To a God Unknown by Steinbeck, John - 1935

Hachette, Paris, France, 1890. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Dore, Gustave. Housed in a Fair slipcase. All sides are fully intact, but there are a substantial number of chips out of the paper covering. Extremely heavy book. Text entirely in French. Size: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. 864 pp. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Moderately foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription on endpapers. Deckled edges (rough cut). Top edge gilt in good condition. 3/4 Leather covering with decorative pattern on the rest of the covers. In Very Good condition, with some bumping on the corners and spine caps. Illustrator: Dore, Gustave. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 6 pounds. Category: Fiction; Non-English Language::French; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001239. .… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First U.S. edition / First printing. Off white cloth. Near fine with owner name emboss stamp to front free endpaper and also the title page in very good to near fine dust jacket, with several edge tears. The author's first book.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. 2 volumes, 8vo. (9 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches). 53 collotype illustrations after Blake. Uncut and unopened. Publisher's vellum-backed patterned boards. Limited to 1450 copies, this edition printed on Van Gelder rag paper, plates printed at the Chiswick Press. The first volume is "Paradise Lost," the second miscellaneous poems. Edited by the late Canon Beeching, pictures chosen by Geoffrey Keynes, and includes a section of Notes on Blake's Illustrations by Keynes.

London: Roger Fenton, 1860. Original albumen print stereoview by famed Crimean War photographer Roger Fenton (London, 1819-1869). On the verso of the stereoview card Fenton has SIGNED his name and written the following inscription: "The Cherwell from under Magdalen bridge, part of Magdalen college to the left, the water walk to the right." The autograph and inscription are guaranteed to be original and authentic. Fenton's name is also blindstamped on the front left margin of the mount. From the collection of Robert N. Dennis, who was one of the most important stereoview collectors in the U. S. The New York Public Library's "Robert N. Dennis Collection" includes more than 70,000 stereoviews from his collection, many of which can be viewed on the library's website. The images are clean and reasonably bright; there is some staining of the mount along the edges on front and back... SIGNED. First Edition. Paper. Collectible-Very Good. Illus. by Roger Fenton. 3… Read More

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1965. Stated first edition, 1965, inscribed "For Ann with my very best wishes" and signed by the author on the half-title. Very good in good to very good dustjacket. Author's first novel. Blue and yellow cloth with dustjacket illustrated by Roy Lichtenstein on the front and Andy Warhol on the back. Light edgewear, good hinges, firm text block, name and address written inside front cover beneath the dustjacket flap, embossed stamp with the same address at lower corners of front free endpaper and half-title, no other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has edgewear and a slightly darkened but legible spine, some light shelf soil to the white background, chips to spine ends and lower corner of rear panel, none of the chips interfering with dustjacket design. . Inscribed by The Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. SIGNED BY FRANCIS CRICK without personalization on title page. Francis Crick shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 with James D. Watson for their discovery of the molecular structure of DNA. Very good copy in original blue cloth backed blue boards. Spotting on top edge of text, "running man" remainder mark on bottom edge. Pages 175-186 still uncut from the publisher. Small inconspicuous spot of old damping to lower fore-edge of text, not objectionable. Dust jacket is unclipped in fresh archival mylar wrap. See pictures.. Signed. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Lexington: Anvil Press, 1986. Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 44), printed in red and black in Victor Hammer's American and Andromaque uncial types; 4to, pp. 10, [2], iv, vii, [1], 51, [7]; text printed in red and black throughout; with 21 woodcuts by Fritz Kredel; fine. Original prospectus, order form, extra label, and an autograph note signed by Carolyn Hammer all laid in.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First U.S. edition / First printing. Off white cloth. Near fine with owner name emboss stamp to front free endpaper and also the title page in very good to near fine dust jacket, with several edge tears. The author's first book.

One line has been trimmed at the foot of Page 2, and there is some edge browning/paper clip residue. Original 6-page typescript (carbon copy) manuscript of Johns' 'Heroes of Africa' (a draft of the Chapter 'The Scot Who Walked Alone' - Chapter 4 of 'Biggles Book of Heroes' with significant similarities, but also a large number of textual / content differences). With a couple of pen corrections which may or may not be authorial. Undated, but c1959.

Wien: Gebr?der Paetel, 1900. First Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo. 244pp. Original wrappers preserved. 3 wormholes on the lower part of the margins.Some occasional foxing. In general a very good copy. German text. First edition.Very rare.