[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

New York: National Broadcasting Company, 1955. Contract for the X Minus One broadcast of Bradbury's story Marionettes, Inc., originally published in Startling Stories (March, 1949), and later included in his 1951 collection The Illustrated Man. Among Bradbury's most popular and unsettling stories, centered around the company Marionettes, Inc., which creates..... More

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First U.K. Edition. An association copy of the highest quality, inscribed to Bradbury's long-time friend, mentor, and literary agent Forrest Ackerman. It was Ackerman who introduced a teenage Bradbury to the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, published Bradbury's first story in his fanzine Imagination, and who..... 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

N.p. S.i., [1962]. First Edition. Screenplay for this adaptaion of Bradbury's short story, which first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1956, and collected a decade later in S is for Space. The story is centered around the first manned rocket flight to the moon, relayed..... 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

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

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

Los Angeles & Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977-1978. First Edition. Complete typescript for this humorous, violent short story of middle-aged marital discord, set in a small town in Illinois. The preliminary leaf and running head notably print Bukowski's original title for this story – The Split – which he..... More

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1956. First Edition. The author's first novel, and the first volume in his Malayan Trilogy. Boytinck 812; Brewer A27. First Impression. Octavo (19.25cm); blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],214,[2]pp. Trivial wear to base of spine, with faint dust-soil to text edges;..... More

New York: Photo Researchers, Inc., 1964. Joseph J. "Joe" Munroe (1917-2014) was an Ohio-born photographer and filmmaker who studied with Ansel Adams early on in his career. After serving in the Air Force during World War II, he settled in California, where he developed an interest in agriculture and rural..... More

New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (21.5cm); full black cloth, with titling and author's initials stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xx,262,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Faint paperclip impression to upper front endpaper, else Fine in a...... More

New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1973. First Edition. A slip of a publication produced by Larry Fagin's Adventures in Poetry imprint, and printed on the mimeo machine at St. Mark's Church. Contains two poems - "Cheered and Greeted" by MacAdams, and Carroll's "A Window in Cherry Valley." Uncommon; OCLC notes..... More