New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. The Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel, set in a fictional Ohio town and following the lives of two young Black girls and the bonds they shared from girlhood through adulthood. A brief, if significant, inscription to Jong, marking a decades-long friendship between..... More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972. Second British Edition. Nabokov's second novel in English, first published by Henry Holt in 1947. A dystopian novel set in the fictitious European city of Padukgrad, centered around a civilized philosopher, Adam Krug, who is caught up in the tyranny of a police state. A...... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. First Edition. A monumental association copy of Nabokov's own adaptation for the film version of his 1955 novel. The recipient, Irving Paul Lazar (1907-1933), was a legendary talent agent and dealmaker who represented both the Hollywood elite, and a stable of authors that included..... More
N.p. S.i., 1985. Charming portrait of Vladimir and Vera Nabokov, well-dressed and seated together on a small sofa. Inscribed by Vera to Nabokov scholar and family friend Matthew J. Bruccoli (1931-2008), who studied under Nabokov while attending Cornell University in the early 1950's, and whose association and collaborative efforts with..... More
Eugene: Student Publications Board of the University of Oregon, 1957. Octavo, 64 pp. in illustrated wraps. Contains Ken Kesey's earliest commercially published appearance, a story titled 'The First Sunday In September.' A strong associtation copy, inscribed by Kesey at his contribution to the artist Tom Hardy. The inscription is in..... More
Detroit: Schuman's, 1937. First, Limited Edition. Association copy of Porter's tragic short novel, set on a small South Texas dairy farm between 1896-1905, which the author described as "the history of an innocent man pursued to his death by the will to do evil of another man, a will to..... More
New York: New Directions Books, 1951. First Edition. Sharp copy of this collection of four plays (Phaedra, Hermaios, Iphigenia, and Berenike), issued as No.20 in The Direction Series. Warmly inscribed to Jonathan Williams (1929-2008), who first wrote to Rexroth as a dropout from Princeton, looking for advice about avoiding the..... More
[Washington, DC]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. First Edition. The seventh of FDR's Christmas Books, printed at his own expense as a special White House holiday gift each year between 1935-1944. This volume includes ten speeches Roosevelt made over a historic six month period of his presidency, commencing with the..... More
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939. First Edition. The fifth and rarest of FDR's Christmas books, bar none. Unlike all of the other books in the series, this one has neither a printed nor an autographed colophon. A June 26, 1939 letter from Pete Jarman, Vice-Chairman of the Joint..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953. First UK Edition. A cornerstone work of film journalism, originally conceived by Ross as a series of articles she wrote for The New Yorker on the production of John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage (1951). "She takes one picture...from the time the property was..... 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
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
New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. Roth's third book, and his only novel with a female protagonist – "a Midwestern girl who believes herself to be the moral superior of her family and friends, and how she and those around her are destroyed when she sets out to prove..... 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: Delacorte Press, 1982. First, Limited Edition. A privately published volume for the occasion of Vonnegut's 60th birthday, containing stories, tributes, photos, and illustrations. Contributors include Art Buchwald, John Updike, Irwin Shaw, Richard Yates, Gail Godwin, John Irving, E.L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Garry Trudeau, George Plimpton, Truman Capote, and..... More