The American Caravan; A Yearbook of American Literature
by Brooks, Van Wyck; Kreymborg, Alfred; Mumford, Lewis; Rosenfeld, Paul
New York: Macaulay Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.00), lightly toned, some chips at the edges. Green buckram with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first issue of this important anthology series, here including stories, novellas, plays, poems, and essays... Read More
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Space on My Hands
by Brown, Fredric
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Brown on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), some foxing at the edges, soiled at the back panel. Brown cloth with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, former owner's... Read More
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The Lights in the Sky are Stars
by Brown, Fredric
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signature of science fiction author Chad Oliver on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Good jacket, generally toned, tears at the flap folds. Blue boards, lightly mottled, with red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain,... Read More
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The House with the Green Shutters
by Brown, George Douglas
New York: Modern Library, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Introduction by George Blake. Binding Style 4. Very Good. Brown leatherette, lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name and information written on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.
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Spicy Iguana Tales
by Brown, Greg
Phoenix: Greg Brown, 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. t.p., [1]-15. Very Good. Toned pages, a few stray stains and creases. Brown's zine about his planning of IguanaCon, which ran as the 36th World Science Fiction Convention.
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Perception, Theory and Commitment: The New Philosophy of Science
by Brown, Harold I.
Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993. Paperback. Near Fine. Later Printing. Near Fine. Wraps lightly bumped. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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The Taste of Ashes
by Browne, Howard
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Inscribed by Browne to pulp writer Robert Randisi. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.95), generally rubbed and creased, chips at the head and foot of the spine. Quarter grey buckram with red paper on the boards, rubbed at the corners. Square, bound with some reading... Read More
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Halo in Brass
by Browne, Howard
Missoula: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Cover by Joe Servello. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The third Paul Pine mystery, originally published in 1948.
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Dirty Work
by Brown, Larry
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($16.95). Quarter dark blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Brown's novel about two soldiers from Mississippi lying next to one another about being wounded in the Vietnam War.
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Lost to the West; The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization
by Brownworth, Lars
New York: Crown Publishers, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.00). Quarter red paper with cream paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Brownworth's history of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire, "replete with stories of assassination, mass mutilation and execution, sexual scheming, ruthless grasping for power, and clashing... Read More
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Hits and Misses
by Brown, Paul
Derrydale Press, 1935. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Signed by Brown on the limitation page. Good. Quarter black buckram with yellow buckram on the boards, generally toned, rubbed, bumped, and soiled. Square and firmly bound, toned at the edges but clean internally. A facsimile of Brown's sketchbook of impressions from watching polo matches.
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Fables
by Brown, Walter
London: S. Grosvenor, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Cuts by Thomas Bewick. Fair. Quarter blue leather with red buckram on the boards, faded at the spine with chips at the head and foot and a split running up the bottom three inches. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned endpapers, newsclippings of a portrait of Bewick and one... Read More
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The Promiscuous Woman
by Brown, Wenzell
New York: Lancer Books, 1967. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps unevenly toned and soiled, lightly rubbed and bumped. Square and firmly bound with purple edges, clean internally. A paperback original presenting "a primary study of the nature of and reasons for promiscuity.
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The Romantic Egoists; A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
by Bruccoli, Matthew J.; Fitzgerald Smith, Scottie; Kerr, Joan P.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($25.00), unevenly faded, bumped and with a few creases and short closed tears. Black cloth, faded at the edges, bumped at the corners, some scratches on the surface. Square, bound with some reading wear, gift inscription on the... Read More
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Murder in Miniature: The Short Stories
by Bruce, Leo; Pike, B.A.
Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Compiled and with an Introduction by B.A. Pike. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($20.00). Quarter yellow buckram with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of twenty-eight of Bruce's detective short stories originally written for the London Evening Standard.
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Beyond the Four Dimensions; Reconciling Physics, Parapsychology and UFOs
by Brunstein, Karl
New York: Walker and Company, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($12.50), generally soiled, a few chips and tape repairs, underlining on the flaps of the jacket. Blue paper on the boards, lightly rubbed, with red ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, ownership signature of Tom Benson... Read More
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Curses! Broiled Again!; The Hottest Urban Legends Going
by Brunvand, Jan Harold
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, faded at the spine and edges. Quarter cream cloth with tan paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. A collection of contemporaneous urban legends from the acclaimed folklorist. ... Read More
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The Message of the Crystal Skull; From Atlantis to the New Age
by Bryant, Alic; Galde, Phyllis
St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1989. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped, creases and scuffs throughout. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, clean internally. An exploration of the origin and lore of the Mitchell-Hedges Skull, possibly an artifact from Atlantis.
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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind; Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T.
by Bryan, C.D.B.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($25.00), faded at the spine and edges, lightly bumped. Quarter black cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bryan's book inspired by his hearing abduction stories at an M.I.T. conference. Here he attempts to... Read More
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Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind; Alien Abduction, UFOs, and the Conference at M.I.T.
by Bryan, C.D.B.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (£20.00), a few short tears at the spine edge. Blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few stray stains at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. Bryan's book inspired by his hearing abduction... Read More
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UFO Politics at the White House; Citizens Rally 'round Jimmy Carter's Promise
by Bryant, Larry W.
Arlington: The Invisible College Press, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Association copy. Inscribed on the title page by Bryant to ufologist Tom Benson. With a laid-in announcement about the book's release. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed and bumped. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of letters sent to President Carter after he announced to the... Read More
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Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer
by Bry, Doris
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Alfred Stieglitz. No additional printings listed. Fine in an about near fine jacket, unclipped ($15.00), lightly toned and edgeworn with a closed tear at the top edge. Black cloth with silver lettering, fine. Square and tight, a fresh and clean copy. Illustrated with sixty-two actual-size plates, including... Read More
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Dragon Seed
by Buck, Pearl
New York: John Day Company, 1942. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Good. Good. Quarter black buckram with green paper wraps, heavily rubbed at the edges, label pasted onto the back wrap. Square and firmly bound, a few creased corners toward the beginning of the book, clean otherwise. Buck's novel of life in Nanking before and during the Japanese invasion,... Read More
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Open City No. 29 November 17-23 1967; A New Weekly Review of the Los Angeles Renaissance
by [Bukowski, Charles] Bryan, John
Los Angeles: Open City, 1967. Very Good. Very Good. Tabloid with browned paper, a few stains throughout and with a few smaller tears and chips at the fore-edges. This issue features contributions from Alex Apostolides, Robert Gold, Humble Harve, Robert Igriega, Frank Kofsky, Derek Taylor, Frank Wolf, among others, with an early installment of Charles Bukowski's "Notes of... Read More
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Open City No. 5 June 2-9 1967; A New Weekly Review of the Los Angeles Renaissance
by [Bukowski, Charles] Bryan, John
Los Angeles: Open City, 1967. Very Good. Very Good. Tabloid with browned paper, stained at the spine fold, a few small chips and tears at the fore-edge. This issue features articles about Melvin Hayes's murder in Watts at the hands of the LAPD, the California Black Conference, the Vietnam War, avoiding the draft, the Israeli beatniks, as well... Read More
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