New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition. Fitzgerald's second novel, first serialized in Metropolitan Magazine (1921-22), set in the heyday of Jazz Age New York and centered around the hedonistic activities of a young artist and his flapper wife. Bruccoli A8.1.a. First Printing (without Scribner's logo on copyright page)..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition. 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 (19.5cm); full hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Fitzgerald's second book and first collection of short fiction, collecting eight stories, most of which were first published in the pages of The Saturday Evening Post and Scribner's Magazine. Bruccoli A6.1.a. First Printing, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); full hunter green..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Fitzgerald's first novel, an examination of the lives of well-to-do youth before and after World War I, showing "sensitive and intelligent young people reacting to new sex customs, new literary ideas, and prosperity" (Coan, America in Fiction, p.115). Bruccoli A5.1.a. First Printing..... More
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1971 [but 1972]. First Edition. The noted experimental poet's first book, involving strange tall tales and recurring characters, rivers, and an ever-present focus on death. Irv Broughton, publisher at Mill Mountain Press, met Stanford in June, 1970 at the Hollins Conference on Creative Writing and Cinema..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered sets specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.137. Two octavo volumes (24cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and yellow and royal blue cloth backstrips, with title labels mounted to spines; publishers original acetate dustjackets;..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. First Edition. Dylan's first book, set to be published in 1966, pending a few changes he wanted to make, but a motorcycle accident halted publication for nearly five years. In the interim, a copy of the proof was stolen and numerous piracies were circulated..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First Edition. A substantial collection of prose and poetry published to coincide with Bukowski's 70th birthday. Sholom "Red" Stodolsky (1916-1998) operated the Baroque Bookstore in Hollywood, CA from 1972 until his death in 1998. Red was a close friend of Bukowski's, and a great..... More
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: The Paget Press, 1986. First Edition. A delightful short story, fully illustrated by the author, chronicling one of the most unlikely events that could happen in Los Angeles. Krumhansl 99a. First Printing, wrappered issue. Slim octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [32]pp; illus. While not called..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Thick octavo (24cm); blue two-tone paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [iv],1079pp. Fine in a Fine first state dustjacket, unclipped (priced $29.95), with William Vollmann's last name misspelled at lower rear panel. Wallace's second novel and..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-139,[3]pp. Scattered foxing to text..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octacvo (24.25cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and goldenrod cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],9-154,[2]pp. Faint, scattered foxing to..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1997. Limited Edition. The author's first published book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and basis for Robert Mulligan's Oscar-winning 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. Uncommon signed; the Easton Press never issued a signed limited edition of Lee's novel - this copy..... More
[Paterson, NJ: S.i., 1981]. First Edition. Promotional broadside advertising a series of festivities at the Great Falls Historic District in Paterson, NJ, held on the fifth anniversary of its designation by President Gerald Ford as a National Historic Landmark. The weekend activities included the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Festival, including live..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1937. First U.K. Edition. Kafka's second novel translated into English, written between 1914-1915 and first published as Der Prozess by Verlag Die Schmiede in 1925. Centered around protagonist Josef K., a bank teller, who wakes up in his thirtieth birthday and is promptly arrested by two..... More
[Paris]: Coromandel Express, 1998. First Edition. A collaborative interpretation of the events surrounding the unsolved 1958 murder of James Ellroy's mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, as recreated by noted photographer David Levinthal in a series of stylized miniature tableaux. Ellroy originally published "My Mother's Killer" in GQ magazine in 1994 –..... More
Berlin, Vienna & Stockholm: S. Fischer Verlag / Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1933-1943. First Editions. Well-preserved set of the Nobel Prize-winner's great tetralogy, telling the story of the Biblical Joseph's dealings with his brothers, his rise as a statesman in Egypt, his conduct during the epic famine, and his restoration to his..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. First publication in book format of three short novels: Career in C Major, The Embezzler, and Double Indemnity. Because screenwriting in Hollywood occasionally dried up, Cain often found himself in need of money; Double Indemnity was written during one of those dry..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. Bowles's only novel, finished in 1941, centered around the theme of women and their attempts at independence. One of her protagonists, Christina Goering, "tries to earn salvation by leaving her home and her female companion to challenge the hate outside world. There..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial SUR, 1948. First Edition. A rare presentation copy of the Argentine author and physicist's second book and first novel, an existential classic centered around an insane painter, who narrates from his jail cell the story of his obsession with a woman he ultimately murders. Sabato (1911-2011) wrote..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book, "a collection of linked short stories about a black farm laborer named Killdee; his wife, Rose; and their foster daughter, Missie. Peterkin drew on what she knew about the lives of real people at Lang Syne..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First Edition. A presentable copy of Dreiser's most enduring novel, in which a young man makes a tragic and ill-fated attempt to break from his lower-class background. Fleeing Kansas City from a crime he didn't commit, he settles in a fictional New York town..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. First Edition. An early published work by Windham (1920-2010), his novel based on the life of his close friend Tennessee Williams, the book's dedicatee. An Atlanta native, Windham and his lover, Fred Melton, left for Manhattan in the late 1930's, where Windham was absorbed into the..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. First Edition of this translation. Handsome edition of Fowles's translation of Claire de Durfort's 1824 novel. In his introduction, Fowles explains how the acquisition and reading of a badly foxed copy in a London bookshop inspired his third novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969). The..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1970]. Attractive copy of White's beloved book, a barnyard story which has enchanted generations of readers since it was published in 1952. A Newbery Honoree, and basis for two well-received film adaptations – a 1973 animated film and a more recent production by Gary..... More