[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1985]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, printed in dark brown on thick beige stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury 1/1/86" in silver pen along upper margin. Light..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1988]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, printed in red on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury 12/12/88" above the title. Light wear and handling to extremities..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1989]. First Edition. Broadside, printed in red on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Short, closed tear along right margin, else Near Fine. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family; the poem, "The Bread..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1987]. First Edition. The holiday broadside, an annual tradition, was sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. The text, titled "On the night before diring up into Deep Space, a future robot priest offers this sermon to the far-traveling astronauts," is an..... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1987. First Trade Edition. Attractive, fine press printing of Bradbury's poetry. During their decades-long friendship and correspondence, the two men were diligent about inscribing and exchanging books with each other. Safire deeply admired Bradbury's writing, notably reviewing Zen and the Art of Writing: Essays on..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1992]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Provenance: through the trade, from the estate of William Safire. Broadside, with text printed in red in two columns on white laid paper, measuring 8.5" x 11"..... More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First UK edition. Braine's first book, a classic "angry young man" novel centered on the rags-to-riches journey of Joe Lampton. Basis for Jack Clayton's Oscar-winning 1959 adaptation starring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret, and a more recent BBC production. First Impression. Octavo; hunter green paper-covered..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First American Edition. Braine's first book, a classic "angry young man" novel centered on the rags-to-riches journey of Joe Lampton. Basis for Jack Clayton's Oscar-winning 1959 adaptation starring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret, and a more recent BBC production. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red paper..... More
London: Picador / Pan Books Ltd., 1973. First UK Paperback Edition. A well-read copy of Brautigan's first novel, bearing a typically subdued inscription to one of his closest friends. Tom McGuane was an on-again, off-again roommate of Brautigan's during the early years he lived in Bolinas, California. Over a nearly..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1964. First American Edition. The author's first novel, written from 1962-63 when he was 28 years old. The book was published in 1965, sold less than 1,000 copies before going out of print and was promptly forgotten. It has since been re-issued and hailed as a...... More
San Francisco: Cranium Press, 1966. Second Edition. Brautigan's first regularly published book, inscribed to Shigeyoshi "Shig" Murao, who managed the City Lights Bookstore for more than 25 years. Murao was at the very center of the San Francisco Beat scene, who knew Brautigan since he was an awkward 20-something newcomer..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First UK Edition. Attractive copy of this poetry collection - the first in hardcover - preceded by the trade paperback original published by the Four Seasons Foundation (1968). Barber 27. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); photo-illustrated cloth boards; dustjacket; [12], 108pp. Tiny stain to crown, else fresh..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2001. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 1050 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.515. Octavo (24.5cm); full brown leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; [x],306,[6]pp. A Fine..... More
New York: Viking, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. This copy is signed by the author on the second blank page, differing from the copies that had a signed sheet tipped in and a gold sticker placed on the front jacket panel. Winner of the 2006..... More
Sutton West & Santa Barbara: The Paget Press, 1986. First Edition. Scarce edition of this delightful short story, fully illustrated by the author. The present copy bound in a cloth variant not noted by the bibliographer, and, though not called for, the author has added a drawing of his signature..... More
Los Angeles: Laugh Literary, 1971. First Edition. Final issue of this short-lived little magazine dedicated to poetry, prose, and artwork, intended as Bukowski's alternative to the Black Mountain Review. He despised the Black Mountain School, going so far as to reproduce the following manifesto on the cover of Issue No.1..... More
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Los Angeles: N.P., 1967. An early issue of the publication, marking the fourth appearance of Bukowski's "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column, and a fairly outrageous Don Lewis centerfold spread. Dorbin D57. Tabloid (43.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers; 16pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center, subtle toning and a few foxed spots..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Volume containing separate issues of Sparrow 25-36, trimmed and bound together without separate title page. Contains Bukowski's Africa, Paris, Greece (Sparrow 30). Morrow & Cooney 220; cf.Krumhansl 47a. Deluxe Issue, one of 50 copies specially bound and signed by all contributing authors..... More
Los Angeles: Laugh Literary, 1969. First Edition. Premiere issue of this short-lived little magazine dedicated to poetry, prose, and artwork, intended as Bukowski's alternative to the Black Mountain Review. He despised the Black Mountain School, going so far as to reproduce the following manifesto on the cover of Issue No.1..... More
Los Angeles: N.P., 1968. About Fine, with light toning to the edges and folds. A copy of the elusive and notorious "surpressed issue" of Open City, this one signed by editor John Bryan on the lower right margin. According to Dorbin, the issue was suppressed due to an allegedly obscene..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1956. First British Edition. First Impression. Octavo; blue textured boards, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; 214pp. A touch of light soil to the text edges, else very Near Fine. The unclipped dustjacket has some minor wear along the extremities, a discreet diagonal crease..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1936. First Edition. More than likely this copy was inscribed during the filming of 'Nobody Lives Forever' in 1946, a film directed by Negulesco and based on a book and screenplay by Burnett. A novel about an Ohio Governor named Read Cole, whose initial..... More
[Santa Barbara]: Am Here Books, 1981. A Burroughs curiosity, originally issued as an insert applied to the inner rear wrapper of Am Here Books Catalog Five (1981/82). Across the header of each page ran a ticker tape scroll of Burroughs's "The Last Words of Hassan-I-Sabbah," culminating with two full pages..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1962. Thirteenth Printing. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket. A single, short tear at the lower edge of the front panel, with some trivial pinpoint rubbing to the corner tips and spine ends, otherwise a lovely example of the jacket, with the spine colors vibrant..... More
Rome: Cleto Polcina, 1989. First Edition. Italian exhibition catalog for a collection of Burroughs's shotgun art and collages from the October and Tony Shafrazi Galleries, highlighting 15 pieces. In his essay within the catalog, Burroughs explains that the title is derived from a concept found within the Carlos Castaneda books..... More