Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1980. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of likely a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few key individuals associated with the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Octavo..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Small octavo (18cm); printed paper covered boards and brown cloth backstrip with title label mounted to spine; [8],9-69,[3]pp. Light foxing to textblock edges and..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; [10],11-103,[4]pp. Light foxing to textblock edges, hint of dust-soil..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 trade copies. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and teal cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publishers's original acetate dustjacket; [14],15-240,[4]pp. Foxing to front and back boards and text edges, Very Good, in a lightly rubbed..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Hemingway's 1940 novel, the story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. Basis for Sam Wood's Oscar-winning adaptation, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Hanneman 18a. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm);..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition. Hemingway's 1940 novel, the story of a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. Basis for Sam Wood's Oscar-winning adaptation, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Hanneman 18a. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm);..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of eight copies specially bound and designated for the author, publiserh, and a few key individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon; includes an original..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of likely a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few key individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon; includes..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of likely a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few key individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon; includes..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of likely a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few key individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon; includes..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 12 copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few key individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon; includes original holograph..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of likely a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few key individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon with..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of likely a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few key individuals within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon; includes..... More
New York: Power Mad Press, 1981. First Edition. The first full-length collection of poems by the noted New York School figure and one-time artistic director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, several of which first appeared in the pages of Out There, Little Caesar, Ladies Museum, Synchro Harbor, and Broadway..... More
[New York: The Condé Nast Press / The New Yorker, 1948]. First Edition. Proof sheets for one of Salinger's most famous short stories, and his second published piece in The New Yorker, appearing in the January 31, 1948 issue. It featured Muriel and Seymour Glass, a young married couple on..... More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991. First Edition. A long and touching homage to Ted Berrigan, collecting stories, essays, poems, photographs, and illustrations by friends and colleagues. In addition to those who have inscribed this volume, contents include contributions by Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, Bernadette Mayer, Ed Sanders, Amiri Baraka, Robert..... More
New York: Avon Publications, Inc., 1959. First Edition. Second novel by Golightly (1919-1998), ex-Greenwich Village bookstore owner, pulp fiction author, and amateur folk singer, who moved from Tennessee to live in the East Side of Manhattan. She claimed Truman Capote modeled his Breakfast at Tiffany's protagonist Holly Golightly on her..... More
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1970. First Edition. Cloth Issue, one of 50 copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo (24.5cm); beige buckram, with decorative title label mounted to front cover; [6],7-34,[6]pp. Hint of foxing to text edges, else very Near Fine. The Santa Barbara poet's first book, published..... More
Los Angeles: Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1972. First, Limited Edition. One of 50 copies. Octavo (21.75cm); marbled paper-covered boards and beige cloth backstrip, with the text letterpress printed on Hayle Mill hand-made paper; [16]pp, with an original watercolor illustration by Forrest tipped onto the verso of the front endpaper..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. First Printing, one of 3,000 copies. Octavo (22cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and decorative elements embossed onto front cover; green topstain; dustjacket; xii,176,[2]pp. Some sunnng and mottling to spine, endpapers lightly foxed, with rough erasure to an..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. First Printing, one of 1,000 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and decorative elements embossed onto front cover; brown topstain; dustjacket; [4],x,182,[4]pp. Light wear to spine ends, sunning to spine and upper board edges, with some..... More
San Francisco: Manic Press, 1967-1968. First Editions. Complete run of this short-lived Bay Area mimeo magazine. Contents include the first appearance of three poems by Charles Bukowski ("The Kiss-Off," "One Hundred and Ninetyseven Degrees," and "Bogart in the World of the Dead"), with contributions by Kent Taylor, d.a. levy, Marcus..... More
[Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press], 1972. First Separate Edition. An offprint of Coetzee's essay, reprinted from the November, 1972 issue of Journal of Modern Literature. Beckett has been a key influence on Coetzee's writing throughout his career; his Ph.D. thesis was a stylistic analysis of the author's early novels, and..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 6 copies (numbered 295-300) specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and a few key individuals involved with production, this one marked "Binder's Copy" (no.297) and signed by Faas and Hughes. Octavo (23.75cm); printed paper-covered boards and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Proof copy of Dunn's third novel, centered around a a family-owned traveling carnival freak show. Geek Love was Mehta's first acquisition for Knopf, published with a modest print run of 20,000 copies. The brilliant storytelling, coupled with Chip Kidd's innovative jacket design..... More