Item 462THE FALL OF TROY.
London: Chatto & Windus, [2006]. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 215,[1] pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket. .
Utopian, Fantasy & Science Fiction
London: Chatto & Windus, [2006]. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 215,[1] pp. Signed by the author on the title page. About fine, in a highly pictorial dust jacket. .
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1982. First edition. Octavo. Navy cloth and gold boards, gilt spine. 366,[2] pp. Afterword by the author. First edition, first printing with the requisite code M36 on the lower gutter edge of page 365. Fourth novel in the Foundation series; Hugo Award winner. Fine.....
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, [1986]. Blue cloth, gilt title. First edition, trade issue. Private detective Blue is hired to watch a man named Black by a jealous husband named White, and in the process becomes deeply enmeshed in.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1985]. First edition, first printing. Large octavo. Blue embossed boards, orange cloth spine. Twenty dazzling full-color portraits of dragons by Leonard Baskin, "with the help of his son Hosie he brings us a glorious gathering of dragons from all mythologies and literature: ranging from the.....
Portland, Maine: Thomas Mosher, 1905-6. Small 16 mo (3½ x 5¼). Four volumes. 425 copies printed on Imperial Mills Japan vellum, in flexible boards, two of the four titles sealed in parchment wrappers, all in separate brocade slide cases, and encased in a brocade decorated cabinet style box. All volumes.....
New York: Random House, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt cloth and boards, angel embossed on upper panel. About fine in an equally near fine dust jacket. First U.S. trade edition. "Morpho Eugenia" is a Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, an obsession with Victorian Darwinian theories of the parallels between.....
New York: Gnome Press with Ballantine Books, [1954]. Vintage original pictorial wrappers. 166,[6] pp. Cover art work by "Powers." Ballantine Books #68. First mass market paperback edition; published simultaneously in a hardbound edition. Light rubbing to extremities, text toned, else a very good copy. The lower panel's publisher's text is.....
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972. Pictorial wrappers. 196 pp. Reprint of the 1921 edition with the "examined and certified" official photographs included in the text. The text includes the correspondence between Conan Doyle and E. L. Gardener of the Theosophical Society, Conan Doyle's "independent evidence beyond that commonly accepted," and.....
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1925. Limited Edition. Cloth and patterned paper boards, gilt spine. Title page printed in red and black. T.e.g., all others untrimmed. Introduction by Shane Leslie. First English translation from the French by H. B. V. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown, offsetting to front and rear.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1963. First edition. Black cloth, gilt spine. 110 pp. First edition. Copyright page blank. Fine, in about fine Richard Taylor designed dust jacket. Long's slim novel, first serialized in Weird Tales in January and February/March 1931, is a novel in the "Cthulhu Mythos" vein. The.....
Boston: John W. Luce & Company, [1917]. Small octavo. Cloth and light brown boards stamped in gilt. The legendary bookshop, Sunwise Turn, Inc., held the copyright in 1916 but it is unclear that they published a copy although they published other titles by Dunsany earlier. A delightful bookseller's label from.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1967. Lee Brown Coye [illus]. First edition. Quarto. Black boards, gilt spine, grey unmarked endpapers. [ii], iii-v, 134 pp. Sixteen full page illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, printed on rectos only. Fine, fresh and unmarked in a very good unclipped dust jacket, also illustrated by.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1964 (1971). First edition. Black boards, gilt spine. xi,432 pp. First edition, stated third impression (dust jacket inner flap and page 433). Fine copy,with no spotting or staining, in near fine dust jacket by Lee Brown Coye with some light sunning and an insignificant abrasion.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1970. First edition. Black boards, gilt spine. ix, 383 pp. Fine copy, in fine dust jacket by Gahan Wilson. First edition, first impression. "A collection of what was at that time believed to be all the known "revisions" by Lovecraft of weird tales for a......
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1955]. First American edition. Octavo. Bright green cloth, lettered and decorated in black. 215,[3] pp. Illustrated throughout text by Beth and Joe Krush. Tiny ink speck on lower edge, else about fine, in a very good or better dust jacket with a light pencil.....
London: Privately Printed, 1911. First edition. Octavo. xx, 164 pp., with a frontispiece portrait of William Lilly, the 17th-century English astrologer. This is Volume II only of F. Leigh Gardner’s three-volume bibliography of occult literature. Bound in publisher’s blue cloth, gilt title stamped at the upper right of the front.....
New York: Rizzoli, [2013]. By the author/artist:. Large octavo. Decorated boards. New and updated edition, first published in 1981, both this and the present publication are out of print. An extraordinary and surreal artist's book, this edition has been redesigned by the author and includes new illustrations. As new, still.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1971. First edition. Black cloth, gilt spine. xx,403 pp. First edition, edition limited to 2118 copies. Small bump at lower fore-tip, else near fine, in bright, near fine Gary Gore designed dust jacket with only slight use at tips. Introductory appreciation essay by Benjamin DeCasseres.....
[N.p., but San Francisco]: Arion Press, 1991. Large octavo. Red card wrappers, string-bound. 20 pp. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Fine. Yeats's Paradises is a lecture “delivered by the author at the University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, on 12 October, 1990, upon the occasion of the opening of an exhibition.....
New York: Stellar Publishing Corp. / Gernsback Publications, Inc., [1932]. First edition. Octavo. Printed self paper wraps. [1],2-24 pp. Typically lacking in illustrations. Issued as No. 15 in Hugo Gernsback’s Science Fiction Series, a short-lived run of side-stapled pamphlets sold via mail order; a relic of early fandom and pulp.....
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1967. First American edition. Black cloth, gilt spine. xxi,222 pp. First American edition, reproduced by offset from the British edition by Arthur Barker, Ltd., published in the same year. Fine, unmarked copy in near fine dust jacket designed by Frank Utpatel with a lightly sunned.....