THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA : PHANTOM PALACE
by Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
New York: Atheneum, 1990. First printing. Near fine.. Doubly-inscribed chapbook of the short story "Phantom Palace," excerpted from the then-forthcoming first US edition of Allende's STORIES OF EVA LUNA. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original cream printed wrappers. Unpaginated. Signed by Allende on title page, with a drawing of a flower, and inscribed by translator Peden below and dated March 1994. Minor edgewear. Crisp.
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THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA
by Allende, Isabel
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First UK edition of this short story collection by the renowned Chilean-American author, inscribed by translator Margaret Sayers Peden. 8.5'' x 5''. Original black cloth, silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped (£13.99) color pictorial jacket. [8], 228 pages. Jacket with light edgewear. Boards with minor bumping to top corners, interior crisp and clean.
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OF LOVE AND SHADOWS
by Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. Very good plus.. Uncorrected proofs for the first UK edition of Allende's 1984 novel, set in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship, later adapted into a film starring Antonio Banderas and Jennifer Connelly. 8'' x 5.5''. Original rust brown printed wrappers. 247, [1] pages. Minor edgewear and a few scuff marks to wrappers, light toning to spine. Pages numbered by hand in black ink.
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QUESTIONS ON SELECT PORTIONS OF THE FOUR EVANGELISTS
by Allen, Joseph
Boston: Benjamin H. Greene, 1836. Sixth edition. Very good.. Popular antebellum book of catechisms for children, written for the use of Sunday Schools. According to his introduction, Joseph Allen based his QUESTIONS on Harvey Fisk's UNION QUESTIONS, and supplemented it with various other materials in order to create a handy resource for Sunday Schools. A "Part 2" of QUESTIONS was published separately in the same year; OCLC records both parts individually. A scarce work institutionally and on the... Read More
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GIVE MY SECRETS BACK
by Allen, Kate
(Norwich, VT): New Victoria Publishers, Inc, 1995. First printing. Very good.. Signed first edition of this entry in the "Lesbian cop" Alison Kaine series, in which Kaine investigates the murder of a popular lesbian author. Issued from New Victoria, which first began as a print shop in Lebanon, NH, in 1975. According to UMass Amherst, "the shop functioned as a de facto women's center and lesbian hub for Lebanon and the surrounding area, often overlapping with the lesbian... Read More
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STUDIO 54: The Magazine
by Allen, Peter
(New York): (Nightlife Enterprises), 1982. Very good plus.. First printing of the premier issue ("Collectors Edition") of this official magazine for the newly re-opened legendary night club, with photos of many famous faces of the day. Rick James! Farrah Fawcett! Tony Danza! Melvin Van Peebles! This first and last issue of STUDIO 54 Magazine "hosted" by Australian singer Peter Allen contains interviews with Zandra Rhodes (Fashion), Shelly Burch (Stage) and Frankie Crocker (Media) - but most importantly, it... Read More
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WHERE CHILDREN LIVE
by Allen, Thomas B.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1980. First printing. Near fine.. Scarce signed first edition of this visual tour of childhood across nations, by noted magazine illustrator and album cover artist Thomas Burt Allen. 11'' x 8.5''. Original glossy pictorial boards. Illustrated in color throughout. Unpaginated. Signed by Allen on title page. Faint toning to endpapers. Light edgewear and bumping to boards.
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EAST FROM HERE
by Allix, Susan
London: n.p., 1998. Fine.. Limited edition artist's book that reflects on the colors, textures, and history of two ancient cities, incorporating a variety of illustration methods and materials. Susan Allix reflects on her creative philosophy, "I am concerned with visual things so I see books as full of colour and form in a pictorial sense as well as through the images created in my mind by the words, and through the sculptural qualities a book possesses" (artist statement).... Read More
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WHEN PETER RABBIT WENT TO SCHOOL
by Almond, Linda; [Potter, Beatrix]
Philadelphia: Altemus, 1921. Near fine in very good jacket.. American Beatrix Potter imitation, in which Peter's mother sends him to school to keep him out of mischief. 16mo. Original cloth backed pictorial boards. Pictorial paste-on. In original, soiled dust jacket. Each page of text faces a full page color illustration by J.L.G.
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THE VIOLENT LAND
by Amado, Jorge
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First US edition of the Brazillian modernist's favorite of his own works. 7.25'' x 5''. Original orange cloth, gilt-stamped front board and spine. In original unclipped ($2.50) pictorial jacket designed by Harry Roth. Red topstain. [12], 336 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, gentle toning to spine, shallow chipping at spine head. Book with faintest toning to spine, else tight.
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SHOWDOWN
by Amado, Jorge
New York: Bantam Books, 1987. First printing. Near fine.. Uncorrected proofs for the first US edition of this novel by the Brazilian modernist, translated into English by Gregory Rabassa. 9.25'' x 5.5''. Original printed bright yellow wrappers. 422 pages. Minor edgewear.
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THE TWO DEATHS OF QUINCAS WATERYELL
by Amado, Jorge; Antonucci, Emil
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First US edition of the Brazilian modernist's "tall tale," translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby and illustrated by Emil Antonucci. 8.25'' x 5''. Original brightly colored decorative boards. In original unclipped ($3.95) black pictorial dust jacket. Jacket design and interior black and white illustrations by Antonucci. 97, [3] pages. Minor edgewear to boards and jacket, light scuffing to rear jacket panel, faint spot... Read More
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JOURNEY INTO FEAR
by Ambler, Eric
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First printing. Very good in very good jacket.. First US edition of Ambler's classic spy novel, set at the beginning of the Second World War and published just after the author's own enlistment in the British Army. Like many later thrillers that followed Ambler's template, JOURNEY INTO FEAR stars a civilian involuntarily drawn into violence and intrigue abroad, who proves himself less helpless and naive than his enemies first suppose. Set against... Read More
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SCOUTING AND OUR BOYS
by [Boy Scouts of America]
n.p.: [Boy Scouts of America], 1950. Very good plus.. Rare midcentury Boy Scouts promotional brochure advertising the benefits of scouting to an African American audience. This scarce BSA pamphlet extols the organization's effectiveness in producing of "men of Christian character," illustrating its claims with several photos of Black scout troops and scoutmasters, backed by testimonials from eminent Black civic and religious leaders: D.V. Jemison, president of the National Baptist Convention; Roy Wilkins of the NAACP; Lester B. Granger... Read More
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PROCEEDINGS: Second Series, Number Twenty-Three
by American Academy of Arts and Letters; Auden, W.H.; Barzun, Jacques
New York: American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1973. First edition. Near fine.. This volume includes the induction of new members Arthur Miller, James Dickey, W.S. Merwin, Eudora Welty, and Walker Percy, with commemorative tributes to Padraic Colum, Marianne Moore, John Berryman, and others. 9'' x 6''. Original printed orange wrappers. Academy of Arts and Letters Publication no. 284. 117, [1] pages. Minor soil and edgewear.
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FIVE HOUSES 1976-1986
by Ames, Anthony
(Princeton, NJ): Princeton Architectural Press, 1987. First edition. Near fine.. Plans, drawings, models, and photographs for five of Ames's residential projects, warmly inscribed to a fellow architect. 10'' x 10''. Original glossy wrappers. 133, [1] pages. 176 illustrations (several fold-out) including 56 color plates. One of 2000 paperbound copies from an edition of 3000. Ownership stamp to half-title page. Inscribed by Ames on title page:"February 2008 / For / Andre / Thank you for your / Interest +... Read More
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RESIDENTIAL WORK VOLUME TWO 1986-2006 / ANTHONY AMES ARCHITECT
by Ames, Anthony; Warke, Val
San Rafael / Philadelphia: ORO editions, 2007. First edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this second volume of houses designed by Ames, conceived and executed in valiant opposition to the rise of the McMansion, existing in a zone "between the abstract and the real." 10'' x 10''. Original blind-stamped grey cloth. In original white dust jacket. 203, [1] pages. 208 illustrations, including 121 color plates. Inscribed by Ames on title page: "For... Read More
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OBJECT / TYPE LANDSCAPES
by Ames, Anthony; Almy, Dean
(Knoxville): The University of Tennessee, 1996. First edition. Fine.. Inscribed copy of the catalogue to an exhibition of the architect's paintings, with a handwritten note to another architect laid in. 10'' x 10''. Original white printed wrappers. 48 pages. Illustrated with color plates, including one fold-out. Inscribed by Ames on title page. Handwritten letter on Ames's stationery laid in: "It was a pleasure talking with you the other day. I am enclosing a small catalog of an exhibition... Read More
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TIME
by Amichai, Yehuda
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First printing (stated). Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition, review copy, of the fourth volume of Amichai's poetry to be published in English, translated from Hebrew by the author. 8'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with grey boards. In original unclipped ($9.95) dust jacket. 88 pages. Publisher's review slip laid in. Toning to jacket edges and interior. Moderate edgewear.
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THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER
by Amis, Kingsley
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of the first formal literary study of Ian Fleming's enigmatic hero. Amis would later continue the James Bond series himself (as Robert Markham) after Fleming's death. 7'' x 4.75''. Original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (16s.) pictorial dust jacket designed by Jan Pienkowski, based on Richard Chopping's original art. 159, [1] pages. Light edgewear and scuffing to jacket. Light... Read More
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THE DARKWATER HALL MYSTERY
by Amis, Kingsley
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1978. First edition. Fine.. Uncommon proof copy of the limited first separate edition of this Sherlock Holmes pastiche by the author of LUCKY JIM, originally appearing in a shortened form in PLAYBOY magazine. 8'' x 5''. Original textured blank brown wrappers with title and "proof" written in pen on front cover. 35, [1] pages. Edition of 165 copies printed by hand at the Tragara Press; this copy unnumbered and noted as a proof at... Read More
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I WANT IT NOW
by Amis, Kingsley
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1969. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First US edition of this comedic novel that follows the exploits of a TV panel show host and his (mis)adventures in love. 8'' x 5''. Original red cloth boards. Original unclipped ($5.75) color pictorial dust jacket. 256 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, mild rubbing. Binding spine ends a touch bumped. Sharp.
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THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER
by Amis, Kingsley
(New York): The New American Library, 1965. First printing (stated). Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First US edition of the first formal literary study of Ian Fleming's enigmatic hero. Amis would later continue the James Bond series himself (as Robert Markham) after Fleming's death. 7.75'' x 5.5''. Original cream and orange cloth. Grey endpapers. In original unclipped ($3.95) cream pictorial dust jacket. 142, [6] pages. Light edgewear to boards, toning to spine. Moderate toning and... Read More
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![THE COMPLETE POEMS OF A.R. AMMONS: Volume I 1955-1977 [and] Volume II 1978-2005](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/137/524/1518524137.0.l.jpg)
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF A.R. AMMONS: Volume I 1955-1977 [and] Volume II 1978-2005
by Ammons, A.R.; Vendler, Helen
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. First edition (stated). Fine.. Handsome and comprehensive two-volume set of the National Book Award winner's complete poetic works. 9'' x 6''. Two volumes. Original black cloth with black boards. In original unclipped ($49.95) dust jackets. xlvii, 1102 and liii, 1031, [1] pages respectively. Small stain to pages xi-xii of Volume I. Only minor edgewear.
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SONG OF THE LOON
by Amory, Richard
San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1966. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of the classic gay pastoral romance once described as a cross between Andre Gide and Louis L'Amour. Though SONG OF THE LOON enjoys a secure status as the first gay Western, its Pacific Northwest setting is in large part a disguise worn by its heroes' true home: the Arcadia of the "highly erotic and extremely artificial sixteenth-century Spanish pastorals" the author judged to be "a perfect vehicle... Read More
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