Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Handsome edition of McClure's play, which opened on the second night of the Siege of Berkeley, May 16, 1969. The volume includes the poem "To James B. Rector," to whom the play was dedicated. Rector was killed in Berkeley on "Bloody Thursday"... More about THE CHERUB - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED W/ORIGINAL ARTWORK
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1965. First UK Edition. The first Lt. Clancy novel, and the first to be published under the Robert L. Pike pseudonym. Basis for the Oscar-winning 1968 film Bullitt, starring Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, and Robert Duvall, in what would produce one of modern cinema's most intense... More about MUTE WITNESS
Reading, MA: Young Scott Books, 1971. First Edition. Collection of 17 tales from Aesop, told in verse by Ennis Rees, and illustrated throughout by Gorey. Contains "The Ant and the Grasshopper," "The Lion and the Mouse," "The Dog and the Crocodile," and "The Donkey That Fell in the River," et... More about LIONS AND LOBSTERS AND FOXES AND FROGS: FABLES FROM AESOP - SIGNED
London: Faber & Faber, 1987. First British Edition. A volume dedicated to the work of Jamie Reid, the creative force behind the imagery used by the Sex Pistols during the 1970's. It focuses on the full range of his paintings, graphics, and drawings, with accompanying text by Reid and Jon... More about UP THEY RISE: THE INCOMPLETE WORKS OF JAMIE REID - INSCRIBED
New York: New Directions Books, 1951. First Edition. Sharp copy of this collection of four plays (Phaedra, Hermaios, Iphigenia, and Berenike), issued as No.20 in The Direction Series. Warmly inscribed to Jonathan Williams (1929-2008), who first wrote to Rexroth as a dropout from Princeton, looking for advice about avoiding the... More about BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS - INSCRIBED TO JONATHAN WILLIAMS
New York: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Press, 1998. First American Edition. The first volume in Rowling's beloved children's series - a unique copy in an attractive artisan binding. Errington A4(a). First Printing. Octavo (23.75cm); design binding by Patricia & George Sargeant of the Dragonfly Bindery; full burgundy leather... More about HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE
Mexico: 1956. An original Mexican one sheet movie poster for the 1956 Alfredo Crevenna film adaptation of one of Juan Rulfo's stories, collected in his first book "El Llano En Llamas" (The Burning Plain). Most Mexican movie posters were cheaply manufactured and printed on newsprint, which is brittle to begin... More about TALPA - ORIGINAL MEXICAN FILM POSTER
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Distinguished copy of Shepherd's breakout book, a collection of radio stories and personal memories capturing his childhood in Indiana. Inscribed to Shepherd's long-time friend Hugh Hefner, who not only urged him to write down his stories, but would end up published... More about IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH - INSCRIBED TO HUGH HEFNER
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Stegner's eleventh novel, centered around wheelchair-bound historian Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era grandparents. The novel was based directly on the letters of Mary Hallock Foote, later... More about ANGLE OF REPOSE
Zürich: Humanitas Verlag, 1940. First German Edition. Association copy of Steinbeck's most enduring novel, narrating the long and enduring struggle of the Joad family to find some measure of happiness, and some thread of human dignity, during their move west from Oklahoma to California. "A naturalistic and detailed picture of..... More about DIE FRÜCHTE DES ZORNES: ROMAN (THE GRAPES OF WRATH) - INSCRIBED
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First American Edition. Stoker's fourth major work of non-fiction, a biography of the English stage actor Henry Irving (1838-1905), widely acknowledged as one of the inspirations for Stoker's Count Dracula. First Printing. Two thick octavo volumes (22.5cm); vertically-ribbed red cloth, with titling and decorations... More about PERSONAL REMINISCENCS OF HENRY IRVING [2 VOLUME SET
Santa Barbara: Neville Publishing, Inc., 1983. First Edition. Distinguished copy of Towne's screenplay for Roman Polanski's 1974 neo-noir, centered around a private detective who becomes entangled in a series of disputes over southern California water rights during the late 1930's. This copy inscribed as a birthday gift to Towne's long-time... More about "CHINATOWN" A SCREENPLAY - INSCRIBED TO HUGH HEFNER
Berlin: August Scherl, G.m.b.h., 1926. First Edition. Attractive copy of von Harbou's best-known work, a novel of class struggle set in a futuristic urban dystopia. Fritz Lang's 1927 film adaptation, with a screenplay co-written by von Harbou, would go on to premiere in more than 40 countries between 1927-1929. A.... More about METROPOLIS
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First Edition. The author's second collection of short fiction, collecting 23 stories. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [xii],273,[2]pp. From the collection of Craig Anderson, Maxwell Anderson's son, and the long-time manager of The... More about BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN - INSCRIBED
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. First American Edition. First volume of White's beloved sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King. Basis for the 1963 Walt Disney Pictures adaptation, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. Bleiler (1978 ed.), p.208. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); royal blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and... More about THE SWORD IN THE STONE