Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition. Handsome edition of the author's third novel, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1970. Octavo (23.25cm); full maroon leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; [xviii],601,[3]pp; illus. Signed by..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First Edition. Collection of poems which Bukowski considered the best of his early work, gathered chiefly from chapbooks and little magazines. Krumhansl 108b. Trade Issue, one of 600 copies. Octavo (23.75cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards and red cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine;..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First Edition. Bukowski's finished script for the 1987 film directed by Barbet Schroeder, including all deviations from the original screenplay. Illustrated throughout with stills from the film, depicting Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, and others. Krumhansl 103b. Trade Issue, one of 500 copies..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. Early travel narrative by Greene, chronicling his journey into the little-known parts of Mexico (Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco) in order to report first hand on the official campaign there against the Catholic Church. Most of his experiences there would provide the background..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972. First American Edition. "Ostentibly a series of factual accounts about the lives of noted scoundrels, the book in actuality marked the debut of Borges as a storyteller, using that unique blend of fact, fiction, and pseudo-scholarship that later came to full expression..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1970. First American Edition. The author's sixth book translated into English, and together with Ficciones, the collection he considered his major work. The volume collects 20 stories - eleven of which had never previously appeared in book form in English - and a...... More
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1960. First U.K. Edition. First English language edition of the Italian author's only novel, initially published as Il Gattopardo in 1958. Basis for Luchino Visconti's Oscar-nominated 1963 film, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale. First Impression. Octavo (21.5cm); hunter green cloth, with titles..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition. Since it was first published by Gallimard as L'Etranger in 1942, Camus's first-person narrative of solitude and disaffection has become a classic of existential literature, and the basis for the 1967 Luchino Visconti film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina. Connolly..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1947. First Edition. An attractive copy of Bellow's second book, a Burgess 99 novel. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); full black cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine; powder blue topstain; dustjacket; [viii],294,[2]pp. Trivial wear to spine ends, faint foxing to text edges, with..... More
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1946. First Edition. The first collection of these five stories in hardcover format. "Spanish Blood," "The King in Yellow," "Pearls Are A Nuisance," "Nevada Gas," and "Trouble Is My Business" first appeared in the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective magazine..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First U.K. Edition. "Neither a novel nor a collection of self-contained short stories, the book owes more to the hallucinatory "cut-up" technique of American Beat writer William S. Burroughs than any other influence. The book is composed of fractured vignettes in which a psychiatrist is being..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition. First US hardcover edition of Ballard's first two novels, published by Berkley Publishing Corp. in 1962 as paperback originals. In The Wind From Nowhere, "catacylismic winds ground all air travel and then grow stronger, capsizing huge ocean-going tankers. Eventually, the..... More
New York: Harper Perennial, 2017. Reprint of the paperback edition, basis for Misha Green's HBO miniseries of the same name. Reprint. Octavo (20.25cm); original pictorial wrappers; [x],374, plus 16pp *P.S. section. Signed by the author on the title page, next to a small original drawing. Fine and unread. More
New York: Bluejay Books Inc., 1985. First Edition. Sharp copy of the author's first book, centered around "an American man and his Indian wife whose baby has been kidnapped by cult worshippers of the god Kali" (Barron, Horror Literature 4-272). Winner of the World Fantasy Award in 1986. First Printing..... More
![BROADCASTING CONTRACT FOR MARIONETTES, INC. [SIGNED]. Ray Bradbury](/pictures/thumb/4739.jpg?v=1603842724)
New York: National Broadcasting Company, 1955. Contract for the X Minus One broadcast of Bradbury's story Marionettes, Inc., originally published in Startling Stories (March, 1949), and later included in his 1951 collection The Illustrated Man. Among Bradbury's most popular and unsettling stories, centered around the company Marionettes, Inc., which creates..... More
New York: Doubleday, 2009. First Edition. The author's eighth novel, inscribed to his friend, advocate, and correspondant of 25 years, who he holds in high esteem; Lethem has written effusively about Berger and his work in The Paris Review and The New York Times. A distinguished copy, connecting two prominent..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2020. First American Edition. The third and final volume in Mantel's Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy, centered around the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in metallic red..... More
![MASS FOR SMALL THINGS [WITH] SONG - PROOF COPIES. Michael Forrest](/pictures/thumb/4729.jpg?v=1603842724)
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1966. First Editions. The fifth and seventh publications of John Martin's Black Sparrow Press, printing two poems by southern California poet Michael Forrest, who was the second author (after Charles Bukowski) published by the press. Martin relayed the following to us, when we queried him..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. First Edition. Galley's for Salter's fifth novel, which originated as a screenplay he wrote for Robert Redford in 1976. The mountain climbing piece, based on the exploits of maverick American climber Gary Hemming, was one Salter spent over a year researching. "He took up..... More
Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall, 1971. First Edition. Attractive collaborative work between Malanga and Warhol, stemming from their Death and Disaster series, including a substantial collection of poems both inspired by and dedicated to various Factory figures, and reproducing six of Warhol's Death paintings, along with a portrait of the two men..... More
N.p. S.i., [1962]. First Edition. Screenplay for this adaptaion of Bradbury's short story, which first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1956, and collected a decade later in S is for Space. The story is centered around the first manned rocket flight to the moon, relayed..... More
London: Collins, 1956. Original dustjacket artwork for the First British Edition of Calvino's first novel. The novel, told from a child's perspective, paints the trauma of war torn Italy using a variety of impressive characters, namely a young boy and his teenage sister, who are depicted on the jacket. The..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940. First Edition. The author's first full-length work of crime fiction, the first of his "Black" novels, and his first deep foray into the revenge narrative he would craft so expertly throughout his career. "Julie Killeen's husband is killed on the church steps moments after..... More
Chicago: The Book Supply Company, 1911. First Edition. A remarkably well-preserved copy of Wright's best-selling western novel (ca.2.8 million copies), dealing with "the reclamation of the Imperial Valley and the formation of the Salton Sea in 1906 and 1907. The heroine, a foundling rescued from the desert, wins and chooses..... More
London: W.H. Allen, 1973. First U.K. Edition. A series of autobiographical essays on film by the legendary director, produced, and screenwriter. A fine association copy - Baxter would go on two write the first serious study on Vidor for the Monarch Film Studies series in 1976. First Impression. Octavo (22cm);..... More