"A" is for Alibi by Grafton, Sue - 1982: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery

New York: Random House, 1967 First edition, stated first printing. Signed by William Styron directly on the second front-free endpage. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light creasing/wear to spine ends and corners and shallow/light creasing along upper edge, else fine.

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a dust jacket with minor wear, else fine. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The scarcest of Welch's novels, especially in nice condition.

Rich and Cowen, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG-. 1st thus with previously suppressed poems included. 15.2 x 22.7 cm. Blue cloth with gilt stamped titles to the spine, top edge grey, other edges uncut. 82 (1)pp, including photographic frontispiece showing signed poem by Douglas. Signed, inscribed and dated by the author, in green ink to the front free endpaper. With original blue dust jacket priced at 7/6 net. A very good book that has mainly been well protected by the dust jacket. There is a little toning to the head and foot of the spine aligning to where there is loss to the dust jacket and a little dust staining to the top and bottom edges but otherwise the boards are clean and the titles are bright. There is a little pushing to the top corners. Internally the book is generally very clean with only a hint of spotting to the endpapers and light toning to the uncut edges. There is also a copy of Douglas' poem, 'Winston Churchill', stuck in on the rear pastedown. The dust jacket is… Read More

London: Macmillan And Co, 1942. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Exceptionally scarce 1st edition, 1st printing, of Crompton's entertaining - and in places quite dark - wartime novel. In general VG internal order with a spot or two to prelims, but otherwise clean and bright. Neat name and address in ink to front pastedown, dated 1943. Red cloth with bright gilt titling to spine a little bumped and lightly marked. Base of spine is lightly worn and faded. D/j, in removable protective sleeve, is heavily worn with numerous tears and loss to spine and edges of front panel. 8vo. 279pp

Pasadena, California, 1896. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine. The HMMBA (Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association) was an organization comprised of the leading hotel men in the US, created in Chicago, IL, in 1879. They held annual meetings around the country, & while in each area, engaged in "excursion parties.with the entertainment on so colossal a scale that all who attended were amazed, delight, & enthusiastic as never before." Authored by then HMMBA president G. Wharton James, the present volume chronicles the group's 1896 California trip, lavishly illustrated throughout with duotone photos & drawings of the cities & attractions & hotels they visited. Self-published by the author from Pasadena, CA, he dedicated the book "to those who came & enjoyed & to those who stayed home & sighed." In 338 pages + unpaginated (16 pages) of vintage ads in rear, edged on all sides in gilt, which is bright. Textured floral patterned… Read More

Los Angeles: Ward Richie, 1929. Octavo. 2pp. This is the second production noted in the bibliography of premier Southern California printer, Ward Richie. The edition consisted of 150 copies; it was a student project, done while Richie attended Frank Wiggins Trade School in Los Angeles. The choice of a Carl Sandburg poem is significant, as Sandburg and Richie shared a longtime friendship with Los Angeles bookseller and publisher, Jake Zeitlin. This is one of the scarcest of early Sandburg editions. 1printed sheet printed on [2]pages folded laid into 1 printed folded sheet (wrapper) lightly finger soiled with small chip to rear wrap. A very good copy.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

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: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Times Books, 1997. Signed on the front-free end-paper by President Carter with his full name: Jimmy Carter. First edition / First printing. Tan paper spine, light beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.