.m.jpg)
Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled [Inscribed and Signed]
by Harlan Ellison; Diane and Leon Dillon [dust jacket]
New York: Trident Press, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Trident Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, tan topstain, in black pictorial dust jacket by Diane and Leon Dillon retaining original price ($5.95); 382pp. Very light shelf wear to jacket margins, faint ghost of a sticker to upper panel, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound.... Read More
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![Selected Poems [Allen Ginsberg's Copy Signed by Him and Inscribed to him by Ruth Fainlight with a Note From the Publisher to Ginsberg]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/493/565/1699565493.0.m.jpg)
Selected Poems [Allen Ginsberg's Copy Signed by Him and Inscribed to him by Ruth Fainlight with a Note From the Publisher to Ginsberg]
by Harry Fainlight; Ruth Fainlight [intro.]; Allen Ginsberg [memoir]; Ted Hughes [poem]; Ralph Steadman [dust jacket]
London: Turret Books, 1986. Very Good +/Near Fine. London: Turret Books, 1986. First Edition Limited to 1000 copies. Slim octavo; publisher's textured boards in white dust jacket designed by Ralph Steadman; [6],78pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Light wear to jacket margins, corners bumped, else Very Good to Near Fine. Allen Ginsberg's copy signed by him on title... Read More
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Living At The Movies
by Jim Carroll; Larry Rivers [dust jacket]
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket by Larry Rivers; ix,[3],100pp. Light wear and curling to jacket margins including a few tiny nicks, shallow creasing to flaps, spine panel sunned, brief scuffing to cloth corners, textblock fore-edge slightly soiled, else Very Good... Read More
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![The Fire at Greycombe Farm [alt. title: Mystery at Greycombe Farm]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/380/352/1605352380.0.m.jpg)
The Fire at Greycombe Farm [alt. title: Mystery at Greycombe Farm]
by John Rhode; Arthur Hawkins [dust jacket]
New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, 1932. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, [1932]. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket signed in image by Arthur Hawkins; [6]305,[9]pp. Jacket rather chipped and worn at extremities and flap folds with shallow losses along bottom margins and spine crown affecting text, brief old tape repair to... Read More
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![The Dark Arena [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/370/485/1589485370.0.m.jpg)
The Dark Arena [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Mario Puzo; Ezra Jack Keats [dust jacket]
New York: Random House, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's decorative two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Ezra Jack Keats, green topstain; [6],308pp. Light shelf wear, jacket spine panel quite toned (as usual), light soil to cloth boards, else a Very Good and sound copy. Bookplate signed... Read More
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![Who Goes Home [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/654/527/1573527654.0.m.jpg)
Who Goes Home [Signed]
by Maurice Edelman; Mervyn Peake [dust jacket]
London: Allan Wingate and the Book Society, 1953. Very Good-/Very Good. London: Allan Wingate and the Book Society, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Mervyn Peake retaining original price (10s. 6d.), blue topstain; 255pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears (tape repaired on verso), spine slightly cocked,... Read More
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![Boy at the Window [Inscribed and Signed by Dodson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/307/907/1721907307.0.m.jpg)
Boy at the Window [Inscribed and Signed by Dodson]
by Owen Dodson; Leo and Diane Dillon [dust jacket]
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1951. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [copyright 1951 but ca. 1977]. Later Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Leo and Diane Dillon retaining original price ($7.95); [8],211pp. Moderate wear and a few small closed tears to jacket margins, spine panel sunned, corners nudged, two... Read More
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![The Titan [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/950/561/1699561950.0.m.jpg)
The Titan [Signed Limited Edition]
by P. Schuyler Miller; Hannes Bok [dust jacket]
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1952. Very Good+/Near Fine. Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1952. First Edition limited to 350 signed copies, of which this is no. 35. Octavo; publisher's cloth in dust jacket illustrated by Hannes Bok and retaining original price ($3.00); [2],252pp. Jacket gently bumped at spine ends. Cloth very slightly faded at extremities, corners bumped, else Very... Read More
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Spring Tides: A Novel
by R.E. Pinkerton; J. Allen St. John [dust jacket]
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co, 1927. Very Good +/Very Good +. Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1927. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by J. Allen St. John, blue topstain; 354pp.; pictorial endpapers signed in image by Wm. Schmedtgen. Tiny chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, small paper flaw mid-jacket panel not approaching... Read More
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![Such Counsels You Gave To Me & Other Poems [Inscribed and Signed to Albert M. Bender]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/329/566/1699566329.0.m.jpg)
Such Counsels You Gave To Me & Other Poems [Inscribed and Signed to Albert M. Bender]
by Robinson Jeffers; Fritz Eichenberg [dust jacket]
New York: Random House, 1937. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg; 129pp. Light wear to dust jacket including small closed tear at top half inch of upper spine edge, spine panel toned; overall a Very Good or better example. ... Read More
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A Green Bough
by William Faulkner; Lynd Ward [dust jacket]
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933. Very Good/Good. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933. First Trade Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in dust jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward; 67pp. Jacket significantly toned and brittle with shallow chipping at extremities, jacket spine partially perished (as is old tape repair) and cloth subsequently faded; overall Very Good... Read More
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Talk: Conversations with William Golding
by Jack I. Biles; William Golding [intro.]
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. Stated First Edition. Octavo; xii, 112pp. Red photographic dust jacket over dark blue cloth with silver and copper lettering to spine. Price-clipped jacket shows some rubbing and a few shallow tears along edges, with some adjacent creasing. Boards bumped at top corners, but... Read More
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Visions of Cody
by Jack Kerouac; Allen Ginsberg [intro.]
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (23cm); Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; boards bound in maroon wax cloth with gilt stamping to spine; purple topstain; khaki endsheets; 398pp. Dust jacket bumped at spine ends and corners; liquid stain to front panel;... Read More
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Jack London at Yale
by Jack London; Alexander Irvine [intro. and ed.]
Westwood, MA: Published by the Connecticut State Committee & Printed at the Ariel Press, 1906. Very Good. Westwood, MA: Published by the Connecticut State Committee & Printed at the Ariel Press, 1906. First Edition. 12mo. 28 pp. Lacks frontis portrait. Red wraps stamped in black and gilt. Wraps rubbed along edges with some minor scuffing; dark staining to... Read More
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