Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1980. Near Fine in photo-illustrated wrappers. Faint trace of soiling to upper edge of textblock, wrappers mildly toned, with a trace of rubbing at the crown of the spine. An important issue of TriQuarterly, containing 'The Scalphunters,' the first appearance in any format of Cormac McCarthy's..... More
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Lans-en-Vercors and Geneva: Locus Solus Press, 1961-1962. First Editions. Complete run of this poetry journal called "the overseas wing of the New York School...The magazine was definitely "no nonsense" from the beginning, presenting no manifestoes or editorial statements, just high-quality literature - simply and elegantly presented with care and respect"..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); grey cloth, with titles stamped in white and pale blue on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[10],11-234,[2]pp. Tiny indentation at upper front joint, faint trace of finger-soil to right edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), gently..... 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
Sacramento: By the author, [1970]. Interesting group of items from the native Chicago poet and one of the principal figures of the mimeo revolution. Chiarrello was a poet, editor, and secretary to Lawrence Ferlinghetti; in his letter Blazek mentions the inclusion of the aforementioned poems for "the basement mimeo caper."..... 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
[North Pomfret, VT]: Elysium Press, 1997. First Edition. An exquisitely produced volume gathering the collected correspondence between Bowles and Rorem, spanning the years 1949-1995. "For more than fifty years, the writer/composer Paul Bowles and Ned Rorem have exchanged letters on a wide variety of subjects that encompass much of the..... More
New York: Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, 1969. First Combined Edition. Attractive copy of this omnibus collecting three titles originally published by the Four Seasons Foundation between 1967-68. This edition is also the first trade hardcover edition for all three titles (all published separately as hardcovers by Jonathan Cape in..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy 'D'. Small octavo (21cm); decorative paper-covered boards and silver cloth backstrip; publisher's original unprinted olive green paper dustjacket; [8]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Handsome..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Edition. Second volume of Dorn's best-known work, a long-form political poem about a demigod cowboy travelling the American southwest. The smallest available limitation of the cloth issue. Provenance: From the collection of Earle & Larry Gray. Morrow & Cooney 63b. Limited Issue, one..... More
[San Francisco: S.i., ca.1959]. Large, early photographic portrait of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, taken in the basement of his City Lights Bookstore a few years after it opened. Ferlinghetti is seated on a stool, a shelf of books in the background (including Kerouac's Mexico City Blues), pointing at a door painted with..... 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
[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
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
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
Chicago: Fictioneers, Inc., 1940. First Edition. Contains the stories 'Tong Trouble' by Erle Stanley Gardner, 'Clamp Down' by H.H. Stinson, and 'Too Many Angles' by Roger Torrey, et al. Terrific cover by De Soto for Gardner's story. Hagemann 982. Quarto; illustrated wrappers; 130pp, illus. Edge chipping, tears, and brief loss..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. First Edition. Photoplay edition for the seminal pre-code gangster movie set in Chicago, and the vehicle which catapulted James Cagney to stardom. Cagney's character was based on real-life Chicago gangster Earle "Hymie" Weiss and bootlegger Charles "Deanie" O'Banion. The screenplay, based on Glasmon and..... More
Culver City: Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1957. Original pressbook for the 1957 film noir 'The Burglar,' based on the 1953 David Goodis novel of the same name. One of Goodis' bleakest novels, which he solely adapted for the screen. Director Paul Wendkos turned the screenplay into one of the greatest heist..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. A stunning copy of one of Greene's early "entertainments," basis for Herman Shumlin's 1945 film noir starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, and Peter Lorre. Wobbe A15.b; Hubin, p.175; The Dark Page, Vol.1, pp.120-121. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); powder gray cloth, with..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. The author's second work of non-fiction, an account of a month-long safari he took in East Africa with his wife Pauline in December of 1933. An attractive copy, and a decidedly more interesting dustjacket design than that of the first British edition. Hannemann A39.c. Later impression..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. 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..... More
Fort Lauderdale, FL: S.i., 1984. First Edition. Self-published draft of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's play, set in Hemingway's home in Cuba during the 1950's. In addition to working for South Florida's Sun Sentinel, de Groot was also a member of the award-winning team that covered the Kent State shootings in..... More
San Francisco: Beatitude Press, 1976. 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..... More