First Edition. An early 20th century ghost story based on the author's successful play, which had 231 performances in the 1000-seat Belasco theater in 1911–1912. This novelization was published a few months after the play ends. It is illustrated with three color plates by John Rae, one of a rather.....

First Edition. The limited edition, featuring an original watercolor, of this travelog of a trip to Ecuador made on commission from magazines. Illustrated with four double-page color plates by the author (who is probably best known for his Madeline series of picture books). There were 175 signed copies of.....

First Edition. This is one of an unspecified number of lettered copies of this book, signed by Bemelmans, and housed in an illustrated slipcase. There were 400 numbered copies and 100 copies for private distribution denoted by Roman numerals. The limited edition also includes five full-color plates (including the list.....

Later printing. Fifty-eight cocktails and ninety-two recipes for hors d'oeuvres, named and identified by number. The cocktails are mostly based on European spirits—gin, cognac, whisky—but in unusual combinations. The champagne cocktail (no. 101) combines champagne, 8 drops of nocino (licor de nueces verdes), Cointreau, lemon peel, a pinch of nutmeg.....

First Edition. One of Crumb's smallest book limitations, one of thirty copies numbered using Roman numerals, a limitation not recorded on the colophon or in any reference I could locate. Presumably these thirty copies were set aside for the author and perhaps the publisher. Instead of using Arabic numerals on.....

First Edition. The numbered edition (100 copies) of Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy, complete in three volumes, with more than 100 signed lithographs bound in, as issued. The artist translated the text with Marcus Sanders and illustrated it after Gustave Doré's well-known 19th century take on Dante's epic literary masterpiece, divided.....

First Edition. A novel about a family of circus geeks by a late, beloved Portland writer. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The bright orange spine of this book always fades. This copy was kept in a storage locker since the early 1990s and.....

First Edition. A very scarce wartime history of the Japanese in California that argues that the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans was a symptom of the same pervasive anti-Japanese attitudes among Americans that had contributed to the Second World War. The author, according to Yuji Ichioka writing in Before.....