Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1990. First Edition. Sharp copy of the first installment in Lansdale's East Texas series featuring Hap Collins (Liberal White bad-ass) and Leonard Pine (a Black, gay, Republican Vietnam vet). Basis for Sundance TV's popular mini-series Hap and Leonard. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); red cloth, with..... More
Cleveland: 7 Flowers Press, 1967. First Edition. Scarce, collaborative work by these two prominent Cleveland poets. Contents consist of a series of letters from Wagner to levy, all written from Niagara Falls, and all deeply steeped in Buddhist/Egyptian/Jewish mystical language. With a lengthy introduction by T.L. Kryss, and a preface..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First American Edition. The first volume in Mann's great tetralogy, telling the story of the Biblical Joseph's rise as a statesman in Egypt, his conduct during the epic famine, and his restoration to his father Jacob. Easily the most elusive of the four books..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1915. First American Edition. Late novel by Marsh (1857-1915), English author of the best-selling novel The Beetle (1897), whose prodigious output of supernatural and crime fiction spanned the late 19th century until his death. First published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1914, in The Woman in..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. First American Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in plain orange wrappers printed in black. The uncorrected proof for Murakami's second story collection, comprised of six pieces written in the wake of Japan's 1995 earthquake in Kobe. One of the author's less common proofs..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Handsome edition of Oates's play, "first presented by the New Phoenix Repertory Company at the Playhouse II Theatre, 359 West 48 Street, New York City, on December 30, 1973." Morrow & Cooney 195d. Deluxe Issue, one of 10 copies specially bound, each..... More
Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, 1993. First Edition. Catalog for the artist's exhibition at the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, September 29-October 31, 1993. With photographs of six installations with complimentary text by the artist. Eight-panel fold-out exhibition catalog, which opens into an 18" x 24" poster..... More
Cambridge: Printed by Hilliard & Metcalf, For the University, 1811. Second American Edition. First published in London in 1766, the Cambridge editions of the Lexicon were published in 1802 and 1811, for use at Harvard University. This edition slightly expanded from the 1802 edition. Rosenbach 161. Octavo (23cm); contemporary tree..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1930]. First Revised American Trade Edition. A handsome edition of the Rubaiyat, exquisitely illustrated by Willy Pogany, with an introduction by George Saintsbury. Small quarto (25.75cm); full tan cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, and black and..... More
London: S.i., 1977. First Edition. Fourth issue of Scottish writer and musician Sandy Robertson's Patti Smith fanzine, the name being derived from lyrics to Smith's song "Ain't It Strange." Alternately billed as "a rock n roll magazine for the modern world / teen aesthetes / young existentialists / the new..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition. A superlative copy of "the first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer. An important contribution to computing literature in its own right, it also provided some of the most complete bibliographies available on the subject at the time..... More
London: Pluto Press, 1984. First UK Edition. An early, important account on the evolution of hip-hop music and culture, exploring its roots and various manifestations. Contents include background information on a number of seminal groups, with coverage of DJ-ing, MC-ing, graffiti and breakdancing. Complemented with superb black and white photographs..... More
Paris: Seghers, 1974. First French Edition. Volume containing the screenplay for Truffaut's 1973 film Day For Night, starring Jacqueline Bisset, and his personal journal written while filming Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Illustrated throughout with stills from both films. An interesting association copy inscribed to Rudi Fehr, whose credits include House..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2005. Limited Edition. Handsome edition of the author's eighth novel. Octavo (23.75cm); full deep brown leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; [xii],274pp. Signed by the author on a special limitation page. A Fine, unread..... More
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New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, 1937. This issue contains the story "Dusk To Dawn," by Cornell Woolrich, a notably early appearance in Black Mask, with stories by W.T. Ballard, John Lawrence, Norbert Davis, and Frank Gruber. (Hagemann #2486; Nevins, 490). Quarto (25cm); illustrated pulp wrappers; 128pp; illus. A few vertical..... More