FINE USED BOOKS & EPHEMERA

Selected Titles

Here are just a few highlights from our collection. If you are interested in purchasing any of these titles, please call (518-610-9069) or e-mail aem@knickerbockerbooks.com.  

Currently available from Knickerbocker Books:

H.G. Wells. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. First British Edition. 1898.
A beautifully preserved copy of the scarce First Edition. London. William Heinemann. With the 16-page publisher's 1897 Autumn Announcements at rear, the earliest state of this book.  NEAR FINE. Bright, clean, firmly bound in gray cloth hardcover. Small owner name on front pasted endaper is the only marking! viii + 303 text pages; 16 ad pages. A rea treasure!  $3,200.  Contact us for details or photos.

Truman Capote. LOCAL COLOR. First Edition
1950, Random House. Capote's third book, notes and sketches about persons and places. Illustrated with photos by such notables as Cartier-Brsson, Beaton, Bissinger, Brandt and Coffin. A Near Fine copy in Very Good Dust Jacket. 6 x 9-1/2";  92 pages.  $195 

Doctor Seuss. THE CAT IN THE HAT. 1957 First Edition in dust jacket.
Random House First Edition, in unclipped dust jacket with 200/200 price on flap. Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Hardcover of unglazed (not shiny) paper over boards. Pages bound as one signature. A, exceptionally clean, unmarked and well bound copy. 6-1/2 x 9"; 64 pages.  $4,500

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1898 BRITISH FIRST EDITION