New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1924. First Edition. Firbank's first book published in the United States, a novel of West Indian life and manners. It was the first of his works that wasn't entirely self-financed, and despite the miniscule print run, the book was given a lavish treatment by Brentano's, published..... More
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1923. First Edition. Sharp copy of Firbank's absurd and flamboyant court satire, set on the eve of a royal wedding. "It creates its own court in the Kingdom of Pisuerga, complete with royal household, during a state visit from the rulers of the Land of Dates..... More
New York: Samuel Seiffer, 1967. First Edition. Penultimate issue of Samuel Seiffer's short-lived mimeographed poetry magazine – a special issue highlighting the work of Cleveland poets, selected and edited by d.a. levy. Contributions by levy (three poems), Kent Taylor, t.l. kryss, Matt Shulman and others. In his introduction to the..... More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1918. First Edition. A title for which there was no American counterpart, containing five essays written during World War I, all of which were previously published in the Fortnightly Review, New York Times, New York World, The Book of France, and The Book..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. First Edition. An early anthology of James's work selected and edited by Ruth Head, who had James's blessing before he died, giving her permission to publish extracts from his many works. Edel & Laurence A76a; BAL 10692. First Impression, English Issue, one of 700 copies..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First Edition. A collection of short fiction with no English counterpart, gathering the following seven stories which first appeared in the pages of Atlantic Monthly, Galaxy, and Scribner's Monthly: "Travelling Companions," "The Sweetheart of M. Briseaux," "Professor Fargo," "At Isella," "Guest's Confession," "Adina," and..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First Edition. Contents are comprised of two long pieces: "The Question of Our Speech," an address to the graduating class of Bryn Mawr College on June 8, 1905 (it first appeared in the August, 1905 issue Appleton's Booklovers Magazine), and "The..... More
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1951. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 500 numbered copies specially bound for friends of the publisher and printed on Alfa Navarre, this being copy no.282. Octavo (18.5cm); original beige wrappers, with titling and publisher's logo printed in black on spine and front cover; original..... More
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1946. First Edition. The author's second hardcover book, and the one that propelled him to fame and success. Before being published by Messner, the book was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, for which Goodis received the hefty sum of $25,000. Warner Brothers purchased..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Sixth Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 265,[4]pp. Faint foxing to text edges, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Handsome re-issue of the Fante's first published..... More
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[Durham, NC: Duke University, 1959]. First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first appearance in print, a 3pp autobiographical essay titled "The Galax." "...it describes an event from Anne's childhood when she and her three brothers lived with their idealistic parents in a quasi-pacifist community called Celo deep in the North..... More
Yonkers, NY: The Alicat Bookshop Press, 1948. First Edition. One of 1,000 copies. Slim quarto (20cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [40]pp. While not called for, this copy has been signed by Willeford on the preliminary leaf. Subtle toning to text edges, else very Near Fine. A sharp copy of the..... More
Santiago: Editorial Nascimento, 1954. Limited Edition. The definitive edition of the Chilean Nobel Prize-winner's finest longer poems, published in honor of his 50th birthday celebration. Inspired by his journey to the ancient Peruvian city nestled in the Andes, the poem would later become the second part of Neruda's Canto General..... More
Cleveland: Black Rabbit Press, 1969. First Edition. One of 500 copies. Quarto (28cm); mimeographed sheets, side-stapled and glued into illustrated silkscreen wrappers; [60]pp; illus. Some trivial wear to extremities, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy, without the usual toning to the wrappers. Substantial, early collection of poems by Blazek..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Edition. A distinguished copy of Updike's penultimate collection of poems. Lurie (1926-2020), a friend and contemporary of Updike's, won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Foreign Affairs (1984) two years after Updike won it for Rabbit Is Rich. In recent years she wrote..... More
New York: Beatitude, 1960. First Edition. Well-preserved 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 life among..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 500 numbered copies with an original serigraph print bound in, this being copy no.21. Octavo (23.5cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards and red cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-380,[8]pp; illus. Lower right corner..... More
New York: Ecco Press, 2009. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); reddish-brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in copper on spine, and publisher's logo embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; xiv,127,[1]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $25.99). Posthumously published collection of previously-unpublished poems. More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2010. First Edition. First Printing, a trade paperback original. Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; [viii],ix-xviii,275pp. A Fine, unread copy. The second volume of Bukowski's uncollected stories and essays, edited and with a generous introduction by David Stephen Calonne. More
London: Hutchinson & Co., [1938]. First Edition. Sequel to the popular English author's novel Turnip-Tops, "and, like its predecessor, has no "story" - except of the daily lives of the Mallory family. There is an account in it of Martin riding in the Grand National (which he does not win)..... 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
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. First Edition. A series of Bukowski's journal entries from 1991-1993, illustrated throughout with Crumb's trademark black and white pen illustrations. Lettered copies uncommon. Krumhansl 156d. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound with a silkscreen print signed by the illustrator, this being..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. First Edition. Substantial volume of poems and stories, the first released by Black Sparrow following Bukowski's death in 1994. The lettered issue is uncommon. Krumhansl 150d. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author (next to the drawing..... More
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. First Edition. Joyce's autobiographical first novel, first serialized in 25 installments in The Egoist between February 2, 1914 and September 1, 1915 by his great patron, Harriet Shaw Weaver. As for the book publication, she was unsuccessful at finding an English printer willing to assume..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. First Printing, one of 7,650 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); full hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; [viii],145,[1]+[2]pp ads. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers, else a fresh..... More