San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1955. First Edition. Attractive advertising broadside for the first Poets' Follies in San Francisco, the brain-child of poets Weldon Kees and Michael Grieg, who conceived of the event in 1954 after attending a "wofefully stilted" reading by W.H. Auden at San Francisco State College's new Poetry..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. A well-received collection of stories issued after Gatsby's release, with a modest first printing of 10,100 copies. Bruccoli A13.I.a. First Printing, earliest state of the text, with clear, unbattered type on pages 38, 90, and 248. Octavo; dark green textured cloth, with..... More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923. Early UK printing of Fitzgerald's first novel, centered around the lives of young socialites in post-World War I New York. Both the first and second UK printings of This Side of Paradise vary "unauthoritatively from the first Scribner's printing of the novel..... More
Paris: Simon Kra, 1926. Gatsby Le Magnifique was the first translation of any Fitzgerald novel into a foreign language. The task of translation was assumed by Peruvian author and translator Victor Llona (1886-1953), who began working on it in the fall of 1925. Llona, who grew up in Paris, quickly..... More
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. First appearance of Fitzgerald's fourth novel, preceding its publication in book format on 12 April, 1934, with illustrations throughout by Edward Shenton. A uniformly attractive set, typically found in bound volumes, missing wrappers, or bearing library marks. Four quarto issues (28cm); pictorial..... More
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
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