New York: Astor-Honor, Inc., [1968]. Reprint. 12mo. (15.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [64]pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to wrappers, with a few stickers and rubber-stamps to inner rear wrapper reading "Union Street Museum Archive;" Very Good+. Issued as part of the four-volume set A Gorey Festival. Toledano A6d..... 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
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932. First Edition. A play centered around the effects of World War I on an English family, which first premiered at the Globe Theatre on November 1, 1932. Stott A46. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); brown cloth, with titling and the author's symbol stamped in gilt on..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939. First Edition. A beloved anthology of short fiction, selected and introduced by Maugham, with contributions by Hawthorne, Poe, Flaubert, Hardy, Wilde, Conrad, Conan Doyle, Kipling, Tolstoy, Chekov, Joyce, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Forster, Wodehouse, and others. An elusive volume, with no equivalent published..... More
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1985. Limited Edition. An exquisite fine press publication by the Cheloniidae Press, printing three versions of the "Jumping Frog" story - "In English, then in French, then clawed back into a civilized language once more by patient, unrenumerated toil." Deluxe Issue, one of 50 numbered copies..... More
N.p. Fridolf Johnson, 1948. A unique manuscript of Mary Lamb's romantic poem "Salome," composed around 1808-09, and first published in her husband Charles Lamb's Works [1818]; while the poem was originally published in her husband's works, and while his name is credited on the title page of this volume, the..... More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First U.K. Edition. Handsome set of this anonymously-published maritime novel by Cooper, centered around the abduction of a woman by the pirate captain of the Water-Witch, and the subsequent pursuit by her suitor. Precedes the American edition by two months, and preceded only..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition. Attractive copy of Fitzgerald's second collection of short fiction, gathering 11 stories, including "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Bruccoli A9.1.a. First Printing, one of 8,000 copies. Octavo (19.25cm); full hunter green crushed morocco..... More
Brooklyn: McSweeney's Books, 2001. First Edition. Distinguished copy of Davis's major collection of short stories and "flash fiction," inscribed to short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004). Davis, one of Berlin's great admirers, has written extensively about her influence and writing, most recently in The New Yorker, and in the foreword..... More
Port Angeles, WA: S.i., 1988. A late letter from Carver to Salter, full of admiration, as well as regret over a missed opportunity to meet. "Many thanks for your good letter...It was not for want of trying that I missed your reading, and with it the opportunity to meet you..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First Edition. A substantial collection of poems by this venerable counterculture figure and musician, many of which first appeared in the pages of Notus, Long Shot, Sulfur, The World, Heartland, and San Francisco Magazine, et al. A significant copy from the collection of Israel..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, S.A., 1952. Second Edition. An exemplary copy of this key collection of short fiction by Borges, including the title story - a literary and metaphysical masterpiece. The second edition adds four new stories and a brief afterword which did not appear in the first (1949), along..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's first book, based on his experiences researching the war correspondence of journalist Ernie Pyle. Miller was tasked by Hollywood to gather material for "an honest movie" about American GI's during the war, about their training, daily life, their..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1983. A particularly effusive letter from Kennedy, expressing both great admiration for Salter's work, as well as gratitude for a generous letter in response to reading Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. "That was one of the best letters I've ever gotten in my life -- your response..... More
Missoula, MT: S.i., 1983. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first letter to Salter, written in response to his appreciation of Ford's Esquire essay "The Three Kings: Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald" (December 1, 1983). Ford expresses his appreciation of the letter, mentioning "I didn't think I'd done much for the Faulkner-Hemingway-Fitzgerald canon..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. The second of two bound galleys for McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, both issued prior to the uncorrected proof copy in blue printed wrappers. The first state of the galleys was issued roughly six months prior to the publication date of October 2..... More