New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. First Edition. Humorous football novel centered around Brünnehilde "Pussy" Downing (aka. "Pink Pants"), the blonde-haired, blue-eyed kicker for the (fictional) Bowlby College football team, who beats the Harvard boys 14-0 during their highly-anticipated game. With 12 illustrations throughout the text by John Held, Jr...... More

New York: The Poets Press, 1965. First Edition. Superb copy of the Beat author's first book, a collection of autobiographical notebook writings, published after his 11-year prison sentence by Diane Di Prima's Poets Press. While published several years later than the works of his more famous contemporaries, it remains a...... More

London: Hogarth Press, 1938. First British Edition. First Issue. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in black; photographic frontispiece; 312pp. A touch of minor offset to endpapers, else Fine and clean throughout. The gray dustjacket is lightly toned at the panels and flap folds, and slightly darker at the spine;..... More

London: Faber & Faber, 1986. First British Edition. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo; pale blue wrappers printed in black; 206pp. Slight lean to the spine, with a hint of nearly invisible soil to the text edges, otherwise Near Fine. A scarce British proof for the Booker Prize winner's second novel... More

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. First Edition Thus. Attractive copy of the PEN Award-winning author's fourth book. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author, each with an original full-page drawing (this is copy 'P'). Octavo (23.5cm); illustrated paper-covered boards and patterned cloth..... More

New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Edition. Excellent association copy of this early collection of poems, inscribed to Albert M. Bender of San Francisco, "the most active buyer - and donor - of the work of California artists the state had ever known" (Harlow, Ann. "Albert Bender, Artists' Patron Saint,"..... More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Original prospectus for this collaborative work between Jess and Robert Duncan, reproducing an illustration at upper half, along with a synopsis, and publication information. cf.Morrow & Cooney 105. Illustrated prospectus, printed in black, goldenrod, and brown on white stock, measuring 14cm x...... More

New York: Transition, 1936. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Harry Brown, Denis Devlin, Eugene Jolas, Norman McCaig, Dylan Thomas, Charles Tracy, Oliver Wells, and others. Notable for containing the first part (of three) of the Jolas translation of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka.Artworks by László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Cesar Domela..... More

New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. Joyce's last major work, a challenging work of fiction significant for its experimental style and use of language. Fragments of the work first appeared in 1924, in the pages of literary journals Transition and Transatlantic Review; the UK and US editions..... More

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1937. First Edition. Kantor's short novel about a rural community still bitterly divided in the aftermath of the Civil War. Basis for Roy Rowland's 1947 film starring Van Johnson and Thomas Mitchell, and the debut vehicle for both Janet Leigh and Gail Davis. First Printing. Octavo;..... More

N.p. S.i., 1898. Large, masterfully-executed illustration by Edward Winsor Kemble (1861-1933), used as the frontispiece for the 1899 edition of Mark Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson. Kemble's illustrations were used in two new editions of Twain's work: The American Publishing Company's upscale "Édition de Luxe" of The Writings of Mark Twain..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1983. First Edition. Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and basis for the 1987 Hector Babenco film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black and gray paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],227,[1]pp. Signed by the..... More

[Newport, RI: S.i., 1943]. An early, lyrical, and autobiographical prose piece by Kerouac on hitch-hiking out of New York to his native New England. Written while Kerouac was convalescing in the mental ward of the Naval hospital in Newport, RI, while he was enlisted in the Navy; he was hospitalized..... More