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New York: Ecco Press, 1979. First Edition. Notable issue of this long-running literary journal, containing "Burial," a 13-page excerpt from Cormac McCarthy's fourth novel, Suttree, written prior to publication. The issue also includes contributions by Paul Bowles ("Midnight Mass"), Italo Calvino ("Preface - Story"), and Carlos Fuentes ("These Were The..... More
Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour / Nobuhiko Kitamura, 2003. First Edition. Collection of Polaroid photographs taken by Smith after the events of September 11, 2001, each captioned, representing her "renewed relationship" with her Land 100 camera. Uncommon; OCLC notes 3 holdings (Mills College, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Intl.Center of Photography). Octavo (23.25cm);..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First Edition. Attractive copy of the first James Bond novel, introducing 007, M, Vesper Lynd, and criminal mastermind Le Chiffre. Basis for Martin Campbell's 2006 film adaptation, starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, and Judi Dench. Gilbert A1a (1.2); Pronzini & Muller, p.252; Hubin, p.144. First Impression..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. First Edition Thus. Attractive edition of Swift's satirical masterpiece, the first to be illustrated by English painter and line-artist Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938). Part of the wildly popular Cranford Series, published by Macmillan from 1876 (Old Christmas) to 1907 (Silas Marner). Scarce in dustjacket. Not..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2016. Limited Edition. Fine press edition of the Mexican author's second book and first novel, following a young man's quest to find his father as he navigates an arid ghost town populated by spectral figures. Rulfo (1917-1986), one of the progenitors of magical realism, was a...... More
New York: S.i., [1976]. First Edition. Stage play by one of the principal figures of the Beat Generation, a parody of comic book superheroes. Centered around General Gorgeous, "a purple-costumed, 29-year-old superhero, eager to fight evil," the Blue Mutant, "a supervillain with electric blue hair," and his sexy henchwomen, the..... More
New York: The Poets Press, 1965. First Edition. Superb copy of the Beat author's first book, a collection of autobiographical notebook writings, published after his 11-year prison sentence by Diane Di Prima's Poets Press. While published several years later than the works of his more famous contemporaries, it remains a...... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Attractive copy of this series of poems by the Love Press publisher, and long-time friend and collaborator of Wallace Berman's. This copy belonged to northern California editor, publisher, and bookseller Jack Shoemaker, so marked beneath Meltzer's drawing. Superb cover art designed by..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Edition. Substantial collection of verse by the New York School poet, including the text of a panel discussion Miles participated in at the Schoolhouse Center in Provincetown, MA on August 8, 1999. A superb association copy; Martin would publish four key works by..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Attractive copy of the author's fifth published novel, published simultaneously in cloth, wrappers, and a deluxe binding. Kerouac wrote the novel in Mexico City in June, 1952, at the home of William S. Burroughs. "I sat on Bill Burrough's toilet bowl. I had..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition. A superlative copy of "the first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer. An important contribution to computing literature in its own right, it also provided some of the most complete bibliographies available on the subject at the time..... More
New York: The Century Company, 1932. First Edition. Attractive copy of this early work by Carnegie, preceding his best-selling How to Win Friends and Influence People by four years. A biographical work on the life of Abraham Lincoln, detailing his early years, the difficulties he faced in the White House..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First Edition. Attractive copy of Ginsberg's paean to the area surrounding the Bixby Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, one of the central locations frequented by the Beats for solitude and creative inspiration. Illustrated throughout with photographs by William Webb. A significant copy inscribed to..... More
Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2005. First Edition. A key issue of this national journal of literature and discussion, containing "Agua," an excerpt from Cormac McCarthy's then-forthcoming novel No Country For Old Men. Contributions include works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ("Memories of 1955"), Isabel Allende ("The Guggenheim Lovers"), Charles Simic, Jonathan..... More
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1975. First U.K. Edition. "An affectionate parody of fairy tales, swashbuckling yarns and traditional fantasy clichés framed as a story within a story. Always knowing and full of intended anachronisms, this Ruritanian romance works equally well for adults and children..." (Barron, Fantasy Literature, 4A-117). A beloved..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. First U.K. Edition. A pristine copy of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book, originally published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston in 1970. A powerful novel, told from various perspectives, centered around themes of beauty, religion, racial identity, and Black girlhood. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); blue..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First American Edition. Attractive copy of Hammett's fourth novel. "Like Personville in Red Harvest, the city is controlled by crooked politicians in league with various mobster factions; but in The Glass Key Hammett gives us an insider's view of the corruption and in fact..... More
N.p. S.i., 1898. Large, masterfully-executed illustration by Edward Winsor Kemble (1861-1933), used as the frontispiece for the 1899 edition of Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson. Kemble's illustrations were used in two new editions of Twain's work: The American Publishing Company's upscale "Édition de Luxe" of The Writings of Mark Twain..... More
London: George Newnes, [1936]. First Edition. Presentable copy of the author's third book, an adventure story about an interplanetary flight to Mars by rocket, set 70 years in the future. A serialization in The Passing Show followed in 1937, under the title Stowaway to Mars, and re-written again in Modern..... More
Tioga, TX: The Herald Company, 1912. First Edition. Attractive copy of one of the standard works on the Texas Indian wars by De Shields, who "spent more than thirty years in assembling the material for this book, and collected a host of facts from pioneers who took part in the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. Sharp copy of Rice's first novel, in which Louis, the protagonist, "dictates his life story into a tape recorder manned by a young man and would-be acolyte. Turned into a vampire in the 1790s by Lestat, a master vampire, Louis chronicles his..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. The Philadelphia author's third novel, a bizarre paean and cathartic payback to his estranged wife, Elaine Astor. The novel tells the story of Clara Ervin, a manipulative, calculating, and cold-blooded woman who systematically emasculates and ruins her husband, as well as..... More
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896 [but 1895]. First Edition. Attractive copy of Hardy's last completed novel, centered around Jude Fawley, a stonemason who dreams of becoming a scholar. Purdy, pp.86-91. First Impression, mixed state, with gatherings A-B, D, and F showing partially-blank pages unnumbered, and gatherings C, E, G-H..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1950. First Edition. "In Burning Bright Steinbeck attempted to develop a new technique of writing, which he termed "play-novelette" - described in the foreword as "a play that is easy to read or a short novel that can be played simply by lifting out the..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1929. First American Edition. Green's second novel, centered around "a family business...an engineering works in Birmingham which a young man takes over from his dying father. But, despite the delicious satire on his position and love affairs, the book is really about skilled..... More