New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition. Appel's second novel, "the story of an unscrupulous scientist who succeeds in having a search for a lost city and hidden treasure heavily financed, who takes with him his ex-wife in the role of niece, to deflect the attention of one of..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition. The Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book, containing the title novella, three short stories, and a one-act play. "The title piece, a truncated novelette which is heavily introspective, concerns a New York Jew who has failed miserably in marriage, as he longs for..... More
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Tor, 1935. First Edition. The first volume of Borges's short stories and a cornerstone work of magical realism, the contents written between 1933-34 and published in the Argentine newspaper Crítica. "A chronicle of the lives of famous villains like Billy the Kid and the Tichborne Claimant and..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. First American Edition. Collection of 39 essays on various historical figures, originally published as 'Otras Inquisiciones' in 1952 and translated here into English for the first time. A stunning copy. First Printing. Octavo; pale gray cloth, with titles stamped in silver and dark gray..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. Bowles's only novel, finished in 1941, centered around the theme of women and their attempts at independence. One of her protagonists, Christina Goering, "tries to earn salvation by leaving her home and her female companion to challenge the hate outside world. There..... More
New York: Marks Edition, 1947. First Edition. Slim quarto (30.5cm); original printed card wrappers; 7,[1]pp. Signed by Bowles on the front cover, above his printed name. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. A piano solo by Bowles, "written as a dance number for Anita Alvarez. First performance at Town Hall..... More
London: John Lehmann, 1952. First Edition. Bowles's second novel, centered around an American who arrives in Morrocco, who becomes consumed with the seedier side of Tangier's International Zone. Miller A6a. First Impression, one of 7,000 copies. Octavo (20.25cm); light blue-grey cloth, with titles stamped in maroon on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-318,[2]pp..... More
New York: New Directions Books, 1949. First American Edition. Bowles's first novel, following a trio of Americans who travel deep into the Sahara desert after the conclusion of World War II, who embark seeking different things, but ultimately find only deception, despair, and death. Basis for Bernardo Bertolucci's 1990 film..... More
New York and Barnstable, MA: Holt, Rinehart & Winston / Crane Duplicating Service, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm); photomechanically reproduced sheets, comb-bound into peach printed wrappers, with holograph publication date and price highlighted at upper right corner of front wrapper, and holograph number in grease pencil at lower right..... More
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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Chandler's third novel, set largely in Pasadena, with a complex plot involving counterfeiting, blackmail, and the theft of a rare and valuable American coin. Basis for John Brahm's 1947 film noir The Brasher Doubloon, starring Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts, Fritz..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Early printing, lacking the requisite "first American edition" statement on the copyright page. Octavo (22cm); light gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-46,[2]pp. Spine gently sunned, some faint, scattered foxing to upper board edges and spine, and dust-soil to..... 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
New York: Random House, 1939. First Trade Edition. "Contains two long separate stories. "The Wild Palms" is a study of integrity in love. "Old Man" is an astonishing account of the Mississippi River flood of 1927 and of an "escaped" convict's adventures in trying to get back to prison; the..... More
[San Francisco: Beatitude], 1975. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of "perhaps the quintessential "Beat" publication...originally published in mimeograph at the Bread and Wine Mission on Grant Avenue in San Francisco's very hip North Beach...Beatitude was originally planned as a weekly newsletter, "designed to extol beauty and promote the beatific life among..... More
London: The Grey Walls Press Limited, 1948. Second English Edition. Octavo (19cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-269,[3]pp. Light wear to spine ends, faint foxing to cloth and text edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 8s.6d. net), gently spine-sunned, a little edgeworn and..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of three copies specially bound and designated for the printer, binder, and publisher's files, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by author on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with title label mounted..... 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: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First American Edition. A superlative copy of the Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece, and likely the most widely-read Spanish language novel aside from 'Don Quixote.' The present example is a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in; the slip differs from other..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. The Philadelphia author's third novel, a bizarre paean and cathartic payback to his estranged wife, Elaine Astor. The novel tells the story of Clara Ervin, a manipulative, calculating, and cold-blooded woman who systematically emasculates and ruins her husband, as well as..... More
Printed in U.S.A. Columbia Pictures Corp. 1956. A Very Good+ to Near Fine set of Lobby Cards measuring 11 X 14". Cards #1 and #5 each have a dozen discreet pinholes, some light creasing and general edgewear around the margins, and a single 1/4" closed tear at the right martin..... More
Johannesburg: S.i., 1973. "To me the writer's freedom is his right to maintain and publish to the world a deep, intense, private view of the situation in which he finds us. If he is to work as well as he can he must take, and be granted, freedom from the..... More
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896 [but 1895]. First Edition. Attractive copy of Hardy's last completed novel, centered around Jude Fawley, a stonemason who dreams of becoming a scholar. Purdy, pp.86-91. First Impression, mixed state, with gatherings A-B, D, and F showing partially-blank pages unnumbered, and gatherings C, E, G-H..... More
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London: Hendersons / The Bomb Shop, 1919-1921. First Editions. Complete run of this short-lived but important inter-war journal dedicated to literature and the arts, founded and edited by Chaman Lall, an Indian immigrant and law student at Oxford University. Coterie had a strong focus on modernist poetry – including some..... More