London: Printed for the Executors of Richard Sare, and sold by R. Williamson, 1726. Third Edition, Corrected. Collier's translation of the Roman emperor's personal writings, a key work of Stoic philosophy. This edition printed by William Bowyer; his records show 1,000 copies printed (cf. Maslen & Lancaster (The Bowyer Ledgers)... 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: Denoël, 1952. First French Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in a Very Good+ example of the rare dustjacket. The jacket has one shallow chip at the crown of the spine, with a light rubbing and a several short closed tears to the extremities. The French crime fiction duo's..... More
Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, 1951. First Edition. First Printing. Near Fine in illustrated self-wrappers. Tiny owners name stamp to half-title and title page, and aside from some very discreet touch up to the black near the crown of the spine, a bright, Fine copy with the text remarkably unfoxed. A.... More
[Detroit: Alternative Press, 1970]. First Edition. Attractive copy of this early Alternative Press item, only a small portion of which was signed by the author. The literary and artistic small press was started in 1969 by Ken and Ann Mikolowski, initially focussing on the work of authors and artists in... More
Chicago: Literary Times - Cyofeth Publications, 1965. First Edition. Lovely copy of this collection, featuring poems which previously appeared in the pages of little magazines like Outsider, Epos, The Naked Ear, Targets, San Francisco Review, Impetus, Sciamachy, and Quicksilver, et al. Gathered together here for the first time, with a.... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Sharp copy of Bukowski's first novel, an autobiographical work based on his years spent as a postal clerk and mail carrier in Los Angeles. He left his job there when publisher John Martin offered him $100 a week for life if he... More
Detroit: Planet Detroit Chapbooks, 1986. First Edition. A fresh, Fine copy, notably absent any hint of toning. Original tan wrappers, stapled, printed in red and brown. One of 500 copies offered gratis to subscribers of Planet Detroit Poems. Krumhansl 101. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition. Attractive copy of this illustrated short story of marital discord, set in a small town in Illinois. For the deluxe issue Bukowski has signed, hand-colored, and extra-illustrated the front cover with different colored markers, a practice he employed with less than a.... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1956. First British Edition. First Impression. Octavo; blue textured boards, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; 214pp. A touch of light soil to the text edges, else very Near Fine. The unclipped dustjacket has some minor wear along the extremities, a discreet diagonal crease... 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: S.i., [ca.1963-64]. Superb, early letter, connecting three of the most influential illustrators of the 1960's. We find young Crumb living in New York - well before the wide recognition Zap Comix would bring him - appealing to his friend Harvey Kurtzman for help. Kurtzman, formerly of EC Comics..... More
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
New York: New Directions, 1948. First Edition. Attractive copy of Everson's first major collection, gathering selections from his previous volumes, together with at least one unpublished poem and a three-page preface by the poet. Warmly inscribed to his preliminary bibliographer, the poet and editor David Kherdian, who included Everson's work... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. First Edition. The most limited state of this posthumously-published volume, containing two novellas: "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy." Deluxe Issue, one of 26 specially-bound lettered copies, this being copy 'R'. Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label applied... More
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Novel set in rural Mississippi during the 1940's, dealing heavily with race relations and centered around the murder of a white man and the black man accused of the killing. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title, and basis for the highly-regarded 1949 Clarence Brown film... More
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
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
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New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1927. First Edition. Scarce anthology of mystery stories compiled by Wells (1862-1942), collecting works by Poe, Hawthorne, Bierce, Dreiser, Moffett, and others. Of particular note is Wells's inclusion of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper, a key work of feminist literature, first published... More
Lawrence, KS: T. Williams, Publisher, 1967. First Edition. Broadside printing a poem written by Ginsberg at midnight, February 12, 1966, on his way to Kansas. Lino-cut of the title, Ginsberg's name, and his trademark three-headed fish uncredited. Morgan AA7. Original illustrated broadside, offset printed in black on light brown wove... More
Sacramento: Guerilla, 1992. First Edition. Well-preserved premiere issue of this short-lived Northern California graffiti and hip-hop newspaper. Introductory matter gives a clear not to David Schmidlapp's International Graffiti Times, "our brothers from New York that took the "G-Word" out of aerosol" (p.2). Contents feature coverage of the Sacramento and Bay... More
New York: Macmillan, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; full red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; blue-gray topstain; 220pp. Bookplate signed by Grafton loosely laid in. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, lightly worn along lower edge, with a few tiny tears. A nice copy of... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hall's first book, a pseudonymously-written gangster novel set in Los Angeles, which he reportedly wrote in two weeks and sold to Farrar, Straus. Uncommon; OCLC notes 15 copies. Hubin, p.182. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in red... More
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
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition. Perhaps the best of the author's late-career novels, and certainly one of the most difficult to find in collectors condition. A typically unforgiving jacket in terms of showing wear poorly, this example is almost entirely unrubbed, and still retains the gloss... More