London: Hutchinson & Co., 1959. First Edition. The fifth book by the French crime fiction duo, collecting two long stories written in their disturbing, suspenseful style - "The Evil Eye" and "The Sleeping Beauty". Among the authors' scarcer titles, with no corresponding American release. Hubin, p.39. First Impression. Octavo (19cm);... More about THE EVIL EYE
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Limited issue, one of 60 numbered copies handbound by Earle Gray, signed by Paul Bowles and Gore Vidal. Octavo; ivory paper over boards, quarterbound in teal cloth with white butterfly pattern, with multi-colored titling and Moroccan design on front panel; 417pp, [1]... More about COLLECTED STORIES 1939 - 1976 - INSCRIBED BY JOHN & BARBARA MARTIN
New York: 7 Poets Press, [1962]. First Edition. Early chapbook, with the subjects covered by these poems being those closest to the author's heart: women, the race track, and classical music. A charming inscription to author and long-time friend Seamus Cooney, who in addition to editing five volumes of Bukowski's... More about LONGSHOT POMES FOR BROKE PLAYERS - INSCRIBED TO SEAMUS COONEY
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First Edition. First volume of the poet's extensive correspondence, with a brief introduction by editor Seamus Cooney. Krumhansl 137d. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.193. Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated paper-covered boards and reddish-brown cloth backstrip, with... More about SCREAMS FROM THE BALCONY: SELECTED LETTERS 1960-1970 - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
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Mamroneck, NY: The Midatlantic Review, 1975. First Edition. Sharp copy of this poetry journal, printing three poems by Bukowski, with contributions by Billy Collins, Ann Menebroker, Ray DiPalma, and Christopher Buckley, et al. "Big Max" would also appear in Bukowski's 1977 collection Love Is A Dog From Hell (pp.142-143). Slim... More about THE MIDATLANTIC REVIEW - VOL.1, NO.1 (SUMMER 1975) - SIGNED [TOGETHER WITH] CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT...
Los Angeles: N.P., 1968. About Fine, with light toning to the edges and folds. A copy of the elusive and notorious "surpressed issue" of Open City, this one signed by editor John Bryan on the lower right margin. According to Dorbin, the issue was suppressed due to an allegedly obscene... More about OPEN CITY - ISSUE #60 (JULY 12-18, 1968) THE SUPPRESSED ISSUE, FEATURING "NOTES OF A DIRTY...
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. First UK Edition. Camus's first novel, and the first to be published in English, preceding the American edition published by Knopf, and with an introduction by Cyril Connolly not present in the American edition. Since it was first published by Gallimard as L'Etranger in 1942, Camus's... More about THE OUTSIDER (THE STRANGER
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First Edition. Handsome edition of the authoritative biography on Bukowski, written by long-time friend, fellow poet, and collaborator Neeli Cherkovski. Using sheets from the Random House edition, the entirety of the Black Sparrow Press edition consisted of 226 signed copies, with a small number... More about HANK: THE LIFE OF CHARLES BUKOWSKI - PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED, WITH PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS
New York: Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation, 1951. First Edition. Bragg's much-scandalized pseudonymously-written novel about a "fresh and fetching" seventeen year old girl who got "hooked" on marijuana at the hands of an older man out to seduce her. "But after that drug-induced ecstasy, Joyce's pretty feet trod the path... More about MARIJUANA GIRL
New York: Random House, [1975]. First Edition Thus. Reissue of Doctorow's first novel originally published in 1960 by Simon & Schuster, the basis for Burt Kennedy's 1967 western film, starring Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Warren Oates, and Aldo Ray. Doctorow, Vonnegut, and their families were friends and members of the... More about WELCOME TO HARD TIMES - INSCRIBED TO KURT VONNEGUT & JILL KREMENTZ
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
London: Robert Hale, 1943. First British Edition. An intriguing intersection of hard-boiled literature, the Hollywood novel, and film noir. The book was purchased by Twentieth Century-Fox prior to publication in 1941 and the film was released the same year. Today it is not only viewed as a foundational film noir... More about I WAKE UP SCREAMING
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: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Ullman's novelization of Lucille Fletcher's screen play, which originally premiered in 1943 as a radio drama and was one of the most popular radio plays of that decade. Basis for Anatole Litvak's 1948 film noir, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, and Ann Richards... More about SORRY, WRONG NUMBER - REVIEW COPY
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 about THE EYE OF OSIRIS: A DETECTIVE STORY
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1986. First US Hardcover Edition. Gibson's first novel, originally issued as a paperback original by Ace Books in 1984, and released as a hardcover in the UK by Gollancz the same year. The story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to... More about NEUROMANCER - INSCRIBED
New York: Grove Press, 1962. First Edition Thus. Movie tie-in edition for the author's 1956 novel Down There, basis for François Truffaut 's 1960 film noir Tirez sur le Pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player). Wrappers feature seven stills from the film, with a cover printing a quote by Henry Miller... More about SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER - REVIEW COPY
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1950. First UK Edition. First hardcover edition, and the first time Greene's novelization of his famous screenplay saw print. "Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime - and... More about THE THIRD MAN AND THE FALLEN IDOL
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: The Modern Library, circa 1939. An early printing of Modern Library No. 45, Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket. Bound in green cloth with matching topstain and orange patterned endpapers. Spine cloth imperceptibly toned, spine gilt slightly dulled, with a few scattered spots of foxing to the... More about THE MALTESE FALCON
New York: Gnome Press, 1953. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; red textured boards, with titles stamped in black on the spine and front panel; 224pp. Some mild rubbing to the crown and lower board edges, with some very light offset to pastedowns and endpapers, and light foxing to the upper... More about THE COMING OF CONAN
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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981-1984. First Edition Thus. Handsome set of the Black Sparrow reissue of Lewis's short-lived Vorticist literary and art magazine, originally published in 1914-15. Includes a foreword by Bradford Morrow in No.1, with contributions by Lewis, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Hueffer, Rebecca West, T.S. Eliot, and..... More about BLAST - NOS.1-3 [DELUXE ISSUE, FROM THE ESTATE OF WYNDHAM LEWIS
[San Jose: Lowrider Magazine / A.T.M. Communications, Inc., 1978]. First Edition. Souvenir program for the first national car-hopping Lowrider show, held at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds on June 9-11, 1978. The event was co-sponsored by Lowrider Magazine, who published its premiere issue in January, 1977. Contents include a detailed... More about THE 1ST NATIONAL CAR HOPPING CHAMPIONSHIPS, LOW RIDER SHOW - JUNE 9TH, 10TH, 11TH - SPECIAL...
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Handsome edition of McClure's play, which opened on the second night of the Siege of Berkeley, May 16, 1969. The volume includes the poem "To James B. Rector," to whom the play was dedicated. Rector was killed in Berkeley on "Bloody Thursday"... More about THE CHERUB - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED W/ORIGINAL ARTWORK
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1965. First UK Edition. The first Lt. Clancy novel, and the first to be published under the Robert L. Pike pseudonym. Basis for the Oscar-winning 1968 film Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, and Robert Duvall, in what would produce one of modern cinema's most intense... More about MUTE WITNESS