AMBLER’S BACKGROUND TO DANGER
1ST AMERICAN EDITION

First American edition. CONDITION: Good, some darkening to joints, a few small scuff marks on back cover, brown stains along both inside hinges; dust jacket good, rubbed with minor losses at extremities.

GEHENNA PRESS EDITION OF
BALDWIN’S GYPSY & OTHER POEMS

One of 325 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. Copy #161. With a portrait etching of Baldwin printed on blue paper and an etching of a pomegranate printed in red. From the colophon: “Three hundred & twenty-five copies of ‘Gypsy & Other Poems’ were printed by The Gehenna.....

SALESMAN’S DUMMY FOR INNOCENTS ABROAD

A rare salesman’s dummy for the best-selling of Twain’s books during is lifetime, and one of the best-selling travel books ever written. With binding samples affixed to the paste-downs, representative content, and subscriber’s forms at the rear. CONDITION: Very good, worn at extremities.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
OF EMERSON’S POEMS, 1847

First American edition, first issue. BAL 5211. CONDITION: Good, lightly soiled, two small ink spots on rear cover.

SIGNED LIMITED ALDUS HUXLEY

One of ninety-one copies signed by Huxley, this copy un-numbered; also inscribed by the binder, James Wells, as follows: “For Laurence Lee who has never known ‘an’ erratum from his friend James Wells August 15th 1933.”.

BLACK CINCINNATI POET’S
SECOND BOOK OF POETRY

First and only edition of the second collection of poetry by this African-American poet from Cincinnati, with illustrations of ancient African art and other African-American imagery throughout. Clay (also known as Kwame Mwanafunsi) dedicates this volume to several women including his daughter and mother, as well as “to all my.....

MURDER IN THE LABORATORY

First edition. Posthumous novel of William T. Richards published under the pseudonym Willard Rich. A murder mystery set in a laboratory just north of Boston, the story is based in part on the author’s experiences working at “Tuxedo Park,” a privately owned laboratory just north of New York City, founded.....

THE TEMPEST ILLUSTRATED BY RACKHAM,
SIGNED, LIMITED

First edition. One of 520 copies signed by Rackham; this copy number 45. Nos. 1 to 260 were for sale in Great Britain and Ireland and Nos. 261 to 520 for sale in the U.S. REFERENCES: Latimore & Haskell, p. 61. CONDITION: Very good, slight toning to edges of covers.....

FIRST FINE PRESS EDITION OF ANY WORK
BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Editon limited to twenty-six lettered copies signed in pencil by the printer and the photographer, this copy letter B. Bound by Gray Parrot of Hancock, Maine, with his label affixed to the lower left corner of the rear paste-down. Consider the Lobster, a favorite essay among Wallace devotees, first appeared.....