Bok: A Tribute to Hannes Bok (1914-1964)
by de la Ree, Gerry
Saddle River: Gerry de la Ree, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. With contributions from Robert A. Lowndes, Calvin T. Beck, Ben Indick, Jack Cordes, and Divers Hands. Limited to 75 specially bound copies, signed by de la Ree on the front endpaper. Near Fine. Black cloth, lightly rubbed and bumped, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. A heavily illustrated collection of essays and remembrances about the... Read More
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Great Jones Street
by DeLillo, Don
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by DeLillo on the half-title. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), faded a shade at the spine, lightly bumped at the bottom edge. Quarter black buckram with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. DeLillo's third novel, the story of Bucky Wunderlick's winter in New York.
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Vietnam Revisited; Covert Action to Invasion to Reconstruction
by Dellinger, David
Boston: South End Press, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps generally toned, lightly bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, some marginalia throughout. A history of Vietnam and its relationship with the West from the member of the Chicago Seven.
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Loose Ladies
by Delmar, Vina
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Delmar on the half-title page. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, worn at the surface and edges. Green buckram, bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of love stories about American city girls, guilty men, and rovers.
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Palo Mayombe: The Garden of Blood and Bones; A Grammary of the Creole Sorcery of Palo Mayombe
by de Mattos Frisvold, Nicholaj
[n.p.]: Scarlet Imprint, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 63 copies, lacking the bilongo. Introduction by Tata Remolino. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, some spots of soiling to the cloth. Quarter morocco with marbled paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with red edges, a sewn-in bookmark, clean internally. From the publisher's website, this work is "an initiate's account of this much maligned cult whose central nigromantic mystery is the prenda, the cauldron containing the... Read More
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First Hit of the Season
by Dentinger, Jane
London: Victor Gollancz, 1986. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price). Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The second Jocelyn O'Rouke novel.
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The Lure of the Edge; Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs
by Denzler, Brenda
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the title page by Denzler to Tom Benson. With the publisher's newsletter and postcard. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faintly bumped at the top edge. Quarter blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Denzler's work that provides an overview of the UFO and alien abduction movement as a social phenomenon, the first work of its kinds.... Read More
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The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future
by d'Eramo, Marco
New York: Verso, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Translated by Graeme Thomson. Foreword by Mike Davis. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($30.00). Quarter beige cloth with orange paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, lightly soiled at the fore-edge, clean internally.
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Frontier and Midland Autumn 1935
by Derleth, August
Missoula: Frontier and Midland, 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Volume XVI, No. I. Good. Wraps toned at the spine, generally rubbed and with a few creases. Square and firmly bound with the front wrap a bit over extended. This issue features the first appearance of August Derleth's poem "Dusk Over Wisconsin.
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Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
by Derleth, August
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.00), toned at the back panel. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of macabre, weird, and supernatural poems from 89 different poets, including Robert Bloch, Lin Carter, Joseph Payne Brennan, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and others.
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A Wisconsin Harvest
by Derleth, August
Sauk City: Stanton & Lee: Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.00), faded at the spine, rubbed at the edges. Red buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the front endpaper, one pen "x" on the Contents page, clean otherwise. One of three thousand copies of this anthology of writings from members of the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association.
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The House on the Mound
by Derleth, August
Verona: E.V.A., 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, clipped, a tidemark on the front panel, some soiling and bumping. Black cloth with green ink and gilt lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound, soiled at the top edge, clean internally. Derleth's historical fiction about life during the first decade in Wisconsin statehood.
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Without Violence
by Desmond, Robert
City of Industry: Collectors Publication, 1968. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. CP 21184. Very Good. Wraps lightly toned and rubbed, a few shallow creases. Square and firmly bond with toned pages, clean internally.
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Earth Lights; Towards an Understanding of the UFO Engima
by Devereux, Paul; McCartney, Paul
Wellingborough: Turnstone Press Limited, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Inscribed by Devereux on the title page. Very Good in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. Devereux's explanation of UFOs that hinges on "the association of megalithic and other ancient holy sites with UFO phenomena.
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The Practice of Typography Correct Composition
by De Vinne, Theodore Low
New York: The Century Co, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. With an ALS signed by De Vinne laid in. Near Fine, lacking the jacket. Brown buckram, lightly rubbed, with a red pastedown label on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, clean internally. The second volume in De Vinne's Practice of Typography, an influential guide that gave some consistency to American typesetting.
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The School and Society
by Dewey, John
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine. Introduction by Joyce Antler. Fine. Grey leather with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, a sewn-in bookmark, with the original receipt and unused bookplate laid-in. Published as part of the Books That Changed the World series.
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The Golden Tramps
by Dexter, John
San Diego: Corinth Publications, 1965. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Evening Reader ER 787. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed, two small chips at the head and foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A sleaze novel about a director filming his next "'nudie' epic" with Gloria, Abathy, and Johnny.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Diaz, Junot
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in an about Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($24.95), bumped and soiled. White paper on the boards, bumped and rubbed, with red ink lettering. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Diaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Oscar, "a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Drown
by Diaz, Junot
New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Advance Reader's Edition. Signed by Diaz on the half-title page. NEAR Fine. White wraps, a crease at the foot of the spine, bumped at the top-right corner of the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The debut collection of stories, which remains in print today, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO. These stories lay much of the thematic groundwork... Read More
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The Battle of Life; A Love Story
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Fourth State. Good. Unsigned half-leather binding, rubbed at the edges and surface, a small chip at the head of the spine. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, inscription on the second front free endpaper, lacking the publisher's ad. One of the five Christmas books published by Dickens.
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![[Salesman Sample] Little One's Book of ABC's, Beautiful Stories About Children, Cities and Peoples of the Old and New World, Heroes of the Nation](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/488/631/1181631488.0.l.jpg)
[Salesman Sample] Little One's Book of ABC's, Beautiful Stories About Children, Cities and Peoples of the Old and New World, Heroes of the Nation
by Dickens, Charles; Birdsall, William
Philadelphia: International Publishing Co, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. A bound collection of four salesman samples of books from the International Publishing Co. About Very Good. Each sample includes the cover design, with the last three also including a spine sample, a prospectus printed on pink paper, and excerpts from the text. Eight leaves of ruled paper serving as order forms are tipped into the back, only seven of which have been filled out for order of the ABC... Read More
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Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Stories [3 Volumes]
by Dickens, Charles
New York: Standard Book Company, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. Two novels in three volumes. About Very Good. Red cloth, faded at the spines, some bumps and bits of fraying at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, some soiling at the edges, clean internally.
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Pickwick Papers
by Dickens, Charles
New York: Modern Library, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (95 cents), generally toned, tears at the flap folds, short chips at the edges, larger chips to the head and foot of the spine. Green cloth, unevenly faded, gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, small chip to the top-right corner of the front endpaper, clean otherwise.
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My Early Times
by Dickens, Charles
London: Folio Society, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Compiled and Edited by Peter Rowland. About Fine in a Fine slipcase with the obi. Quarter red cloth with patterned paper on the boards. Square, front hinge a bit loose but firmly bound otherwise, red top stain, clean internally.
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