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Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (c. 1988). 1st hardcover ed,, revised from the 1975 Avon paperback. Hardcover. 153p. Hardcover. dj. 19cm. Minor spot on front flap. SIGNED by Banks (in 2016). More
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (c. 1988). 1st hardcover ed,, revised from the 1975 Avon paperback. Hardcover. 153p. Hardcover. dj. 19cm. Minor spot on front flap. SIGNED by Banks (in 2016). More
Washington & Philadelphia: Sun & Moon Press, (c. 1983). 1st ed. Hardcover. 121p. Cloth. Red dj. 19cm. Backstrip area faded (more pink than red). SIGNED by Banks (in 2016). More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, n.d. [1903 or 1904?]. 2nd Amer. ed. Hardcover. color illustrations, v, 55p. Original cloth-backed boards with oval color illustration mounted on front cover inside a black oval with title and author printed in black above and below illustration. 15cm. Text and illustrations printed on one..... More
New York: Bookery Publishing Co., (c. 1912). Presumed 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis and 3 other full-page illustrations. Original cloth. 21cm. Cover reasonably sound but rather ugly (soiling, staining and wear). Page edges also spotted and rather worn. Name on endpaper. Contents sound.No Jacket. An uncommon religious novel. More
Yaounde: Editions CLE, 1968. Paperback. 115p. Wrapper. 18cm. French text. More
New Fairfield: October House, 1955. Hardcover. 81p. Original cloth-backed patterned boards. 20cm. No jacket. Edition limited to 600 copies. Designed by Bruce Rogers. More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1955). Hardcover. 186p. dj. 19cm. Jacket has light soiled & edgewear. Text browned (paper seems high acid). More
Paris: Christian Bourgois, (c. 1969). 1st ed. in French. Hardcover. 94p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20 cm. INSCRIBED on title-page by Bibbs ("To my favorite poet, Gus our new creator, Love, Leroy Paris Nov. 1970"). Minor browning along top of front edge and around a short tear on back cover..... More
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, (1933). Hardcover. 288p. Original cloth. dj. 20cm. Jacket sound and attractive but has a visible cellophane tape repair on front panel, and also has some edge-wear, minor chipping and light soiling. Publisher's name on jacket is Grosset & Dunlap. An uncommon romance novel. More
[Paris]: Gallimard, (c. 1948). Paperback. 243p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21 cm. Text and backstrip browned. Minor stain around top of backstrip. Leaves moderately Partially unopened. French text. One of his best known novels. An English translation ("The Most High") was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1996..... More
Great Barrington, Mass. Advance, (c. 1957). 1st ed. Hardcover. x, 303p. Hardcover. dj. 22 cm. Jacket has small tears at corners and along edges. A novel set in the Florida Everglades. More
Paris: Chez Rosa, 1812. Hardcover. 2 volumes. illustrationss, xii, 355, 354p. Contemporary leather (moderately worn). All edges gilt. 17cm. Lacks title labels on backstrips. Light foxing and browning. One signature detached. French text. First published circa 1780. More
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, (c. 1959). Unstated later printing. Hardcover. 216p. Original boards. dj. 21cm. Corners of jacket rubbed. Modest chipping at end of backstrip and the cover corners show some wear. Minor browning to contents around page edges. Tear at bottom of one leaf (pp. 191/192) repaired with acid free..... More
Zion, Illinois: Printed by Zion Printing and Publishing House, (c. 1926). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), 257p. Original textured red cloth. 23cm. Front endpaper unevenly browned. Front free endpaper partially split near hinge. Ends of backstrip lightly rubbed. Corner bumped. An uncommon religiously-oriented novel involving Egypt, Pharaoh, Moses and Zipporah..... More
London: Gollancz, 1950. First British edition. Hardcover. Backstrip slightly faded. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by Brooks (as "John"). The author's first book. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (c. 1983). 1st ed. Hardcover. 250p. Cloth-backed boards. dj. 21cm. INSCRIBED by Brown. A novel about a stand-up comedian who goes to Hollywood. More
New York: Random House, (c. 1978). 1st ed. Hardcover. 169p. Original yellow boards backed in black cloth. dj. 20 cm. Semi-circular brown stain on right edge of front free endpaper which is also nicely INSCRIBED by Brown ("To Yvette, who gave me encouragement and my first opportunity to read my..... More
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838. Hardcover. frontis, engraved 2nd title, illustrations, vi, 400p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 23cm. Joints and edges have some rubbing. Bookplate (Melba Peters). Minimal foxing and age-toning. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. Hardcover. x, [3], [13]-239p. 19th century 1/2 leather over blue marbled boards. 18cm. Minor cover rubbing. Spine lettering dulled. Edges marbled. The publisher's advertisements were not preserved when this was rebound. More
London: Haughton and Co., n.d. [1870s?]. Hardcover. frontis, 58, [1]p. Ofitinal red cloth. 17 cm. Cover soiling and some minor staining.. Spine sloped. A missionary tale set in a small village about 40 miles from Lagos in Nigeria. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 213p. Original gray paper boards backed in red cloth. dj. 19 cm. Jacket has a little edge-wear plus some rubbing and wear along front joint fold. Wraparound band present announcing that Camus worn to 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. Minor..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1904. Albert D. Blaisfield. 1st ed. Hardcover. attractive little illustrations printed here and there in the margins, 343p. plus [4]p. publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth with cover lettering and and decorations in a lighter shade of green, 19cm. Minor browning along rear joint. Backstrip slightly worn..... More
n.p. (c. 1995). Paperback. 209p. Softcover in a simple binder. 28 cm. Appears to an unpublished novel about a nurse living and falling in love in Nazi Germany. More