Los Angeles: N.P., 1979. An original advertising flyer for an early Black Flag show at the Hong Kong Cafe in Los Angeles (27 September, 1979). A single 8.5 X 11 inch sheet, original xerox on mint green paperstock. Very Good, with minute loss at upper right corner tip, and otherwise..... More
Warrenton, VA: Printed at the Sun Book and Job Office (Baltimore, MD), 1869. First Edition. A pro-Confederate utopian fantasy, which the author dedicated to the children of the South. Set in the wake of the Civil War, the story is centered around Randolph, a wounded Confederate soldier, who encounters the..... More
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1980. Near Fine in photo-illustrated wrappers. Faint trace of soiling to upper edge of textblock, wrappers mildly toned, with a trace of rubbing at the crown of the spine. An important issue of TriQuarterly, containing 'The Scalphunters,' the first appearance in any format of Cormac McCarthy's..... More
Lumbee, NC: Quetzal-Vihio Press, 1971. First Edition. Contains Bukowski's uncollected poem "the courage is the sun," alongside works by John Fowler, Les Standiford, Terrance Withers, Rochelle Holt, Gerald Locklin, Douglas Blazek, Lyn Lyfshin, and others. Not uncommon institutionally, but seldom found in the trade. Oblong quarto (21.5cm); offset printed sheets..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Handsome edition of Adams's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir. "Printed privately in 1907 and published to wide acclaim shortly after the author's death in 1918, The Education of Henry Adams is a brilliant, idiosyncratic blend of autobiography and history that charts the great transformation..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. First American Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in illustrated wrappers. An Advance Reader's Edition of the Booker Prize winner's forthcoming novel (September 2011), his first since "The White Tiger," with an initial print run of 100,000 copies. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011. Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy no.41. Octavo (24cm); lavender cloth and purple goatskin, with titles stamped in silver on spine, and pictorial only inset on front cover; [ii],169,[5]pp, with four color..... More
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Philadelphia: Printed for The Editor & Elizabeth Dickens, 1802. Important issue of this Federalist newspaper, published by Joseph Dennie and Philadelphia bookseller Asbury Dickens. Notable for the inclusion of 'The Wolf King; or Little Red Riding Hood,' a decidedly grotesque version of the traditional Little Red Riding Hood story told..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); royal blue paper and goldenrod cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [2],xii,206,[4]pp. Bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid in. Gentle sunning to upper and lower board..... More
Berkeley: Quinto Sol Publications, Inc., 1972. First Edition. The author's first book, a coming-of-age novel set in New Mexico after World War II, and one of the cornerstone works in the Chicano literary canon. According to the American Library Association, it continues to be among the most frequently challenged books..... More
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. A sharp copy of Anderson's hard-hitting play, centered around a disillusioned veteran who arrives on the island of Key Largo, FL in order to visit the family of a man who died under his command during World War II; what unfolds is a...... More
New York: Basic Books, 1977. First Edition. American literary critic and intellectual powerhouse Lionel Trilling died of cancer in November, 1975. Soon after, three of Trilling's former Columbia University gradate students solicited works by a number of Trilling's former colleagues, comrades, and interlocutors to produce Art, Politics, and Will. The..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition. Appel's second novel, "the story of an unscrupulous scientist who succeeds in having a search for a lost city and hidden treasure heavily financed, who takes with him his ex-wife in the role of niece, to deflect the attention of one of..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; rough brown cloth over boards, quarterbound in teal cloth, with titles and designed stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 186pp. Stamp of Edmund Grainger Productions on front endpaper, dated 1952, and likely from a production company involved..... More
Hattiesburg, MS: University of Southern Mississippi, 1992. First Edition. An important issue of The Southern Quarterly, wholly dedicated to the work of Cormac McCarthy. In addition to being a valuable reference source, the issue contains critical essays by Alan Cheuse and Leo Daughtery, et al., with the notable inclusion of..... More
New York: The Society for Etheric Research, n.d. First Edition. Intriguing work by the artist and filmmaker, based on Thomas Edison's search for a machine to communicate with the dead. Illustrated with a series of four "phantograms," printed in two colors, with corresponding directions for viewing with the enclosed 3-D..... More
N.p. Anrea Evans, 1981. First Edition. A series of French 'conversations' between dogs with grainy images of iconic Parisian street scenes on verso. Listed in OCLC, with no holdings located. Slim octavo (21.5cm); pale blue sewn wrappers, xeroxed in black; [8]pp; illus. Signed by the artist in pencil on both..... More
Oakland: Words & Pictures, 1987. First Edition. Artist's book presenting 10 short stories, each of which frames a drawing. Each page is split horizontally, creating a mix-and-match effect with all other stories. OCLC finds 11 copies. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being copy no.48. Quarto..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Deluxe issue of Ashbery's 1975 experimental book-length poem, often overlooked in favor of his critically-acclaimed Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror published the same year. "In fact, The Vermont Notebook has often been elided entirely from the Ashbery canon: excluded from Ashbery's bibliography..... More
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Lans-en-Vercors and Geneva: Locus Solus Press, 1961-1962. First Editions. Complete run of this poetry journal called "the overseas wing of the New York School...The magazine was definitely "no nonsense" from the beginning, presenting no manifestoes or editorial statements, just high-quality literature - simply and elegantly presented with care and respect"..... More
New York: Gnome Press, 1952. First Edition. Second volume in Asimov's epic series inspired by the fall of Rome, portraying "the destruction of a human galactic empire and the efforts of psychohistorians to shorten the coming dark ages. To do this, they set up the hidden Foundation to guide humans..... More
London: Grayson & Grayson, Ltd., 1952. First U.K. Edition. Asimov's best-known work, a collection of "Nine "postironic" robot stories, originally published 1940-1950, with new material added for continuity. Contains Asimov's famous Three Laws of Robotics and involves the history of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., and the strong-willed "robopsychologist"..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Lengthy anthology of short fiction from the golden age of science fiction (1920-1938), edited by Isaac Asimov. Contributors include Asimov, Edmond Hamilton, Neil R. Jones, S.P. Meek, P. Schuyler Miller, Clifford Simak, Charles Tanner, Jack Williamson, Laurence Manning, Donald Wandrei, Murray..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. First Edition. The Indiana author's novelization of the life of John Chapman (1774-1885), the American frontiersman and folk hero better known as "Johnny Appleseed." Smith A-357. First Printing, with publisher's "C-P" code on copyright page. Octavo; olive green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, [1985-1986]. First U.K. Edition. Atwood's chilling dystopian novel, set in "a world ruled by militaristic fundamentalists in which sexual pleasure is forbidden. Conception and childbirth have become difficult and the handmaid of the title belongs to a special breeding stock. The story is annotated by a historian..... More