Shop
Showing 7297–7312 of 8198 results
-
Browse by Category
- Browse All
- Americana
- Art and Architecture
- Autograph Letters Signed
- Biography and Autobiography
- Children's Books
- Economics and Finance
- Featured Rare Books
- Fine Bindings and Sets
- First Edition
- First Edition>Signed
- Food and Wine
- Framed Autographs and Historical Documents
- Geography
- Gifts
- Gifts - For Her
- Gifts - For Him
- Gifts - Graduation and Celebrations
- Gifts - Holidays
- History, Law, and Politics
- Literature
- Music
- New Arrivals
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Poetry
- Presidents and World Leaders
- Religion
- Science and Natural History
- Science Fiction and Mystery
- Signed
- Signed & Autographed Books
- Sports and Leisure
- Travel and Exploration
- Uncategorized
-
First edition, first issue of Brantz Mayer's Captain Canot or Twenty Years of an African Slaver
MAYER, Brantz.
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. Being an Account of the Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.
First edition, first issue of the historian's detailed account of the African slave trade. First issue with with page 191 misprinted as 19. Octavo, recased with the original publisher's cloth laid down, additional vignette title. In very good condition, hinges reinforced and rebacked.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 142108
-
First Edition of Dennis Lehane's Mystic River; Signed by Him and Three times by Jacket Designer Chip Kidd
LEHANE, Dennis.
Mystic River.
New York : William Morrow and Company, 2001.
First edition of this novel, basis for the 2003 film directed and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Dennis Lehane and three times by the dust jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on the rear jacket flap and once below Lehane's signature. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Chip Kidd.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 121479
-
Limited Edition Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail; Signed by Illustrator Thomas Hart Benton
PARKMAN, Francis. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton.
The Oregon Trail.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945.
Signed limited edition of Parkman’s classic account of his journey along the Oregon Trail. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial title page, illustrated with numerous plates by Thomas Hart Benton. One of one thousand numbered copies signed by the artist on the limitation page. In near fine condition with very light rubbing to the crown of the spine and a faint stain to the front panel.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146546
-
"When Wanda packed her bag and left, I stood in my garden and knew my chances were ruined": First edition of Paul Zimmer's fifth book of poems; inscribed by him to fellow poet Annie Dillard
ZIMMER, Paul [Annie Dillard].
With Wanda: Town and Country Poems.
Washington, D.C. & San Francisco: Dryad Press, 1980.
First edition of American poet Paul Zimmer's fifth book of poems. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed to poet Annie Dillard on the title page, "August 1980 For Annie and Gary, With admiration and affection. Paul." With Annie Dillard's bookplate to the half-title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Susan Foster. Book design by Merrill Leffler. A nice association.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88097
-
First Edition of Tasha Tudor's Favorite Christmas Carols; Signed by Tasha Tudor
TUDOR, Tasha.
Tasha Tudor’s Favorite Christmas Carols.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1978.
First edition of the author's classic collection of Christmas carols. Quarto, original red cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, "Tasha Tudor 1986." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 144081
-
First Edition of Fletch Won; Signed by Gregory McDonald
MCDONALD, Gregory.
Fletch Won.
New York: Warner Books, 1985.
First edition of this work in the author's classic Fletch series. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Gregory McDonald on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, mark to the bottom.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 143771
-
First Edition of Leo Durocher's The Dodgers and Me: The Inside Story; Signed by Him
DUROCHER, Leo.
The Dodgers and Me: The Inside Story.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1948.
First edition of this work by the Hall of Famer. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Leo Durocher on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 121332
-
First American edition of Knut Hamsun's Mysteries
HAMSUN, Knut.
Mysteries.
London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.
First American edition of Hamsun's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Norwegian of Knut Hamsun by Arthur G. Chater. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 123741
-
"The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can’t fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly": First Edition of Caroline Kepnes' You
KEPNES, Caroline.
You: A Novel.
New York: Atria/Emily Bestseller Books, 2014.
First edition of the first book in the best-selling 'You' series, which spawned the popular Netflix show by the same name starring Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Natalie C. Sousa. Author photograph by Katheen Szmit.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146059
-
Signed Limited Edition of Robert James Waller's A Thousand Country Roads
WALLER, Robert James.
A Thousand Country Roads.
Alpine & Houston: John M. Hardy Publishing, 2002.
Signed limited edition of the sequel to The Bridges of Madison County. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Robert James Waller. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 136512
-
First Edition of Thomas De Quincey's On Style and Conversation
QUINCEY, Thomas De.
On Style and Conversation: A Series of Essays
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1862.
First edition of this collection of selected works in their original form. Octavo, original publisher's cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, elaborate blind stamping to the front and rear panels, forest green endpapers. In very good condition with some rubbing to the spine.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 145230
-
First Edition of Alvin Hansen's Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles
HANSEN, Alvin H.
Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1941.
First edition of this work by the "American Keynes." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket with chipping and wear. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 2272
-
"The night surrounds me in a dark, grey fog. I feel its chill even under my futon": First Wesleyan University Press edition of Garrett Kaoru Hongo's Yellow Light; Inscribed by him to fellow poet Annie Dilllard
HONGO, Garrett Kaoru.
Yellow Light.
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1982.
First Wesleyan University Press edition of Japanese American poet Garrett Hongo's first collection of poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed to fellow American poet Annie Dillard on the half-title page, "for Annie Dillard, my admiration from Garrett 29 May '84." From the library of Annie Dillard with her bookplate below the inscription. Cover illustration by Wakako Yamauchi.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 88098
-
First edition of St. John Lucas' The Oxford Book of French Verse
LUCAS, St. John.
The Oxford Book of French Verse.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
First edition of Lucas' compilation of the verse from the greatest French poets of the 13th and 14th centuries. Octavo, bound in half vellum for Christ's Hospital boarding school with their armorial crest to the front panel, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, gilt topstain. Introduction in English, text in French. From the library of British economist David Graham Hutton with his ownership signature and presentation bookplate. In very good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 114537
-
First Edition of Burger’s Daughter; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Author Nadine Gordimer
GORDIMER, Nadine.
Burger’s Daughter.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.
First edition of this powerful novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities, name.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 3983
