New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Trade Edition. Attractive copy of the Lebanese-American author's fifth English language book, an illustrated volume of aphorisms, poems, and parables published three years after The Prophet. Uncommon in dustjacket. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Oblong octavo (15.25cm); pictorial paper-covered boards; dustjacket; [32]pp; illus. Hint of dustiness to upper and lower board edges, else Near Fine, and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), spine-sunned, dust-soiled, and lightly edgeworn, with some faint staining to..... 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
Boston: South End Press, 1984. First 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
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New York: Transition, 1936. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Harry Brown, Denis Devlin, Eugene Jolas, Norman McCaig, Dylan Thomas, Charles Tracy, Oliver Wells, and others. Notable for containing the first part (of three) of the Jolas translation of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.Artworks by László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Cesar Domela..... More
[Newport, RI: S.i., 1943]. An early, lyrical, and autobiographical prose piece by Kerouac on hitch-hiking out of New York to his native New England. Written while Kerouac was convalescing in the mental ward of the Naval hospital in Newport, RI, while he was enlisted in the Navy; he was hospitalized..... 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
London: Voyager / HarperCollins, 2005. First U.K. Edition. Fourth volume in Martin's best-selling Song of Ice and Fire series, basis for HBO's Emmy Award-winning series Game of Thrones. Inscribed to long-time friends Mike and Mary Fitzsimmons, who together with Mike's first wife, Barbara, founded and ran Archon, a multi-genre convention..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1927. First American Edition. Stunning copy of the third Pooh book, chronicling the adventures of Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Piglet, and a very loveable bear. While copies of the UK edition - even very nice ones - are ubiquitous, first editions of their American counterparts..... More
London: Andre Deutsch, 1972. First Edition. Glowing critical volume on the work of the late Trinidadian Nobel Prize-winner, by his then-literary protégé Theroux. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 144pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Fine in a...... More
Weimar: Gebrüdern Gädicke, 1799. First Edition. Uncommon volume by Hunnius (1765-1807, an Armenian physician living in Weimar), and among the earliest titles sold by Salomon Henkel. Although the famous Henkel Press did not arrive in New Market, Virginia until 1805, there is reason to believe that some printing was being..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. First Edition. A retrospective first-person narrative in which several time and story lines gradually converge. Told by one Eugene Debs Hartke, and purportedly written in prison on scraps of paper, each scrap a thought, story, or digression unto itself. Limited Issue, one of 250..... More
Bensenville, IL: Mimeo Press, 1965. First Edition. Collection of Wantling's poems published by Doug Blazek's Mimeo Press, including several early poems which first appeared in the pages of little magazines like Input, Wormwood Review, and Dust. Cover art by d.a. levy, with a nice contemporary inscription to poet and editor..... More
Beverly Hills & New York: United Artists, 1959. Folio; illustrated wrappers, saddle-stitched; 12pp. Some trivial edgewear, a few tiny tears, and a one inch tear to lower left edge of final page; Near Fine. Original film pressbook for the 1959 film noir based on John Wexley's 1930 play about a...... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First American Edition. The author's best-known work, a catastrophe novel about Londoners stricken with blindness due to a cosmic phenomenon, and wave of large, intelligent, carnivorous plants taking over the city. An attractive copy of a science fiction highspot, making all of the..... More