More than three dozen new arrivals, including modern first editions, art books, antiquarian items, and uncommon, unusual, and even unique items.
First Edition. The Australian first edition of the seventh and final volume in the Masters of Rome Series. 631 pages. First Australian edition (with a numberline ending in 1; and likely the correct first edition, as McCullough is Australian). Light wear to the bottom edge of the boards; a bit.....
Price: $125
First Edition. A children's biography of Osceola and the Seminole War in Florida. 180 pages. No. 50 in the Landmark Books series. First edition (no statement of later printing; this book is the last on the Landmark list at the back of the book and on the rear panel of.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A monograph of geometrical works, most printed in two colors, as well as text-based abstractions, based on the poems of Sappho. Levi-Montalcini (1909–2000) was a noted Italian artist who began exhibiting her work in the 1930s; in the 1950s, she explored Concretism, to which the works in this.....
Price: $250
First Edition. Narayan was the first professional novelists in India (and he was one of the only writers to stay in India), and this is one of his better novels, a comic and moving tale about a hapless lad who falls for a follower of Gandhi. First edition (states "first.....
Price: $95
First Edition. Book 57 in the Beginner Books series. This volume is illustrated by the cartoonist Rowland B. Wilson. First edition (first printing?). Your cataloguer is uncertain of the points required for a first edition of this book and has not located a reliable source of information. It appears to.....
Price: $125
A short letter referring to a proposed but never published collection of young writers that McMurtry worked on in the early 1960s. The letter reads, "Dear Mr. McMurtry: Your collection sounds interesting; when the book is underway, I suggest you contact my agent...who will discuss with you whatever arrangements are.....
Price: $500
First Edition. 304 pages. First edition (with the same date on the title page and the copyright page). A very good copy in a dust jacket with chipping to the edges, some creasing, and a crack across the spine. The jacket art is by N. C. Wyeth.
Price: $125
First Edition. An early 20th century female professional in the biological sciences provides detailed descriptions of the invertebrate specimens of the Boston natural history museum. The author (1852–1938) worked under the zoologist Alpheus Hyatt for many years and was later the curator of the Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, Massachusetts.....
Price: $125
First Edition. A separate printing of a short story by Susan Sontag set at the beginning of the AIDS crisis. This edition is illustrated with full-color reproductions of handcolored engravings by Howard Hodgkin. 30 pages. First UK trade edition. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). This copy is inscribed to.....
Price: $150
First edition. An historical novel narrated in part by Aaron Burr, best-known today as the vice president who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. One of Vidal's most consistently popular novels. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 2, as was the publisher's practice for identifying first printings). A......
Price: $300
First Edition. Walker's second novel. "Set mostly in the deep South and New York, it is the story of one woman's pilgrimage to free herself from the guilt of the past and the development of her commitment to the poor and the black"—dust jacket. First edition (stated, with "B C......
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![Item No: #363061 Thanksgiving: Five Prints from the New Yorker [Trade Edition]....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363061.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691692301)
First Edition. A portfolio of four covers from Thanksgiving issues of The New Yorker plus a reproduction of an online-only comic published as ACME Novelty Library no. 18-1/2. The New Yorker cover prints measure 15 by 20 inches, printed in full color on heavy, quality paper. The online comic print.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A novel set in the cockfighting world in Florida which was the basis for the 1974 Monte Hellman film, with the screenplay written by Willeford, and starring Harry Dean Stanton. CPH B-120; 60-cent cover price. A paperback original. 286 pages. First edition (first printing). A very nice copy.....
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![Item No: #53291 The Way We Die Now [Signed, Numbered]. Charles Willeford](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/53291.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691704923)
First Edition. A Hoke Moseley novel, bound with sheets from the Random House edition. This is one of 99 numbered copies bound by Denis Gouey in half marbled paper with a black leather spine stamped in gilt. There are at least two variants to the binding, copies with brown, yellow.....
Price: $100
![Item No: #363023 The Way We Die Now [Signed, Numbered]. Charles Willeford](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363023.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691692297)
First Edition. A Hoke Moseley novel, bound with sheets from the Random House edition. This is one of 99 numbered copies bound by Denis Gouey in half marbled paper with a black leather spine stamped in gilt. There are at least two variants to the binding, copies with brown, yellow.....
Price: $100
First Edition. "Lash by bloody lash, the she-devil from Dallas would get her revenge." Gold Medal s1087. Thirty-five cent cover price. Credited to Sanders but ghostwritten or rewritten by Charles Willeford. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy.
Price: $100
A 225-word letter from the underground cartoonist to an antiquarian bookseller who often sold his work. In this letter, Wilson offers to sell Peter Howard several original illustrations (not present) for the upcoming book Tornado Alley by William S. Burroughs. The letter measures roughly 7 by 9 inches, and it.....
Price: $150
A reference guide to American cotton fabric, with 230 samples pasted in. The purpose of the book was to provide Japanese cloth manufacturers with a reference book of Western fabric styles, names, and specifications to help Japanese factories sell to the American market. The book is printed left-to-right in the.....
Price: $350
