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
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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
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
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México: Blacamán Editor, 2004. Limited Edition. An exquisite fine press publication of the Nobel Prize-winning author's 2002 memoir, covering his childhood years through 1950, when he proposed to his wife. This edition involved close collaboration between García Marquez, his son Gonzalo García (who designed the typeface), and Dutch-born artist Jan..... More
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Madison, WI: Quixote Press, 1969. First Edition. Attractive portfolio of levy's work, which he produced during a one month stint in October, 1968 as the "Free University Poet-in-Residence" at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Two editions of the portfolio were assembled and produced by levy's friends and fellow poets..... More
San Francisco: John Kelly, 1959. First Edition. Scarce, early issue of "perhaps the quintessential "Beat" publication...originally published in mimeograph at the Bread and Wine Mission on Grant Avenue in San Francisco's very hip North Beach...Beatitude was originally planned as a weekly newsletter, "designed to extol beauty and promote the beatific..... More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1952. First American Edition. American edition of Akutagawa's best-known collection of work, first published in English (in Japan) by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. in 1952. The stories were written by Akutagawa between 1915-1921, published in literary magazines. The first two stories, "In A Grove"..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968. First Edition. First book by the New Jersey poet and intimate of Beat generation luminaries. At the age of 16, inspired by Kerouac's On the Road, Pommy traveled to New York to become involved in the Beat scene there; she met Gregory Corso in..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1962. First Edition. Superior copy of the author's best-known work, a violent dystopia, and basis for Stanley Kubrick's highly-regarded 1971 film of the same name. The idea for Burgess's novel, sadly, was inspired by real-life events: his wife Llewela was violently assaulted by several G.I.'s during..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First American Edition. Octavo (18.75cm); dark brown vertically-ribbed cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and in blind to spine and covers; [ii],vi,351,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, softening to corners (though still sharp), with a few small rubbed spots to cloth, and some..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First Edition. First Printing, one of 2,040 copies. Octavo (18.75cm); publisher's D binding in purple cloth, with Thoreau named as the author of Walden and A Week on Concord River on spine; brown coated endpapers; [x],252pp, with publisher's 22pp catalog dated December, 1864 bound at..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. First Edition. The National Book Award-winning author's first collection of short stories, narrated by a troubled man identified only as "Fuckhead," exploring the lives of several addicts living in rural America. Basis for Alison Maclean's 1999 film of the same name, starring Billy..... More
[New York: Gotham Book Mart / Estate of Edward Gorey], 2001. First Edition. Attractive broadside, featuring a short poem by Gorey beneath an illustration of a large group of somber, ecclectically-dressed people. Issued as a keepsake for The Unknown Gorey exhibition at the Gotham Book Mart, December 5, 2001. Broadside..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1999. First Printing of this re-issue. Octavo (19.5cm); pictorial boards; dustjacket; [64]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $15). New edition of Gorey's first book, initially published in 1953 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce. More
New York: Saturday Review Press / E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); orange paper-covered boards and light brown cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine; dustjacket; [x],84,[2]pp; illus. Lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with a hint of foxing to upper..... More
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. A spare, suspenseful novel from the author's Appalachian period - the story of a murderer and necrophile who is outcast from his small community, and living with the decomposing bodies of his victims in the mountains and in an underground cave. Basis for..... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006. First Edition. Advance excerpt from Atwood's 2006 collection of 11 inter-related stories, printing "The Art of Cooking and Serving." Inscribed to bookseller Glenn Horowitz, who would go on to publish Birds, Atwood's 2012 collaborative work with artist Billy Sullivan. Slim octavo (21.75cm); pictorial card wrappers..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Uncorrected proof copy of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth novel, the saga of love and loss over five decades. A significant association copy inscribed by Edith Grossman, the preeminent translator of literary works from Spanish to English, to Glenn Horowitz, who brokered..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1999. First Edition. Handsome edition of the Booker Prize-winning author's sixth novel, his interpretation of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth. Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.126. Octavo (24cm); full black morocco, with titles stamped in gilt on..... More
Berkeley: Quinto Sol Publications, Inc., 1972. First Edition. The author's first book, a coming-of-age novel set in New Mexico after World War II, and one of the cornerstone works in the Chicano literary canon. According to the American Library Association, it continues to be among the most frequently challenged books..... More
Boston: The St. Botolph Society, [1922]. First Edition Thus. Attractive edition of Maugham's second novel, first published in Boston by L.C. Page & Company in 1898. cf.Stott A2. Octavo (19.5cm); hunter green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and light green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [10],11-351,[3]pp;..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932. First Edition. Maugham's thirteenth novel, first serialized in the pages of Hearst's International Magazine from October 1932 - January, 1933. Stott A45. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); navy blue cloth, with titling and author's symbol stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket;..... More