Lexington, KY: The University of Kentucky Press, 1971. First American Edition. Sharp copy of the Argentine author's collection of essays, detailing his personal views on the literature of the United States. Borges, fluent enough in English to do translation work, touches on subjects as diverse as transcendentalism, the western novel... More about AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE - REVIEW COPY, SIGNED
New York: Greenberg, Publisher, Inc., 1927. First American Edition. Novel centering around a Paris doctor, a Jekyll and Hyde character acting as a "medical monster" in his clinic, exercising euthanasia and killing off poor victims with ghoulish powers. An attractive example of the Art Deco dustjacket designed by Paul A.... More about DR. MOREL
[Santa Barbara]: Burn Again Press, 1985. First Edition. The first of five titles produced between 1985-1990 by Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin, each printed in small numbers under the faux-imprint Burn Again Press. OCLC finds 6 copies only (NYPL, SUNY Buffalo, Huntington, UCSB, USC, Emory). A true stopper for... More about CORNERED - 1/30 COPIES, SIGNED
Santa: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. Attractive copy of Bukowski's first collection of short fiction. This copy lengthily inscribed to William (Bill) J. Whitaker, who from ca.1970 until the press closed down in 2002 represented Black Sparrow as a traveling salesman on the eastern seaboard, going from bookstore to... More about SOUTH OF NO NORTH - PRESENTATION COPY
Augsburg: Maroverlag, 1990. First Edition. Small collection of pieces culled from Bukowski's 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man' column in the pages of Open City, translated into German by Carl Weissner and illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner, with a portrait of Bukowski by Jörg Fauser. Of the 2 mock-ups, one... More about EINMAL NEW ORLEANS UND ZURÜCK - PRE-PUBLICATION MOCK-UP, SIGNED
Berkeley: Banyan Tree Books, 1975. First Edition. Scarce hardcover issue of Callenbach's self-published first novel, and ecological utopia now referred to as "the novel that predicted Portland." "Callenbach could not find a publisher for his book in 1974, and was told that it was neither a novel or a tract... More about ECOTOPIA: THE NOTEBOOKS AND REPORTS OF WILLIAM WESTON
Paris: Gallimard, 1960. First French Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with publisher's "Service de Presse" punch to lower margin of rear wrapper. Octavo; publisher's plain beige wrappers, printed in black and red; 194pp, [5]. Inscribed by Cioran (in French) on the half-title page. Spine and text edges gently sunned... More about HISTOIRE ET UTOPIE (HISTORY AND UTOPIA) - REVIEW COPY, INSCRIBED
New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1965. First Edition. "A post-nuclear war society struggles to reconstruct itself in an isolated setting. Kept in contact with the outside world by an orbiting disc-jockey, the group's members include Bill, an encysted telepathic twin; Bruno Bluthgeld, the weapons expert responsible for the war; and... More about DR. BLOODMONEY, OR HOW WE GOT ALONG AFTER THE BOMB - 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
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 about THE RESIDUAL YEARS - INSCRIBED TO HIS BIBLIOGRAPHER
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 about THE VERITABLE YEARS, 1949-1966 - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED WITH HOLOGRAPH POEM
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. Hardcover. 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... More about THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
Lawrence, KS: Abington Book Shop, 1966. First Edition. Issue 7 of John Fowler's literary magazine, notable for featuring the first commercially published pieces of S. Clay Wilson's artwork. Wilson, along with Robert Crumb and Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez, was an influential pioneer in the underground comix movement beginning in the 1960's... More about GRIST 7
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. First American Edition. The Nobel Prize-winning author's third book translated into English, collecting the title story and six shorter works. Not an uncommon title, but scarce as a review copy. Klein E3.a.1. First Printing, a review copy, with publisher's printed slip and a.... More about LEAF STORM AND OTHER STORIES - REVIEW COPY
San Francisco: Beach Books, 1968. First American Edition. Beat novelist John Clellon Holmes' copy, bearing his name and Connecticut address rubber-stamped on verso of front wrapper. Not an uncommon item by any stretch of the imagination, but a terrific Beat Generation association. Kraus I.A23. First Printing. Quarto; light brown wraps... More about T.V. BABY - JOHN CLELLON HOLMES'S COPY
Greenwich: Gold Medal, 1957. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo; illustrated wraps, with cover art by Barye Phillips; yellow edge-staining; 143pp, [1]. Some faint stress creases along upper edge of rear cover, with a few hairline fissures to paper at mid-spine; a bright, attractive copy - Very Good+... More about FIRE IN THE FLESH
Greenwich: Gold Medal, 1954. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original. Octavo; illustrated wraps, with cover art by Barye Phillips; yellow edge-staining; 175pp, [1]. Some trivial rubbing along front joint and a few stress creases to covers; Very Good+ to Near fine. Goodis' eighth paperback original, centered around three winos... More about STREET OF NO RETURN
London: James Nisbet and Co., 1857. First British Edition. A discourse on the life and miracles of Christ, a later work by James Hamilton (1814-1867), a minister of Scottish extraction. We find no copies of the First Edition in the trade (2013); OCLC locates 11 copies of this edition, with... More about LESSONS FROM THE GREAT BIOGRAPHY
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. Hardcover. 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... More about THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Paris: Gallimard, 1928. First French Edition. The first of Hemingway's books published in French, collecting the title story and five others: "Mon vieux," " L'Invincible," "Le Champion," "Le village indien," and "Les Tueurs." A distinguished copy, inscribed by the translator to Louis Daniel Hirsch, author and Director of Sales at... More about CINQUANTE MILLE DOLLARS (FIFTY GRAND) - COPY NO.1
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [ca.1954]. Attractive copy of the fifth Dana Girls Mystery. Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (1905-2002) wrote the earliest Nancy Drew and Dana Girls mysteries under the penname Carolyn Keene for the Stratemeyer Syndicate between 1929-1947. The year before her death, she was given a Special Edgar... More about THE SECRET AT THE HERMITAGE - INSCRIBED
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
Berlin: Nero-Film AG, 1931. First Edition. Original Austrian premiere program for Fritz Lang's 1931 German film, customized for the film's premiere at the Apollo Theater in Vienna - Lang's birthplace and home for the earlier part of his life. A highly influential pre-war film noir and masterpiece of world cinema... More about M - ORIGINAL AUSTRIAN PREMIERE PROGRAM