Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. Collects 12 separately issued chapbooks, trimmed and bound in a single volume. Morrow & Cooney 246. Deluxe Issue, one of 50 copies specially bound and signed by (almost) all contributors (with exception to Charles Olson and Norman Glass). Octavo (23.75cm); full coarse... More about SPARROW 37-48 - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Substantial collection of Malanga's poems, written between 1965-1971. Morrow & Cooney 194b. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.79. Octavo (23.5cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards and olive green cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to... More about INCARNATIONS - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci Press, 1963. First Edition. Significant copy of this early work by Wakoski, presumably an even tinier limitation than the 10 copies designated for presentation. One of 99 numbered copies signed by the author, this one marked "Author's Copy" on the colophon. Octavo (25.25cm); white printed paper-covered... More about THE LAMENT OF THE LADY BANK DICK - AUTHOR'S COPY, SIGNED
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1930. First Edition. Novelization of Cecil B. de Mille's 1930 pre-Code musical comedy. A weird, genre-defying film and novel, involving sordid affairs, a young society woman in a sexy leather Satan outfit, and an art deco zeppelin on a doomed voyage, hosting a wild party... More about MADAM SATAN
New York: Random House, 1936. First Edition. An uncommon advance copy of Patchen's first book collection of poetry. Morgan A1a. First Printing (one of 2,000 copies), a review copy, with a photographic portrait of the author laid in. Octavo (24cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black and gilt on... More about BEFORE THE BRAVE - REVIEW COPY
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First Edition. Wallace's third collection of short fiction, collecting 8 stories. First Printing, a review copy, with six pages of publisher's publicity materials folded and laid in. Octavo (24cm); dark green and navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine;... More about OBLIVION: STORIES - REVIEW COPY, INSCRIBED
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First Edition. The author's second collection of short fiction, collecting 23 stories. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [xii],273,[2]pp. From the collection of Craig Anderson, Maxwell Anderson's son, and the long-time manager of The... More about BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN - INSCRIBED
New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. First Edition. Sharp copy of McBride's National Book Award-winning novel, centered around a slave who unites with John Brown's abolitionist mission. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); brown and burnt orange paper-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xii],417,[3]pp... More about THE GOOD LORD BIRD
New York: New Directions, 1960. First Edition. Culled from the pages of his 512-page manuscript, the excerpts from Kerouac's novel Visions of Cody were shaped by his publisher at New Directions into a tight, cohesive package - something Kerouac's original manuscript lacked. At the center of the novel was Neal... More about EXCERPTS FROM VISIONS OF CODY - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Second American Edition. Key translation of Mann's novel of obsession, centered around an author suffering from writer's block who visits Venice, and finds himself becoming increasingly infatuated with an adolescent boy. A key translation by H.T. Lowe-Porter, the great popularizer of Mann, following Kenneth... More about DEATH IN VENICE
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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981-1984. First Edition Thus. Handsome set of the Black Sparrow reissue of Lewis's short-lived Vorticist literary and art magazine, originally published in 1914-15. Includes a foreword by Bradford Morrow in No.1, with contributions by Lewis, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Hueffer, Rebecca West, T.S. Eliot, and..... More about BLAST - NOS.1-3 [DELUXE ISSUE, FROM THE ESTATE OF WYNDHAM LEWIS
Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1937. First Edition. "This scenario is directly inspired by a phantasy called "The House of Incest," written by Anais Nin" (from dedication page). The frontispiece, featuring a bizarre etching by Rattner, is often found lacking. Shifreen & Jackson A13; Pearson A-48. One of 200 numbered copies... More about SCENARIO (A FILM WITH SOUND) - SIGNED
Brooklyn: The Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn, [1972]. Broadside announcing the premiere for Ginsberg's first play - a mixed-media production inspired by his highly-regarded poem written between 1957-59. A five-part play, set between Paterson, NJ and the Five Boroughs, this adaptation involves Ginsberg and his immediate family as central characters... More about BROADSIDE: THE CHELSEA THEATER CENTER PRESENTS KADDISH, THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ALLEN GINSBERG'S...
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923. Early UK printing of Fitzgerald's first novel, centered around the lives of young socialites in post-World War I New York. Both the first and second UK printings of This Side of Paradise vary "unauthoritatively from the first Scribner's printing of the novel... More about THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. First American Edition. Sharp copy of Mrabet's novel about a young Moroccan boy who runs away to Tangier, and the low company he keeps and encounters there. An early collaboration between Mrabet and Bowles. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); yellow cloth, with titles stamped in... More about THE LEMON
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. First Edition. 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 A31a. First Printing, one of 85,000 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); gray marbled paper and rust-colored cloth, with... More about A MOVEABLE FEAST
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. Dylan's first book, set to be published in 1966, pending a few changes he wanted to make, but a motorcycle accident halted publication for nearly five years. In the interim, a copy of the proof was stolen and numerous piracies were circulated. It was... More about TARANTULA
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Attractive copy of Hemingway's classic novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and generally considered the catalyst for Hemingway winning the Nobel Prize. Basis for the 1958 John Sturges film starring Specer Tracy. Grissom A.24.1.a; Hanneman A45a. First Printing... More about THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
New York: Random House, 2017. First Edition. The author's first novel, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2017. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black and slate-gray paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xii],341,[15]pp. Signed by the author across the title page. Crown gently nudged, remainder dot... More about LINCOLN IN THE BARDO: A NOVEL - SIGNED
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. First Trade Edition. A book about a dude that lost his umbrella - a perfectly Gorey concept for a book, no? Toledano A35c. (Second Printing overall) Preceded by the Gotham Book Mart signed limited edition published in 1970. Oblong octavo (15.25cm); illustrated card wrappers; [66]pp;... More about THE SOPPING THURSDAY
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 about THE BLACK DOLL: A SILENT FILM
Cleveland: S.i., 1969. First Printing. The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle was a short-lived Cleveland newspaper, compiled and edited by d.a. levy prior to his death and continued by his friend Steve Ferguson. The paper reflected the interests of the emerging counterculture, and served as a vehicle for levy's poetry..... More about THE BUDDHIST THIRD CLASS JUNKMAIL ORACLE - 7TH LAST ISSUE (JULY, 1969
New York: Random House, 1990-1999. First Editions. Attractive set of Matthiessen's Florida trilogy, telling the story of E.J. Watson. Over the course of nearly ten years he cut out 400 pages of the original manuscripts and re-wrote large portions of the book, giving voices to characters which previously had none... More about THE WATSON TRILOGY: KILLING MISTER WATSON, LOST MAN'S RIVER, AND BONE BY BONE - SIGNED
Paris: L'Edition D'Art H. Piazza, 1921. First Edition. Handsome edition of of The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of Ancient Greece, with wrappers and text exquisitely illustrated by Edmond Dulac. One of 1300 numbered copies, this being copy no.90. Quarto (30cm); publisher's original illustrated wrappers; [ii],123,[7], with 14pp of mounted... More about LA TOISON D'OR, ET QUELQUES AUTRES CONTES DE LA GRECE ANCIENNE - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First Edition Thus. Handsome edition of Lewis's satirical novel of London's artistic and literary circles in the 1920's. Scarce in the deluxe issue. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound, this being copy 'N'. Thick octavo (23.5cm); illustrated paper-covered boards and patterned... More about THE APES OF GOD - DELUXE ISSUE