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
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
![Item #2274 THE WOLF KING; OR LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD: AN OLD WOMAN'S TALE [IN] THE PORT FOLIO,...](https://captainahabsrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2274.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563426431)
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: 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
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
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. A nice association copy 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. Sifton (1939-2019) was Ashbery's long-time editor, who also co-published Selected Poems and April Galleons with Viking..... More
![Item #4150 LOCUS SOLUS I-V [COMPLETE RUN]. John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, Kenneth Koch, James...](https://captainahabsrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4150.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1568074598)
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: 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
N.p. S.i., 2006. Manuscript notes for Atwood's conversation with Orhan Pamuk at the PEN World Voices Festival, hosted by Cooper Union on April 25, 2006. The Turkish author had just dodged a jail sentence in his home country for publicly denigrating Turkish identity (by mentioning in a 2005 interview that..... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. First Edition. Advance excerpt from Atwood's 2006 collection of 11 inter-related stories, printing "The Art of Cooking and Serving." Inscribed to bookseller Glenn Horowitz, who would go on to publish Birds, Atwood's 2012 collaborative work with artist Billy Sullivan. Slim octavo (21.75cm); pictorial card wrappers..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1972. First Edition. A distinguished copy of Atwood's second novel, touching on themes of gender identity, environmental conservation, and Canadian nationalism. Fry (1917-?) was employed at McClelland and Stewart from 1965-1971, working closely with Farley Mowat, Sinclair Ross, and Ernest Buckler. Significantly, she served as..... More
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1981. First Edition. A distinguished copy of Atwood's ninth collection of poems, inscribed to author and political activist Kay Boyle (1902-1992). Atwood would write a generous introduction to the reissue of Boyle's Three Short Novels (The Crazy Hunter, The Bridegroom's Body, and Decision), published in 1982..... More
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1983. First Edition. Limited Issue, signed by the author on a preliminary leaf. Octavo (22.5cm); full red leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; marbled endpages; all edges gilt; 169pp. Hint of dust-soil to text edges, else Fine. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1915. First Edition. A historic volume - the very first book issued by publisher Alfred A. Knopf - beginning a long tradition of publishing continental literature in translation. The volume collects four of Augier's best-known dramatic works: 'Olympe's Marriage,' 'Monsieur Poirier's Son-In-Law,' 'The House of..... More
New York: Harper Collins, 2003. First Edition. The author's fourth book, offering "a consideration of the many pressing issues that surround the role of books in contemporary society." First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black and brown paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjaket; 444pp. Fine in a very..... More
![Item #4335 FIN DE PARTIE, SUIVI DE ACTE SANS PAROLES [ENDGAME, FOLLOWED BY ACTS WITHOUT WORDS] -...](https://captainahabsrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4335.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1575981069)
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1957. First Edition. Attractive copy of Beckett's second dramatic masterpiece concerning the ennui surrounding Hamm and Clov, two mutually-dependent characters living in a wasteland of rubbish. Lieberson (1911-1977) was the president of Columbia Records from 1956-1971, and again from 1973-1975. Prior to that, he had..... More
London: John Calder, 1964. First UK Edition. Beckett's sixth published novel, first published in French as Comment c'est in 1961 by Les Editions de Minuit, and translated from the French by the author himself. The Limited Issue was simultaneously released in vellum and in tan morocco (100 copies each), the..... More
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1951. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 500 numbered copies specially bound for friends of the publisher and printed on Alfa Navarre, this being copy no.282. Octavo (18.5cm); original beige wrappers, with titling and publisher's logo printed in black on spine and front cover; original..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition. The Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book, containing the title novella, three short stories, and a one-act play. "The title piece, a truncated novelette which is heavily introspective, concerns a New York Jew who has failed miserably in marriage, as he longs for..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); full black cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine; powder blue topstain; dustjacket; [viii],294,[2]pp. Trivial wear to spine ends, faint foxing to text edges, with some offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75)..... More
![Item #3139 THE EVERYDAY THEATRE BULLETIN [NO.1]. Jerry Benjamin, Allen Ginsberg, Bertolt Brecht,...](https://captainahabsrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3139.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1663626603)
New York: A New/Kinda Theatre Company, [1965]. First Edition. First (and only) issue of this mimeographed journal devoted to avant-garde theatre and poetry. The brainchild of Jerry Benjamin's budding (and short-lived) New/Kinda Theatre Company in New York, a group planning productions of Ginsberg's "Kaddish," "The Rubberheart Soup Opera" by Andy..... More