"Liber Aleph vel CXI, The Book of Wisdom or Folly, 1962. Epistles on Thelema, Crowley's religion, were written to Frater Achad, complied in 1918 but not published until 1962. Some of Crowley's best writing and possibly most important, though an understanding of his prior work is necessary to properly digest where he is going with Liber Aleph. Love him or hate him, Crowley's influence on the Western Mystery Tradition can not be denied. Very scarce first edition Crowley, Vg condition, lacking jacket if issued. Tipped in portrait of the Beast himself. Smudges on front and back red cloth boards. S... View More...
"Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy, 1998. Second printing before publication. Final volume of The Border Trilogy. Fine condition with fine dj." View More...
"Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, Rees Welsh & Co.,, 1882. First Philadelphia edition, reprint from the slightly altered plates of the Boston, 1881-82 edition. Olive green yellowish cloth boards, with gilt title and spine, with butterfly decoration. Plate of Whitman with tissue guard between p28-29. Good+ to Very Good condition. Some marks to boards with wrinkling to cloth on front board, lightly bumped and edge worn. Inscription in calligraphic marker on fly. Hinges sound. text generally tight and clean. Very nice collectible early edition of Whitman's work. " View More...
"Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, second revised American trade editions in three volumes with slip case and dust jackets. Eighth and ninth printing. Unclipped. VG/G. Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston:, 1967. With maps (3 large folding, 1 at end of each vol.) Dust jackets complete. Maps attached, intact and vg. Black cloth boards with gilt eye titles. Boards have mildew spots. Jackets complete, with some edge wear and slight damp staining. Slip case worn at extremities, solid. " View More...
"Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, first American editions in three volumes. Later US printings with dust jackets with 5.95$ price. VG/G. Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston:, 1965. Three volumes. 8vo. 423, [1]; 352; 416 pp., w/ maps (3 large folding, 1 at end of each vol.). Cover art by Walter Lorraine. Fellowship of the Ring is the sixteenth printing, Two Towers and Return of the King are thirteenth printings. VG/G. Dust jackets complete. Maps are all attached, intact and vg. Interior text dusty with a faint touch of foxing, but all generally clean and tight. Blue cloth boards with gi... View More...
"Signed first edition copy of one of the author's few childrens story. Hunter wrote numerous crime, fiction and science fiction stories. This is a nice story about a girl reconciling her conflicting feelings between her divorced father and step father. Nice price clipped jacket in very good+ condition and text is in fine condition. Signed by author on front page." View More...
"Hardcover. 8vo. Rinehart & Company, New York. 1953. 319 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Exceedingly rare desirable book on carnival life published in 1950s by noir and macabre author of Nightmare Alley. Shelf wear present to unclipped DJ extremities, 1 inch tear at bottom of spine, 1/2 inch tear on back, sunned. Jacket in archival broadart protector. Expected page aging, else book VG+. Unbumped corners, no book plate, no inscription, spine and hinges solid, boards clean and title bright. Very collectible condition book with desirable dust jacket." View More...
"Good condition copy of first edition, fourth printing. Reprinted April 1953 (three times). Spine cocked, hinges solid, mildly discolored. Black cloth boards mostly clean, some rubbing, gold foil title slightly worn. Non-price clipped protected jacket, ($3.00) has small chips on top edge, with some soiling and small pencil mark on back flap over the E. Previous owners name in light pencil on inside fly. Small book store sticker on inside back board. Text clean, spine solid." View More...
"Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1949. First American Edition, BCE. Ex-lib with very worn dust jacket that has been pasted to boards. Acceptable condition. Jacket is mostly complete with small chip from spine. Has lending library stamp on fly. Text is worn with an edge stain towards binding edge, not a pristine first edition but is attractive in its way. Perhaps there is hope in a world that Nineteen Eighty-Fou has been read by so many. " View More...
"First UK printing published by The Harvill Press in 1954. Very scarce fiction by acclaimed Bloomsbury group translator of Greek and Latin classics. Includes highly desirable jacket by Duncan Grant. Book and cover both VG. Jacket sunned, unclipped and complete with slight edge wear, colors bright. Endpapers toned, slight edge foxing, else book in VG+ condition. Decorative emblems throughout also by Grant. Very collectible book in excellent condition. 228pp. 8vo." View More...
"Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen, 1929. Decorations by Elizabeth MacKinstry. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Very Good. Hardcover. 286 pages. No DJ. G+ condition. Boards discolored and corner bumped. Decorated endpapers. Striking color and black and white illustrations throughout. Internally fairly clean, hinges and spine solid. 4to. 286pp." View More...
"Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series. Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896. Copyright page bears the designation ""second edition." 12mo, 200 pp., gilt decorated gray cloth, beveled edges. TEG. With ribbon. Appears to have been unread. VG to Near Fine. Extremities mostly sharp, slightest touch of edge wear to corners. Spine darkened. Floral gilt bright. Three pages have tiny edge dent. Very collectible condition copy. " View More...
"Screams, Robert Block, 1989. Near fine all around. Unclipped jacket protected, as a touch of edge wear on top. Tight and clean. Contains three Bloch stories: The Will to Kill, Firebug and The Star Stalker" View More...
"Summer and Smoke, Tennessee Williams, 1948 Two-part, thirteen-scene play, completed in 1948. Derived from his short stories ""Oriflamme"" and the then-work-in-progress ""Yellow Bird." Williams continued to revise Summer and Smoke in the 1950s, and in 1964 he rewrote the play as The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. This copy is a second printing, lacking a jacket, with sunned boards that have some shelf wear, and a few minor pencil marks inside. 3 pages of photos from play. 130pp. 5.25x8" View More...
"The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley, Harper and Row, 1954. First edition (L-M), later printing. VG / G. Does not include the essay Heaven and Hell appended to later editions. First American edition with boring academic style jacket. Clipped jacket has ?blue ribbon' sticker affixed to front. Dj edge worn, with some tears, sunned, though is complete. Touch of foxing internally. Else tight and clean. Huxley's classic autobiographical work on his psychedelic experiment with mescaline." View More...
"The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain, 1934, Book Club Edition, 1946 First Thus. Photoplay edition. Protected unclipped jacket, with photograph on back of Lana Turner and John Garfield. Jacket has some edge wear, text deckled edges. VG/Good." View More...
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge, illustrated by Gustav Dore, 2nd Edition, 1877. Absolutely beautiful second edition Dore. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Green gilt cloth bound, tissue protectors intact. Gilt bright. AEG. Edge worn, corner bumps, spine cloth is starting to separate. Hinges and spine are good. Text bright and clear, no foxing present. VG+ condition. Really amazing condition for this size of a book, these tend to get some wear given the weight of the boards, this is a special item indeed. More pictures upon request." View More...
