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
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
London: Voyager / HarperCollins, 2005. First U.K. Edition. Fourth volume in Martin's best-selling Song of Ice and Fire series, basis for HBO's Emmy Award-winning series Game of Thrones. Inscribed to long-time friends Mike and Mary Fitzsimmons, who together with Mike's first wife, Barbara, founded and ran Archon, a multi-genre convention..... More
London: W.H. Allen, 1973. First U.K. Edition. A series of autobiographical essays on film by the legendary director, produced, and screenwriter. A fine association copy - Baxter would go on two write the first serious study on Vidor for the Monarch Film Studies series in 1976. First Impression. Octavo (22cm);..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953. First UK Edition. A cornerstone work of film journalism, originally conceived by Ross as a series of articles she wrote for The New Yorker on the production of John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage (1951). "She takes one picture...from the time the property was..... 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
Storrs, CT: The Wormwood Review Press, 1962. First Edition. An early issue of Marvin Malone's long-running literary journal, and Bukowski's second appearance in WR, featuring the first appearance of his poems "For Jane" and "The Sharks." A small but significant copy; Icarus was the only outfit to take out ad..... More
New York: Ecco Press, 2010. First Edition. Smith's memoir of making her way as an artist, poet, and musician in New York during the 1960's, where she met her lifelong friend Robert Mapplethorpe. Smith spent several years scraping by, doing all manner of jobs while trying to develop her artistic..... 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
New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, 2000. First Edition. Substantial anthology of short writing with a running theme on memory loss, edited by Lethem, whose own contribution ("Five Fucks") appears alongside those by Martin Amis, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, Julio Cortázar, Flann O'Brien, Cornell Woolrich..... 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