![Q.R.V. UNWMKD. IMPERF. [TOGETHER WITH] Q.R.V. HIKUPTAH - LIMITED EDITIONS, SIGNED. Dogear Wryde,...](/pictures/thumb/4287.jpg?v=1573327809)
N.p. S.i., 1996. First Editions. Each one of 500 sets. Two sets of 12 illustrated postcards, each containing a snippet of verse, housed in the original illustrated envelopes signed by Gorey. Fine in Fine envelopes. More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1989]. First Edition. Broadside, printed in red on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Short, closed tear along right margin, else Near Fine. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family; the poem, "The Bread..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1988]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, printed in red on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury 12/12/88" above the title. Light wear and handling to extremities..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1987]. First Edition. The holiday broadside, an annual tradition, was sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. The text, titled "On the night before diring up into Deep Space, a future robot priest offers this sermon to the far-traveling astronauts," is an..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1985]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, printed in dark brown on thick beige stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury 1/1/86" in silver pen along upper margin. Light..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1982]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, letterpress printed in dark brown on thick peach stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury '82" in pen along upper margin. Small..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First American Edition. First trade edition in the US, preceded by a small, privately-published edition (titled The Escaped Cock) by Harry Marks for the Black Sun Press. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); black sateen cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and phoenix device..... More
![METAMORPHOSIS [IN] TRANSITION: A QUARTERLY REVIEW - NO.26 (WINTER, 1937). Eugene Jolas, Franz...](/pictures/thumb/4267.jpg?v=1572819245)
New York: Transition, 1937. First Edition. Contents include contributions by James Agee, Hans Arp, Randall Jarrell, Eugene Jolas, Raymond Queneau, Muriel Rukeyser, Paul Eluard, Forrest Anderson, and others. Notable contributions include James Joyce's "Work in Progress. Opening Pages, Part II, Section III," and the second part (of three) of the..... More
The Hague: The Servire Press, 1936. First Edition. Contents include contributions by James Agee, Samuel Beckett, Richard Eberhart, Eugene Jolas, James, Johnson, Oliver Wells, and others. Artworks by Hans Arp, Charles Biederman, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, and Kasimir Malevich. Cover art by Fernand Léger. Octavo (21cm); illustrated wrappers;..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. First Illustrated Edition. Handsome edition of Thoreau's journey along the Massachusetts coastline. BAL 20192. One of 5,134 sets. Two octavo volumes (19.25cm); publisher's olive green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and in blind to spines and covers (designed..... More
![METAMORPHOSIS [IN] TRANSITION: A QUARTERLY REVIEW - NO.25 (FALL, 1936). Eugene Jolas, Franz...](/pictures/thumb/4266.jpg?v=1571783225)
New York: Transition, 1936. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Harry Brown, Denis Devlin, Eugene Jolas, Norman McCaig, Dylan Thomas, Charles Tracy, Oliver Wells, and others. Notable for containing the first part (of three) of the Jolas translation of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.Artworks by László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Cesar Domela..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. First Edition. "Satirical fantasy of the afterlife which mocks the follies of religious fundamentalism and the absurdities which figure in popular images of paradise" (Barron, Fantasy Literature, 3-343). BAL 3511. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in white and..... More
![ONE HUNDRED MERRIE & DELIGHTSOME STORIES [LA CENT NOUVELLES NOUVELLES]. Arthur Machen, Clara...](/pictures/thumb/4271.jpg?v=1571708103)
N.p. Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, Carbonnetk, 1924. Limited Edition. One of 1,250 numbered copies signed by Machen and illustrator Clara Tice, this being copy no.29. Two octavo volumes (22.5cm); publisher's evergreen blind-embossed moire cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spines; xxvi,279,[3]; xviii,272pp, with illustrated frontispieces and..... More
![THE TIME OF MAN: A NOVEL [THE DOHENEY COPY]. Elizabeth Madox Roberts](/pictures/thumb/4269.jpg?v=1571708103)
New York: The Viking Press, 1926. First Edition. The Kentucky author's first novel, set among "poor whites" living in the Kentucky hills. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); light denim-cloth over navy blue vertically-ribbed cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; gray topstainl; dustjacket; [viii],382,[2]pp. Decorative leather and gilt-stamped bookplate..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. First American Edition. The Welsh author's novel about a poverty-stricken woman, fiercely rebelling against the restraints of her married life. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); light brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; [vi],278,[4]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, topstain..... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1987. First Trade Edition. Attractive, fine press printing of Bradbury's poetry. During their decades-long friendship and correspondence, the two men were diligent about inscribing and exchanging books with each other. Safire deeply admired Bradbury's writing, notably reviewing Zen and the Art of Writing: Essays on..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1935. First French Edition. Attractive copy of Faulkner's third novel translated into French. Petersen A13r. First Impression, a review copy, with "S.P" printed at lower margin of front flap and title page. Octavo (18.5cm); publisher's original printed wrappers; xvi,421,[3]pp. Generically inscribed by the translator on the first blank..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First U.K. Edition. Sharp copy of this posthumous work containing sketches of the author's life in Paris during the 1920's, "in the early days when we were very poor and very happy." Hanneman A46.a. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); dark brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1945. First Edition. "The loose plot centers around the efforts of a group of friends to throw a party for "Doc" (who in real life was the oceanographer Ed Ricketts). The good-natured and somewhat ignorant life-style of these people is captured in a "slice-of-life." Steinbeck..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926 [but ca.1933]. Hemingway's great Lost Generation novel about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to Spain. The pictorial jacket, which depicts a flapper in a sleeveless green dress, was reportedly Hemingway's favorite among all his books, and he was..... More
V.p. S.i., 1963-1971. 1. TLS from Kurt Vonnegut to Bill Corrigan, June 24, 1963. 1 leaf, recto only, signed "Kurt" in pencil; with original mailing envelope, franked, postmarked June 25, 1963. Vonnegut thanks Corrigan for coming to see his play, which he expects to overhaul completely and open with a...... More
Lawrence, KS: T. Williams, Publisher, 1967. First Edition. Broadside printing a poem written by Ginsberg at midnight, February 12, 1966, on his way to Kansas. Lino-cut of the title, Ginsberg's name, and his trademark three-headed fish uncredited. Morgan AA7. Original illustrated broadside, offset printed in black on light brown wove..... More
San Francisco: Cranium Press, [1967]. First Edition. Attractive broadside featuring a beatific Ginsberg holding a pair of tablets, containing the text of his poem "Who Be Kind To," written in 1965 prior to a poetry reading at Royal Albert Hall. Designed by American artist Wes Wilson, best-known for his work..... More
[San Francisco: S.i., ca.1959]. Large, early photographic portrait of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, taken in the basement of his City Lights Bookstore a few years after it opened. Ferlinghetti is seated on a stool, a shelf of books in the background (including Kerouac's Mexico City Blues), pointing at a door painted with..... More
Madison, WI: The Red Ozier Press, 1978. First Edition. Chapbook containing two poems which first appeared in Gay Sunshine, "I Lay Love On My Knee" and "Love Replies." Printed for the benefit of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Association copy, inscribed..... More