Literature
Diagnosis and Detection: The Medical Iconography of Sherlock Holmes
Toronto: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.75 x 9.5 in. 139 pp. Fine in original black cloth and a fine, bright illustrated dust jacket that is free of marks and fading. This text explores Sherlock Holmes's investigatory modes and methods through the medical lens..... More
Corn & Smoke: Stories, Performances, Things
Baltimore: Shattered Wig, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. 88 pp. Fine in original pictorial wrappers. More
The Children's Hospital
San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 615 pp. Near fine in original paper-covered boards and near fine in original obi-bands. Signed by Adrian on title page. More
Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
New York: Farrar and Rinhart, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Sextodecimo. 4.5 x 7.5 in. xiv, 306 pp. Fine in the original brick-red cloth boards with bright gilt titling, a firm binding, and clean pages, with a very good illustrated dust jacket that has ordinary shelf wear on the..... More
Hans Andersen's Story Book
New York: C.S. Francis and Co., 1860. 1860 Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 4.5 x 6.75 in. vi, 154 pp., 160 pp., 152 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of drawings. Very good in rebound leatherette boards and red leather quarter binding. The interior pages appear bright and clean, with..... More
6 Mid-American Chants by Sherwood Anderson; 11 Midwest Photographs by Art Sinsabaugh
Highlands, NC: The Nantahala Foundation (Jargon Society), 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Spiral bound. Oblong octavo. 20.75 x 7 in. Very good in the original pictorial covers, with minor signs of wear and rubbing and light, periodic foxing on the back-side of several photo plates. The title page is detached..... More
Go Ask Alice (Uncorrected Proof)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 159 pp. Very good in original simple lettered wrappers. Apparently an unread copy, but has light foxing to edge of text block and sunning to spine. Publisher's blurb affixed to front cover. Scarce uncorrected copy..... More
Selected Prose
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. x. 326 pp. Fine in original cloth boards and fine in original pictorial dust jacket. More
Transcription
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2018. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 343 pp. Fine in original paper-covered boards and fine in original pictorial dust jacket. Signed on title page with ticket laid-in. More
A Song of Stone
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 280 pp. Fine in original black paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Banks on the front free endpaper. More
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
London: Chatto and Windus, 1919. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 7.5 in. x, [2], 312 pp. Very good in original dark navy cloth with paper spine label, some shelf wear, staining to back cover, front hinge starting. Diary written by Bruce Frederick Cummings, using the nom-de-plume Barbellino..... More
In the Loyal Mountains
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 5.75 x 9.25 in. 168 pp. Fine in original cloth-backed boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed on the title page by Rick Bass. More
The James Joyce Songbook
[New York]: Garland [Reference Library of the Humanities], [1982]. [First Edition, First Printing]. Paperback. Quarto. 8.5 x 11 in. [xxii, 711 pp.] Illustrated with black & white facsimiles of musical notations and scores alluding to the writings of James Joyce. Over 180 songs include: Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes..... More
Beware of Murder!
New York: Samuel French, 1944. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Duodecimo. 5 x 7.25 in. 125 pp. Very good in the original blue wrappers that have minor shelf and reading wear, but otherwise appear in sturdy and clean condition. The front cover bears a sticker for "Baker's Plays" and a...... More
The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce [Vol. 1–3]
Knoxville: University of Tennesee, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. xxix, 1,275 pp. Near fine in original black cloth with previous owner signature on front free endpapers and very good in original pictorial dust jackets, slight fading to spine on volume one and two. Three..... More
Atlas
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985. First US Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 10 x 9 in. 95 pp. Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Kerrigan. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. Very good in original paper covered boards. some light dampstaining to front endpapers and foot..... More
Collected Impressions
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Early American Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. ix, 269 pp. Fine in original black cloth boards, with a very good dust jacket that has minor rubbing and wear to the top edges and the spine, and age-related toning to the spine and..... More
Up Above the World
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 223 pp. Author photograph by Roy Round. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. More
One More for the Road
New York: Morrow, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. 289 pp. Near fine in original paper-covered boards, with a very slight lean to spine, and near fine in original pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Bradbury on title page in red pen! More
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5 x 8.25 in. 226 pp. Brautigan's tale of the "romantic possibilities of a public library in California," where anything and everything published may be catalogued and stored. The book does not appear to be an ex-library copy..... More
Kalender-Geschichten (Calendar Stories)
Berlin: Rowholt, 1958. 1958 Printing. Paperback. Mass market. 4.5 x 7.5 in. 143 +[16] pp. Very good in original cloth-backed pictorial paper-wrappers. Text in German. More
Fog: The Jeffrey Stories
Asheville, NC: Safe Harbor Books, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. 278 pp. Inscribed by Brookhouse on the title page. More