First Edition. A collection of short stories, a few of which were previously published, signed by Atwood on a page tipped-in by the publisher. This book was issued simultaneously in the US, UK, and Canada, March 7, 2023. First US edition, signed issue. A fine copy in a fine dust.....

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. An early Kurt Wallander mystery, here in the first English language edition. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With a bookplate signed by Mankell laid in (this seems fairly.....

First Edition. "Stories written while the author was a prisoner of war in Germany, 1943–1945...Intelligent stories, with curious antiquarian information, yet with formal problems. The author has difficulty in closing his stories and the reader is often left dissatisfied."—Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1206. Some of the stories have bookish.....

First Thus. A reprint of a short novel first published in 1816, with an introduction by Ray Bradbury. Limited to 500 numbered copies, the first 100 of which were signed by Bradbury. xi, 76 pages. First printing of this reissue. Front boards a bit scuffed (as usual with this title).....

First Edition. The American prototype for the graphic novel, a wordless novel consisting of a sequence of black-and-white illustrations reproduced from Lynd Ward's wood engravings. The Library of America edition of this book describes it as "a modern morality play, an allegory of the deadly bargain a striving young artist.....

First Edition. One of 920 copies of this wordless short story printed from the original wood blocks (i.e., a series of 30 original prints by Lynd Ward). As with all of Ward's 1930s work, this belongs with other social realist novels of the period. The story follows a sculptor carving.....