[New York: Gotham Book Mart / Estate of Edward Gorey], 2001. First Edition. Attractive broadside, featuring a short poem by Gorey beneath an illustration of a large group of somber, ecclectically-dressed people. Issued as a keepsake for The Unknown Gorey exhibition at the Gotham Book Mart, December 5, 2001. Broadside..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1956. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-128pp. Light wear to extremities, subtle tanning to text edges, else Near Fine. Hubin, p.268. More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-143,[1]pp ads. Faint forward lean, light wear to extremities, with a tiny tear to upper front joint; Very Good+ or better. A Detective Peter Selby novel. Hubin..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1957. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-128pp. Faint forward lean, hint of "spidering" to laminate on rear wrapper, else Near Fine. Novel centered around a parolee, his beautiful wife, and a crooked parole..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [6],7-157,[3]pp ads. Hint of a forward lean, subtle tanning to text edges, else Near Fine. The last of four novels Douglas would write for Gold..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1957. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-160pp. Pinpoint wear to extremities, a few faint stress creases to rear wrapper, else very Near Fine. The second of three paperback novels written by Frazee, centered..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1957. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [4],5-159,[1]pp ads. Trivial wear to extremities, else very Near Fine. Fourth novel by this native New Mexico author, set in the Southwest. Hubin, p.72. More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [4],5-190,[2]pp ads. Hint of a forward lean, some pinpoint wear to extremities, else Near Fine. First of three crime novels written by Race, a story..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [8],9-141,[3]pp ads. Subtle tanning to text edges, else Fine and unread. One of two novels written by Evan Hunter under the Curt Cannon pseudonym - a...... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Oblong octavo (15.25cm); pictorial paper-covered boards; dustjacket; [32]pp; illus. Hint of dustiness to upper and lower board edges, else Near Fine, and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), spine-sunned, dust-soiled, and lightly edgeworn, with some faint staining to..... More
New York: Harcourt, Inc., [2002]. First Edition Thus. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's publicity letter folded and laid in. Oblong octavo (14.5cm); pictorial boards; unpaged; illus. A Fine copy. Attractive reissue of this early work by Gorey, first published in 1958. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Oblong octavo (15.75cm); pictorial paper-covered boards; dustjacket; unpaged; illus. Trivial wear to lower board edges, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $19.95). First one-volume edition of these three collaborative works between Heide and Gorey, first published..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1999. First Printing of this re-issue. Octavo (19.5cm); pictorial boards; dustjacket; [64]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $15). New edition of Gorey's first book, initially published in 1953 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce. More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961. Early (unstated) printing. Small quarto (25cm); red paper-covered boards and yellow composition backstrip, with titling and decorative elements stamped in dark red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [7],8-63,[1]pp; illus. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some gentle sunning to spine. The first..... More
New York: Saturday Review Press / E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); orange paper-covered boards and light brown cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine; dustjacket; [x],84,[2]pp; illus. Lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with a hint of foxing to upper..... More
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. A spare, suspenseful novel from the author's Appalachian period - the story of a murderer and necrophile who is outcast from his small community, and living with the decomposing bodies of his victims in the mountains and in an underground cave. Basis for..... More
Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal / Fawcett Publications Inc., 1965. First Edition. Late Thompson novel set in Texas, and centered around a con-man and his troublesome red-headed girlfriend. Hubin, p.393. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-160pp. Trivial wear and dustiness to extremities, with subtle tanning..... More
Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal / Fawcett Publications Inc., 1964. First Edition. Basis for Bertrand Tavernier's French language adaptation Coup de Torchon, starring Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, and Stéphane Audran - an interesting adaptation which transports the novel's corrupt sheriff in the American South of 1910 to 1930's French West Africa..... More
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