New York: The Viking Press, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); two-tone blue and rose-colored cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; maroon topstain; dustjacket; [vi],265,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, starting oxidation to spine gilt, with some very faint blotches at upper spine and front..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First Edition. Attractive copy of the third and final volume in Gibson's Bridge Trilogy, set in a postmodern, dystopian, post-cyberpunk future. First Printing, a review copy, with three pages of publisher's publicity sheets folded and laid in. Octavo (cm); goldenrod and black paper-covered boards..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Attractive deluxe edition of Bukowski's last substantial poetry collection of the 1970's. Krumhansl 68a & e. Deluxe Issue, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, each with a signed silkscreen print bound in, this being copy no.76. Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated..... More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1978. First Edition. Warm sketches on eight of Miller's close friends: Harolde Ross, Bezalel Schatz, Vincent Birge, Emil White, Ephraim Doner, Jack Garfein, Joe Gray, and his bicycle. Shifreen & Jackson A213b. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in orange on..... More
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1928. First Edition. First Trade edition of Milne's beloved book, the second chapter of which introduces us to the ever-energetic Tigger. First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); salmon-colored cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; pictorial endpapers; top edge gilt; dustjacket;..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Collection containing Hemingway's only full-length play, and a substantial number of his finest short stories, including "The Killers," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "Fifty Grand," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Grissom A.16.1.a; Hanneman A16a. First Printing, one of 5,350 copies..... More
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1917. An early work by Joyce, a collection of 15 short stories depicting Irish middle-class life in Dublin. The first American edition bound with American sheets (the 1916 first printing was bound up with English sheets). Slocum & Cahoon A10. Second Printing (April, 1917). Octavo (19.25cm);..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. Joyce's last major work, a challenging work of fiction significant for its experimental style and use of language. Fragments of the work first appeared in 1924, in the pages of literary journals Transition and Transatlantic Review; the UK and US editions..... More
London: Belmont Press, 2002. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 copies numbered and signed by the author, this being copy no.152. Slim octavo (24.5cm); printed sheets hand-sewn into thick teal corrugated paper wrappers; [4],5-28,[4]pp. A Fine copy. An attractive production, containing the first separate printing of Franzen's essay about..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1956. First U.K. Edition. Attractive copy of the author's best-known work, first published in Paris in 1952, and translated into English here by Beckett himself. Federman & Fletcher 373.1. First Impression. Octavo (21cm); chickpea yellow cloth, with titles stamped in dark red on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-94,[2]pp..... More
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1984. Second Edition. "The Gunslinger begins the quest by Roland, the gunslinger, to track and confront the "man in black," who knows, perhaps, the secret of the "Dark Tower." As he travels across the barren landscape of King's alternate world, sometimes alone, sometimes with..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1982. First Edition. Easily toward the top of the list of King's finest work - a volume collecting four novellas, each written after completing a major novel: The Body, Apt Pupil, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, and The Breathing Method. Three of the four..... More
London: Ted Smart / The Book People Ltd., 1998. First Ted Smart Edition. The earliest available edition of the first Harry Potter book, following the first impression in pictorial boards and illustrated wrappers by Bloomsbury. Published in May 1998 by The Book People, an independent bookselling company founded in 1988..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First Edition. A distinguished copy of Coxe's fiftieth novel, a story of murder, indiscretion, and blackmail set in Trinidad. Inscribed to fellow crime fiction author Frederick Lewis Nebel (1903-1967), who, like Coxe, was one of Joseph T. Shaw's "Black Mask Boys." Their combined prodigious..... More
Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. First Edition. Attractive copy of this early collection of nine essays on Texas, touching on themes of "the end of the cowboy era and the exodus from the ranch to the city and suburbs" (Kirkus Review). Preceded by a first printing that was so littered..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First Edition. A well-preserved copy of Carroll's wildly popular nonsense poem, drawing language and characters from his earlier poem "Jabberwocky." Williams 31. First Impression, with "Baker" instead of "Butcher" on p.83, line 6. Octavo (18.75cm); publisher's original buff cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in..... More
New York: Remember I Did This For You / A Power Mad Book, 1978. First Edition. One of four mimeographed books of poetry produced between 1978-79 by Steve Levine and Barbara Barg's Remember I Did This For You press, all volumes with covers designed by Rae Berolzheimer. Master's relationship to..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First Edition. The pioneering Afrofuturist author's second book, and the second volume in her Patternist series, "developing ideas about the linking of minds via telepathy, first used in the earlier Patternmaster (1976) to described a whole society, one a more intimate scale..... More
Garden City & New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / St. Martin's Press, 1976-1984. First Editions. Sharp set of this cornerstone work by by Butler (1947-2006), hailed by many as the "Mother of Afrofuturism." Butler began crafting the Patternist narrative when she first began writing science-fiction at the age of..... More
New York: Frank Shay, 1916. First Edition. One of 500 copies. Slim octavo (20cm); pale gray stapled wrappers, with titles printed in black; [6],7-19,[5]pp. Light wear and subtle toning to wrapper extremities, residue from an old bookplate on verso of front wrapper, with some resulting offsetting onto half-title page; contents..... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1990. First Edition. Miniature volume printing eight poems, which first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker, The Southern California Anthology, The New Republic, The Oxford American, Agni, and The Ontario Review. De Bellis & Broomfield A130.b. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies..... More
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Second novel in Updike's best-selling Rabbit Angstrom series, nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction. De Bellis & Broomfield A42.b. Limited Issue, one of 350 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.1. Octavo (20.75cm); beige..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First Edition. The ninth Bond book, basis for Terence Young's Oscar-winning adaptation starring Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, and Adolfo Celi. Gilbert A9a(1.1). First Impression, First Issue. Octavo (19.5cm); Gilbert's Binding A - dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and skeletal hand design..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. First American Edition. The seventh Bond book, basis for the 1964 Guy Hamilton film, starring Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, and Gert Fröbe. Gilbert A7b(1). Burgess 99. First Printing, one of 7,500 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt..... More
Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. First American Edition. The author's first book published in the U.S., and the first appearance of own translation of the novel into English - the story of a blind man betrayed by his wife and her lover. Originally translated by Winifred Roy..... More