London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (24cm); blue-grey paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,[2]-604pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Base of spine gently bumped, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £25.00), with mild creasing to..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); original red printed card wrappers; xx,[2]-585,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the title page, and inscribed by him to bibliophile, bibliographer, and musicologist Don Klein on the half-title: "30.xii.94 / For Don Klein / who voyaged to..... More
[North Pomfret, VT]: Elysium Press, 1997. First Edition. An exquisitely produced volume gathering the collected correspondence between Bowles and Rorem, spanning the years 1949-1995. "For more than fifty years, the writer/composer Paul Bowles and Ned Rorem have exchanged letters on a wide variety of subjects that encompass much of the..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1962. First Edition. A collection of letters by Chandler to a variety of recipients on a variety of topics: "Chandler on Chandler", on the mystery novel, the craft of writing, on the world of film and television, on publishing, cats, famous crimes, on his novels, stories..... More
San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1980. First Edition. An extensive collection of gay love poems and letters exchanged between Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky over a thirty-year period, many of them previously unpublished in book format, illustrated throughout with personal photographs, as well as drawings by Robert LaVigne. Uncommon in..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. First Edition. Deluxe issue, one of probably a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for use by the publisher and members within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper covered boards and patterned..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition. First Printing, one of 2,100 copies. Octavo (18.75cm); publisher's dark green dotted cloth (Blanck's binding A / Borst's binding 2, with spine reading "Author of Excursions and A Week on Concord River") titled in gilt on spine, with holly wreaths embossed within an..... More