New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1962. First Edition. First Printing, one of 8,000 copies. Octavo (20.75cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,159,[9]pp. Trivial wear to extremities, else very Near Fine in like dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.50), with some minute rubbing. Posthumous volume collecting the 17..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1962. First American Edition. An early collection of short fiction by the Argentine author, collecting 19 stories translated by Anthony Kerrigan, Alastair Reid, Anthony Bonner, Helen Temple, and others. First published by Editorial Sur in 1944, the collection remains a towering work of Latin American literature..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); blue and yellow cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in bluish-gray on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[5],6-806,[8]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid-in. Light wear to spine ends and board edges, with some gentle sunning and dust-soil to..... More
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1967. First Edition. First Printing, one of 500 numbered copies, this being copy no.137. Octavo (22.75cm); dark brown paper-covered boards; dustjacket; [10],11-77,[3]pp. Slight lean, decorative bookplate to front endpaper, with some faint dust-soil to text edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), lightly edgeworn, with..... More
Toronto: Anansi, 1970. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue - the correct first state, without mention of the Governor Generals Award on the front cover. Octavo (22.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-105,[7]pp. Pinpoint wear to extremities, with a faint stress crease to lower right corner of front wrapper; a fresh, Near..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. First Edition. Knowles' first book, the story of a friendship between two 16 year old boys at a New England prep school, just before America's involvement in World War 2. Winner of the William Faulkner Award for Best First Novel, and adapted into film by..... More
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First Edition. The author's first published book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and basis for Robert Mulligan's Oscar-winning 1962 film starring Gregory Peck. First Printing, one of ca.5,000 copies. Octavo (20.75cm); brown paper over light green cloth, with..... More
London: The Grey Walls Press, 1951. First Edition. Collection of nine stories - all previously published but collected under this title for the first time - selected by Alan and Jennifer Ross. Includes "Crazy Sunday," "Babylon Revisited," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," et al. Bruccoli AA3. First..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. First Edition Thus. A collection of 14 uncollected short stories and 6 uncollected essays. Contents are identical to the 1957 edition published by Princeton University, though the scrapbook photos are omitted. Bruccoli A22.1.b. First Printing, with A.2-58 code on copyright page. Octavo (24cm); brown..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1957. First Edition. A collection of 14 uncollected short stories and 6 uncollected essays, along with reproductions of photographs of Fitzgerald culled from his scrapbook in the Princeton University Library. Bruccoli A22.1.a. First Printing, one of 1,500 copies. Octavo (24cm); russet cloth, with titling and..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1956. First Edition. The author's first novel, and the first volume in his Malayan Trilogy. Boytinck 812; Brewer A27. First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],214,[2]pp. Trivial wear to base of spine, with faint dust-soil to text edges;..... More
Topanga, CA: The Floating Bear, 1962. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of Diane Di Prima's highly-regarded poetry magazine, reprinting a letter from Lew Welch, and poems by Richard Baker, Dale Landers, Robert Creeley, and A.B. Spellman. Quarto (28cm); mimeographed sheets, printed recto and verso and stapled at upper left corner; [10]pp..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); two-tone blue and rose-colored cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; maroon topstain; dustjacket; [vi],265,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine, starting oxidation to spine gilt, with some very faint blotches at upper spine and front..... More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1978. First Edition. Warm sketches on eight of Miller's close friends: Harolde Ross, Bezalel Schatz, Vincent Birge, Emil White, Ephraim Doner, Jack Garfein, Joe Gray, and his bicycle. Shifreen & Jackson A213b. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in orange on..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Collection containing Hemingway's only full-length play, and a substantial number of his finest short stories, including "The Killers," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "Fifty Grand," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Grissom A.16.1.a; Hanneman A16a. First Printing, one of 5,350 copies..... More
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1917. An early work by Joyce, a collection of 15 short stories depicting Irish middle-class life in Dublin. The first American edition bound with American sheets (the 1916 first printing was bound up with English sheets). Slocum & Cahoon A10. Second Printing (April, 1917). Octavo (19.25cm);..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. Joyce's last major work, a challenging work of fiction significant for its experimental style and use of language. Fragments of the work first appeared in 1924, in the pages of literary journals Transition and Transatlantic Review; the UK and US editions..... More
London: Belmont Press, 2002. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 copies numbered and signed by the author, this being copy no.152. Slim octavo (24.5cm); printed sheets hand-sewn into thick teal corrugated paper wrappers; [4],5-28,[4]pp. A Fine copy. An attractive production, containing the first separate printing of Franzen's essay about..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1956. First U.K. Edition. Attractive copy of the author's best-known work, first published in Paris in 1952, and translated into English here by Beckett himself. Federman & Fletcher 373.1. First Impression. Octavo (21cm); chickpea yellow cloth, with titles stamped in dark red on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-94,[2]pp..... More
Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. First Edition. Attractive copy of this early collection of nine essays on Texas, touching on themes of "the end of the cowboy era and the exodus from the ranch to the city and suburbs" (Kirkus Review). Preceded by a first printing that was so littered..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First Edition. A well-preserved copy of Carroll's wildly popular nonsense poem, drawing language and characters from his earlier poem "Jabberwocky." Williams 31. First Impression, with "Baker" instead of "Butcher" on p.83, line 6. Octavo (18.75cm); publisher's original buff cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in..... More
New York: Remember I Did This For You / A Power Mad Book, 1978. First Edition. One of four mimeographed books of poetry produced between 1978-79 by Steve Levine and Barbara Barg's Remember I Did This For You press, all volumes with covers designed by Rae Berolzheimer. Master's relationship to..... More
New York: Frank Shay, 1916. First Edition. One of 500 copies. Slim octavo (20cm); pale gray stapled wrappers, with titles printed in black; [6],7-19,[5]pp. Light wear and subtle toning to wrapper extremities, residue from an old bookplate on verso of front wrapper, with some resulting offsetting onto half-title page; contents..... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1990. First Edition. Miniature volume printing eight poems, which first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker, The Southern California Anthology, The New Republic, The Oxford American, Agni, and The Ontario Review. De Bellis & Broomfield A130.b. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies..... More
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Second novel in Updike's best-selling Rabbit Angstrom series, nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction. De Bellis & Broomfield A42.b. Limited Issue, one of 350 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.1. Octavo (20.75cm); beige..... More