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EL ANACRONÓPETE [The Time Ship]
1887
First edition of the first modern Western novel featuring a time machine, published eight years before THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells.
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SLIGHTLY FOXED - BUT STILL DESIRABLE: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting
(1989)
First edition of Searle's guide to book collecting terminology, with the helpful illustrations so vexingly left out of other standard reference works.
NEGRO FOLK RHYMES
1922
First edition of this early study of Black secular folk songs, ballads, and dance rhymes, collected by a member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and inscribed by Paul Robeson's arranger Lawrence Brown to his composition teacher, English composer Alec Rowley.
GA HOUSES [Unbroken Run of the First 125 Issues]
(1976-2012)
Consecutive run of the first 125 issues (1976-2012) of this long-running glossy, indispensable, and high-concept magazine documenting contemporary residential architectural for design professionals.
THE WORKS OF VIRGIL
1769
Lovely three-volume pocket edition of Dryden's translation of the AENEID, ECOLOGUES, and GEORGICS, printed by the famed Scottish Enlightenment printers, the Foulis brothers.
LA DIVINA COMMEDIA DI DANTE ALIGHIERI
1808, 1809
Beautifully bound first edition of Zotti's annotated DIVINE COMEDY, primarily designed for British women learning Italian and dedicated by the editor to three aristocratic women patrons.
TENDER REBEL
(1988)
First hardcover edition of this regency romance featuring a Scottish heiress, the second in the Malory-Anderson Families series.
A HEART SO WILD
(1986)
First hardcover edition of this "Native American" romance (featuring a Comanche hero), in which the main characters journey from 19th-century Kansas territory to Texas.
LOVE ONLY ONCE
(1985)
First hardcover edition, with the famed McGinnis cover, of this marriage-of-convenience regency romance, the first book in the Malory-Anderson Families series.
WHEN LOVE AWAITS
(1986)
First printing of this historical romance set in 12th-century England, with the iconic McGinnis cover featuring a carefully positioned nude hero and suggestive sword placement.
SOMETHING WONDERFUL
(1988)
First edition of this classic historical romance — with the original stepback cover design.
DAS HOLZSCHNITTBUCH
1921
First edition of this study of the woodcut from the 15th to the early 20th century by Das Kunstblatt publisher and art historian Paul Westheim.
CONCRETE DESERT
(2001)
Inscribed first printing of this Arizona murder mystery, in which ex-history professor David Mapstone picks up a temp job at the police department only to find some of the cases he's working on are not as cold as they seem.
GONNA TAKE A HOMICIDAL JOURNEY
(1998)
Signed first printing of this final book in the Lauren Laurono series, in which the detective's efforts to patch things up with her partner with a nice vacation are interrupted by a suspicious suicide.
JAZZ FUNERAL
(1993)
Inscribed first printing of the third Skip Langdon mystery, detailing the woman homicide detective's investigation of the murder of a New Orleans jazz festival's beloved producer.
THE MEASURABLE WORLD
(1995)
Inscribed first printing of this erotic mystery, in which a botanist must get to the bottom of her estranged husband's murder while navigating the romantic attentions of her best friends Ralph and Rita.
EVERY LAST CENT
(2001)
Signed first edition of the twenty-second mystery novel featuring Lovejoy, an unscrupulous antiques dealer; the books were adapted into a long-running television program for the BBC, starring Ian McShane.
BLIND DESCENT
(1998)
Signed first edition of Barr's sixth mystery novel featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon, set in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns.
PRACTICE TO DECEIVE
(1992)
Signed first printing of the second Annie MacPherson mystery, in which the lawyer (and frequent sleuth) discovers her new position at a prestigious law firm is a great deal more dangerous than she expected when a secretary turns up dead.
BRIDESMAIDS REVISITED
(2000)
Signed first printing of this cozy mystery, in which Ellie Haskell must solve a 50-year-old murder mystery with the help of her dead grandmother's (psychic?) friends and a foul-mouthed parrot.
THE MAN WHO CAST TWO SHADOWS
(1995)
Signed first edition, review copy, of the second mystery starring Kathleen Mallory, NYPD sergeant and "sociopath," with original publisher's promotional materials laid in.
SNAPSHOT
(1993)
Inscribed first printing of the fifth Carlotta Carlyle mystery, in which the hardboiled, redheaded Boston PI must take on a hospital full of conspiracy and corruption to find answers for a grieving mother.
THYME OF DEATH
(1992)
Signed first printing of this Agatha and Anthony-nominated mystery introducing China Bayles, a lawyer-turned-herb shop proprietor who finds that murder has followed her in her efforts to make a fresh start.
ARTHUR R. MACDOUGALL, JR. MAINE AUTHOR: A Bibliography
1983
Scarce limited edition bibliography of Maine regionalist and Congregationalist minister Macdougall, author of numerous fish stories and creator of "beloved Maine folk-type" Dud Dean.
KILLING TIME IN ST. CLOUD
(1988)
Doubly signed first edition of this mystery novel, a collaboration between Hill and ORDINARY PEOPLE author Guest.
