N.p. N.P., Circa 1910-1915. Near Fine, with minor fading and light wear to the extremities. An original vintage photograph, measuring 5 3/4" x 3 1/2" with narrow borders. Photographer not identified. A roughly postcard sized image, but printed on thin photographic paper, not card-stock, and with no impression verso. An... More about ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF FRANCISCO "PANCHO" VILLA
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. The Delaware author's first novel, a sweeping novel tracing the rise and fall of several generations of a Dunkard family, which was published with the assistance of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Biggs and Fitzgerald were roommates during their years at Princeton University; the... More about DEMIGODS - INSCRIBED
San Francisco: Cranium Press, 1966. Second Edition. Brautigan's first regularly published book, inscribed to Shigeyoshi "Shig" Murao, who managed the City Lights Bookstore for more than 25 years. Murao was at the very center of the San Francisco Beat scene, who knew Brautigan since he was an awkward 20-something newcomer... More about THE GALILEE HITCH-HIKER - INSCRIBED TO SHIG MURAO
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First Edition. Sharp copy of the penultimate volume of Bukowski's posthumously-published poems issued by Black Sparrow Press. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound with an original silkscreend print tipped in, this being copy 'E'. Octavo (23.5cm); printed paper-covered boards and patterned... More about OPEN ALL NIGHT: NEW POEMS - DELUXE EDITION
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2003. First Edition. Handsome copy of the former First Lady's memoir. Limited Issue, one of 1,300 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.421. Octavo (23.75cm); full red leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all... More about REFLECTIONS: LIFE AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
Concord: William B. Ewert, 1986. First Edition. A slim, elegant production, collecting two of Carver's poems - "Reaching" and "Soda Crackers." Limited Issue, one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, this being letter 'D.' Slim octavo (22cm); single sheet of thick off-white stock, printed in two colors and... More about TWO POEMS - LETTERED COPY, SIGNED
Paris: Gallimard, 1952. First French Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with "S.P." printed on upper left corner of rear panel. Octavo; publisher's plain beige wrappers, printed in black and red; 184pp, [3]. Signatures uncut, wrappers lightly toned at extremities, with tanning to pages diagonal crease with partial tear to... More about SYLLOGISMES DE L'AMERTUME (ALL GALL IS DIVIDED) - REVIEW COPY
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First Edition. The author's highly-regarded first book, featuring CIA analyst Jack Ryan. Basis for John McTiernan's Oscar-winning film, starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, and Scott Glenn. First Printing, conforming to the following points: book measures 9.25" tall, with 18 lines of text on copyright page... More about THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER - WITH SIGNED BOOKPLATE LAID IN
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1955. First Edition. Attractive copy of the first installment in Cleary's beloved series of Ramona Quimby novels. Told from the perspective of Ramona's older sister, Beezus, the novel explores the dynamic between the two girls, conveying the valuable message that it's possible to love... More about BEEZUS AND RAMONA
San Francisco: Crime Music, 1977. Original program / songbook given out at a CRIME show at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco on December 17, 1977. Provides the set list for the night and includes lyrics to such songs as Frustration, Crime Wave, Rock 'n Roll Enemy #1, Piss on Your... More about CRIME - ORIGINAL PROGRAM & SONGBOOK, SIGNED BY JOHNNY STRIKE
Berkeley and San Francisco: Last Gasp Eco Funnies, 1981-1993. First Edition. Complete run of Crumb's magazine-sized comics anthology, published between 1981-1993. The magazine featured Crumb's own new work, and showcased work by a new generation of cartoonists alongside many from the Zap! Comix days. Contributors include Harvey Pekar, Raymond Pettibon... More about WEIRDO - NOS.1-28 (COMPLETE RUN, SIGNED
New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1963. First Edition. "Frozen sleep seems like a humane way to end unemployment and overpopulation pressures: Send the excess citizens to the future. The government warehouses are filled with bibs when a political fight erupts over whether or not to dispose of them through a.... More about THE CRACK IN SPACE - SIGNED
New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Sharp copy of Dick's third book and second published novel. "Fed-gov is reconstructing the post-war world according to the precepts of relativism. Jones, a former carnival fortune-teller and preacher who can see a year into the future, says the alien drifters, origin... More about THE WORLD JONES MADE / AGENT OF THE UNKNOWN - SIGNED
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. First UK Edition. First translation into English of Dostoevsky's first novel, originally written over the course of nine months between 1844-45. An epistolary novel, focusing on the relationship between two relatives, both living in humiliating poverty, who struggle with their lack of self-esteem... More about POOR FOLK: A NOVEL
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First Edition. Substantial collection of Fante's correspondence, written over a period of 50 years. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by Cooney and Joyce Fante, this being copy 'C'. Thick octavo (23.5cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip... More about JOHN FANTE: SELECTED LETTERS 1932-1981 - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923. Early UK printing of Fitzgerald's first novel, centered around the lives of young socialites in post-World War I New York. Both the first and second UK printings of This Side of Paradise vary "unauthoritatively from the first Scribner's printing of the novel... More about THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
New York: Harper and Row, 1968. First American Edition. Basis for the well-received 1999 film "El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba," starring Salma Hayek; the film was nominated for the Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1999. The 1982 Nobel Prize winner's first book in English, particularly desirable as a.... More about NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL AND OTHER STORIES - REVIEW COPY
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Trade Edition. Attractive copy of the Lebanese-American author's fifth English language book, an illustrated volume of aphorisms, poems, and parables published three years after The Prophet. Uncommon in dustjacket. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt... More about SAND AND FOAM: A BOOK OF APHORISMS
London: Peter Owen, 1969. First Edition. Well-preserved, distinguished copy of the author's second and scarcest book. Set in rural Tennessee, the novel is centered around two families living in a bleak and sparsely-populated town, who quarrel over a plot of land that separates their farms. "The feud erupts into violence... More about THE LOLLY-MADONNA WAR - M.G.M. FILE COPY, SIGNED
New York: Lawrence E. Spivak, 1943. First Edition. First edition of Hammett's "novel" comprised of two stories - "The Big Knockover" and "$106,000 Blood Money" - in which the Continental Op "sets out to find the gang that robbed the Seaman's National Bank of several million dollars, and does battle... More about $106,000 BLOOD MONEY - INSCRIBED TO LILLIAN HELLMAN
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Attractive copy of Hemingway's classic novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and generally considered the catalyst for Hemingway winning the Nobel Prize. Basis for the 1958 John Sturges film starring Specer Tracy. Grissom A.24.1.a; Hanneman A45a. First Printing... More about THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First British Edition. First Issue. Octavo; pink and white cloth, with titles stamped in blue on the spine; 294pp. Top edge slightly dusty, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, imperceptibly toned at the spine with two faint splash marks to the same; Near Fine, without chips, tears... More about THE MEMORIAL: PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY
New York: New Directions, 1960. First Edition. Culled from the pages of his 512-page manuscript, the excerpts from Kerouac's novel Visions of Cody were shaped by his publisher at New Directions into a tight, cohesive package - something Kerouac's original manuscript lacked. At the center of the novel was Neal... More about EXCERPTS FROM VISIONS OF CODY - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
St. Petersburg, FL: S.i., [n.d. but ca.1965]. Humorous postcard from Jack Kerouac to Valentin "Pan" Ostrovsky, postmarked 26 January and mailed from Kerouac's 10th Avenue North address in St. Petersburg, Florida - the author's final address. Ostrovsky was the foreign editor for the Moscow Literary Gazette, responsible for interviewing and..... More about TYPED POSTCARD, SIGNED, TO VALENTIN OSTROVSKY
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. A notable work by the influential Fluxus poet, which he began in early June of 1962, as a chart listing 280 names of kinds of light. Contains six pages of end-matter detailing his notes on methods used during the composition of his... More about 22 LIGHT POEMS - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED