Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1990. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of an unspecified number of copies specially bound for The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo (23.5cm); full dark brown leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; [viii],[12],13-302,[4]pp, with an..... More

Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1903. First Edition. Attractive, well-preserved copy of this early novel by Bacheller, founder of the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. Scarce in dustjacket. Octavo (19.75cm); maroon cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and in blind to spine and front cover; dustjacket;..... More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1996. First Edition. Advance copy Wallace's second novel and magnum opus, a lengthy and complex work which takes place in a North American dystopia, centering on a junior tennis academy and a substance-abuse recovery center. Advance Issue. Thick octavo (23.5cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [x],[2],3-1079,[1]pp..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Edition. Uncorrected proof copy of McCarthy's ninth novel, basis for the 2007 Coen brother's film which won four Oscar's. The proof copy is considerably scarcer than the later, glossy advance copy. Provenance: From the collection of former Alfred A. Knopf editor Gary Fisketjon..... More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1950]. Limited Edition. One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, this being copy no.1,413. Quarto (31cm); full dark mauve cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and polished brass cockerel mounted to front cover; publisher's original decorative chemise and paper-covered slipcase;..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. First Edition. Advance copy of Roth's superb alternative history novel, in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the 1940 presidential election by Charles Lindbergh, giving rise to wide-spread anti-semitism in America. Basis for the HBO miniseries starring Winona Ryder, John Tuturro, and Ben Cole..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First Edition. The author's first novel, written between 1947-48 in Queens, where he lived with his mother and father. A largely autobiographical novel which Kerouac was not pleased with, written much in the style of Thomas Wolfe. In an August 17, 1966 conversation..... More

Topanga, CA: The Love Press, 1968. First Edition. Charming edition of McClure's long poem, written in his signature "beast language". A slim yet visually appealing production from Herms's Topanga-based Love Press. Considerably less common than the ubiquitous piracy published by Runcible Spoon, with no examples for sale in the trade..... More

Sewanee, TN: University of the South, 1965. First Edition. Along with the Spring 1965 issue of The Yale Review, one of McCarthy's earliest appearances in print, containing "The Dark Waters," a seven-page excerpt from his debut novel The Orchard Keeper. With additional contributions by Edward Dahlberg, Patrick Boyle, Victor Strandberg..... 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

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

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

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