Hesperian Press, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. 1203 pages. 8-3/4 by 12 inches. 'A detailed work on the present state of our knowldge of the Australian vertebrate fauna and its origins and evolutionary history' -- from the forward by John Calaby. Printed from typescript. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing).....
1983. Ephemera. One page, 6 by 8 inches, dated 1 December 1983, probably in response to a fan letter, describing a most memorable event in the great Science Fiction author's career. Folded once else a fine copy. Signed in blue ink by Asimov following the typed message: 'It is hard.....
Crown Publishers, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 645 pages. The third volume in the Earth's Children series, set in the world of pre-historic humans. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed to the late evolulationary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, 'Steven J. Gould, All my best.....
International Union of Academies. Oxford University Clarendon Press, 1927, 1931. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Oxford Fascicle 1: x1, [1], 52 pages of text with Great Britain plates 93-142; Oxford plates I-L. Oxford Fascicle 3: viii, 53-132 pages of text with Great Britain plates 381-431. Both Fascicles in ribbon-tied folders. First.....
![Item #217938 That Ghost, That Bride of Time [Regular 30-Line Issue]. Ray Bradbury](https://eurekabookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/217938.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602745816)
[Roy A. Squires], (1976). First Edition. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. 'Excerpts from a play-in-progress based on the Moby Dick mythology and dedicated to Herman Melville.' Limited to 400 copies. While the signature on the title page looks very convincing, it is, in fact, printed and not hand-signed. *** There are.....
![Item #128345 Billy Ray's Farm [Lettered Edition]. Larry Brown, Barry Moser](https://eurekabookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/128345.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602745764)
Wisteria Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 26 lettered and signed copies, bound in calfskin and signed by the author; issued in a clever box signed by artist Kannex Fung featuring handmade paper textured with natural materials and a window on the front flap that reveals a wooden picket.....
Edward Denny & Co., 1875. Ephemera. 13 by 5 inches. A stock certificate for the company that built the first railroad in Humboldt County, California, a line from the bay up Salmon Creek to the old growth redwood forests there. The company was founded by H. H. Buhne, one of.....
New Directions, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 118 pages. 5-1/2 by 8-1/4 inches. A play version adapted by McCullers of her 1946 novel of the same name. Published in an edition of 8,000 copies. First edition (first printing). A touch of wear to the corners and very light offsetting to endpapers.....
![Item #141626 Manifesto [title in Greek]. Caresse Crosby](https://eurekabookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/141626.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602745773)
(the author), (ca. 1952). Ephemera. 143 by 213 mm. Small broadside manifesto, in Greek, issued by Caresse Crosby for her world citizenship movement. Crosby, an American, was the co-founder of expatriate Black Sun Press in Paris and spent much of her adult life in Europe. In 1948, she published a......
Chris Felver, n.d. ca. 1970s. Photograph. B/W photograph, 8.5 x 12 inches, printed on 11 x 14 inch paper. Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a poet who spent most of his life in San Francisco, often identified with the poets of New American Poetry and Black Mountain College. He was a......
[Palaemon Press], 1980. Trade Paperback. Broadside, 8.5 x 11 inches, printed in black on white. 'Limited to twenty-five copies privately printed for Stuart Wright, December, 1980.' - printed at bottom of broadside. 'Third edition, or, more likely, second edition, second impression. According to the colophon which now appears below Faulkner's.....
Gallimard, 1934. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 270 pages. A7.20 in William Faulkner: The Carl Peterson Collection. First French edition (first printing). Review copy of the first French trade edition, with 'S.P.' imprinted on front cover and title page. Very good copy. In original folded glassine wrapper. Spine is tanned.
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The Art of Urbex, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. 154 pages. 11 by 11 inches. The Dutch photographer's collection of images of abandoned and decaying buildings in Europe, including homes, religious and civic buildings, religious sites, and Chernobyl; taken over a 5-year period . One of 500 numbered copies signed by.....
Chris Felver, 1996. First Edition. Photograph. Photograph, oblong format, 14 x 11 inches; image size, 9 x 8 inches. Felver is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker, recognized for his photographs of those in the literary world. Signed by Felver on rear of photograph with copyright date, 1996. A near fine.....
William Pickering, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. cxlvi pages. 5-1/2 by 7 inches. The second book by Edward FitzGerald, best known for translating the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This is an anonymously published collection of aphorisms. 'I meant it to be the best little book of its kind extant. I am.....
Simonsz. Boeken Kunst-verkooper, 1775. Pamphlet. Two leaves, folded to form 8 pp., the first seven printed. Pre-publication state, or proofs. Poem, 6 stanzas, followed by trade list of other books available from the printer, including Vondel's Gysbrecht Van Aemstel in two states + Letterdruk a f I: = [or] en.....
Grove Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 159 pages. The first novel by the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. First published in the UK by Jonathan Cape. 'A bitterly lyrical first novel about a boy's coming of age in coastal East Africa' -- from the front flap. First.....
![Item #299544 Twelve Drawings Hand Stamped New York 1974 [Cover title]. Robert Jacks](https://eurekabookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/299544.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1649787578)
(n.p.), 1974. Trade Paperback. [12] pages. 5 by 4-1/2 inches. By the Australian painter, sculptor and printmaker. One stamp per leaf, stamped rectos only. One of a series of 12 hand-stamped artist's books created by Jacks between 1973 - 1982. 'Jacks was in North America from 1968 to 1977 and.....
Thomas Cotes, 1635. Hardcover. 328 pages with errors in pagination (but catchwords indicate all pages present): 2-14, 15-67, 67-175, 175-225, 228-328. Frontispiece portrait signed G. Gif (George Gifford), and emblem woodcut of the London Stationers on the title page. More complete than the original 1562 edition. Latimer was the Bishop.....
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Sligo Press, 2000. First Edition. Leather. 280 pages. One of 26 lettered copies bound in leather and signed by Mailer and the authors. There were also 490 numbered copies (80 of which were hors commerce). Only the lettered copies were leatherbound. A bibliography and more of the two time Pulitzer.....
![Item #150834 The Real Thing [Lettered Edition]. Doris Lessing](https://eurekabookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/150834.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602745779)
Ultramarine Publishing, 1992. First Edition. Leather. 214 pages. Sketches of London, published in the UK as London Observed. This is one of 12 lettered copies, signed by the author and bound in full brown leather. Bound by Denis Gouey. This edition uses the sheets from the first US edition, published.....
John Wildberg, 1938. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 15 unnumbered pages. Brief preface by Sinclair Lewis, page 2; 'Sinclair Lewis: A Brief Summary of His Career,' pp. 4 and 14; 'A Summer Theatre and What happened There,' pp. 6 and 14; 'Who's Who in the Cast of 'Angela is Twewnty-Two,'' pp.....
![Item #336896 The Weird Writings of H. P. Lovecraft (Two volume set) [Numbered copy]. H. P. Lovecraft](https://eurekabookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/336896.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1693591321)
Girasol, 2010. Hardcover. Volumes 1: 51 pages. 9-1/8 by 12-1/8 inches; October 1923 - July 1924. Volume 2: 567 pages. 7-3/8 by 10-3/8 inches; November 1924 - September 1952. Limited edition of 200 copies. Contents in facsimile form scanned from the original pulp pages. Collects all of Lovecraft's writings from.....
City Lights Books, 1957. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, 27 pages. Originally published in Dissent Magazine, this is Mailer's 'superficial reflections on the hipster,' with criticisms by Jean Malaquais and Ned Polsky followed by Mailer's responses. First edition (first printing) with a cover price of 35 cents. A near fine.....
Richard G. Badger / The Gorham Press, 1902. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 154 pages. The author's first published play and his second book. First edition (first printing). Original gray wrappers with paper label on upper cover. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Wear to the spine edges and with corner creases.....