Literature from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

Kipling published more than sixteen different editions of "Ditties", adding new content as the years elapsed. The first edition, not present here, was published in 1886 with 11 Departmental Ditties and 15 Other Verses. Over the next several years, he added poems additional poems to most of the new editions – making this collection one a rather intriguing bibliographic… Read more about this item

First Edition. 8vo. Green spider-web patterned boards, cloth back, titles to spine and front cover gilt. Forman Brown was one of the world's leaders in puppet theatre in his day, as well as an important early gay novelist. He was a member of the Yale Puppeteers and the driving force behind the famous Turnabout Puppet Theater in Los Angeles. This… Read more about this item

1st ed., 8vo. A Very Good- near fine copy but in a dulled and lightly soiled dustjacket with several small edge nicks, darkened spine; not price-clipped.

1st ed. in the very scarce d/w. 12mo, blue cloth. 108 pp. Condition: Good+. Book itself is clean and tight, but with some light spotting and fading on covers and spine. Jacket is not price-clipped; small (1/4-1/2") open tears at top and bottom of spine; some toning overall and light foxing on back. See photos. Wouk's second… Read more about this item

ALS with remnants of envelope, dated Mch 11th, 1920, addressed to J.D. Baker, Pasadena. Two pp. 8.5x11". "Dear 'D'. I address you as 'D' since you were so kind as to ask me to do so, and also because I want to do so. I have that beautiful cigarette can ….. you know you wrote] Jack [Frost's… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Good. Cloth. 1866. 1st ed., second state. Signed by Orson Welles . First edition, second state -- lacking the page number at the bot tom of p.52 . 12mo Brown-Maroon cloth, gilt titles. 52 pp., engra ved title page and frontis. Ex-libris RKO Studios Research Libra ry, with the studio logo and inkstamp on the… Read more about this item

The Century Company. Near Fine. 1913. 1st edition, second state. 1st ed, second state.12mo. "Published, May, 1913" and "1913" printed at foot of title page.1 page undated ads at back. Original light green cloth decorated in dark green and black, in dust jacket . First Edition of London's prizefighting tale. frontispiece by Gordon Grant. This copy is in the second… Read more about this item

York: Printed by A. Ward, and sold by J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, [et al.]. Good. Vintage rebinding. 1783. 1st thus. 1st edition of this translation; 4to, pp. [iii]-xix, [3], 213 [1 Errata sheet]; rebound in modern ¼ leather marbled boards to mat ch contemporary bindings. . modestly successful career as a painter but is best remembered f or… Read more about this item

Macmillan, New York. 1928. 1st ed.. Inscribed by Garland, with added signature of Rudy . CONDITION: Good. Covers: front hinge cracked, light surface wear, a little more so at top of spine. Newspaper review affixed to ba ck free end paper has browned and left image transfer on facing p age. Signed by Garland on front pastedown; two… Read more about this item

Dodd, Mead, New York; John Lane, London. Fair. 1927. 4to, illustrated linen, gilt titles. With 8 full-page tipped-in color by Alastair. No. 591 of 1050 copies, with a plate signed i n pencil by the artist. Title page printed in red and black, illu strations in red, sepia, and black. Condition: Fair; the text blo ck and… Read more about this item

Privately printed: NY. Poor. 1920. 1st edition. Inscribed by Hartmann to minister/writer Paul Jord . 1st ed. 8vo, brown boards, 109 pp, No. 53 of 3000 numbered copies . With an inscription by Hartmann to Paul Jordan Smith -- “from [as Bernard Shaw expressed it] ‘the man who writes about the l ast 30 days of Christ when the… Read more about this item

NY: Doubleday. Fine. 1972. 1st ed.. 1st ed., 8vo, illustrated cloth. Matthiessen's first and only chi ldren's book, with an ecological theme. Jacket and illustrations by William Pene du Bois. This copy is with the special reinforced library binding, as originally issued. A pristine copy in near f ine d/w. The book itself is flawless; the jacket… Read more about this item

NY: Harper & Brothers. 1954. 1st ed.. The author's first novel, published just after he returned from P aris, where he helped found the Paris Review. Very Good-near fin e in VG d/w. The book itself is clean, bright and tight; the onl y interior flaw is a prior owner’s inked signature at top of FF EP. No… Read more about this item

NY: Harper & Row. 1968. 1st ed., in d/w. Fine copy of Llosa's second novel in d/w with 1/ 2" open tear on front top edge. .

A Paris chez Pissot . Fair. 1782. 1st edition. 1st ed. 12mo, 4 volumes. Contemporary calf, but heavily worn. . ontains a “Preliminary speech on French novels.” , excerpts f rom a variety of works, and an essay on the origin of novels inve nted before the Christian era. The Count of Tressan was a French soldier, physicist… Read more about this item

NY: B. W. Dodge & Company. Fine. Hardcover. 1909. 1st American ed., third issue of the unauthorized edition. 8vo, 1st American ed., third issue of the unauthorized edition; i n pictorial blue cloth with red printed titling. 360 pp. This pir ated edition by Dodge predates the authorized Doubleday edition b y two months. Dodge published only one edition,… Read more about this item

1972. Original unpublished and unproduced screenplay about revolt on an American Slave ship [the Fair Angelica] navigating the middle pa ssage, circa 1835. A very unusual subject for Matthiessen. Fair Angelica is a first draft, typed carbon, 123 loose leaves -- an agency copy used to solicit producers and investors -- one of whom was the… Read more about this item

Brussells: Louis Hauman et Comp. Good. Marbled boards. 1836. 1st Brussells. CUSTINE, Astolphe (Marquis de) . As It Is] . lgian edition. 16mo. Half-leather, marbled boards. 4 raised band s, gilt titles on burgundy labels, marbled edges. 278 pp. 322 pp. First published in Paris in a larger format,1835.##### . omedy, quite popular in its time. The… Read more about this item

New Pearson's Magazine. 1923. 1st edition thus. "Holiday", a 3-page short story, is one of Hammett’s earliest w orks of fiction. It is not a crime story, but a sensitive vignett e, possibly autobiographical. War veteran Paul Hetherwick is a pa tient at Public Service Health Hospital in San Diego. He obtains a day pass, withdraws $100 from the… Read more about this item

Milano: Fratelli Treves. 1902. 1st ed.. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1902. 1st ed., small 4to, handmade paper ; pp. (16), 289, (7) illustrated in red and black with several fu ll-page drawings and numerous ornaments throughout. Gilt ornament on front cover, gilt titles on spine; ribbon ties. Original full vellum binding [it was also published in cloth]. Text in… Read more about this item