THE MAN WHO JAPED
Beautiful first UK and first hardcover edition of Dick's tenth novel, originally published in 1956 as half of an Ace Double.
Beautiful first UK and first hardcover edition of Dick's tenth novel, originally published in 1956 as half of an Ace Double.
First printing of Dick's late-period masterpiece of paranoia and personal disintegration.
Remarkably beautiful first issue of the first edition in book form of OLIVER TWIST, with the rare suppressed "Fireside" plate.
First edition in book form of this classic story of love and the weight of family history set during the French Revolution, one of Dickens's best-known works.
Uncommonly complete and exquisitely preserved set of the landmark Nonesuch Press publication, one of the most fully realized and beautifully executed Dickens collections ever produced — this with the original packing material and documents and in the rare original dust jackets.
Inscribed first edition of this suspenseful tale of a backwater rafting trip gone horribly wrong, adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight – James Dickey's first novel.
First printing of Didion's iconic collection of essays of 1960s and 70s California culture.
Beautiful first US edition, review copy with publisher's slip, of this evocative memoir of the author's experiences in Kenya.
First US edition of Dinesen's four-part coda to her classic OUT OF AFRICA, recalling the dreams and memories of her years in Kenya.
Handsome signed first edition of Dobson's mystery novel, combining three of literature's perennially compelling themes: English professors, upstate New York, and cold-blooded murder.
Signed first edition of the Fordham professor's fifth Karen Pelletier literary mystery, featuring a rare book theft, a murderous English Department conference, and assorted other academic crimes and punishments.
Over 80 volumes from the personal library of author and influential editor Mary Mapes Dodge, with many of the volumes inscribed to Dodge by the authors.
Harry Dickson, born in New York City circa 1890 and first described in print in Germany, rose to his greatest fame when chronicled in pulp magazines of the 1930s by the great fantasist Jean Ray; these New Adventures by Dôle carry on the tradition of the King of Detectives.
Second installment in the New Adventures of Harry Dickson, the American Sherlock Holmes, written by Dôle following themes previously developed by Jean Ray, who (as John Flanders) wrote the most famous and fantastical Dickson pulps in the 1930s.
Signed first printing of the second volume of Donaldson's Mordant's Need duology.
First American edition, translated by Lorraine O'Grady Freeman.
First printing of these selected exercises in logic from the Holmes canon, by mathematics professor Dorn.
Inscribed first edition of Douglas's sixth cat-narrated murder mystery, involving psychic investigations and the summoning of Harry Houdini from beyond the veil.
Uncommon first printing of this Edgar Award-winning first mystery novel by author and architect Douglass, set in the Caribbean and starring police chief Bolivar Manchenil.
The first appearance in print of this Sherlock Holmes story with a rather gruesome catalyst: a cardboard box containing severed human ears.
First edition of this collection, with a title story predicting the submarine warfare strategy of the first World War and a preface by Doyle noting its composition 18 months before that war began.
First US edition of Doyle's historical novel, a thrilling story of boys, blacksmithing, bare-knuckle boxing, and beaux Brummel, set around the turn of the 19th century and featuring several cameos by famous Regency personages of interest.
First U.K. edition of this collection of childhood sketches, five of which were first published in the Strand, an exemplary example of post-Edwardian sentimentality by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Uncommon edition of Doyle stories, illustrated with distinctive wood engravings by Musacchia.
Signed copy of this rare limited (and only) edition of Drucker's early short fiction.