Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Edition. Sharp copy of the final volume of Bukowski's posthumously-published poems issued by Black Sparrow Press. The remainder of his posthumously-published work would be issued by Ecco Press. Limited Issue, one of 500 numbered copies bound with an original serigraph print, this being..... More
![BROADCASTING CONTRACT FOR MARIONETTES, INC. [SIGNED]. Ray Bradbury](/images/noimage.png)
New York: National Broadcasting Company, 1955. Contract for the X Minus One broadcast of Bradbury's story Marionettes, Inc., originally published in Startling Stories (March, 1949), and later included in his 1951 collection The Illustrated Man. Among Bradbury's most popular and unsettling stories, centered around the company Marionettes, Inc., which creates..... More
New York: Doubleday, 2009. First Edition. The author's eighth novel, inscribed to his friend, advocate, and correspondant of 25 years, who he holds in high esteem; Lethem has written effusively about Berger and his work in The Paris Review and The New York Times. A distinguished copy, connecting two prominent..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2020. First American Edition. The third and final volume in Mantel's Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy, centered around the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in metallic red..... More
![MASS FOR SMALL THINGS [WITH] SONG - PROOF COPIES. Michael Forrest](/pictures/thumb/4729.jpg?v=1602287180)
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1966. First Editions. The fifth and seventh publications of John Martin's Black Sparrow Press, printing two poems by southern California poet Michael Forrest, who was the second author (after Charles Bukowski) published by the press. Martin relayed the following to us, when we queried him..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. First Edition. Galley's for Salter's fifth novel, which originated as a screenplay he wrote for Robert Redford in 1976. The mountain climbing piece, based on the exploits of maverick American climber Gary Hemming, was one Salter spent over a year researching. "He took up..... More
Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall, 1971. First Edition. Attractive collaborative work between Malanga and Warhol, stemming from their Death and Disaster series, including a substantial collection of poems both inspired by and dedicated to various Factory figures, and reproducing six of Warhol's Death paintings, along with a portrait of the two men..... More
N.p. S.i., [1962]. First Edition. Screenplay for this adaptaion of Bradbury's short story, which first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1956, and collected a decade later in S is for Space. The story is centered around the first manned rocket flight to the moon, relayed..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. One of the most elaborately-produced volumes by Black Sparrow Press, dealing with one of the author's great loves - the racetrack. Krumhansl 76. One of 125 numbered copies signed by the author and photographer, this being copy no.121. Folio (36.5cm); printed paper-covered..... More
London: Collins, 1956. Original dustjacket artwork for the First British Edition of Calvino's first novel. The novel, told from a child's perspective, paints the trauma of war torn Italy using a variety of impressive characters, namely a young boy and his teenage sister, who are depicted on the jacket. The..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940. First Edition. The author's first full-length work of crime fiction, the first of his "Black" novels, and his first deep foray into the revenge narrative he would craft so expertly throughout his career. "Julie Killeen's husband is killed on the church steps moments after..... 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
![VIVIR PARA CONTARLA: MEMORIAS [LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED]. Gabriel García Márquez,...](/pictures/thumb/4714.jpg?v=1601856933)
México: Blacamán Editor, 2004. Limited Edition. An exquisite fine press publication of the Nobel Prize-winning author's 2002 memoir, covering his childhood years through 1950, when he proposed to his wife. This edition involved close collaboration between García Marquez, his son Gonzalo García (who designed the typeface), and Dutch-born artist Jan..... More
Chicago: The Book Supply Company, 1911. First Edition. A remarkably well-preserved copy of Wright's best-selling western novel (ca.2.8 million copies), dealing with "the reclamation of the Imperial Valley and the formation of the Salton Sea in 1906 and 1907. The heroine, a foundling rescued from the desert, wins and chooses..... More
New York: S.i., 1974. A compelling trio of interrelated items by Smith, combining artistry, poetry, and self-reflection. Fresh off the first exhibit of her drawings at the Gotham Book Mart, this was created during a particularly fertile year for Smith, during which she formed the Patti Smith Group, and released..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. Pseudonymous novel by Earl Schenck Miers (1910-1972), author of over 100 books who was best-known for his narrative reconstructions of Civil War episodes. This was the only mystery novel he published under either name. Set in Stelton, NJ, the novel centers around..... More
London: W.H. Allen, 1973. First U.K. Edition. A series of autobiographical essays on film by the legendary director, produced, and screenwriter. A fine association copy - Baxter would go on two write the first serious study on Vidor for the Monarch Film Studies series in 1976. First Impression. Octavo (22cm);..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953. First UK Edition. A cornerstone work of film journalism, originally conceived by Ross as a series of articles she wrote for The New Yorker on the production of John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage (1951). "She takes one picture...from the time the property was..... More
Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1937. First Edition. First appearance in any format of this Hercult Poirot novel, which Christie considered to be "one of the best of her 'foreign travel' books and with principal characters who seemed to her 'to be real and alive'" (Wagstaff & Poole, p.130). Poirot..... More
Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1935. First Edition. First appearance in any format of this Hercule Poirot novel, "set in that area of Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which used to be called Mesopotamia and features murder on an archaeological expedition. Poirot again features as the visitor with..... More
New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1957. First American Edition. The French crime fiction duo's third novel, preceded by the French edition (Denoël, 1954) and the English (Hutchinson, 1956). Basis for the iconic 1958 film noir Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes..... More
![QUIXOTE - VOL.4, NO.6 [THE MADISON POEMS OF D.A. LEVY]. d. a. levy](/pictures/thumb/4661.jpg?v=1601856931)
Madison, WI: Quixote Press, 1969. First Edition. Attractive portfolio of levy's work, which he produced during a one month stint in October, 1968 as the "Free University Poet-in-Residence" at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Two editions of the portfolio were assembled and produced by levy's friends and fellow poets..... More
San Francisco: John Kelly, 1959. First Edition. Scarce, early issue of "perhaps the quintessential "Beat" publication...originally published in mimeograph at the Bread and Wine Mission on Grant Avenue in San Francisco's very hip North Beach...Beatitude was originally planned as a weekly newsletter, "designed to extol beauty and promote the beatific..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1935. First Edition Thus. Attractive copy of Hilton's pseudonymous Golden Age whodunnit, his only foray into the mystery genre. Centered around the coincidence of two brothers who meet separate accidental deaths while attending the same boarding school, both within the same year. The headmaster solicits..... More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1952. First American Edition. American edition of Akutagawa's best-known collection of work, first published in English (in Japan) by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. in 1952. The stories were written by Akutagawa between 1915-1921, published in literary magazines. The first two stories, "In A Grove"..... More