New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First Edition. 8 stories. First Printing, a review copy, with six pages of publisher's publicity materials folded and laid in. Octavo (24cm); dark green and navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [vi],329,[1]pp. From the collection of Craig... More about OBLIVION: STORIES - REVIEW COPY, INSCRIBED
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First Edition. 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 Strand's rare book room - inscribed by Wallace... More about BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN - INSCRIBED
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1931. First Edition. Pseudonymous adventure novel with fantastic and lost race elements, set in Rwanda and Burundi, and centered around a tribe of pygmies who worship a group of volcanoes - one of which erupts. Unaccountably scarce, not mentioned by Barron, Bleiler, or Locke;... More about RED LAVA
London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. First Edition. "A group of immortals survive the sinking of Atlantis and live until the present day, witnessing many significant events in world history" (Barron 3-142. Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide). An elusive lost-race novel, particularly in dustjacket. OCLC notes a scant 12 holdings -... More about THE LOST GARDEN
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1898. Attractive copy of this lost race adventure novel about the discovery of an Aztec remnant in Mexico. Locke (A Spectrum of Fantasy, Vol.1), p.122; Bleiler (1978 ed.), p.109. Early printing. Octavo (19cm); red vertically-ribbed cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt... More about THE AZTEC TREASURE-HOUSE
London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, [1894]. First Illustrated Edition. First illustrated edition (following the first edition in 1890) of Johnstone's lost race adventure novel of the discovery of a nation of Norse descent in the Arctic regions. Locke (A Spectrum of Fantasy, Vol.1), p.124; Bleiler (1978 ed.), p.110. Octavo... More about THE PARADISE OF THE NORTH: A STORY OF ADVENTURE AROUND THE POLE
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1932. First Edition. The eleventh book in the author's Captain Kettle series, a lost race novel set in an ancient Mayan city. Provenance: From the collection of Spectrum of Fantasy author George Locke. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black... More about CAPTAIN KETTLE, AMBASSADOR
New York: G.W. Dillingham Company, 1910. First Edition. Lost-race adventure novel by this disciple of H. Rider Haggard, set on a hidden Caribbean island ruled by Voodoo. The castaways eventually escape to the United States, and the novel concludes with a volcano beneath the island blowing it to pieces. Provenance... More about THE HOUSE ON STILTS: A NOVEL
New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Sharp copy of McBride's National Book Award-winning novel, centered around a slave who unites with John Brown's abolitionist mission. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); brown and burnt orange paper-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket;... More about THE GOOD LORD BIRD
New York: New Directions, 1960. First Edition. Culled from the pages of his 512-page manuscript, the excerpts from Kerouac's novel Visions of Cody were shaped by his publisher at New Directions into a tight, cohesive package - something Kerouac's original manuscript lacked. At the center of the novel was Neal... More about EXCERPTS FROM VISIONS OF CODY - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Second American Edition. Hardcover. Key translation of Mann's novel of obsession, centered around an author suffering from writer's block who visits Venice, and finds himself becoming increasingly infatuated with an adolescent boy. A key translation by H.T. Lowe-Porter, the great popularizer of Mann, following... More about DEATH IN VENICE
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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981-1984. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Handsome set of the Black Sparrow reissue of Lewis's short-lived Vorticist literary and art magazine, originally published in 1914-15. Includes a foreword by Bradford Morrow in No.1, with contributions by Lewis, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Hueffer, Rebecca West, T.S. Eliot..... More about BLAST - NOS.1-3 [DELUXE ISSUE, FROM THE ESTATE OF WYNDHAM LEWIS
![THE SERPENT, ATLAN, THE CITY [ATLAN SAGA - BOOKS 1-3]. Jane Gaskell](/pictures/thumb/4062.jpg?v=1562546417)
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1963-1966. First Editions. Hardcover. First three volumes in Gaskell's Atlan saga, "a sprawling popular romance series set in old Atlantis, full of sex, human-animal couplings, chases galore, mad scientists and a whole farrago of clichés" (Barron 4A-115, Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide). Locke (A Spectrum..... More about THE SERPENT, ATLAN, THE CITY [ATLAN SAGA - BOOKS 1-3
Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1937. First Edition. "This scenario is directly inspired by a phantasy called "The House of Incest," written by Anais Nin" (from dedication page). The frontispiece, featuring a bizarre etching by Rattner, is often found lacking. Shifreen & Jackson A13; Pearson A-48. One of 200 numbered copies... More about SCENARIO (A FILM WITH SOUND) - SIGNED
Brooklyn: The Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn, [1972]. Broadside announcing the premiere for Ginsberg's first play - a mixed-media production inspired by his highly-regarded poem written between 1957-59. A five-part play, set between Paterson, NJ and the Five Boroughs, this adaptation involves Ginsberg and his immediate family as central characters... More about BROADSIDE: THE CHELSEA THEATER CENTER PRESENTS KADDISH, THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ALLEN GINSBERG'S...
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Attractive copy of the Newberry Award-winning author's historical novel for young readers, giving "a lively and truthful picture of life in the Connecticut hill country in the 1840's. It is also a story of cheerfulness in adversity, and of courage... More about BLUEBERRY CORNERS
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923. Hardcover. Early UK printing of Fitzgerald's first novel, centered around the lives of young socialites in post-World War I New York. Both the first and second UK printings of This Side of Paradise vary "unauthoritatively from the first Scribner's printing of the... More about THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. Sharp copy of Mrabet's novel about a young Moroccan boy who runs away to Tangier, and the low company he keeps and encounters there. An early collaboration between Mrabet and Bowles. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped... More about THE LEMON
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Posthumous work containing sketches of the author's life in Paris during the 1920's, "in the early days when we were very poor and very happy." Hanneman A31a. First Printing, one of 85,000 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); gray marbled paper and rust-colored cloth... More about A MOVEABLE FEAST
Tenafly, NJ: Eric Weber Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Mid-1970's pick-up manual / sex-ed book, illustrated throughout. And yes - it's as weird as you think it is. Hardcover Issue. Quarto (28.5cm); photo-illustrated boards; [vi],119,[3]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, base of spine gently nudged, with some light, scattered soil... More about HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO A SINGLE WOMAN: A PICTURE BOOK OF LOVE
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. Hardcover. Dylan's first book, set to be published in 1966, pending a few changes he wanted to make, but a motorcycle accident halted publication for nearly five years. In the interim, a copy of the proof was stolen and numerous piracies were circulated. It... More about TARANTULA
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1977. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Co-authored novel set in an Earth mostly destroyed by atomic war, caused by one Carleton Lufteufel, the God of Wrath. "His church is in the ascendant among the survivors. Tibor McMasters, legless and armless but still the best painter... More about DEUS IRAE
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Attractive 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 about THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
New York: Random House, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first novel, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2017. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black and slate-gray paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xii],341,[15]pp. Signed by the author across the title page. Crown gently nudged, remainder... More about LINCOLN IN THE BARDO: A NOVEL - SIGNED
New York: Harlin Quist, 1968. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Children's book about a shaggy dog a family encounters when they move into a new house. Toledano B37b. With "SECOND PRINTING" stated on copyright page, and $1.50 price printed on rear wrapper. Square octavo (19cm); illustrated card wrappers; unpaged; illus. Hint... More about HE WAS THERE THE DAY WE MOVED IN