LA AFRICANIA DE LA MUSICA FOLKLORICA DE CUBA (I) ; LOS BAILES Y EL TEATRO DE LOS NEGROS EN EL FOLKLORE DE CUBA (II) by FERNANDO ORTIZ - 1950 / 1951

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. Decorated green cloth with marbled endpapers. An odd-shaped piece cut out of front free endpaper, hinges cracked, spine headers heavily rubbed, light general wear: VG/no dj. 12mo. Mason #310: 1st American edition, later impression(?) with top edges gilt instead of yellow and decorated endpapers. Binding decoration is sunflowers printed in black rather than cherub imbibing seen on some copies. Mason does not establish priority.

Doubleday, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. The inside of this rare board book is clean and bright. Covers are slightly rubbed with some edgewear to the spine. Sticker shadow on cover.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.

New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1882. New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard (1882). Olive Green boards , Black lettering with embossed Gold design to front cover and spine, clean, bright and vibrant. No. VERY Good ++Near Mint, tight,.clean, spine is intact, no pulling. Text clean, very little yellowing, if any, corners not pumped. minute shelf wear at top and bottom of spine./DJ. Mary Virginia Terhune (née Hawes, December 21, 1830 - June 3, 1922), also known by her penname Marion Harland, was an American author. She began her career writing articles at the age of 14, using various pennames until 1853, when she settled on Marion Harland. Her first novel was published in 1854 and would go on to sell over 100,000 copies. For fifteen years she was a prolific writer of best-selling women's fiction novels, as well as writing numerous serial works, short stories, and essays for magazines. After marrying Presbyterian minister Edward Payson Terhune in… Read More

Viking, NY, 1990, 273 pgs. First/First in Very Good+/Very Good+ condition with some shelfwear, age toning to DJ and minimal toning to pgs, a bit of soiling and a small white spot to book edge. Otherwise tight, square and unclipped. The $16.95 price is intact and predates the later copies which have a clipped price and $18.95 price affixed. (Please review all photos).This is the 2nd book in the Berlin Noir Trilogy featuring Bernie Gunther in 1938 Nazi Germany. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on limitation page. Certificate signed by Kurt Vonnegut, Daniela Di Stefano and Publisher Roy S. Pfeil. First Limited edition / First printing. Number 405 of 1700 copies. Teal leather. Very fine. Certificate of Authenticity and A Note About Bagombo Snuff Box laid in.

One of only 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams.  Fine (clean and unread) in near fine original tissue dust wrapper (one tiny hole, some toning).  A SUPERB, COLLECTIBLE copy!

Octavo (9 1/4 x 7 inches) Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.: Published by Authority of the Legislature, 1870. First Trade Edition, Second Printing. 155 pages, illustrated with engraved cuts of scenery throughout the text, and eight full page engraved plates with protective tissue guards; maps in pockets missing.

Original green cloth trade binding, decorated with a map of the Sierra and surrounding country stamped in gilt on the front cover; and similarly, a logo of the Geological Survey team with their equipment stamped in gilt on the back cover; title in gilt on spine.

Good condition, showing the results of being carried in a pocket or ruck sack (the covers and corners of the fragile binding show some wear; lower right corner of front cover appears to have been bent). Inscription of previous owner dated "July 4, 1889, (In camp under the Royal Arches, Yosemite)" on front fly leaf, light pencil notation on a few pages not affecting text or illustrations, contents clean and intact; ticket of the… Read More

Privately Printed, 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Original exhibition catalog issued on the occasion of an exhibition of books containing illustrations by celebrated painter, engraver, publisher and illustrator Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - specifically, woodcuts. Illustrated with an original portrait etching of Daragnes by Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, 11 black-and-white Daragnes plates, three depicting lesbian scenes, and an original Daragnes hand-colored engraving laid in showing a husband walking in on his wife in bed with her lover - a scene from Fielding's Tom Jones. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper thus: "Pour Madame Legat | Ce registre d'etat und des infants | qu'un pere demature confie a | l'assistance publingier | le pere indigne | Daragnes." Translation: "For Mrs. Legat: This register of state and children that a father has entrusted with the assistant publisher. The unworthy father, Daragnes." Also signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by an… Read More

New York: Pantheon, (1962). First U.S. edition / First printing. Red cloth. Fine in price-clipped jacket about fine. The author's first novel, and most famous work. This is a bright sparkling copy. The jacket is on a heavy stock with a thick varnish. Though price clipped, it is not to be confused with the lighter uncoated book club issue. Gunter Grass was the Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature.