Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Collection of poems, accompanied by the author's watercolors and ink drawings. Morrow & Cooney 85b. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author, each with a mounted watercolor frontispiece (this being copy no.6). Quarto (27.75cm); yellow ribbed cloth, with..... More
Lawrence, KS: Abington Book Shop, 1966. First Edition. Issue 7 of John Fowler's literary magazine, notable for featuring the first commercially published pieces of S. Clay Wilson's artwork. Wilson, along with Robert Crumb and Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez, was an influential pioneer in the underground comix movement beginning in the 1960's..... More
Woodstock, IL: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1977. First Edition. The National Book Award-winning author's first book, a one-act play co-written with classmate Kathy Siebert for a non-traditional high school physics class when Franzen was just 17 years old. "The anachronistic plot centers on an attempt by Russian spies to kidnap..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. First American Edition. First Printing. First issue, with pages 430 and 431 reversed, the publisher's erratum slip, and two promotional postcards laid in. About Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Winner of the National Book Award, and a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize..... More
London: Belmont Press, 2002. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. Slim octavo; printed sheets hand-sewn into thick teal corrugated paper wrappers; 28pp, [3]. A Fine copy of Franzen's essay about his dad, which first appeared in The New Yorker in 2001... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket. The red jacket is completely unfaded and briefly nudged at the spine ends, otherwise Fine. Franzen has signed this copy on the title page. This was his second novel, with an initial print..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2011. Limited Edition. Handsome edition of the English author's psychological novel, taking place between the present day and World War II. Octavo (22.75cm); full hunter green leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; [x],261,[3]pp. A...... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. First Edition. A novel centered around the social drama which unfolds in an upstate New York town during the Civil War. The protagonist, Abner Beech, is a Northerner opposed to the invasion of the South; he is branded a "copperhead" by his abolitionist neighbors..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 751 numbered copies signed by the author. Octavo; 3/4 jade green paper-covered boards over quarter brown cloth, with titles stamped in black and gilt on spine and decorations gilt-stamped on front panel; original publisher's paper-covered slipcase; 63pp..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1968. First American Edition. Basis for the well-received 1999 film "El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba," starring Salma Hayek; the film was nominated for the Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1999. The 1982 Nobel Prize winner's first book in English, particularly desirable as a...... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First British Edition. First Printing. Fine in a Fine, priceclipped dustjacket. More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First American Edition. A superlative copy of the Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece, and likely the most widely-read Spanish language novel aside from 'Don Quixote.' The present example is a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in; the slip differs from other..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. First American Edition. The Nobel Prize-winning author's third book translated into English, collecting the title story and six shorter works. Not an uncommon title, but scarce as a review copy. Klein E3.a.1. First Printing, a review copy, with publisher's printed slip and a...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First Trade Edition. Attractive copy of the Lebanese-American author's fifth English language book, an illustrated volume of aphorisms, poems, and parables published three years after The Prophet. Uncommon in dustjacket. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt..... More
Brooklyn: The Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn, [1972]. Broadside announcing the premiere for Ginsberg's first play - a mixed-media production inspired by his highly-regarded poem written between 1957-59. A five-part play, set between Paterson, NJ and the Five Boroughs, this adaptation involves Ginsberg and his immediate family as central characters..... More
Madison, WI: The Red Ozier Press, 1978. First Edition. Chapbook containing two poems which first appeared in Gay Sunshine, "I Lay Love On My Knee" and "Love Replies." Printed for the benefit of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Association copy, inscribed..... More
Lawrence, KS: T. Williams, Publisher, 1967. First Edition. Broadside printing a poem written by Ginsberg at midnight, February 12, 1966, on his way to Kansas. Lino-cut of the title, Ginsberg's name, and his trademark three-headed fish uncredited. Morgan AA7. Original illustrated broadside, offset printed in black on light brown wove..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1974. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this long poem, part of Ginsberg's "The Fall of America: Poems of These States" sequence written during the mid-to-late 1960's. Morgan A27a2.1. Preceded by the Canadian edition published by The Coach House Press (1973). Oblong octavo (14cm); metallic..... More
San Francisco: Beach Books, 1968. First American Edition. Beat novelist John Clellon Holmes' copy, bearing his name and Connecticut address rubber-stamped on verso of front wrapper. Not an uncommon item by any stretch of the imagination, but a terrific Beat Generation association. Kraus I.A23. First Printing. Quarto; light brown wraps..... More
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First Edition. Attractive copy of Ginsberg's paean to the area surrounding the Bixby Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, one of the central locations frequented by the Beats for solitude and creative inspiration. Illustrated throughout with photographs by William Webb. A significant copy inscribed to..... More
San Francisco: Cranium Press, [1967]. First Edition. Attractive broadside featuring a beatific Ginsberg holding a pair of tablets, containing the text of his poem "Who Be Kind To," written in 1965 prior to a poetry reading at Royal Albert Hall. Designed by American artist Wes Wilson, best-known for his work..... More
[Denver, CO]: Alekos Records / Wax Trax Records, 1981. The Beat poet's first shot a punk rock credibility, released a year before he appeared on The Clash's "Ghetto Defendant." Side A records his anti-Reagan poem "Birdbrain" backed by Mike Chapell's Denver-based band The Gluons, with the bands "Sue Your Parents"..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1955. First American Edition. Considerably less common that its British counterpart; when Lord of the Flies was first published in the U.S. in 1955, it sold only 2,383 copies before quickly going out of print. By the numbers, fewer copies of the American edition were produced..... More
Placitas, NM: Duende, 1964. Second issue of Larry Goodell's literary journal, each issue being dedicated to the work of one poet. This issue contains poems by A. Fredric Franklyn, associate editor of TRACE and the West Coast US representative for EL CORNO EMPLUMADO. Clay & Phillips p.150-151. Quarto; side-stapled mimeographed..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound by Earle Gray, this being copy no.171. Octavo (23.5cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards and floral-patterned cloth backstrip, with title label applied to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-329,[3]pp. Slight forward lean, touch of dust-soil..... More