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Moscow & Leningrad: Kinopechat, 1926. First Edition. Attractive copy of Rand's second book, written in Russia at the age of 20 while she was attending a two-year program at the State Institute for Cinematography. While attending the institute, her first book, the 16pp pamphlet Pola Negri, was published anonymously in..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928. First American Edition. The first and best of the English author's collections of supernatural horror. "Includes "Professor Pownall's Oversight," about a chess player harassed by the spirit of a murdered rival; "The Third Coach," a study in madness involving a nasty confidence trickster;..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Cain's first novel, in which "an itinerant worker and the young wife of the Greek owner of a roadside lunchroom near Los Angeles plot her husband's murder. The first attempt fails; the second succeeds. What follows is guilt, suspicion, betrayal, their own..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Cain's first novel, and one of the defining works of crime fiction to come out of the Depression. "An itinerant worker and the young wife of the Greek owner of a roadside lunchroom near Los Angeles plot her husband's murder. The first..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1966. First Edition. Sontag's second book and first collection of essays – a key text of the 1960s, and a finalist for the National Book Award in the Arts & Letters category. A significant copy, inscribed to Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Styron, and dating..... More
New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition. A distinguished copy of this well-received narrative of Robinson's life, chronicling his early upbringing, career in sports, and his breaking of the color line to become the first African American to play Major League Baseball. Carl Thomas Rowan (1925-2000) was a noted African..... More
N.p. S.i., 2006. Manuscript notes for Atwood's conversation with Orhan Pamuk at the PEN World Voices Festival, hosted by Cooper Union on April 25, 2006. The Turkish author had just dodged a jail sentence in his home country for publicly denigrating Turkish identity (by mentioning in a 2005 interview that..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. The smallest limitation of Bukowski's second full-length collection of poems published by Black Sparrow (with exception to a small number of hors de commerce copies). Noted as one of Al Fogel's "Top 20 Bukowski Rarities," and seldom-seen in commerce. Krumhansl 41d; Morrow..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated for author, publisher, and a few individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and is signed by the author on the colophon. Octavo (24.5cm); decorative paper-covered..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of seven copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author and artist on the colophon. Octavo (22cm);..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of three copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Octavo (21.5cm); decorative paper-covered..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Octavo (24cm); red cloth..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of ten copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Octavo (24.5cm); pictorial printed..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of ten copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Octavo (24cm); pictorial paper..... More
Lagrande, OR: Blitz / Madvirgin Press, 1965. First Edition. Second of three issues of this short-lived mimeo magazine from Oregon. Contains the first appearance of three Bukowski poems: "40 Cigarettes," "A Dirty Joke," and "The Rock," with contributions by Douglas Blazek, Allen Ginsberg, d.a. levy, Steve Richmond, Judson Crews, and..... More
Chicago: S.i., 1959. First Edition. Slim octavo (22cm); original pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 40,[2]pp. With a holograph notation by editor R.R. Cuscaden on the title leaf, which corresponds to a brief holograph correction in text: "Note p.5 / We need poems!! / R.R.C." Modest external wear, subtle toning and dust-soil..... More
Belvedere Tiburon, CA: Simbolica, [1961]. First Edition. Elusive issue of this Bay Area mimeo poetry magazine, published irregularly between 1949-1969. Contains the first appearance of Bukowski's poem "Ample Sewers" and his prose piece "Dialogue: Dead Man on the Fence," with additional contributions by Judson Crews, Rochelle Owens, Harland Ristau, Carl..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated for members within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Octavo (24.5cm); printed paper-covered boards and yellowish-brown cloth backstrip, with..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. First Edition Thus. Deluxe Issue, one of no more than a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for members within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First Edition Thus. Deluxe Issue, one of no more than a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for members within the inner circle of the press, this copy is marked "Binder's Copy" on the colophon, and is signed by the editor following the copyright..... More
Austin: Quagga, 1960. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; 28,[4]pp. Light wear to extremities, some trivial dust-soil to wrappers; Near Fine. Early issue of this Texas-based literary magazine. Contents include the first apperance of Bukowski's poem "To The Whore Who Took My Poems" (later collected in Longshot..... More
Austin: Quagga, 1960. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Trivial external wear, gentle sunning along the spine fold; Near Fine. Second issue of this Texas-based literary magazine. Contents include the first appearance of Bukowski's poem "Riot" (later collected in Longshot Poems for Broke Players), with..... More
Hollywood, CA: Shelley Gross, 1963. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 68pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, with subtle toning to front wrapper, and more moderate toning to rear wrapper; Very Good+ or better. Contains three early appearances by Bukowski ("Experience," "Weather Report"), including the first appearance of..... More
San Pedro, CA: The Giant Bookstore, 1986. Original broadside, with text and illustration offset printed in black on white bond, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Two old folds smoothed-out, even toning on recto, with tack holes at the corners; Very Good. Attractive broadside issued by The Giant Bookstore..... More
Santa Monica: Earth Books & Gallery, 1965. First Edition. Oblong octavo (22cm x 18cm); mimeographed sheets (printed recto & verso), side-stapled into pictorial card covers; [50]pp. Light wear to extremities, two diagonal creases to front cover, with some mild toning and faint scattered soil to rear cover; contents fresh; Very..... More