Victoria, BC: Sono Nis Press. 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title leaf. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
Vancouver: Lazara Press. 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Broadside. First edition. Broadside. A poem written in Memory of William Martin Hoffer. 226 copies printed of which this is one of 200 offered for sale. A further 26 copies were lettered and signed by the author and were for private distribution..... More
Knotting, Bedfordshire: The Sceptre Press. 1975. First Edition, First Impression. Original Wraps. Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled at spine. Unpaginated [8 pp]. Issued in a limited edition of 150 copies printed by Skelton's Press, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, the first 50 copies of which were numbered and signed. Although unnumbered this copy..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2007. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Quarto, original grey buckram stamped in green & gilt. 472 pp., Indexes at rear. Frontispiece, illustrated throughout in both colour and black & white. A fine copy in a fine illustrated slipcase. ¶ An extremely comprehensive bibliography of the Folio..... More
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London: The Strand, 1907. First Appearance in Print. Original Wraps. Octavo, original light blue printed wrappers. Mild spine creases, light chipping to edges of rear cover; a very good copy. Dozens of pages of period ads, plus a separate leaflet for PRINTER'S PIE Magazine is loosely laid in, as issued..... More
New York: John Lane. 1898. First American Edition. Vellum. First American Edition. Small octavo, bound in full vellum titled in black ink on front cover in an Old English script similar to the title page font, decorated endpapers. 43 pp. Vellum boards bowed, Fore-edges of binding trimmed, a very good..... More
London: Stanley paul & Co., Ltd., (1927). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 284 pp, Index. Illustrations. Very good clean copy in attractive dust wrapper. ¶ A curious work on plays based on real-life crimes, sensationalized. Many of the..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1972. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, original green cloth titled and ruled in gilt on spine. xvii + 825 pp. Small bookseller's ticket on front paste-down, slight shelf wear, a very good clean copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ "The main purpose of..... More
London: F.V. White & Co., 1896. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth stamped in black on front cover, titled in gilt on spine. 296 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard & title page vignette by Nisbet. Early ink inscription on verso of half-title leaf "Ian..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1970]. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in black on spine panel. 234 pp. Of two noted binding variants, this is the assumed second issue with white endpapers. Small black pen stroke on top page edges (tucked into..... More
New York: TOR: A Tom Doherty Associates Book. 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. Octavo, original blue wrappers printed in black. 302 pp, black & white frontispiece. Faint tanning near spine panel, a fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶..... More
Reseda, CA: Powell Publications, 1969. First Edition, First Impression. Original Wraps. First Edition, a paperback original. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Issued as Powell Sci-Fi PP 157 (95¢). Off-white paper. Mild spine darkening, a fine copy. ¶ The sequel to Warriors of Noomas. The further adventures of Torlo Hannis on..... More
Reseda, CA: Powell Publications, 1969. First Edition, First Impression. Original Wraps. First Edition, a paperback original. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Issued as Powell Sci-Fi PP 121 (95¢). Off-white paper. Ink name on first leaf (Floyd Peill). Small bumps to corners. Very good, nice copy. ¶ "Thoris the Mighty, from..... More
Reseda, CA: Powell Publications, 1969. First Edition, First Impression. Original Wraps. First Edition, a paperback original. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Issued as Powell Sci-Fi PP 149 (95¢). Off-white paper. Faint wear at spine tips, a fine copy. ¶ The first volume of a two book "sword and planet" series..... More
New York: Delacorte Press. [1984]. Advance copy [uncorrected proof] of the first edition. Octavo, original yellow printed wrappers. 300 pp. A few small stains to front wrapper, otherwise a very good copy. ¶ Hard-boiled novel set amid the surfing world in Southern California. A great book. A blurb on the..... More
London: Universal Publications Ltd., No Date (1936). First Edition, First Impression. Small octavo, original orange printed wrappers, in dust jacket.91 pp + [5] pp ads at rear. Some mild repair to spine; a very good copy in a fair example of the rare colour pictorial dust jacket, chipped at edges..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original back cloth, paper labels, spine label printed in blue and white, front cover label illustrated and printed in black, blue and white. Top edge stained blue. Illustrated title page, mounted on a stub as always. 296pp. + 1..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. 1902. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original brick-red cloth staped in blind & gilt, gilt titles. 376pp + [8] pp publisher's ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard and one additional plate by Read. Old ink inscription on front free endpaper..... More
Bern: Verlag der Dalp'ichen Buchhandlung [R. Schmid]. 1881. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. First edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 410 pp. Text in German and printed in German Fraktur (Gothic Blackletter) throughout. Wear to wrappers, but complete; some splits to spine panel, old ownership name on title page. Overall..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press. [1980]. First edition. Folio, original boards. 128 pp. Reprints in full colour more than a score of early children's chapbooks. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper, price corner clipped. More
Chicago & New York: The Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. [1947]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in gold. A very good clean copy in the original colour pictorial dust wrapper, very good with short closed tears and small chips to the edges, small abrasion to..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Association with University of California Press.[1985]. First edition. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers. One of 5,000 copies issued in wraps (1,000 copies were casebound). 257 pp., maps, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Catalogue Raisonee of the LA County Museum of Art's collection, one of..... More
St. Gallen, Switzerland: Zollikofer & Co. [1945]. First edition. Small octavo, original tan boards titled in red.93 pp., frontispiece, folding map. Bookseller's ticket "Rosicrucion Supply Bureaux San Jose California" on front paste-down, otherwise a fine copy in dust wrapper. More
New York: Atheneum, [1982]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First Printing of this New Edition. Large octavo, original purple cloth titled in gilt. 199 pp. Colour pictorial title page and eight additional full-page colour plates printed on glossy paper and inserted within the text, all by Parrish. A fine copy in..... More
Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 162 pp., numerous black & white plates. cloth worn at spine head and along the outside front hinge; still, a solid copy, good to very good. ¶..... More