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
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
Revolt in Aspromonte
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1962. First US Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Mass market. 4.25 x 7.25 in. 120 pp. Translated from the Italian by Frances Fenaye. Very good in original pictorial wrappers, highlighting to front synopsis with spare underlining in red pen throughout text. 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 textblock and sunning to spine. Publisher's blurb affixed to front cover. Scarce uncorrected copy of..... More
Men in Dark Times
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 8.5 in. x, 272 pp. Very good in original blue cloth boards with a firm binding and clean pages. This copy sports a good dust jacket that has chipping and wear along all of the..... More
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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
Crazy in Berlin
New York: Delacorte Press, 1982. First Delacorte Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 438 pp. Very good in original cloth-backed boards, mild toning to text block and very good pictorial dust jacket. Reinhart Series. 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
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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
The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Spring 1996, Volume 16, Number 1–The Future of Fiction
Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. 193 pp. Occasionally illustrated in black & white. Fine in original pictorial wrappers. Contributors include: Sven Birkerts, Mary Caponegro, Jonathan Franzen, Janice Galloway, Carole Maso, Bradford Morrow, William T. Vollmann, Curtis White, Peter Dimock..... 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
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
Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942
Mattituck, NY: Amereon Ltd., [2009]. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 220 pp. From a limited Amereon edition bound in cloth. 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
