![MURDER IN THE BUD [TOGETHER WITH] DANGER SIGNAL. Phyllis Bottome](/pictures/thumb/4863.jpg?v=1631617742)
London & Boston: Faber & Faber / Little, Brown and Company, 1939. First Edition. A novel of psychological suspense in which a man suspected of murder poses as a struggling writer, and tries to charm a young secretary and her family into assisting him. Jilted by the suspect, the secretary..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. First Edition. Bardin's first book, a novel of psychological horror that is "at once a murder mystery, poignant love story and, most important, an unsettling and hallucinatory dark voyage into memory, madness, torture, and despair" (from the Centipede Press edition). Hubin, p.23; Pronzini..... 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
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1960. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's rubber-stamped slip laid in. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; vi,247,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1958. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii,241,[7]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.95), with some trivial wear to extremities and a single, tiny tear to upper..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); slate grey cloth, with titles stamped in burgundy on spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii,246,[2]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.95), with light wear to crown and extremities. The 53rd Perry Mason novel, in..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1957. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii,9-281,[7]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.95), with light wear and a few tiny tears, and a tiny bruise to lower..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First Trade Edition. Handsome copy of the script/sequence for Gorey's proposed silent film, centered around the excavation of the ancient central Asian city of Gulb. Toledano A49c. First Printing. Slim octavo (17.75cm); pale gray card wrappers, stapled; black paper dustjacket, with illustrated label by..... More
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. First, Limited Edition. Provenance: From the collection of Montana author, screenwriter, and outdoorsman William Hjortsberg (1941-2017), a central figure in the Montana Gang, and Brautigan's long-time friend and neighbor in Pine Creek. He spent two decades researching and writing Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times..... More
New York: Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, 1969. First Combined Edition. Attractive copy of this omnibus collecting three titles originally published by the Four Seasons Foundation between 1967-68. This edition is also the first trade hardcover edition for all three titles (all published separately as hardcovers by Jonathan Cape in..... More
New York: Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, 1970. First Edition. A substantial collection of poems, several of which first appeared in the pages of Heliotrope Catalogue, Rolling Stone, San Francisco Express Times, and The Free You. Provenance: From the collection of Montana author, screenwriter, and outdoorsman William Hjortsberg (1941-2017), a...... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1962. First Edition. First Printing, one of 3,000 copies. Slim octavo (18.25cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; [4],5-63,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Light wear to spine ends and extremities, touch of dust-soil to rear wrapper; Very Good+. "These are four tales of contemporary..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1968. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black and gilt on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; [viii],198,[2]pp. Tiny scuff to front cover, faint offsetting from old price stickers onto rear endpaper; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.50)..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1967. First Edition. First Impression, one of 2,000 copies. Octavo (19cm); dark brown textured paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-176pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced 30s.), with light wear to extremities and a touch..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1989. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-125,[3]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £12.95). The autobiography of Mohammed Mrabet, as told to Paul Bowles, which was first published in 1976 by Black Sparrow..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author and translator, this being copy 'T'. This copy bears an original ink illustration signed by the author, tipped onto the page following the copyright page. Octavo (23.75cm); pictorial..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 500 copies. Octavo (23.75cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and green cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],9-99,[9]; illus. Tiny patch of sticker residue to upper right corner of front endpaper, else..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author and translator, this being copy 'K'. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-125,[5]pp. Fine in..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 500 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-125,[5]pp. Remainder mark to lower edge of textblock, else Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near..... More
London: John Lehmann, 1950. First Edition. A sharp copy of Bowles's first collection of short fiction, gathering a dozen short stories, several of which first appeared in the pages of Harper's Bazaar, Horizon, Life and Letters, Mademoiselle, Partisan Review, Penguin New Writing, and View. His stories "The Delicate Prey" and..... More
Seattle: Winn Books, 1985. First, Limited Edition. One of 185 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and artist, this being copy no.15. Quarto (30.25cm); vertically-striped paper over light gray morocco, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; text entirely letterpress printedl; publisher's original beige linen slipcase; [vi],75,[7]pp..... More
![THE EVERYDAY THEATRE BULLETIN [NO.1]. Jerry Benjamin, Allen Ginsberg, Bertolt Brecht, Gerard...](/images/noimage.png)
New York: A New/Kinda Theatre Company, [1965]. First Edition. First (and only) issue of this mimeographed journal devoted to avant-garde theatre and poetry. The brainchild of Jerry Benjamin's budding (and short-lived) New/Kinda Theatre Company in New York, a group planning productions of Ginsberg's "Kaddish," "The Rubberheart Soup Opera" by Andy..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc. / Seymour Lawrence, 1984. First Edition. Harrison's fifth novel. Hjortsberg (1941-2017) and Harrison enjoyed a close, decades-long friendship, having first met in Northern California, and migrated to Montana in the late 1960's. Drawn by the prospect of adventure, solitude, and good fishing, they, along with..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Harrison's first novel, narrated by the protagonist from the Huron Mountains of upper Michigan. "Thirty-three years old, he is in the woods to escape, however briefly, a self-corrupted world for which his contempt mounts with each new experience of it. He is..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1965. First Edition. Harrison's first book, published simultaneously in cloth and in wrappers. Hjortsberg (1941-2017) and Harrison enjoyed a close, decades-long friendship, having first met in Northern California, and migrated to Montana in the late 1960's. Drawn by the prospect of adventure, solitude, and..... More