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First Edition of Famous World War I play with scarce original dust jacket, completely intact!
Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Brentano's 1929. Fine- in Near Fine++ Dust Jacket. $2.00 cover price present, no indication of later printings on copyright page indicating a first printing. Possibly the best copy available with an outstanding original dust jacket. Book itself is clean, boards clean, pages nice, slight shelf-wear and aging, to be expected. Dust Jacket is complete, NO Major tears and NO major chips, just slight fraying to top and bottom of the spine, and slight nicking to corners, and a tiny circular rubbing to the front bottom edge, else just about as nice as you could ask for! (Most buyers in the 1920's and 1930's threw away the dust jacket off of books, making most dust jackets produced prior to World War II very scarce.) Simultaneously released in the UK by Gollancz the same year.
NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.… Read More

The Wheels of If by L. Sprague de Camp Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Shasta Press 1949. Classic SF/Fantasy. $3.00 cover price intact, wrap-around Hannes Bok dust jacket art.
Just about Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Book is near perfect, straight corners, clean pages, binding solid, tiniest hint of age-toning to the text block, very minimal. Dust jacket is essentially just about all there, its main shortcoming some fraying to the bottom edge at the spine, some edge-wear at the top of the spine, and a little bit of toning to the spine. Overall still a nice copy of an uncommon book especially with the Bok dust jacket art. The fraying to the bottom spine reduces the price by $100+. Would be priced closer to $300 if the dust jacket were near-perfect.NOTE: All books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.
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Who Goes There? Seven Tales of Science Fiction by John W. Campbell Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Shasta Press 1948. $3.00 cover price intact. Cover art by Hannes Bok including the back which is unusual for genre fiction prior to circa 1960, regarded as one of Bok's best efforts.
Fine in Fine- Dust Jacket. A fine book with only the typical age-toning and a bookseller sticker on the back board which was common with books being sold prior to circa 1960. Clothed in one of the best original jackets I've seen for this book. NO tears and NO chips. Very tiny nicks to the corners, with just a hint of edge-wear here and there, else a spectacular copy of one of the classics of science fiction.
"Who Goes There?", the title story of this collection, was originally published in 1938 in Astounding Science Fiction under the pen name Don A. Stuart. The title story is its first appearance in hardcover.
The title story is also the basis for several feature films. The first entitled "The Thing From Another… Read More

The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Phantasia Press 1987. SIGNED on the title page. Fine in Fine Dustjacket. As NEW and UNREAD.
From the 1970's to the early 1990's, Phantasia Press published some of the best science fiction works in hardcover treatment, a few which have become classics of the genre, such as Neuromancer by William Gibson, Startide Rising by David Brin, and even some signed limited's like Firestarter by Stephen King, the Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov, 2010 by Arthur C. Clark, and some works by Roger Zelazny and Orson Scott Card.
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Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar (preceded by Gwendy's Button Box and Gwendy's Magic Feather) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 2022. SIGNED by Chizmar. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket as NEW. $6.00 media mail shipping, $9.50 priority mail padded mailer. NOTE: All pictures are of the book for sale, not stock photos. All sales generally final.

A Round of Days. Described in original poems by some of our most celebrated poets, and in pictures by eminent artists, engraved by the brothers Dalziel. London: George Rutledge and Sons 1866. Poems by Poems by 19th-century poets including Christina G. Rossetti, William and Mary Howiit, William Allingham, Robert Buchanan, Dr. Dulcken, Amelia B. Edwards, George MacDonald, and many others. Includes 68 engravings: 21 wood-engraved plates and 47 wood-engraved vignettes after A.W. Bayes, Warwick Brookes, W.P. Burton, E. Dalziel, T. Dalziel, Paul Gray, A.B. Houghton, T. Morten, J.W. North, G.J. Pinwell, F. Walker and J.D. Watson. Large Quarto Bound in full contemporary burgundy morocco elaborately decorated in gilt on spine and boards, with inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. 93 pages plus 2 pages of ads. Near Fine in Near Fine Binding. Beautiful copy, very solid binding, bound in thick pages. Slight rubbing to the edges of the boards, very minor age spots here and there, but nothing pervasive. An… Read More

The History of the Rebellion and the Civil War in England,
Begun in the Year 1641 by Edward (Hyde) the Earl of Clarendon. Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1731-1732. Three Volumes/Parts in 12 Books in Six separate bound volumes. First Octavo Illustrated Edition (first edition was un-illustrated and printed in 1702-04)
Profusely Illustrated: Contains three maps (two of Great Britain, south and north, and one of Ireland), one battle map of the Battle of Fairfax (foldout), three other scenes as fold out plate engravings, and 90 portraits, 84 different portraits with 6 of the Earl of Clarendon (5 as frontispieces; what should have been the frontispiece portrait of Clarendon in Volume I was bound in the middle of the volume towards the end). Also an extra cropped portrait of Charles I (18th century) in volume I probably inserted later on 19th-century/early 20th century paper, possibly when the set was rebound in marble. Includes portraits of Oliver Cromwell, another of King Charles I, Francis… Read More

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (the front cover has the title "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court") by Mark Twain pen name of Samuel Clemens Hardcover First Edition - First Printing - Second State New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889. Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard (although appears to be uncredited) NOTE: Webster published "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" four years earlier.
Issue Points: Dark green pictorial cloth boards, original copyright 1889 stated on both the title page and the copyright page, Samuel Clemens named as the copyright holder, measures about 8.5" x 7", more or less a quarto. [16 prelims] 575 numbered pages, Speckled end-papers, frontispiece flanking the title page, but no half-title to the recto of the frontis, lacks "S" ornament on page 59 (first state copies have an "S" between "The" and "King" underneath the illustration), and two unnumbered pages (i.e. one leaf) of ads at the back. Particularly the lack of "S" on p. 59 and the lack of a half-title indicate… Read More

The Publishing Phenomenon of 2010! Mark Twain's Autobiography, 100 years in the making. Mark Twain is the author of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, etc.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain The Complete and Authoritative Edition Volume 1 edited by Harriet Elinor Smith (volumes 2 and 3 are not yet published) Hardcover First Edition - First Prinitng University of California Press 2010 (part of the Mark Twain Project). Huge tome at 736 pages. Fine in Fine Dustjacket. A beautiful copy with just a hint of tenderness to the back upper corner.
This book is already in double-digit printings. I expect as the series continues, the price for a first printing will continue to rise.
Twain first started to compose an autobiography in 1870, but proceeded fitfully, abandoning the work and returning to it as the mood took him. In a 1904 letter to William Dean Howells, he wrote: "I've struck it! And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost… Read More

Book about vigilantes and mob justice just after the California Gold Rush in 1849 during the 1850's. According to the blurb, James King is an overlooked character of American history, as the instigator of one of the more notorious vigilante groups in the west.
Villains and Vigilantes The Story of James King of William and Pioneer Justice in California by Stanton A. Coblentz Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Wilson-Erikson 1936. Cover price still intact: $3.00. Illustrated with 8 illustrations/pictures, including the frontispiece. Most of the illustrations depict the so-called Vigilance Committee enacting their raison d'etre.
Near Fine+ in Near Fine Dust Jacket, very clean, pages clean, just a slight creasing to the upper right-hand corners of the pages, not really serious, and a bump to upper right-hand front board. Dust jacket is complete with an amateur repair to the back near the spine, and typical nicks to corners, but all there essentially. Not often found in a jacket of this condition.… Read More

Artemis Fowl (the first book of the series) by Eoin Colfer (author of other Artemis Fowl books: Arctic Incident, The Eternity Code, The Opal Deception) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Viking UK 2001 SIGNED - flat-signed by Eoin Colfer on titlepage. Fine- in Fine- dustjacket with colored holographic design which shines with the light. Book is solid with a hint of tanning to the page ends (which is typical) and a bit of shelf wear. The dustjacket has a slight scratch to the top else fine. A good solid copy of apprently a relatively hard to come by first printing, especially signed. Dealers are already asking $500+ for this in a signed state.
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Artemis Fowl (the first book of the series) by Eoin Colfer (author of other Artemis Fowl books: Arctic Incident, The Eternity Code, The Opal Deception) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Viking UK 2001 SIGNED - flat-signed by Eoin Colfer on titlepage. Fine- in Fine- dustjacket with colored holographic design which shines with the light. Book is solid with a hint of tanning to the page ends (which is typical) and a bit of shelf wear. The dustjacket has a slight scratch to the top else fine. A good solid copy of apprently a relatively hard to come by first printing, especially signed. Dealers are already asking $500+ for this in a signed state.

Thomas Wolfe Collection of Three Items. Please read all of the following carefully before purchase or asking questions:First Edition of Of Time and the River with rare original dust jacket, almost completely intactFirst Edition of From Death to Morning with facsimile dust jacketFacsimile first edition copy of Look Homeward, Angel.Of Time and the River A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth by Thomas Wolfe (author of Look Homeward, Angel) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing
Charles Scribner's Sons 1935. Near Fine in Near Fine++ (almost Fine-)
Dust Jacket. Price-clipped with $3.50 stamped on the front flap cover
price, probably enacted by the publisher. Includes inscriptions on front
flyleaf and half-title page. Book itself is clean, boards clean, pages
nice, slight shelf-wear and aging, to be expected, tiny bump to the
right-hand side edge. Dust Jacket is near complete (save for the
price-clip), NO Major tears and NO major chips, and almost NO rubbing to
the edges and slight nicking to… Read More