Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf - 1922

New York:: Farrar Straus,, 1948.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner name and sticker on the front pastedown in a Very Good Plus unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear to the spine. This is Jackson's First Book. Jackson and her family lived in the community of Burlingame, California, an affluent middle-class suburb that would feature in this her first novel which like her later novels was characterised by her use of a realistic setting for a tale with elements of horror and the occult.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1918. First Edition, First Issue . Green Cloth. Very Good/Good Dustjacket. 8" Tall. 475 Pages. Green Cloth Stamped In Yellow And Brown, Illustrated Endpapers. There Is No Definitive Published Bibliography Of The Various Issues Of The Huge Printings Of Books By The Immensely Popular Gene Straton-Porter, But This Is Indeed The Very Scarce First Issue: First Binding State With Publisher's Name With Ampersand In Shape Of Open "E", Without Diagonal Cross Line; Lettering On Cover And Backstrip Both Orange (Not Mixed With One Panel In Yellow).; First Issue With "Were" On Line 20, Page 304 ( Almost All Copies Were Printed With "Were" Corrected To "Was" In Heavier Type); And All Other Points Sometimes Present Even After "Were" Corrected: Perfect Page Number On Page 11; Pages 1 1/8" Thick When Compressed. First Editions Lacking Several Or All Points Are Common; Issues With All First Issue Points… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, 1961. Stated First edition. hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo. Quarter red cloth and black boards, with gilt lettering. 337 pages. An Advance Review Copy in promotional dust-jacket. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. Spine [blank] and flap folds of dust-jacket are slightly toned, with a tiny chip at spine tail. A Fine copy in special dust-jacket of Yates' first novel.

Boston and New York / Riverside Press, Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Slate-grey Cloth. Near Fine/No DJ. 7 7/8" Tall. Embossed Cloth With Silver. First Trade Issue, Mixed States. (I-Viii) Including Preliminary Blank Leaf After The Front Free Endpaper, (1), 2-251; Printer's Imprint , P. (252); Final Blank Leaf Before The Rear Free Endpaper. Stub Between Pp 10 And 11. Publisher's Imprint At Bottom Of Spine : Houghton | Mifflin.&.Co. With Periods Around Ampersand, And Ampersand Is An Odd Design [Both Indications Of A Second Or Third Printing). (First Printing Of 2028 Copies, Per Sisson-Martens, 1010 Of Second Printing, 1004 Of Third Printing, But What Identifies 2Nd And Third Printings Is Not Absolutely Clear). Bal Does Not Provide Definitive Points For The First State. However, James Henry (As Cited In Sisson-Martens) In "A Proposed Chronology Of Editions Of "The Son Of The Wolf" Requires The Following Additional Points For… Read More

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. Illustrations Throughout. 624 Pp. Publisher's Half Calf Binding (Spine And Tips), Red And Black Spine Labels Stamped In Gilt, Gilt In All Compartments, Over Marbled Paper Covered Boards With Blind Stamped Rules At Edges, With Matching Marbled Endpapers And Matching Marbled Edges Of Page Block. B.A.L. First State With Illustration Of Twain In Flames On P. 441, Corrected "St. Charles Hotel" Beneath Illustration On P.443, And Uncorrected "It It" On P. 444. Lightly Used, Hinges Solid, No Names Or Marks Or Book Plates. This Binding, In Publisher's Leather, Is Somewhat Scarce In Collector's Condition.

New York: Doubleday, 1987 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed and dated by Isaac Asimov, directly on the title page, along with an inscription turned into an original rhimed poem by Asimov: "There's a certain young doctor named Art / whom people have thought of as smart, / And handsome and sporty. / He's now turning forty--- / As an oldster he'll make a new start / Isaac Asimov / 1988." Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light creasing/rubbing and wear to corners/spine ends, else fine.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 284pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gold-stamped decoration to the upper board. With decorated endpapers, a title page decoration, a frontispiece and twelve Henderson tailpiece decorations. Top edge lightly dust marked and spotted, others untrimmed. A narrow strip of browning to the free endpapers and a touch of soiling to the pastedowns. A very good copy in the most uncommon dust wrapper which reproduces a larger version of the frontispiece design; the wrapper is price-clipped, tanned at the spine panel, a little marked, spotted and stained in places with a tiny sliver of loss from the head of the spine panel, just a fraction of further loss from the tail and several more millimetres of loss from the corner tips and upper edge. A historical novel by the honorary Inkling, retelling 'The Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion', written between his… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews, 1913. First collected edition. 52, 64, [4] pp. Brown paper boards lettered in gold on the front cover and spine. Gallup notes that "not more than 500 copies issued." The book consists of first edition sheets of the two earlier books with a new half-title and title-leaf for the volume. Rebacked with original spine laid down, nick to top edge of rear board skillfully and professionally repaired. A scarce early Pound volume. Gallup A7b.

Condition: VG+. First edition, second issue with tipped in title page (as expected). 327 pp. followed by two leaves of ads. Light bumping to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's stamp to FFEP and an owner's bookplate affixed to rear of first color plate. Solid and square book. Front pastedown has some cracking at hinge.

Knopf, 1995. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated. Sm 4to. 652 pp. One quarter cloth and black paper-covered boards. Silver lettering to the spine. Volume is fine. Jacket has a little bit of crimping at the top of the front panel at the spine fold, else fine. Inscribed to the author Ron Hansen on the tile page: "For Ron, with good luck especially in the movies. William H. Gass." Gass was likely referring to Hansen's novel, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford which was made into a movie starring Brad Pitt. Hansen recently sold many of his books to a Palo Alto bookseller including this one.