San Francisco: The Bomb Hip-Hop Magazine, 1992. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this Bay Area fanzine, one which played a critical role in shaping the West Coast hip-hop scene. Founded by Bay Area DJ David Paul in 1991, The Bomb was published during a time when there were very few..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 125 numbered copies signed by the author. Octavo (24.5cm); multi-colored coarse striped cloth, with three-color circular title label mounted to front cover and rectangular label at spine; 71,[15]pp. Hint of foxing to lower edge of textblock, else Fine..... 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
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 red paper over quarter navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 197,[2]pp. Base of the spine is faintly nudged, with a 2mm strip of fading at the crown of the spine, else Fine and clean..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Small remainder dot and short slash to lower text edge, else Fine. Jacket very faintly sunned at the spine, otherwise an above average example. This copy has been signed and dated by..... 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
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First Trade Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 200 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [10],11-276,[8]pp. Two tiny foxed spots to right edge of textblock, else Fine in a...... 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
[Washington, DC]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. First Edition. The seventh of FDR's Christmas Books, printed at his own expense as a special White House holiday gift each year between 1935-1944. This volume includes ten speeches Roosevelt made over a historic six month period of his presidency, commencing with the..... More
New York: The Century Company, 1916. First Edition. A group of loosely connected stories set in the New York underworld. Basis for Paul Scardon's 1920 silent picture starring Pinna Nesbit, William B. Davidson, and William Ingersoll. Scarce in dustjacket. OCLC finds 15 copies. Hubin, p.367. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); black..... More
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1897. Second Edition. Though frequently and erroneously cited as the first fictional use of fingerprints as a method of identification (that would be Twain's "A Thumb-Print and What Came Of It" in Life on the Mississippi), Pudd'nhead Wilson "is nevertheless important because the entire plot..... More
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Normal, IL: Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; [viii],[6],7-275,[21]pp ads. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the preliminary leaf. Trivial wear to extremities, else very Near Fine. A well-preserved copy of the "Younger Writers" issue of Review of Contemporary Fiction, highlighting the work of..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. First American Edition. Novel in which a university don becomes involved in séances that summon a Master Spirit from beyond; the entity occupies Parham's body, urging him to overthrow the British government, which precipitates another World War. It all turns out to..... More
