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
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
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
New York: Harmony Books, 1980-1992. First American Editions. Attractive set of Adams's comedic science fiction series, originally created as a broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. Basis for the 1981 TV series on BBC, and the 2005 film adaptation by Garth Jennings, starring Martin Freeman. First Printings. Five octavo..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. First U.K. Edition. A pristine copy of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book, originally published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston in 1970. A powerful novel, told from various perspectives, centered around themes of beauty, religion, racial identity, and Black girlhood. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); blue..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First American Edition. Attractive copy of Hammett's fourth novel. "Like Personville in Red Harvest, the city is controlled by crooked politicians in league with various mobster factions; but in The Glass Key Hammett gives us an insider's view of the corruption and in fact..... More
N.p. S.i., 1898. Large, masterfully-executed illustration by Edward Winsor Kemble (1861-1933), used as the frontispiece for the 1899 edition of Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson. Kemble's illustrations were used in two new editions of Twain's work: The American Publishing Company's upscale "Édition de Luxe" of The Writings of Mark Twain..... 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
London: George Newnes, [1936]. First Edition. Presentable copy of the author's third book, an adventure story about an interplanetary flight to Mars by rocket, set 70 years in the future. A serialization in The Passing Show followed in 1937, under the title Stowaway to Mars, and re-written again in Modern..... More
Tioga, TX: The Herald Company, 1912. First Edition. Attractive copy of one of the standard works on the Texas Indian wars by De Shields, who "spent more than thirty years in assembling the material for this book, and collected a host of facts from pioneers who took part in the..... More