New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1952. First American Edition. American edition of Akutagawa's best-known collection of work, first published in English (in Japan) by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. in 1952. The stories were written by Akutagawa between 1915-1921, published in literary magazines. The first two stories, "In A Grove"..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, Inc., 1929. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title and Berkeley's fifth novel featuring detective Roger Sherringham. A Crime Club offers to crack a case which has stumped Scotland Yard, involving an accidental death by poisoned..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. First Edition. Exhaustive, richly-illustrated bibliography of the works of Robert Duncan, with a preface by Robert Creeley. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound, signed by the author, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan, this being copy 'H'. Quarto (27.5cm); decorative paper and..... More
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
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
New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Attractive copy of Bowles's third novel, set in the Moroccan city of Fez. Miller A7a. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titling and author's initials blocked and titled in blue, green, and..... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1987. First Trade Edition. Attractive, fine press printing of Bradbury's poetry. During their decades-long friendship and correspondence, the two men were diligent about inscribing and exchanging books with each other. Safire deeply admired Bradbury's writing, notably reviewing Zen and the Art of Writing: Essays on..... More
Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1992. First Separate Edition. First illustrated edition of Bradbury's time-travel story, first published in the pages of Playboy in 1984. During their decades-long friendship and correspondence, the two men were diligent about inscribing and exchanging books with each other. Safire deeply admired Bradbury's writing, notably..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. Scarce lettered copy of Bukowski's strongest collection of short fiction, among his most widely reprinted works from the 1980's. This copy complimented by a superb, full-page oil painting of a dinosaur, covering the entire surface of the page. Krumhansl 80f. Deluxe Issue..... More
Fort Smith: Border Press, 1965. First Edition. Scarce second issue of this short-lived poetry magazine published by Wayne Philpot's Border Press, containing the first appearance of Bukowski's poem "I Keep Wanting To Cry About Everything But I Can't Get Started". He also contributed the cover illustration titled "Sunday Afternoon in..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Graphic Arts, 1997. First Edition. A series of Bukowski's journal entries from 1991-1993, illustrated throughout with Crumb's trademark black and white pen illustrations. Krumhansl 154a. Limited Issue, one of 175 numbered copies, this being copy no.58. Folio (36.5cm); off-white silkscreened cloth-covered boards; publisher's dark red cloth..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition. Since it was first published by Gallimard as L'Etranger in 1942, Camus's first-person narrative of solitude and disaffection has become a classic of existential literature, and the basis for the 1967 Luchino Visconti film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina. Connolly..... 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. cf.Starosciak 11a. First Printing, advance issue. Octavo (21cm); publisher's brick red unprinted..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. First Edition. Carver's breathrough book of short stories, and his first to be issued by a major publisher. A choice copy of an important title. First Printing. Octavo; beige and aquamarine cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine and stamped in blind on front panel;..... 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
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, 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
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México: Blacamán Editor, 2004. Limited Edition. An exquisite fine press publication of the Nobel Prize-winning author's 2002 memoir, covering his childhood years through 1950, when he proposed to his wife. This edition involved close collaboration between García Marquez, his son Gonzalo García (who designed the typeface), and Dutch-born artist Jan..... 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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Collection containing Hemingway's only full-length play, and a substantial number of his finest short stories, including "The Killers," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "Fifty Grand," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Grissom A.16.1.a; Hanneman A16a. First Printing, one of 5,350 copies..... 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: 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
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. First Edition. Humorous football novel centered around Brünnehilde "Pussy" Downing (aka. "Pink Pants"), the blonde-haired, blue-eyed kicker for the (fictional) Bowlby College football team, who beats the Harvard boys 14-0 during their highly-anticipated game. With 12 illustrations throughout the text by John Held, Jr...... More