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19722221936<p>First American edition. Octavo. Dust jacket unclipped; with photo on flap in black. Very good. 216 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed on title page: "For Jim Butler my consiglieri my drinking companion my dear friend. Alex Theroux."</p><p>With a small drawing and additional inscription on verso of half title page: "Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go still you wanted to stay"</p> Gambit Incorporated hardcover books
1928500611<p>On Bancroft Hotel letterhead Worchester January 20 1928; to Mr. Stephenson: ".They've got me on the run down here and I have a suitcase full of letters unanswered." Small 4to. 1 page.</p> unknown books
199491510NY: Random House 1994. First edition first prnt. Signed by Thompson as "HSThompson" on the front free endpage. Quarter-cloth with gilt lettering and paper-covered boards. Spine cloth and lettering and board ends minimally rubbed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Fourth book in Thompson's Gonzo Papers series. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
2222138<p>ca. 1942. First Armed Service edition. 3 3/4" x 5 1/2". No. 880. Original stiff printed colored pictorial wrappers. No dust jacket. Very good spine a bit faded. 415 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Council on Books in Wartime paperback books
19572221684<p>"Alice Toklas" 1 page Paris Oct 18 1957 to Anita Loos. 8 1/4" x 5 1/4". Fine.</p><p>Together with a typed transcription. Toklas express great pleasure at seeing Loos again and thanks her for her recommendation of a spa treatment at Acqui.</p><p>In part: ".The doctor recommended ten baths during twelve days.I am very grateful to you. It would be lovely to think you would return to Paris in my time.</p><p>Toklas 1877-1967 companion of writer Gertrude Stein who wrote about their life together in "What is Remembered" and was the subject of Stein's "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas."</p><p>Loos 1891-1981 American humorous writer; best known for her novel "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1925; worked for various Hollywood studios as a writer and script consultant; film career from 1912: "My Baby" 1912; "The Telephone Girl and the Lady" 1913; "The Lady in Black" 1913; "San Francisco" 1936; "Saratoga" 1937; "The Women" 1939; "Another Thin Man" 1939; "Strange Cargo" 1940; "Susan and God" 1940; "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" 1945; "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1953; "Gigi" 1958.</p> unknown books
19292222042<p>Edited by Cyril Clemens. First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece halftone of Clemens with W. H. Claggett and A. S. Simon. Original stiff orange wrappers stamped in black. With contributions by John Galsworthy G. K. Chesterton and others. No dust jacket. Very good. 31 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Cover title reads: "Mark Twain: New Anecdotes Jokes and Stories.</p><p>Printed by La Jolla Light Print.</p> The Mark Twain Society paperback books
1923229165<p>First edition so stated; "E-X". Octavo. Dust jacket price clipped shallow chip across top of jacket spine; two short tears. Some foxing top edge. Very good. 406 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Booksellers re-order coupon on rear dust jacket flap intact. BAL 3536.</p> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
18712221802<p>First edition second issue. Octavo. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt spine faded and ends frayed. 11 text illustrations. No dust jacket. Very good. 47 pages 1 page ads for Ball Black and Co. on verso of title.</p><p>Pictorial and armorial bookplates of Justin Turner and Herbert Claiborne Pell.</p><p>BAL 3326.</p> Sheldon & Company hardcover books
19112222030<p>First edition first impression July 1911. Octavo. 5 page introduction by Jack London. Title page in red and black. Original tan cloth stamped in red and black with pictorial cat design. No dust jacket. Very good. 239 pages 18 pages of publisher's ads.</p><p>Signature on front free endpaper: "Compliments of Harry Rodd.</p><p>BAL 11930.</p><p>Woodbridge 1033.</p> L. C. Page & Company hardcover books
1979305147<p>Folio 6 3/4" x 17 1/2". Broadside. Printed in red and black on cream paper. Fine fresh. One of 276 numbered copies signed by Updike.</p> Richmond, Waves Press, 1979. unknown books
19792221620<p>Limited first edition. Octavo. Dust jacket unclipped. Enclosed in publisher's slip case. Fine. 260 pages.</p><p>Copy #332/350 signed on colophon.</p> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
19792221621<p>First trade edition. Octavo. Dust jacket unclipped; nick on upper spine. Very good. 260 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1968115980Chicago IL: Museum of Contemporary Art 1968. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 28 through December 1 1968 and then traveled to Indianapolis Bloomfield Hills MI and Atlanta. Foreword and essay by van der Marck. A group show with works by Jean Gorin Charles Biederman Joan Saugrain Victor Pasmore Mary Martin Anthony Hill John Ernest Joost Baljeu William Jordan Eli Bornstein Gillian Wise Elisabeth Willmott Donald McNamee David Barr and Ronald Kostyniuk. Illustrated with black and white plates. An about good copy with some staining to the spine and bottom of the back panel but internally clean. A good reference copy. Museum of Contemporary Art unknown books
1930158083<p>ORIGINAL YELLOW STIFF WRAPPERS; PUBLISHER'S SLIPCASE FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD</p> KNOPF unknown books
19412221771<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with six full page and twenty-three text illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. Full tan morocco by S. David with inlaid green Shamrocks and initials "N d C". Fine. 279 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Enclosed in morocco edged slipcase.</p> Marcel Lubineau hardcover books
1970125328New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1970. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. Translated by Edgar H. Miller Jr. His first book to be published in the United States. A fine copy in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket with a crease to the front flap. A very nice copy of a seemingly uncommon book. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1928229302<p>First edition. Small thin octavo. Original stiff green wrappers stamped in black. Very good. 13 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and annotated by Dee Verlaine on the colophon page that 250 copies were printed for private distribution "of which 125 have been destroyed." This is number 777. Inscribed by Dee Verlaine: "For Mr. Hubert Smith 4-21-30".</p> Privately Printed by A.D. Tate paperback books
198871614NY: Random House 1988. First US edition first prnt. Originally published by Andre Deutsch in the UK in 1987 in a different form. Signed by Vidal on a tipped-in forepage as issued. Most likely a Kroch's & Brentano's 1st Edition Circle copy but without the 1st Edition Circle bookmark. Burgandy cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Beginning toning on cloth edges faint small stain on foreedge; dustjacket with minor wear and little loss on spine ends. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
19991101028NY: Random House 1999. First edition first prnt. Edited by Fred Kaplan. Introduction biographical chronology and bibliography. Signed by Vidal on a tipped-in front free endpage as issued. One of an unspecified number of copies as such. Rear endpage with a one inch tear on the bottom edge a shallow crease on the bottom corner of the last few pages and a wrinkle on the spine topedge. Very Good condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
19232221977<p>First edition. 4to. 16 facsimile plates. 3/4 dark green morocco over matching cloth boards spine with raised bands and gilt stamping top edge gilt other edges uncut. Original printed blue wrappers bound in. Very good. Unpaginated.</p><p>Descriptive annotated catalogue of what was purported to be the world's finest collection of Voltaire's works. 202 items.</p><p>Printed by J. Miles & Co. Ltd. London.</p> G. Michelmore & Co. hardcover books
19287275<p>1/500 FIRST EDITION THUS VERY GOOD.</p> VOLTAIRE SOC hardcover books
18522221594<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with 22 steel engravings and chromolithographed pictorial title pages by D. Mc Lellan and T. Sinclair. Publisher's elaborately gilt stamped purple morocco with gilt vignettes of Christ rising the dead Noah's Ark child with lion and lamb group of five men in various ethnic dress; the spine with elaborate gilt designs and decorations; edges gilt; back covers in blind or gilt. Minor light rubbing. Nice examples of elaborate American leather trade bindings. No dust jacket. Very good. 320; 288 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 2 volumes.</p><p>Printed by E. N. Grossman & Son.</p><p>Stereotyped by Richard C. Valentine.</p> Edward Walker hardcover books
19832222045<p>First edition. Octavo. Dust jacket unclipped; small nick. Very good. 276 pages.</p><p>Boldly signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by Wambaugh October 26 1983: "To Dom Longo Thanks for the many kindnesses to David and the rest of us! Fondest regards Joe Wambaugh."</p><p>Includes Wambaugh's special bookmark with a reproduction of his LAPD Sergeant's badge and a Typed Letter Signed to literary agent H. N. Swanson January 24 1975.</p> A Perigord Press Book hardcover books
19492221646<p>First edition one of 300 copies. Octavo. Original green cloth. Plain old glassine dust jacket. Very good. 105 pages.</p><p>Signed by both authors on page XI Los Angeles August 28 1949. With an inscription on front free endpaper to Garland Greever who is mentioned on page 83.</p> Colby College Press hardcover books
1938197961<p>First edition. Octavo. Original black stamped blue cloth. Dust jacket unclipped; small chip. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. A Fleming Stone Mystery. Book label of Stanley Rose Bookshop Hollywood.</p> J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
