Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. Bukowski's strongest collection of short fiction, and among his most widely reprinted works from the 1980's. Krumhansl 80d. Limited Issue, one of 400 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.389. Octavo (23.5cm); printed paper-covered boards and..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Bukowski's second novel, following his alter-ego Henry Chinaski through post-WW2 America as he blows through a series of dead-end jobs. Basis for Bent Hammer's 2005 film adaptation, starring Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, and an appropriately sleazy Matt Dillon. Krumhansl 51c. Limited Issue..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. An early collection, gathering work from It Catches My Heart In Its Hands, Crucifix in a Deathhand, and At Terror Street and Agony Way, along with new poems written during the early 1970's. Krumhansl 46c. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. Attractive copy of Bukowski's first collection of short fiction, some of which first appeared in the pages of the L.A. Free Press and NOLA Express. Krumhansl 45b. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.48..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. First Edition. Humorous football novel centered around Brünnehilde "Pussy" Downing (aka. "Pink Pants"), the blonde-haired, blue-eyed kicker for the (fictional) Bowlby College football team, who beats the Harvard boys 14-0 during their highly-anticipated game. With 12 illustrations throughout the text by John Held, Jr...... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Attractive copy of this hard science fiction classic, nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1971. "A malfunctioning starship continues to accelerate as it nears light speed, and its crew observe relativistic effects, ultimately being carried beyond the..... More
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. Attractive advance copy of Capote's best-known book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction, an Edgar Award, and basis for the 1967 Richard Brooks film Starring Robert Blake ad Scott Wilson. First Printing. Octavo (cm); publisher's brick red unprinted wrappers, bound into the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Handsome edition of the concluding volume in Updike's best-selling Rabbit Angstrom quartet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, beating our Linda Hogan and Tim O'Brien for the honor. Limited Issue, one of 350 numbered copies specially bound and signed..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1977. Limited Edition. A handsome edition of Whitman's most enduring work, illustrated throughout by Rockwell Kent. Octavo (23.75cm); full hunter green leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; xliv,527,[5]pp; illus. A Fine copy. More
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1977. Limited Edition. Handsome edition of Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, with a special foreword written by the author. Basis for Robert Mulligan's Oscar-winning 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. Octavo (22.25cm); full burgundy leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First Edition. Bukowski's final novel, a humorous spoof on the traditional hard-boiled detective yarn. Krumhansl 139d. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies signed by the author with an original silkscreen print tipped in, this being copy no.128. Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated paper-covered boards and..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition. Attractive copy of Bukowski's third and most ambitious novel. "Written in an episodic manner reminiscent of Post Office and Factotum, the book begins with a typically Bukowskian complaint: "I was 50 years old and hadn't been to bed with a woman for..... More
New York: Doubleday, 2004. First Edition. Sharp copy of the first book in the Dexter Morgan series, featuring Miami's favorite serial killer with a slightly skewed moral compass, and the basis for the hit series on Showtime starring Michael C. Hall. First Printing. Octavo (cm); black and red paper-covered boards..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First Edition. The Dominican author's first novel, winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. First Printing. Octavo (cm); white paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],339,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged..... More
Stockton, CA: Wormwood Books and Magazines, 1992. First Edition. Sharp copy of this late issue of Marvin Malone's long-running little magazine. Contributions include two poems by Charles Bukowski - "Problems in the Checkout Line" and "I'm A Failure." One of 700 numbered copies, this being copy no.193. Slim octavo (21cm);..... More
Stockton, CA: The Wormwood Review Press, 1984. First Edition. Collection of poems inspired by one of Bukowski's great loves - watching horses at the racetrack. A Bukowski "A" item, with the entire issue of WR dedicated to his work. Krumhansl 91. Deluxe Issue, one of 70 numbered copies signed by..... More
New York: Stallion Books / Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation, 1951 [but 1954]. Second Edition. Bragg's much-scandalized pseudonymously-written novel about a "fresh and fetching" seventeen year old girl who got "hooked" on marijuana at the hands of an older man out to seduce her. "But after that drug-induced ecstasy, Joyce's..... More
New York: The Olympia Press, Inc., 1969. First Edition. A key work by the Brooklyn-born Italian-American poet, long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years. Di Prima's Memoirs describes her coming of age, intellectually and sensually, in a movement dominated by..... More
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1959. First Edition. McClure's first book, following three ephemeral publications. An attractive volume produced by Dave Haselwood, containing Peyote Poem (which first appeared in Semina 3), For the Death of 100 Whales, and others poems. Clements A4; Haselwood 4. One of 950 copies. Small quarto..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. First Edition. Sharp copy of the third Dave Robicheaux novel, winner of the Edgar Award in 1990. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); blue-gray paper and red cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [x],290pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else very Near Fine..... More
Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Small quarto (25.5cm); black canvas cloth boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and decorative elements printed in colors on front cover; blue edge-staining; marbled endpapers; publisher's original card slipcase; 359pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Spine gilt just slightly dulled..... More
Frankfurt: Zweitausendeins, 1981. Third Printing. Small quarto (25.5cm); maroon and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; light blue edge-staining; marbled endpapers; publisher's original card slipcase; 310pp; illus. Spine gilt beginning to dull, else Fine in a lightly edgeworn, Near Fine slipcase. Laid into this copy is..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1977. Second Impression. Octavo (23cm); navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine; dark blue topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-365pp, plus folding map. Slight fading to lower cm of front cover, faint spotting to topstain, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped..... More
Los Angeles: Purring Press, 1975. First Edition. Second (of five) issues of this mimeographed poetry magazine edited by Linda King. King is a poet, playwright, and sculptor who during the early 1970's was involved in an "on again, off again" relationship with L.A. poet Charles Bukowski. PURR was primarily a...... More
[Newport, RI: S.i., 1943]. An early, lyrical, and autobiographical prose piece by Kerouac on hitch-hiking out of New York to his native New England. Written while Kerouac was convalescing in the mental ward of the Naval hospital in Newport, RI, while he was enlisted in the Navy; he was hospitalized..... More