Proofs, Galleys & Advance Review Copies

NY: Knopf, 1999. First Edition. BOUND GALLEY. First issue - December 1999 on title page. Published NY: Knopf, 1999. 8 1/2" x 11" sheets, bound in cream wrappers, bound with black tape. 252 pages. Mild soiling to covers, slight bump to top corner first couple of sheets, else very good plus.. 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to. Galley/Proof.

New York: Random House, 1998. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1st. edition 1998 , Advance Uncorrected Proof , Softcover in illustrated wraps , 284 page book . A true first edition printed in a short run before the trade hardcover is published for the general public . Condition : Fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st. edition 1st. printing 2000 , Red stiff paper wraps Advance Uncorrected Proofs , 270 page book . A very scarce uncorrected proof by Vanhecke on this legenary rock & roller. Condition : Very Good , with light bend at the front corner cover , light 1/4" spine rip ( see image ) . Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Viking, 1975. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Gold printed wrappers. Fine. Pulitzer Prize Winner.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/No Dust jacket. First Edition, accompanied by original typed manuscript with graphs and drawings. BOOK: "First Edition" stated on title page. Clean dark green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with previous owner name and address in light pencil on front free endpaper. 606 pages with index. Manuscript is gathered in black notebook, dated August 1947 on title page. 180 pages on 8-1/2" x 11" typewritten sheets with drawings and graphs. All pages clean..

Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association / H.J. Smith & Co., 1889. First edition. Leather and cloth Salesman's Sample. Published Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association / H.J. Smith & Co., 1889. 8vo., approximately 100pp., contains sample chapters, b/w and full color illustrations, 3 backstrip and 3 binding style samples - 2 leather, 1 cloth, subscription ledger, 8 page brochure "How To Sell Our Glimpses of Fifty Years" laid in. Leather backstrip chipped, missing center portion, edges rubbed, else very good, with text block and samples near fine. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo. Salesman's Dummy.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Paperback. Very Good -. 338 leaves; 28 cm. Orange wrapper with publisher's HBJ emblem repeated across it. White label on front wrapper identifying it as an Advance Uncorrected Proof of The Sunday Woman with a probable date of publication of Sept. 29, 1973. Stamped at the head of the title page: "Apr 12 1973." With a letter to Anne Winsey signed by Bill Jerram, sales representative, asking her to read it and give him her opinion regarding its "literary and sales merits," and a copy of the text intended for the jacket by editor Helen Wolff. This story of murder and intrigue in the city of Turin, originally published in Italy as La Donna della Domenica, received Italy's Book-of-the-Year prize. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; head of front joint just starting; lower corner of front wrapper creased, and with minor loss; spine and parts of front wrapper are sunned; clean and tight.

Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More

A fine first edition paperback copy, no spine creases or remainder marks. This is an Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first editio of the authours first book. A lovely copy for a serious collector of the author

New York: Random House, 1993. Signed by the author on the half-title page. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Blue and white patterned wrappers. Very fine.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. Proof copy. Paperback, light blue wraps. Very slight wear on corners, otherwise in near fine condition. Laid in is a folded proof of the publisher's dust jacket, with black ink stamp in verso. Kathy Acker's thirteenth novel, My Mother: Demonology is an exploration of love, desire and power, that takes the character back to her childhood's memories and experiences. This experimental and boundary pushing novel, composed of fragments and references to cult and canonical works of literature and film, is a fantastic example of Kathy Acker's impulse to turn literary and aesthetic precepts inside out. An acclaimed novel by a countercultural icon.

Kingswood, Surrey: William Heinemann Ltd. - The Windmill Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1927. Press Proof; First Printing. Hardcover. The first copy has a 3" split, without loss, along the front of the spine at head and a tiny spot to a page with offsetting to the adjacent page. The second copy has a 1/2" closed tear, without loss, to the leather at the spine head, a 5/15" split, without loss, to leather at the spine tail and a pinpoint spot to a page. Common to both copies: Boards are splayed, common to most copies of this book. Overall wear and scuffing to all surfaces and extremities. Spines have wear and some sun-lightening Faint toning at the edges of all pages. Verso of free endpapers has offsetting from some production process. Lack the ephemeral, plain dustwrappers.; TWO of only 12 copies of the press proof of the first pages composed and printed at The Windmill Press, Kingsmill, Surrey, on December 8th, 1927. The proof pages are the facing pages 2 and 3 from… Read More

New York: Scribner, 1997. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: To Mark Best ever. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected Proof - Special Advance Reader's Copy. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Winner of the William Dean Howells Award for the best work of fiction published in the U.S. over a five-year period. Winner of the 1999 Jerusalem Prize. Selected as number 2 in the list of 25 best books of the last 25 years by the editors of the New York Times Book Review in 2006.

"This edition is limited to 350 numbered copies- this copy unnumbered" Mandrake Press, Oxon, 1991, 8vo., unpaginated. [48] Introduction by Keith Richmond; edited by Anthony Naylor. Bound into attractive paper black boards (portfolio)with green endpapers; gilt title stamped on spine.. Ex-libris -English bibliophile & Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas C. Bishop-Culpeper with his book label neatly affixed to front pastedown.Inv. # 62518 bds 2023

London and New York, Hogarth, 2012. Limited edition promotional kit, number 985 of 1500, issued to mark the 2012 re-launch of the Hogarth imprint first created by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in their dining room at Hogarth House in 1917. Included are four specially-bound advance reading copies: The Dead Do Not Improve by Jay Caspian King, I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits, The Kissing List by Stephanie Reents, and Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya's The Watch, each in Hogarth Launch promotional wrappers. Also included are two color-printed cards: title card hand-numbered 985 of 1500, and mission statement card. As an added bonus we are pleased to include the original promotional back cloth tote bag measuring 13" x 11" x 5.5" that was included in the launch package featuring sturdy cloth handles and a 7" x 9" Hogarth logo in bright, bold orange. All items are in new condition, books and cards still packaged in publisher's original shrink wrap, top edges lightly tanned, tote bag unused. Shipping weight will… Read More