DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER
Rare first edition of this classic mystery exploring the dark crimes born of the evil impulse to acquire rare books without paying a fair market price for them.
Rare first edition of this classic mystery exploring the dark crimes born of the evil impulse to acquire rare books without paying a fair market price for them.
Handsomely bound, illustrated, and indexed Volume Two of The Bibliophile magazine, covering the 1908-1909 year, including Chesterton's essay "Why Books Become Popular."
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.
Inscribed first edition of Ballinger's first mystery novel, set in the chilling cutthroat world of rare book dealers and their mortal enemies, other rare book dealers.
Inscribed first edition of Ballinger's second murder mystery set in the fast-paced, high-stakes, violence-ridden world of American antiquarian book and manuscript collecting.
Limited reissue of this effort to unpuzzle Joyce's famously inscrutable masterpiece.
Signed limited first edition of this collection of five fantasy stories, with Collings's bibliographical checklist of Card's works, in the original slipcase.
Warmly inscribed first edition of Newton's study, privately printed to benefit the "erection of a suitable monument to Thomas Hardy, either on Egdon Heath or elsewhere."
Reduced fascimile of Tchemerzine's complete ten-volume work, reproducing 12 pages of the original on each page of this reprint edition.
Beautiful two-volume illustrated catalogue of the early (1475-1692) French books in the library of artist and collector Charles Fairfax Murray, reprinted from Davies's original 1910 edition.
Weighty and resplendent limited reprint edition of Davies's 1913 descriptive catalogue of German books printed from c.1455 to 1680 housed in the library of artist, dealer, and collector Charles Fairfax Murray.
Scarce complete 3-volume set of the immense short-title catalogue, documenting books printed before 1701 held in the libraries of the Anglican cathedrals of England and Wales.
First printing of these collected essays and journalism, including Baker's 1994 piece on the destruction of library card catalogs.
First printing of this striking history of the creation of the influential graphic novel, signed by the book's designer Chip Kidd.
First printing in book form of this collection of Starrett's literary commentary, much of it reprinted from his column in the Chicago Sunday Tribune.
First edition of Markson's major critical study of Lowry's novel, building on the work of his Ph.D. thesis.