Thirty newly catalogued books.
![Item No: #97497 [The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri] Inferno, Purgatorio;...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/97497.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757448489)
First Edition. A three-volume edition of Dante with a new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum facing the original Italian. The books are illustrated from drawings by Barry Moser (42 + 35 +19 = 96 total). Moser considered doing a fine press edition through his Pennyroyal Press but abandoned the project.....
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First Edition. A novel about a pretty woman living the party life in Los Angeles who realizes that it is time to do something with her life. There has been a Babitz revival in recent years, with new editions of her works appearing—the reissue of this novel was on NPR's.....
Price: $1,650
A two-volume set of this British thriller writer's work. Blue Octavo is a bibliomystery, or at least it's a mystery about a dead bookseller. A Beastly Business brings the KGB, Nazi scientists, and Rasputin into the plot. Fine copies in fine dust jackets. This is a matched set of copy.....
Price: $250
First Edition. A collection of short stories, many published in The Horror Show magazine, ranging in style from splatterpunk to Southern Gothic to apocalyptic zombie. Brite is now William Joseph Martin. 190 pages. First edition, trade issue (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is.....
Price: $750
First Edition. The first book in the series, a dystopian science fiction epic set on Mars. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author in silver Sharpie on the title page.
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First Edition. The trade editions, marketed as Pennyroyal Editions, after the name of Moser's fine press, which also prepared an edition of these books. Illustrated with reproductions of Moser's woodblock prints. 152, 172 pages. 13-5/8 by 8-7/8 inches. First trade editions of both volumes (stated). Alice has boards faded through.....
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![Item No: #365419 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Signed Print Issue]. Lewis...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/365419.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757448424)
First Edition. The deluxe edition, a three-quarter-sized reproduction of the fine press edition from Moser's Pennyroyal Press. This issue is bound in red cloth, stamped in metallic ink. A second matching portfolio case presents an original wood engraving of the Mad Hatter, signed by Moser. The two volumes are housed.....
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First Edition. An attractive edition of Carroll's poem, illustrated from woodcuts by Moser. This is the trade edition; there was a 350-copy signed, numbered issue from the Lewis Carroll Society and a 100-copy issue from Moser's Pennyroyal Press, which included original woodblock prints. 45 pages. Five full-page illustrations and four.....
Price: $125
First Edition. A semi-autobiographical novel of a son growing up in South Carolina in a family led by a hard-edged Marine. In the movie version, the Marine, Bull Meechum, is played by Robert Duvall. 536 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline starting with C and ending in 1;.....
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![Item No: #365414 The Black Photographers Annual Volume 2 [Wrappers Issue]. Joe...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/365414.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757448417)
First Edition. The second of four volumes seeking to define "a new Blackness, real and strong as our history, pushing consciousness toward a new place" through photography (quoted from the first volume in the series). At the time Joe Crawford started this series, African American photographers had been almost completely.....
Price: $300
First Edition. Broadside excerpt from the novel Mao II, printed as a keepsake to commemorate a book reading and signing. 7-3/8 by 12-3/4 inches. A fine copy, signed by DeLillo, although these were not issued signed and most copies are not.
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A lovely illustrated edition of Poe's poems, including the title work, Annabel Lee, The Raven, Lenore, Ulalume, Tamerlane, and others. Dulac contributed 28 tipped-in color plates and two-color headpieces at the beginning of each poem. This is one of 750 numbered copies, signed by Dulac. 10 by 12-7/16 inches. An.....
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First Thus. The trade edition of this illustrated classic from Kay Nielsen, with 22 full-page plates, 12 in color. The fairy tales include the title story, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, and nineteen others. Nielsen (1886–1957) was born in Denmark. He is best known for his work in the United States. He worked.....
Price: $850
First Edition. The first book, a thriller, by the author still best-known for his next novel, The Silence of the Lambs. The book was filmed in 1977 by the director John Frankenheimer. The plot centers around a planned terrorist attack during the Super Bowl. First edition (first printing, with no.....
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First Edition. Large folio (14 by 20-1/4 inches), bound in stainless steel with a leather spine by Booklab. This deluxe edition limited to 250 numbered copies (there were 30 author's copies) is signed by both King and Kruger on the colophon. This remarkable collaboration pairs King's contemplative short story about.....
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![Item No: #365406 Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling [Signed, Numbered]. Rudyard...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/365406.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757448380)
First Thus. An illustrated edition of Kipling's poetry, published in an edition of 125 signed and numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Robinson contributes seventeen plates, eight of which are full color tipped to mounts with gilt borders. xx, 392 pages. 7-3/4 by 10 inches. First illustrated edition. A very.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. Matthiessen's perceptive study of Chavez and the United Farm Workers union, inscribed by Chavez to Althea Alexander, a late African American physician. Dr. Alexander is credited with mentoring hundreds of black and brown students at USC's Keck School of Medicine, where she was hired in 1968 as the.....
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Second Edition. Second edition overall (the same year as the first), and the first edition of Moebius' first graphic novel published by his own publishing house. [48] pages, numbered as 24 leaves. 9-1/4 by 12-5/8 inches. Color cover; black-and-white interior pages. Surface scars on the rear cover, else very good.....
Price: $400
First Edition. The trade edition of the Pennyroyal Bible, illustrated by Barry Moser. This claims to be the only Bible published in the 20th century designed and illustrated by a single artist. [18], 994, [12] pages. 8-1/2 by 12-1/4 inches. With 232 original illustrations. First trade edition (with a numberline.....
Price: $400
![Item No: #365416 Mother Goose in War Time [cover title]. George F. Nardin,...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/365416.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757448420)
Mother Goose rhymes rewritten to encourage conservation and the purchase of War Saving Stamps to fund the United States' entry into World War One. The verse is by George Nardin. An art teacher at the University of Missouri, Gladys Wheat, provided most of the illustrations; the rest were contributed by.....
Price: $125
![Item No: #365415 The Three Mothers [American Copyright Edition]. E. Nesbit, Edith](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/365415.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757449082)
First Edition. The first separate printing of this short story, published in a very small edition (typically ten or twenty copies) to secure copyright in the US. The story reflects Nesbit's interest in socialism to help the poor and her Catholic faith. It may also draw on the death of.....
Price: $250
First Edition. The first edition of great books from the golden age of illustration. This edition includes 25 mounted color plates on inserted parchment paper leaves. Each illustration has a tissue overlaw with a printed caption (NB: The list of illustrations describes 24 plates; the frontispiece is not mentioned). Nielsen.....
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Original art for the first page of a story penciled and inked by Alex Niño (the writer is not identified). The plot involves two antiques pickers and the imagery borrows from the mid-1970s horror of Eerie, although toned down for DC's mainstream audience. In the large first panel (a half-splash).....
Price: $2,500
First Thus. A beautiful illustrated edition of the legend of Parsifal (also written as Parzival and Percival) lithographed throughout in four colors, with full-page illustrations by Pogany, both tinted and full color. About 200 pages (not paginated). Roughly 7-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. First Pogany edition (I think; with the date.....
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![Item No: #365532 Snow Crash [Hardcover]. Neal Stephenson](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/365532.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757448440)
First edition, hardcover issue. The classic virtual reality novel, and perhaps the most influential novel of the 1990s. One of the biggest tech companies, Meta (formerly Facebook), is basically named after Stephenson's core idea, the Metaverse, a term he coined in this book. "Snow Crash was widely influential for multiple.....
Price: $9,500
