![MICA - NOS.1-7 [COMPLETE RUN]. Helmut Bonheim, Raymond Federman, Charles Bukowski, Robert...](/pictures/thumb/4512.jpg?v=1586211913)
Santa Barbara: Helmut Bonheim & Raymond Federman, 1960-1962. First Editions. Complete run of this short-lived Santa Barbara mimeo, the successor publication to Gael Turnbull's Migrant (1959-60). "In the belief that Gael Turnbull's MIGRANT stood among the best and most readable of the little magazines, the editors of MICA want to..... More
!["THE DARK WATERS" [IN] THE SEWANEE REVIEW - VOL.LXXIII, NO.2 (SPRING, 1965). Cormac McCarthy,...](/pictures/thumb/4511.jpg?v=1586211912)
Sewanee, TN: University of the South, 1965. First Edition. Along with the Spring 1965 issue of The Yale Review, one of McCarthy's earliest appearances in print, containing "The Dark Waters," a seven-page excerpt from his debut novel The Orchard Keeper. With additional contributions by Edward Dahlberg, Patrick Boyle, Victor Strandberg..... More
!["BURIAL" [IN] ANTAEUS NO.32 (WINTER, 1979). Cormac McCarthy, Italo Calvino, Paul Bowles, Carlos...](/pictures/thumb/4510.jpg?v=1586211912)
New York: Ecco Press, 1979. First Edition. Notable issue of this long-running literary journal, containing "Burial," a 13-page excerpt from Cormac McCarthy's fourth novel, Suttree, written prior to publication. The issue also includes contributions by Paul Bowles ("Midnight Mass"), Italo Calvino ("Preface - Story"), and Carlos Fuentes ("These Were The..... More
Great Neck, NY: S.i., n.d. but ca.1922-24. Well-preserved letter from Fitzgerald to publisher Horace Liveright, undated, but written from Great Neck, Long Island, where he and Zelda lived from October, 1922 - April, 1924, while working on his novel The Great Gatsby. The letter suggests a potential project extended by..... More
Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour / Nobuhiko Kitamura, 2003. First Edition. Collection of Polaroid photographs taken by Smith after the events of September 11, 2001, each captioned, representing her "renewed relationship" with her Land 100 camera. Uncommon; OCLC notes 3 holdings (Mills College, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Intl.Center of Photography). Octavo (23.25cm);..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First Edition. Attractive copy of the first James Bond novel, introducing 007, M, Vesper Lynd, and criminal mastermind Le Chiffre. Basis for Martin Campbell's 2006 film adaptation, starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, and Judi Dench. Gilbert A1a (1.2); Pronzini & Muller, p.252; Hubin, p.144. First Impression..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. First Edition Thus. Attractive edition of Swift's satirical masterpiece, the first to be illustrated by English painter and line-artist Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938). Part of the wildly popular Cranford Series, published by Macmillan from 1876 (Old Christmas) to 1907 (Silas Marner). Scarce in dustjacket. Not..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. Deluxe issue of Bukowski's fourth novel, chronicling his painful upbringing in a militant household, and his contentious relationship with his parents. One the great American literary memoirs, ranking among the best of his work. Krumhansl 74f. One of 15 copies marked "Presentation..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2016. Limited Edition. Fine press edition of the Mexican author's second book and first novel, following a young man's quest to find his father as he navigates an arid ghost town populated by spectral figures. Rulfo (1917-1986), one of the progenitors of magical realism, was a...... More
New York: S.i., [1976]. First Edition. Stage play by one of the principal figures of the Beat Generation, a parody of comic book superheroes. Centered around General Gorgeous, "a purple-costumed, 29-year-old superhero, eager to fight evil," the Blue Mutant, "a supervillain with electric blue hair," and his sexy henchwomen, the..... More
New York: The Poets Press, 1965. First Edition. Superb copy of the Beat author's first book, a collection of autobiographical notebook writings, published after his 11-year prison sentence by Diane Di Prima's Poets Press. While published several years later than the works of his more famous contemporaries, it remains a...... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1950. First American Edition. Attractive copy of Simenon's masterpiece, a bleak, nihilistic novel set in Nazi-occupied Brussels, and centered around a young hoodlum named Frank Friedmaier. First published as La Neige Ètait Sale in 1948, Simenon creates a vivid portrayal of underworld figures, petty and vicious..... More
Chicago & New York: F. Tennyson Neely Publisher, 1895. First Edition. Attractive copy of this key work of late-19th century weird and supernatural fiction, an influence on author's as wide-ranging as H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, and Stephen King. A group of interrelated short stories, "running through many of them, though..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Attractive copy of this series of poems by the Love Press publisher, and long-time friend and collaborator of Wallace Berman's. This copy belonged to northern California editor, publisher, and bookseller Jack Shoemaker, so marked beneath Meltzer's drawing. Superb cover art designed by..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Edition. Substantial collection of verse by the New York School poet, including the text of a panel discussion Miles participated in at the Schoolhouse Center in Provincetown, MA on August 8, 1999. A superb association copy; Martin would publish four key works by..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Attractive copy of the author's fifth published novel, published simultaneously in cloth, wrappers, and a deluxe binding. Kerouac wrote the novel in Mexico City in June, 1952, at the home of William S. Burroughs. "I sat on Bill Burrough's toilet bowl. I had..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition. The Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth book, containing the title novella, three short stories, and a one-act play. "The title piece, a truncated novelette which is heavily introspective, concerns a New York Jew who has failed miserably in marriage, as he longs for..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition. A superlative copy of "the first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer. An important contribution to computing literature in its own right, it also provided some of the most complete bibliographies available on the subject at the time..... More
New York: The Century Company, 1932. First Edition. Attractive copy of this early work by Carnegie, preceding his best-selling How to Win Friends and Influence People by four years. A biographical work on the life of Abraham Lincoln, detailing his early years, the difficulties he faced in the White House..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First Edition. Attractive copy of Ginsberg's paean to the area surrounding the Bixby Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, one of the central locations frequented by the Beats for solitude and creative inspiration. Illustrated throughout with photographs by William Webb. A significant copy inscribed to..... More
Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2005. First Edition. A key issue of this national journal of literature and discussion, containing "Agua," an excerpt from Cormac McCarthy's then-forthcoming novel No Country For Old Men. Contributions include works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ("Memories of 1955"), Isabel Allende ("The Guggenheim Lovers"), Charles Simic, Jonathan..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Special Slipcased Edition. Handsome set of the late Nobel Prize-winning author's collected novels, designed by Barbara de Wilde. Six octavo volumes (21.75cm); gray cloth, blocked and titled in black and silver on spines, with letter 'M' embossed to front covers; publisher's decorative cardboard slipcase;..... More
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First Edition. Lee's first published book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, and basis for Robert Mulligan's Oscar-winning 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. A superb association copy, rather effusively inscribed to Doris Thompson (1907-1970), co-owner of the Francis Scott..... More
San Diego: United States International University, California Western Campus, [1969]. First Edition. Attractive broadside for this major event put on by the United States International University in San Diego, CA, a twelve-day creative arts conference with sessions dedicated to poetry, prose, and film. Richard Brautigan was invited to conduct the..... More
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1975. First U.K. Edition. "An affectionate parody of fairy tales, swashbuckling yarns and traditional fantasy clichés framed as a story within a story. Always knowing and full of intended anachronisms, this Ruritanian romance works equally well for adults and children..." (Barron, Fantasy Literature, 4A-117). A beloved..... More