Paris: Transition, 1928. First Edition. Bowles's first periodical appearance outside his Jamaica, NY high school magazine The Oracle, printing his surrealist poem "Spire Song." Additional contributions by James Joyce (Work in Progress, Part III), Breton's opening chapter of Nadja, Gertrude Stein's "Don Rafael, A Nephew," and works by Benjamin Péret..... More
Iowa City: State University of Iowa, 1954. First Edition. Octavo (23.25cm); printed card wrappers; [4],5-80pp. Hint of sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, with a tiny circle in black pencil on lower front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Contents include Ihab H. Hassan's early overview of..... More
New York: View, Inc., 1946. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Paul Colinet and Paul Magritte (translated by Bowles), Marcel Marien, Louis Scutenaire, and Paul Nouge, with illustrations throughout by Marcel Mariën, Raoul Ubac, Neal Thomas, Esteban Francés, Kurt Seligmann, and Florine Stettheimer. Cover art by René Magritte. Miller C566-567..... More
New York: View, Inc., 1945. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Paul Bowles ("The Scorpion"), Kurt Seligmann, Ramon J. Sender, Jean Ferry, Rene Renne, Claude Serbanne, and Charles Henri Ford. Cover by French artist André Masson (1896-1987). Miller C529-533. Quarto (30.5cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 22pp; illus. Signed by Paul..... More
New York: View, Inc., 1945. First Edition. "Paul Bowles was the editor of this special issue of View, entitled "Tropical Americana." His preface, titled "The Point of View" was extensively re-written by Parker Tyler and distorted the author's intentions" (Miller, p.155). Most of the photos and collages in this issue..... More
New York: View, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Contents include "The Jazz Ear," Bowles's first article for View on modern music; "Dream of Mobile" by Henry Miller, "Photography is Not Art" by Man Ray, Edith Sitwell's "Notes On Shakespeare," a centerfold by Alexander Calder, and contributions by André Masson, Parker Tyler..... More
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Oakland & San Francisco: Harold Norse, 1972-1974. First Editions. Attractive run of Norse's short-lived, influential magazine, which heavily showcased the work of Beat and post-Beat authors amidst a dizzying array of surrealist and homoerotic imagery. Contents include contributions by William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac..... 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
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (22.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-145,[3]pp. A Fine, unread copy. Collection of stories and folk tales told by five native Moroccans, recorded by notebook or on tape and translated by Bowles, who provides "Notes on the Work of..... More
London: Scribners, 1990. First Edition. First Impression. Tall quarto (33cm); pictorial card wrappers with French flaps; [8],9-93,[3]pp; illus. A Fine copy of this richly-illustrated volume, documenting the filming and production of Bertolucci's adaptation of Bowles's first novel. Contents include a foreword and contributions by Bowles, various essays, and interviews. A...... More
Zurich: Memory/Cage Editions, 1995. First Edition. Trade Issue, one of 1,500 copies. Square quarto (22.75cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards; [10],11-54,[6]pp; illus. A Fine copy of this short story, first written in 1962, illustrated throughout with photographs by Vittorio Santoro. More
New York: Inanout Press, 1992. First Edition. Trade Issue, one of 3,000 copies. Small square quarto (19.75cm); beige unprinted paper-covered boards; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 186,[2]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. "This loosely autobiographical and dreamlike work, written in the mid-'70s, centers on a young Moroccan named Driss who uses..... More
San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1985. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.56. Octavo (22.5cm); tan paper-covered boards, with title label and pictorial onlay mounted to spine and front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [x],91,[7]pp. Fine..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy 'F'. Octavo (24.25cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and orange ribbed cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],9-56,[4]pp. Fine in a...... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First Edition Thus. Limited Issue, one of 350 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.39. Octavo (23.75cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and beige cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-292,[8]pp. Hint of dust-soil..... More
New York: Photo Researchers, Inc., 1964. Joseph J. "Joe" Munroe (1917-2014) was an Ohio-born photographer and filmmaker who studied with Ansel Adams early on in his career. After serving in the Air Force during World War II, he settled in California, where he developed an interest in agriculture and rural..... More
New York: Photo Researchers, Inc., [1962]. Striking photographic portrait of Ursula Andress in her role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the 1962 film Dr. No. Taken by American photographer Bradley Smith (1910-1997) on location in Jamaica, where shooting took place near Ian Fleming's Goldeneye estate and in the small..... 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
New York: Walker and Company, 1963. First American Edition. Le Carré's second novel, the only one of his novels placing George Smiley in a setting outside the espionage community. Basis for Gavin Millar's 1991 film of the same name, starring Denholm Elliott, Glenda Jackson, and a young Christian Bale. Hubin..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1962. First American Edition. Le Carré's debut novel, which introduced the world to master spy George Smiley. Basis for Sidney Lumet's 1967 neo noir The Deadly Affair, starring James Mason, Simone Signoret, and Maximilian Schell. Hubin, p.243; Barzun & Taylor 2141. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm);..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1964. First American Edition. Le Carré's third and best-known novel, one that changed the direction of modern espionage fiction. The novel is "not so much concerned with the machinations of espionage as with the machinations of the minds of those in the profession; not so much..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1936. First Edition. Greene's seventh novel, published in the UK under the title A Gun for Sale. "A hired gunman (English underprivileged youth) murders a socialist minister on the Continent and almost plunges Europe into war. Insp. Mather trails him, but M.'s own..... More
London: Philip Allan, 1934. First Edition. Anthology of ten stories, issued as ninth of the fourteen-volume Creeps series published between 1932-36. Notable for containing the first appearance in book format of Lord Dunsany's story "The Two Bottles of Relish." "The story, an unqualified tour de force, has an interesting and..... More
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1926. First Edition. The native Jamaican author's first novel, and the first of three mystery novels he would go on to write between 1926-35. Walter Adolphe Roberts (1886-1962) was an author of mixed-racial heritage, whose Haunting Hand is generally credited as being the first mystery..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942. First American Edition. A psychologically complex family tragedy, and the first of four novels that took Ellery Queen beyond Manhattan to the a quiet hamlet called Wrightsville. "Needing a place to stay where he can write a novel, he rents a house from Wrightsville's..... More