Welcome

Caliban Book Shop specializes in Literary First Editions, Fine Arts, Poetry, Exploration & Travel, Americana, Philosophy, General Scholarly, Fine Press, and Leatherbound Editions.

We maintain a large open shop of 25,000 uncatalogued volumes including rare books (like the good old days), and a warehouse of over 30,000 catalogued volumes that comprises our on-line stock. Come visit when you're in town; we're open seven days a week and near other shops. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.

We are near the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the city's lovely art museum. We're located in a small shopping district filled with boutiques and restaurants, making for a nice promenade.

Featured Items

1951, First printing, stated First edition. 251 pp. Hardcover, tan cloth, 8vo. Good+ copy in a Good+ dust jacket: Covers faded and discolored; slight slant to spine; light bumping to spine ends. Fading to endpapers; very sparse foxing to prelims; pages have tanned, but text remains unmarked. DJ shows some chipping to head of spine; shallow chipping to foot of spine. Light wear along edges and folds of DJ; fading and 2 small stains to rear panel of DJ. Jacket housed in a mylar wrap. Digital images available upon request. The Illustrated Man
Bradbury, Ray
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. 1951, First printing, stated First edition. 251 pp. Hardcover, tan cloth, 8vo. Good+ copy in a Good+ dust jacket: Covers.. more
Price: $185.00
First edition, 1913. Cloth hardbound, illustrated with a frontispiece, text is clean and unmarked, 308 pp. Very good copy, wear to tips with minor fraying, rubbing to covers, some relevant clippings pasted to front endpapers (creating some offsetting). There is a vertical dent running along the center of the spine; the cloth has not been torn and the spine isn't broken, but there is a dip Inscribed by Cather's mother on the front flyleaf. Digital pictures available on request. O Pioneers!
Cather, Willa Sibert
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1913. First edition, 1913. Cloth hardbound, illustrated with a frontispiece, text is clean and unmarked, 308 pp. Very good copy, wear.. more
Price: $2,000.00
44 pp. Small 8vo., quarter vellum & boards, printed at the Chiswick Press. Intials, half-title, and other hand illumination in brilliant color, by "E.O.B." on January 25, 1899. Owner's name at fly leaf. Very Good. A unique copy, as all other copies we found were uncolored. Unmarked text. Boards sunned, gilt titles bright and complete. Small 8vo. Sonnets from the Portuguese
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
London: Bell, 1898. 44 pp. Small 8vo., quarter vellum & boards, printed at the Chiswick Press. Intials, half-title, and other hand illumination in.. more
Price: $350.00
Sight and Touch
Paz, Octavio; Balthus
Limited Editions Club, 1994. A tan linen folio measuring 22.5" x 23.5" with a tan goatskin spine. The text, which is dedicated to the.. more
Price: $2,400.00
© Caliban Books 2010
powered by Bibliopolis