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Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1957. First Edition. Attractive copy of Beckett's second dramatic masterpiece concerning the ennui surrounding Hamm and Clov, two mutually-dependent characters living in a wasteland of rubbish. Lieberson (1911-1977) was the president of Columbia Records from 1956-1971, and again from 1973-1975. Prior to that, he had..... 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
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Bukowski's first book published by Black Sparrow Press, a collection of early poems describing L.A. and Hollywood as cold and inhospitable. A truly scarce volume in the first state; the second state featured a corrected black and white title label applied to..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Bukowski's second novel, following his alter-ego Henry Chinaski through post-WW2 America as he blows through a series of dead-end jobs. Basis for Bent Hammer's 2005 film adaptation, starring Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, and an appropriately sleazy Matt Dillon. Krumhansl 51c. Limited Issue..... More
London: London Magazine Editions, 1974. First UK Edition. First hardcover edition of Bukowski's 1973 collection Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, published by City Lights Books. Uncommon signed. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); glossy photo-illustrated boards; dustjacket; [xii],205,[7]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Faint diagonal..... More
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
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: 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. First Printing. Octavo (cm); publisher's brick red unprinted wrappers, bound into the..... More
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Capote's first book and his debut novel, a semi-autobiographical work published when he was 23, and his reputation rested chiefly on the strength of his short fiction. Starosciak 1a; Young 404. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige linen, with titling and rule stamped in..... More
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2013. Limited Edition. Handsome edition of the author's first novel, winner of the Anthony Award in 1995, and basis for the recent TV miniseries starring Daniel Bruhl and Dakota Fanning. Octavo (23.5cm); full burgundy leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers;..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. The author's first book, a gangster novel chronicling the rise of young Jimmie Williams from petty thief to "menace to society." Coe, an attorney by trade, would go on to write 11 more crime novels between 1928-1952. Basis for the 1928 American..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. An attractive vintage copy of Dahl's beloved children's classic, basis for Mel Stuart's 1971 adaptation, and the more recent film directed by Tim Burton (2005). Early reprint, with 5 lines of text beneath the author's bio on the colophon and the Oompa-Loompa's still appearing..... 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., 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
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
London: Allison & Busby Ltd., 1984. First UK Edition. Ellroy's second book, first published by Avon in 1982 as a paperback original; the British edition is the first and only hardcover format of this title. An important novel in the Ellroy canon, as it marks the first appearance of his..... More
New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. "Faulkner intended this as a novel, though it includes material previously (or concurrently) published as individual stories. The sections are entitled "Was," "The Fire and the Hearth," "Pantaloon in Black," "The Old People," "The Bear," "Delta Autumn," and "Go Down, Moses." Generally these..... 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, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped Second Printing dustjacket. Two small rubbed spots on the cloth at spine and rear panels, with a bit of faint even toning to the pastedowns and endpapers, else a sharp copy with..... More
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
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: 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: Macaulay, 1938. First Edition. First novel by the author of Detour, centered around the question of whether a man can be punished twice for the same crime. Hubin, p.172. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); variant bound in smooth cornflower blue cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine; dustjacket;..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. One of Greene's early "entertainments," basis for Herman Shumlin's 1945 film noir starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, and Peter Lorre. Rare in this format. Wobbe A15.b; Hubin, p.175; The Dark Page, Vol.1, pp.120-121. Quarto (30.25cm); publisher's tape-bound galley sheets (rectos, 8"..... More