First edition of the author’s masterpiece and one of the most widely used college textbooks on comparative religion. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Huston Smith on the half title page. Ver...

First edition of this collection of lectures, by the legendary computer scientist. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, “...

First edition of this work by Fuller. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed “To Brooke, with great love, Bucky 3/30/80.” The recipient, Brooke Maxwell, along with one of Full...

First edition of the Gladstone’s collected speeches delivered at the Election of 1865. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Gladstone on the front panel, “From the Author.” In near f...

Rare autograph postcard signed by the first prime minister of India. Octodecimo, Lal Chand & Sons postcard featuring a photograph of the Taj Garden Agra from General View. Signed by Jawaharlal Neh...

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Hugh Kelly with the good wishes of Herbert Hoo...

First British edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of wear. Jacket design by Rob...

First edition of the third companion book to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, the book that began Eric Carle’s career as an illustrator. Quarto, original illustrated boards, pictorial e...

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “To Esther Meyer this book is dedic...

Signed limited first edition of Johnson’s classic work, number 167 of 520 copies. Octavo, original half cloth, photographic endpapers illustrated with 83 aquatone illustrations. Boldly signed by...

First edition of this “wonderful tour de force” (Gilbert Highet). Octavo, original half cloth, red topstain. Boldly signed by the translator Dmitri Nabokov on the title page. Fine in a ver...

First edition of this tribute to the humble craft of American fly tying. Folio, original black cloth, illustrated with full color paintings and photographs taken by the authors throughout. Boldly sign...

First edition of the Book Society edition of Durrell’s first book. Octavo, original green cloth, top stain blue. Boldly signed by Gerald Durrell on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near f...

First edition of this classic story, the moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation c...

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this autobiographical account by the Italian Renaissance sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by...

First edition of this collection of three Hornblower stories never before published in book form. Octavo, original boards, cartographic endpapers. One of 25 numbered copies signed by Alexander Kent of...

First appearance of Trivers’ enormously influential first published paper, written while he was still earning his PhD at Harvard under Bayr and Drury in which he coined the term “reciproca...

First edition of the sequel to Easton’s bestselling literary debut, Less Than Zero. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Megh...

First editions of each volume in Hoover’s memoirs. Octavo, three volumes, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper of The Cabinet and th...

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Dr. Edgar Potts -with...

First edition of Dimock’s autobiography, including his great success in cornering the gold market, also hunting grizzly bear, buffalo, deer, waterfowl, early wildlife photography, and some menti...

First limited edition of this classic adventure novel. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth with paper spine label, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece of the author, illustrated throu...

First edition of this collection of eyewitness accounts and illustrations chronicling the American experience. Thick quarto, original publisher’s half-cloth, black and white illustrations throug...

First mass market edition of this standalone novella from the author of Dune. Octodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, with black and white illustrations throughout. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on...