New York: Popular Library, 1955. First Edition. Thompson's thirteenth paperback original, pairing an ex-boxer and an alcoholic woman who get tangled in a scheme to kidnap a wealthy kid. Basis for James Foley's 1990 film starring Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, and Bruce Dern. Hubin, p.393. First Printing, a paperback original..... More
New York: Dell, 1954. First Edition. Thompson's twelfth paperback original, centered around a self-loathing alcoholic hiding a wartime disfigurement, who is willing to kill to keep his secrets. Hubin, p.393. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (16cm); pictorial card wrappers; red edge-staining; [6],7-224pp. Hint of a forward lean, a...... More
New York: Lion Books, 1954. First Edition. Thompson's ninth paperback original, a semi-autobiographical novel chronicling a string of rough-and-rowdy jobs the author held, along with his many near-criminal escapades. Hubin, p.393. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (16.25cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [4],5-159,[1]pp. Light wear to extremities, and..... More
New York: Ecco Press, 2010. First Edition. Smith's memoir of making her way as an artist, poet, and musician in New York during the 1960's, where she met her lifelong friend Robert Mapplethorpe. Smith spent several years scraping by, doing all manner of jobs while trying to develop her artistic..... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. First Edition. Advance excerpt from Atwood's 2006 collection of 11 inter-related stories, printing "The Art of Cooking and Serving." Inscribed to bookseller Glenn Horowitz, who would go on to publish Birds, Atwood's 2012 collaborative work with artist Billy Sullivan. Slim octavo (21.75cm); pictorial card wrappers..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Uncorrected proof copy of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth novel, the saga of love and loss over five decades. A significant association copy inscribed by Edith Grossman, the preeminent translator of literary works from Spanish to English, to Glenn Horowitz, who brokered..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1999. First Edition. Handsome edition of the Booker Prize-winning author's sixth novel, his interpretation of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth. Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.126. Octavo (24cm); full black morocco, with titles stamped in gilt on..... More
Berkeley: Quinto Sol Publications, Inc., 1972. First Edition. The author's first book, a coming-of-age novel set in New Mexico after World War II, and one of the cornerstone works in the Chicano literary canon. According to the American Library Association, it continues to be among the most frequently challenged books..... More
New York: Lion Books, 1953. First Edition. Thompson's fifth paperback original, a compulsively readable piece of self-mythology which takes the reader on a ride through Thompson's life growing up in the seedy underbelly of the American West. "Burlesque hawker, drunk, bootlegger - drifter, bellhop, gambler, steeplejack, oil hand, and two-fisted..... More
New York: Lion Books, 1952. First Edition. Superior copy of Thompson's second paperback original, a novel surrounding the lives of an Okie sharecropper, his dim-witted and volatile son, and an attractive mixed-race girl. Hubin, p.393. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (16cm); illustrated wrappers; purplish-gray edge-staining; 159,[1]pp. Pinpoint wear..... More
Boston: The St. Botolph Society, [1922]. First Edition Thus. Attractive edition of Maugham's second novel, first published in Boston by L.C. Page & Company in 1898. cf.Stott A2. Octavo (19.5cm); hunter green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and light green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [10],11-351,[3]pp;..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932. First Edition. Maugham's thirteenth novel, first serialized in the pages of Hearst's International Magazine from October 1932 - January, 1933. Stott A45. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); navy blue cloth, with titling and author's symbol stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket;..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932. First Edition. A play centered around the effects of World War I on an English family, which first premiered at the Globe Theatre on November 1, 1932. Stott A46. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); brown cloth, with titling and the author's symbol stamped in gilt on..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939. First Edition. A beloved anthology of short fiction, selected and introduced by Maugham, with contributions by Hawthorne, Poe, Flaubert, Hardy, Wilde, Conrad, Conan Doyle, Kipling, Tolstoy, Chekov, Joyce, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Forster, Wodehouse, and others. An elusive volume, with no equivalent published..... More
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1985. Limited Edition. An exquisite fine press publication by the Cheloniidae Press, printing three versions of the "Jumping Frog" story - "In English, then in French, then clawed back into a civilized language once more by patient, unrenumerated toil." Deluxe Issue, one of 50 numbered copies..... More
N.p. Fridolf Johnson, 1948. A unique manuscript of Mary Lamb's romantic poem "Salome," composed around 1808-09, and first published in her husband Charles Lamb's Works [1818]; while the poem was originally published in her husband's works, and while his name is credited on the title page of this volume, the..... More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First U.K. Edition. Handsome set of this anonymously-published maritime novel by Cooper, centered around the abduction of a woman by the pirate captain of the Water-Witch, and the subsequent pursuit by her suitor. Precedes the American edition by two months, and preceded only..... More
Augsburg: MaroVerlag, [1984]. First Edition. Large, attractive promotional poster for the release of Buk - von und über Charles Bukowski by German publisher MaroVerlag. The book contained a selection of Bukowski's work, with contributions by A.D. Winans, Rainer Wehlen, Steve Richmond, and others. The large illustration at upper half, while..... More
N.p. S.i., 1975. Complete, heavily-corrected draft of this Notes of a Dirty Old Man story, which first appeared in the April 4, 1975 issue of the Los Angeles Free Press (No.559). The story is centered around a barfly named Harry, just getting settled for a day of heavy drinking, who..... More
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 2000. First Edition. Substantial anthology of short writing with a running theme on memory loss, edited by Lethem, whose own contribution ("Five Fucks") appears alongside those by Martin Amis, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, Julio Cortázar, Flann O'Brien, Cornell Woolrich..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition. Attractive copy of Fitzgerald's second collection of short fiction, gathering 11 stories, including "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Bruccoli A9.1.a. First Printing, one of 8,000 copies. Octavo (19.25cm); full hunter green crushed morocco..... More
Brooklyn: McSweeney's Books, 2001. First Edition. Distinguished copy of Davis's major collection of short stories and "flash fiction," inscribed to short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004). Davis, one of Berlin's great admirers, has written extensively about her influence and writing, most recently in The New Yorker, and in the foreword..... More
Port Angeles, WA: S.i., 1988. A late letter from Carver to Salter, full of admiration, as well as regret over a missed opportunity to meet. "Many thanks for your good letter...It was not for want of trying that I missed your reading, and with it the opportunity to meet you..... More
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894-1895. First Trade Edition. "The most ambitious publishing project of Stone & Kimball, conceived in enthusiasm and carried out with care, this has remained the standard edition of Poe" (Kramer, History of Stone & Kimball, 35). At the time of publication, it was the first complete..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First Edition. A substantial collection of poems by this venerable counterculture figure and musician, many of which first appeared in the pages of Notus, Long Shot, Sulfur, The World, Heartland, and San Francisco Magazine, et al. A significant copy from the collection of Israel..... More