The Sleepwalkers
by Broch, Hermann
Boston | London: Little, Brown & Co. | Secker, 1932. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. U.S. sheets in the U.K. Secker binding. Signed by Broch on the title page. Good, lacking the dust jacket. Purple cloth, faded at the spine, bumped and rubbed at the edges and corners, some soiling on the boards. Square, front hinge a bit weak but firmly bound otherwise, soiled at the endpapers and with the former owner's name on the front, some pencil... Read More
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Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
by Brodkey, Harold
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), rubbed and bumped at the top edge, one small chip at the back panel. Quarter black cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A representative collection of Brodkey's stories presented in the order in which they were written.
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Jane Eyre
by Bronte, Charlotte
New York: Race Point Publishing, 2015. Hardcover. Fine. Later Printing. Near Fine. Pictorial cloth on the boards, bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Johnny Crow's Garden
by Brooke, L. Leslie
London: Frederick Warne and Company Ltd. Hardcover. Fair. Black-and-white and color illustrations by Brooke. Fair. Quarter grey cloth with red paper on the boards, heavily rubbed and soiled. Square, bound with some reading wear, former owner's name on the endpapers, some tape repairs throughout.
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Johnny Crow's Party
by Brooke, L. Leslie
London: Frederick Warne and Company Ltd. Hardcover. Good. Black-and-white and color illustrations by Brooke. Good. Quarter cream cloth with green paper on the boards, rubbed and soiled. Square, bound with some reading wear, former owner's name and bookplate on the endpapers, some tape repairs throughout and with one of the colored plates laid-in.
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1914 and Other Poems
by Brooke, Rupert
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915. First Edition. Leather Bound. Good. Good in the fine binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, rubbed at the edges and hinges, about three-quarters inch of a split starting at the bottom front hinge. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, marbled endpapers, and a sewn-in bookmark. Brooke's most important collection of poetry, which features his much-anthologized "The Soldier." According to the prefatory note by Edward Marsh, Brooke planned on publishing a collection... Read More
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1914 and Other Poems
by Brooke, Rupert
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Limited to 87 copies published in anticipation of the American publication rights. Good, housed in a quarter-leather slipcase. Brown leather, rubbed at the spine, especially the front joint. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, marbled endpapers, clean internally. Brooke's most important collection of poetry, which features his much-anthologized "The Soldier.
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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 from Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, William Ellery Leonard, Hart Crane, Archibald MacLeish, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Malcolm Cowley, among... Read More
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Three Gothic Novels: Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly
by Brown, Charles Brockden
New York: Library of America, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. #103. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($35.00), faintly bumped. Red cloth. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, a sewn-in bookmark, clean internally.
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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 wear, toned pages. The fourth Paul Pine mystery, a classic in the genre.
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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 armies that soaked battelfields with blood of slain warriors numbering in the tens of thousands.
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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 of his cuts tipped-in on the verso of the half-title, clean otherwise. A collection of forty-one fables that, according to... Read More
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The Hoods Ride In
by Brown, Wenzell
New York: Pyramid Books, 1959. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. G439. Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, some scuffs at the corners. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. A pulp crime novel that kicks off with the murder of a Mafia man.
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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 half-title page, clean otherwise.
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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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Heritage of the Flaming God; An Essay on the History of Opar and Its Relationship to Other Ancient Cultures
by Brueckel, Frank J.; Harwood, John
Spokane: Waziri Publications, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Edited by Alan Hanson and Michael Winger. Cover illustration by Thomas Yeates. Inside cover page illustration by Dave Hoover. Limited to 500 copies. Fine. Clean glossy wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A lengthy discussion about the history of Burroughs's mythical land and its connections to ancient civilizations. From the collection of Joan Bledig.
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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 on the front endpaper, a few instances of marginalia. Brunstein's work that argues for the existence of a fifth dimension... 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.
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