London: The Grey Walls Press Limited, 1953. Revised, First English Edition. Revised UK edition of Fitzgerald's fourth novel, incorporating all of his final revisions to the text, and including a preface by Malcolm Cowley not present in the 1948 Grey Walls Press edition. Basis for Henry King's 1962 film adaptation..... More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1951]. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 3,500 copies bound from British sheets. Octavo (22.25cm); teal cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,425,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, tiny tear at crown, with some faint dust-soil along upper board edges; contents..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. First Edition. The author's first novel, the story of a reluctant smuggler who betrays his colleagues and the aftermath of his betrayal. Basis for the 1947 adventure film directed by Bernard Knowles, starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Attenborough. Wobbe A2.a; Hubin, p.175. First Impression, one..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. A superior copy of this Beat Generation cornerstone, a series of interconnected vignettes centered around full-time drug addict William Lee and his travels from the United States, to Mexico, to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone. Basis for David Cronenberg's bizarre 1991 film adaptation..... More
Baltimore: Globe Poster Printing Corp. 1988. Sharp poster for Virginia State University's Homecoming Extravaganza, held October 1, 1988. Headlining the event was American rapper Kool Moe Dee (b.Mohandas Dewese), with supporting act Experience Unlimited (E.U.), a DC-based go-go/funk group who were at the height of their popularity, thanks to their..... More
Baltimore: Globe Poster Printing Corp. 1996. Concert poster for what would surely have been an epic event (had it ever taken place) at the Miami Arena on Saturday, August 24, 1996. The scheduled event, billed as the "3 Back From Hell Tour," was supposed to feature Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 1987. First Edition. Wallace's first novel, originally submitted as one of his undergraduate theses at Amherst College, and subsequently published by Viking in cloth and wrappers. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (19.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [viii],[2],3-467,[5]pp. Mild handling and a faint crease to lower front wrapper..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First Edition. Bradbury's third book, a collection of 18 short stories (with a prologue and epilogue). Basis for Jack Smight's 1969 film adaptation, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in dark grey on..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1962. First Edition. Sharp copy of Kesey's first published novel, one of the defining works of the 1960's, set in an Oregon psychiatric ward. Basis for Miloš Forman's Oscar-winning 1975 film, starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher. First Impression, without Kesey's name blacked-out on copyright..... More
Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1995. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy 'U'. Octavo (20.25cm); lavender cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; publisher's matching cloth slipcase; xii,95,[3]pp. Fine in a Fine..... More
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 500 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.419. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titling, decorations, and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt and red on spine and front cover; red topstain; map endpapers;..... More
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. First American Edition. Collection of three novelettes - The Captain's Doll, The Fox, and The Ladybird - first published in London under the title The Ladybird eight months prior. Roberts A24b. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); vertically-ribbed bluish-grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine..... More
New York: Farrar, Sraus and Giroux, 1965. First Edition. Sharp copy of Wolfe's first book and one of the seminal books of the 1960's, a collection of articles, many of which first appeared in the pages of Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, the New York Herald Tribune, and the Sunday Republican. First..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. First Edition. A casebook on the film adaptations of three of Capote's stories: "Miriam," "Among the Paths to Eden," and "A Christmas Memory." "The original text of the stories followed by the film scripts enables the reader to see for himself how a moment..... More
Mankato, MN: Creative Education, Inc., 1982. First Separate Edition. First separate edition of this early short story, first published in the June, 1945 issue of Mademoiselle when Capote was only 19. Winner of the O. Henry Award for Best First-Published Story. Uncommon signed. Octavo (22.25cm); pictorial paper-covered boards; [9],10-40pp; illus..... More
New York: Random House, [1968]. Second American Edition. Twentieth Anniversary edition of Capote's first book and his debut novel, a semi-autobiographical work published when he was 23, and his reputation rested chiefly on the strength of his short fiction. Contains a new and lengthy introduction by the author. Starosciak 1d;..... More
New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. A substantial collection of short fiction and non-fiction pieces which, at the time, was Capote's first collection of work in nearly 14 years. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (21.5cm); full black cloth, with titling and author's initials stamped in silver on spine and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First Edition. Attractive edition of Cather's breakout novel, which rapidly outsold any of her previous books within a matter of months, ultimately going into eight printings within the year of publication. Crane A14.a.i. Limited Issue, one of 185 copies numbered copies specially bound and..... More
Chicago: Geo. M. Hill, 1898. An attractive, early American edition of the second Sherlock Holmes novel, together with the first short story to feature Conan Doyle's most famous character. Not in Green & Gibson. Hubin, p.122; Barzun & Taylor 1143. Octavo (19.5cm); vertically-ribbed crimson cloth, with titling and decorative elements..... More
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. First Edition. Handsome set of Eliot's fifth novel, published in an edition of 5252 copies. A social novel, centered around the political disputes in a small, fictitious English town during the time of the Reform Act of 1832. Baker & Ross A8.1;..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. First Edition. Deluxe issue of one of Bukowski's most substantial collections from the 1980's. Provenance: From the collection of photographer Michael Montfort. Krumhansl 100e. Deluxe Issue, one of seven copies specially designated by the publisher on the colophon, this being marked "Photographer's Copy," signed..... More
Amsterdam & Utrecht: Boom, Waesberge, Goethals, Borstius, Wolters, Halma, van de Water, and Broedelet, 1705. Second Edition. Handsome set of this popular edition of the Hebrew Bible translated by Everardo van der Hooght (1641-1716), Dutch Hebraist and Calvinist preacher. Based on the Athias-Leusden text of 1666-67, van der Hooght's edition..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1944. First U.K. Edition. "The Four Quartets, the most important poem since Yeats' The Tower, and, as many think, of the century, were written over ten years...Although Eliot had long taken leave of modernism as a creed, and disapproved of poetry as a substitute for religion..... More
London: The Grey Walls Press Limited, 1953. First U.K. Edition. Fitzgerald's first and only published novel, written over the course of six weeks while being treated for schizophrenia at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Drawing heavily on her own life and marriage with Scott, the novel follows the story of..... More
London: The Grey Walls Press Limited, 1948. Second English Edition. Octavo (19cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-269,[3]pp. Light wear to spine ends, faint foxing to cloth and text edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 8s.6d. net), gently spine-sunned, a little edgeworn and..... More