New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974. First Edition. Roth's eighth novel, and the first to feature his recurring character Nathan Zuckerman, who over the following decade would figure prominently in The Ghost Writer (1979), Zuckerman Unbound (1981), The Anatomy Lesson (1983), and The Prague Orgy (1985). A significant association..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974. First Edition. Roth's eighth novel, and the first to feature his recurring character Nathan Zuckerman, who over the following decade would figure prominently in The Ghost Writer (1979), Zuckerman Unbound (1981), The Anatomy Lesson (1983), and The Prague Orgy (1985). A significant association..... More
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1978. First U.K. Edition. Roth's ninth novel, centered around the life of emotionally insecure and sexually promiscuous literature professor David Kepesh. It was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1978. A significant association copy inscribed to Alison Lurie (1926-2020), winner of the 1984..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. First Edition. Galley's for Salter's fifth novel, which originated as a screenplay he wrote for Robert Redford in 1976. The mountain climbing piece, based on the exploits of maverick American climber Gary Hemming, was one Salter spent over a year researching. "He took up..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First Edition. A substantial collection of poems by this venerable counterculture figure and musician, many of which first appeared in the pages of Notus, Long Shot, Sulfur, The World, Heartland, and San Francisco Magazine, et al. A significant copy from the collection of Israel..... More
New York: Random House, 1934. First American Edition. Saroyan's first book, a collection of 26 short stories produced in small numbers. An important copy, showing a young Saroyan's early admiration for Valenti Angelo, the renown Italian-American illustrator and printmaker. Their friendship would evolve, and the two would ultimately collaborate on..... More
New York: Ecco Press, 2010. First Edition. Smith's memoir of making her way as an artist, poet, and musician in New York during the 1960's, where she met her lifelong friend Robert Mapplethorpe. Smith spent several years scraping by, doing all manner of jobs while trying to develop her artistic..... More
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First Edition. The Arkansas poet's scarce fourth book, one of seven titles he would release through the Mill Mountain Press prior to his suicide in 1978 at the age of 29. A collection of 30 poems, with four illustrations by artist Ginny Crouch Stanford throughout..... More
Zürich: Humanitas Verlag, 1940. First German Edition. Association copy of Steinbeck's most enduring novel, narrating the long and enduring struggle of the Joad family to find some measure of happiness, and some thread of human dignity, during their move west from Oklahoma to California. "A naturalistic and detailed picture of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Superb association copy of this key volume of Theroux's travel writing, inscribed to Nobel Prize-winner V.S. Naipaul. Among the many pieces here, Theroux includes the story of how he met Naipaul in 1966, while working as a lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda..... More
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1946. First Edition. Thompson's own copy of Greenberg's anthology of farm stories, "gathered for those kindred spirits who have a lasting love affair with Mother Earth." Contributions include stories by Tolstoy, Louis Bromfield, E.B. White, William Saroyan, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Jesse Stuart, O.E. Rolvaag, and others..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Edition. A distinguished copy of Updike's penultimate collection of poems. Lurie (1926-2020), a friend and contemporary of Updike's, won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Foreign Affairs (1984) two years after Updike won it for Rabbit Is Rich. In recent years she wrote..... More
London: W.H. Allen, 1973. First U.K. Edition. A series of autobiographical essays on film by the legendary director, produced, and screenwriter. A fine association copy - Baxter would go on two write the first serious study on Vidor for the Monarch Film Studies series in 1976. First Impression. Octavo (22cm);..... More
New York: The Kulchur Foundation, 1985. First Edition. A warm association copy from Waldman to poet Tom Clark (1941-2018), a long-time friend and collaborator. The book is accompanied by a dense and revelatory letter in which she expresses her displeasure over Lita Hornick's handling of this publication. "Alas there are..... More
El Cerrito, CA: Dust Books, 1966. First Edition. Collection of poems dealing primarily with Wantling's experiences in Korea and with drugs. Contains a 2-page foreword by Len Fulton. A wonderful association copy connecting two important Chicago poets. Slim octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 40pp; illus. Inscribed by the author to..... More
Bensenville, IL: Mimeo Press, 1965. First Edition. Collection of Wantling's poems published by Doug Blazek's Mimeo Press, including several early poems which first appeared in the pages of little magazines like Input, Wormwood Review, and Dust. Cover art by d.a. levy, with a nice contemporary inscription to poet and editor..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. First Edition. A humorously inscribed copy of the second Hoke Moseley novel, from the collection of noted science fiction author Philip José Farmer (1918-2009). Most likely, the authors met through Dennis McMillan, who published both of them during the 1980's. Hubin (Supplement), p.127. First..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Edition. The third Hoke Moseley novel, from the collection of noted science fiction author Philip José Farmer (1918-2009). Most likely, the authors met through Dennis McMillan, who published both of them during the 1980's. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); yellow paper-covered boards, with titles..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. First Edition. An early published work by Windham (1920-2010), his novel based on the life of his close friend Tennessee Williams, the book's dedicatee. An Atlanta native, Windham and his lover, Fred Melton, left for Manhattan in the late 1930's, where Windham was absorbed into the..... More