Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Comprehensive collection of Bowles's short fiction in its most limited state. Desirable in the deluxe issue, this being the only copy we've seen or handled with a contemporary presentation inscription by the publishers. Miller A35d. Deluxe Issue, one of 60 numbered copies..... More
Zurich: Memory/Cage Editions, 1995. First Edition. Trade Issue, one of 1,500 copies. Square quarto (22.75cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards; [10],11-54,[6]pp; illus. A Fine copy of this short story, first written in 1962, illustrated throughout with photographs by Vittorio Santoro. More
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this collaborative work between Bowles and Swiss photographer Peter Haeberlin, who capture in text and images accounts of daily life among the desert and hill country tribes of Northwestern Africa. Miller A8b. First Printing, one of 3,500 copies. Quarto..... More
San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1985. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.56. Octavo (22.5cm); tan paper-covered boards, with title label and pictorial onlay mounted to spine and front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [x],91,[7]pp. Fine..... More
[North Pomfret, VT]: Elysium Press, 1997. First Edition. An exquisitely produced volume gathering the collected correspondence between Bowles and Rorem, spanning the years 1949-1995. "For more than fifty years, the writer/composer Paul Bowles and Ned Rorem have exchanged letters on a wide variety of subjects that encompass much of the..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. Collects 12 separately issued chapbooks, trimmed and bound in a single volume. Morrow & Cooney 246. Deluxe Issue, one of 50 copies specially bound and signed by (almost) all contributors (with exception to Charles Olson and Norman Glass). Octavo (23.75cm); full coarse..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1981. First British Edition. The author's scarce second book and first novel, set in the mythical West African country of Kinjanja. First Impression. Octavo; tan paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; 251pp. Tiny, barely-discernable gray smudge to lower edge of textblock, else Fine in..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1982]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, letterpress printed in dark brown on thick peach stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury '82" in pen along upper margin. Small..... More
[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, 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
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. An attractive collection of poems by the prominent New York School figure, several of which first appeared in the pages of Adventures In Poetry, 49 South, Big Sky, and The World. Morrow & Cooney 151b. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies..... 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. Burgess 99. First Impression. Octavo; hunter..... 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
New York: Grove Press, 1964. First American Edition. The author's first novel, written between 1962-63. The book was published in 1965, selling less than 1,000 copies before going out of print. It found new life in various paperback formats, and has since been endlessly re-issued, now hailed as a cult..... More
San Francisco: Cranium Press, 1966. Second Edition. Brautigan's first regularly published book, originally published by the White Rabbit Press in a tiny run of 200 copies (1958). Provenance: From the collection of Montana author, screenwriter, and outdoorsman William Hjortsberg (1941-2017), a central figure in the Montana Gang, and Brautigan's long-time..... 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
New York: Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, 1969. First Combined Edition. Attractive copy of this omnibus collecting three titles originally published by the Four Seasons Foundation between 1967-68. This edition is also the first trade hardcover edition for all three titles (all published separately as hardcovers by Jonathan Cape in..... More
New York: Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, 1970. First Edition. A substantial collection of poems, several of which first appeared in the pages of Heliotrope Catalogue, Rolling Stone, San Francisco Express Times, and The Free You. Provenance: From the collection of Montana author, screenwriter, and outdoorsman William Hjortsberg (1941-2017), a...... More
Boston & New York: Mariner Books, 1999. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; xviii,124,[2]pp. A Fine, unread copy. Posthumously-published collection of Brautigan's earliest poems and short stories from the 1950's, given to his first girlfriend in Eugene, Oregon before he departed for San Francisco. More
Boston & New York: Mariner Books, 1999. First Trade Edition. First Printing, advance issue. Octavo (21cm); printed card wrappers; xviii,126pp. A Fine, unread copy. Posthumously-published collection of Brautigan's earliest poems and short stories from the 1950's, given to his first girlfriend in Eugene, Oregon before he departed for San Francisco..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Wrappered issue, one of 250 numbered copies (numbered 51-300), this being copy no.284. Quarto (29cm); printed sheets, hand-sewn into letterpress printed card wrappers; [ii],[4],5-15,[3]pp; illustrated throughout by Sherril Jaffe. Trivial wear and faint creasing to yapped edges, with faint foxing to right..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First American Edition. Octavo (18.75cm); dark brown vertically-ribbed cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and in blind to spine and covers; [ii],vi,351,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, softening to corners (though still sharp), with a few small rubbed spots to cloth, and some..... More