New York: Scribner, 2001. First Edition. Basis for Lawrence Kasdan's 2003 film adaptation, starring Morgan Freeman, Damian Lewis, Thomas Jane, and Timothy Olyphant. From the library of novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Goldman (1931-2018), best known for his 1973 novel The Princess Bride. His relationship to King dates back..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.225. Octavo (22.25cm); decorative paper-covered boards and purple cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-89,[5]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed and wavy..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. Second Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); grey paper and blue cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 446pp. A handful of faint, tiny spots to text edges, otherwise Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $25). An epic sequel to Dalva, spanning..... More
New York: Grove Press, 2010. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); maroon and cream paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xii],[5],6-308pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $24.00). Harrison's "most ambitious and stunning collection of novellas since Legends of the Fall...an unforgettable portrait of three..... More
New York: Grove Press, 2007. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light blue cloth with titles stamped on spine in gilt; dustjacket; [vi],[3],4-280,[2]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $24.00). A multi-cultural family comes to terms with their family's history after the passing of their Chippewa-Finnish father. Provenance: While..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.22. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and blue cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [10],11-80,[2]pp. Fine in a lightly..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1995. Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.146. Quarto (26.75cm); grey and green pictorial cloth and quarter forest goatskin,titled in gilt on spine; matching pictorial cloth slipcase; [ii],[7],8-429,[2]pp, illustrated with 48 photographs of New..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. Fifteenth Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip; [10],11-205,[7]pp. Faint, scattered foxing to text edges, else Near Fine, lacking the original acetate dustjacket. Bukowski's second novel, following his alter-ego Henry Chinaski through post-WW2 America as he blows through a series of..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated for use by the author, publisher, and those within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Bukowski on the title page. Small octavo (21cm); decorative..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2012. Limited Edition. Illustrated edition of Collins's 1868 novel, first serialized in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round, followed immediately by a three-decked published by Tinsley Brothers. Centered around a large yellow diamond, stolen by an Englishman during the Anglo-Mysore War from an Indian..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011. Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator, this being copy no.41. Octavo (24cm); lavender cloth and purple goatskin, with titles stamped in silver on spine, and pictorial only inset on front cover; [ii],169,[5]pp, with four color..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. First Edition. A substantial volume of posthumously-published poems, ranging from the 1970's-1990's. Provenance: From the collection of Earle and Larry Gray, owners of the Earle Gray Book Binding Company, who bound up most of the Black Sparrow Press books from 1968-2002. Deluxe Issue, one..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. First Edition. First Printing, advance issue, one of an unstated number of copies specially bound from proof sheets for booksellers. Octavo (24.25cm); slate paper-covered boards and blue cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to front cover; dustjacket; [13],14-398,[2]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. First Edition. First Printing, advance issue, one of an unstated number of copies specially bound from proof sheets for booksellers. Octavo (24.25cm); slate paper-covered boards and blue cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to front cover; [13],14-398,[2]pp. Briefly inscribed by Roth on the title..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.110. Octavo (20.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-60,[8]pp. Light foxing to text..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author (this copy unnumbered on colophon). Octavo (24cm); printed paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],9-107,[5]pp. Scattered foxing to..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 2 special copies designated "Presentation Copy" and signed by the poet on the colophon. Octavo (25cm); coarse green cloth with title label mounted to spine, publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [10],11-57,[7]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and upper board edges..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 200 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; blue endpapers; [6],7-181,[7]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A sequence of poems..... More
Fayetteville, AR: 1978. A late letter by Stanford to the poet Karl Elder, who functioned as poetry editor of Seems, the literary magazine published by the English Department at Southwest Missouri State University (under Jerome Klinkowitz). Elder and Stanford had known each other for several years, since the latter was..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First Edition. An attractive copy of Wakoski's long poem, published in five volumes over a 16 year period. "I decided I wanted to write a long, preachy, didactic poem, using personal and trivial details, names of people, and even gossipy hearsay. I wanted to..... More
New York: The Kulchur Foundation, 1985. First Edition. A warm association copy from Waldman to poet Tom Clark (1941-2018), a long-time friend and collaborator. The book is accompanied by a dense and revelatory letter in which she expresses her displeasure over Lita Hornick's handling of this publication. "Alas there are..... More
Livingston, MT: S.i., 1984. A brief but revelatory letter from McGuane to author, literary critic, and bibliographer Jerome Klinkowitz, in which he expresses his delight at Klinkowitz's response to his work, and proceeds to answer questions on the work of some his contemporaries, as well as the work of those..... More
Johannesburg: S.i., 1973. "To me the writer's freedom is his right to maintain and publish to the world a deep, intense, private view of the situation in which he finds us. If he is to work as well as he can he must take, and be granted, freedom from the..... More
[New York: S.i., n.d. but 1970-1972]. Smith's working typescript for this early poetry chapbook – one of two published the same year Smith's book Seventh Heaven was published by Telegraph Books – containing a poem Smith first wrote in 1970. Published and distributed by The Gotham Book Mart, where during..... More
New York: S.i., 1968. Short, superb letter from Roth to American journalist, author, and three-time Guggenheim Fellow Louis Sheaffer (1912-1993), best known for his two volume biography of Eugene O'Neill (O'Neill: Son and Playwright, 1968, and O'Neill: Son and Artist, 1973). "Delighted to hear that the O'Neill biography Volume One..... More