Paris: Denoël, 1954. First French Edition. Basis for the iconic 1958 film noir Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes. Not only is Vertigo widely recognized as Hitchcock's masterpiece, it is also routinely cited by AFI and Sight and Sound as one..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First U.K. Edition. An association copy of the highest quality, inscribed to Bradbury's long-time friend, mentor, and literary agent Forrest Ackerman. It was Ackerman who introduced a teenage Bradbury to the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, published Bradbury's first story in his fanzine Imagination, and who..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. First American Edition. The author's fourth book, a collection of 22 stories culled from the pages of various pulp magazines. First Printing. Octavo; dark gray cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine; dustjacket; 250pp; illus. Signed and dated in ballpoint pen by..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Bukowski's first book published by Black Sparrow Press, a collection of early poems describing L.A. and Hollywood as cold and inhospitable. A truly scarce volume in the first state; the second state featured a corrected black and white title label applied to..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Bukowski's second novel, following his alter-ego Henry Chinaski through post-WW2 America as he blows through a series of dead-end jobs. Basis for Bent Hammer's 2005 film adaptation, starring Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, and an appropriately sleazy Matt Dillon. Krumhansl 51c. Limited Issue..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First Edition. Collection of prose and poetry published to coincide with Bukowski's 70th birthday. Uncommon in the deluxe issue. Krumhansl 114e. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, this being copy 'T'. Octavo (23.5cm); printed paper-covered boards and patterned cloth..... More
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. Attractive advance copy of Capote's best-known book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, an Edgar Award, and basis for the 1967 Richard Brooks film Starring Robert Blake ad Scott Wilson. First Printing. Octavo (cm); publisher's brick red unprinted wrappers, bound into the..... More
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Capote's first book and his debut novel, a semi-autobiographical work published when he was 23, and his reputation rested chiefly on the strength of his short fiction. Starosciak 1a; Young 404. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige linen, with titling and rule stamped in..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Chandler's second novel, a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title. Basis for Edward Dmytryk's film noir Murder, My Sweet (1944), starring Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, and Anne Shirley, as well as the 1975 adaptation starring Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe. Bruccoli A2.1.a; The Dark Page..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1979. First Edition. Fifth book in Cleary's popular Ramona Quimby series, winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1981. A surprisingly elusive title in the first printing. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine;..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1934. First Edition. Wall Street mystery featuring Dr. Hiram Arthur, an engineer-turned-private investigator who serves the upper echelons of Manhattan's financial district. After a financier is murdered in his private office, "wily old Dr. Arthur and his team of voluptuous secretaries tangle with the..... More
New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1957. First Edition. The author's sixth book, a revision of his 1956 story A Glass of Darkness. "Ted Barton returns to the isolated town of his youth. He finds it subtly different. Places and people have been added and taken away. Some inhabitants have strange..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition. Attractive copy of the second installment in Everson's "The Crooked Lines of God" trilogy. The holograph poem is untitled, though Everson states it is "from Gethsemani", written on Holy Thursday, 1978. Uncommon in the deluxe issue. Morrow & Cooney 306d. Deluxe Issue..... More
London and Culver City: Villiers Publications Ltd., 1959-1962. Complete run of this little magazine, published in London and Culver City, CA between 1959-1962. Factor and Linick, studying at UCLA and USC, were both drawn to poetry readings throughout L.A.; at the time, Coastlines was the only significant little magazine in..... More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1951]. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 3,500 copies bound from British sheets. Octavo (22.25cm); teal cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,425,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, tiny tear at crown, with some faint dust-soil along upper board edges; contents..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1929. First Edition Thus. Sharp copy of Freeman's third novel featuring scientific detective Dr. John Thorndyke, which first saw publication in the U.S. in 1912 under the title The Vanishing Man. Dr. Thorndyke put his skills to work after the disappearance of a world-renowned..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1924. Attractive copy of Freeman's first novel, introducing the public to Dr. John Thorndyke, whose scientific approach to detection was something of a departure in the genre during this period. Thorndyke attempts to clear the name of a young man who stands accused of..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1914. First Edition. An early Freeman mystery featuring Humphrey Challoner, a specialist in criminal anthropology, who after the murder of his wife dedicates his life to the apprehension and punishment of criminals (and by "apprehension and punishment" I mean he murders them, shrinks their..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1952. First Edition. Prior to the publication of his first novel, Gault was already a prolific writer for the pulps, publishing more than 300 stories for magazines like Argosy, Black Mask, and Dime Mystery. By the time the 1950's came around, the pulp industry..... More
Paris: L'Edition D'Art H. Piazza, 1921. First Edition. Handsome edition of of The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of Ancient Greece, with wrappers and text exquisitely illustrated by Edmond Dulac. One of 1300 numbered copies, this being copy no.90. Quarto (30cm); publisher's original illustrated wrappers; [ii],123,[7], with 14pp of mounted..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. A superlative 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. Octavo..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First American Edition. Sharp copy of the third novel in James's long-running series featuring detective Adam Dalgliesh. "Dalgliesh is called in when the body of a mystery writer is found in a floating dinghy. What gives this story a touch of color is that..... More
[Newport, RI: S.i., 1943]. An early, lyrical, and autobiographical prose piece by Kerouac on hitch-hiking out of New York to his native New England. Written while Kerouac was convalescing in the mental ward of the Naval hospital in Newport, RI, while he was enlisted in the Navy; he was hospitalized..... More
N.P. Universal Pictures Co., 1948. A Fine copy with a single center fold, printed in red and violet on buff-colored paperstock. Measures roughly 5.75 X 8.75 inches (closed) and 5.75 X 11.5 inches (opened). An original advertising herald for the 1948 film noir "Secret Beyond the Door," directed by Fritz..... More
Berlin: Alfred Weiner / Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1929. First Edition. Original program and advertising herald for Lang's final silent film, starring Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, and Gerda Maurus. Based on the novel by Lang's wife, Thea Von Harbou, Frau Im Mond is considered one of the first serious science fiction films..... More