Search Results: Limited Editions from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing of this Limited Edition, being Number 913 of 1,000 copies SIGNED BY LAWRENCE BLOCK on a special plate affixed to the front free endpaper's recto; being a tight and unread copy with some shelf wear to the bottom edge of each board and with the price-clipped dust jacket showing some toning and a tiny tear to the font panel's top edge. The novel introduces Block's great detective Bernie Rhodenbarr. The book wears its Fine, lightly toned dust jacket and shows the ownership embossment of noted collector Bert Wade to the Limitation Page as well as to the half-title page. Per Wikipedia: "Rhodenbarr is ageless, remaining essentially the same from 1977's Burglars Can't Be Choosers, to the eleventh and most recent entry, 2013's The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons. The only significant advancements come in the third volume, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote… Read More

New York: Privately Printed by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First (and only) Edition. Hardcover with loosely laid-in items. Very Good +. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first and only printing, of this excellent list of works once held by famed collector Carroll A. Wilson, together with Wilson's collection of works containing quotations of famous persons, this being published after the great collector's death in 1947. This set lacks its orginal glassine dust jackets and the original slipcase but COMES TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL of Carroll A. Wilson's 1937 Christmas Greetings (sent by Wilson), printed on a single sheet of elegant paper measuring just under sixteen inches high and ten inches wide folded once horizontally and then once vertically to make a booklet measuring seven and fifteen sixteenth (7 15/16) inches high by five (5) inches wide and which presents within a facsimilie Thomas Hardy's Christmas Poem "The Oxen" and a facsimilie of a letter from Thomas Hardy… Read More