[San Francisco: S.i., ca.1959]. Large, early photographic portrait of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, taken in the basement of his City Lights Bookstore a few years after it opened. Ferlinghetti is seated on a stool, a shelf of books in the background (including Kerouac's Mexico City Blues), pointing at a door painted with..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1935. First French Edition. Attractive copy of Faulkner's third novel translated into French. Petersen A13r. First Impression, a review copy, with "S.P" printed at lower margin of front flap and title page. Octavo (18.5cm); publisher's original printed wrappers; xvi,421,[3]pp. Generically inscribed by the translator on the first blank..... More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, [1951]. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 3,500 copies bound from British sheets. Octavo (22.25cm); teal cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,425,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, tiny tear at crown, with some faint dust-soil along upper board edges; contents..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1924. Attractive copy of Freeman's first novel, introducing the public to Dr. John Thorndyke, whose scientific approach to detection was something of a departure in the genre during this period. Thorndyke attempts to clear the name of a young man who stands accused of..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1914. First Edition. An early Freeman mystery featuring Humphrey Challoner, a specialist in criminal anthropology, who after the murder of his wife dedicates his life to the apprehension and punishment of criminals (and by "apprehension and punishment" I mean he murders them, shrinks their..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. First Edition. Winner of the Newberry Medal, the Hugo Award (2009), and the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Literature. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); dark blue and black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[8],9-312pp; illus. Fine in..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1952. First Edition. Prior to the publication of his first novel, Gault was already a prolific writer for the pulps, publishing more than 300 stories for magazines like Argosy, Black Mask, and Dime Mystery. By the time the 1950's came around, the pulp industry..... More
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New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1927. First Edition. Scarce anthology of mystery stories compiled by Wells (1862-1942), collecting works by Poe, Hawthorne, Bierce, Dreiser, Moffett, and others. Of particular note is Wells's inclusion of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper, a key work of feminist literature, first published..... 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: 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
N.p. S.i., 1989. First Edition. "The twenty cards that make up The Helpless Doorknob can be read in 2,432,902,069,736,640,000 different ways." Toledano A95a. First Printing, one of 500 sets (per Toledano), this one apparently out-of-series, lacking numeration and Gorey's signature. Set of 20 illustrated cards, with fold-over title sheet, housed..... More
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1938. First Edition. The author's first novel, following the struggle between a police Captain, a criminal escaped from a mental asylum, and those who may have released him to hide their own heinous crime. Hubin, p.181. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles..... More
New York: The John Day Company, 1931. First Edition. Scarce anthology of horror and weird fiction selected by Hammett himself, for which he provides a 3pp introduction. Notable contributions include William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily," "The Music of Eric Zann" by H.P. Lovecraft, and Donald Wandrei's "The Red Brain,"..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1988. First American Edition. Uncorrected proof copy of the British physicist's best-known work, a popular science book on cosmology that has sold more than 10 million copies. An uncommon advance, lacking the both text of Carl Sagan's introduction (though he is credited on the title page)..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. First U.K. Edition. Sharp copy of this posthumous work containing sketches of the author's life in Paris during the 1920's, "in the early days when we were very poor and very happy." Hanneman A46.a. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); dark brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. A superlative copy of Hemingway's classic novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and generally considered the catalyst for Hemingway winning the Nobel Prize. Basis for the 1958 John Sturges film starring Specer Tracy. Grissom A.24.1.a; Hanneman A45a. First Printing. Octavo..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926 [but ca.1933]. Hemingway's great Lost Generation novel about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to Spain. The pictorial jacket, which depicts a flapper in a sleeveless green dress, was reportedly Hemingway's favorite among all his books, and he was..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1933. First American Edition. Hilton's best-known work was not a best-seller upon publication; 1,100 of the 2,500-copy print run was sold in advance, and it would be nine months before the remainder of the print run was exhausted. After Alexander Woollcott raved about the..... More
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
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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
San Francisco: Cloud House, [n.d. but ca.1976]. Elusive chapbook reproducing Kerouac's 30 "essentials" regarding his Spontaneous Prose method, which were first published in the Spring, 1959 issue of Evergreen Review (Charters C44). Produced by The Cloud House, a live-work space for poets in San Francisco's Mission District, run by Steven..... 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
London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First Edition. Sequel to The Jungle Book (1894), containing five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, each followed by a related poem. A pretty copy of a book typically found worse for the wear. Livingston 116. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); dark blue cloth, with..... More
Cleveland: Seven Flowers Press, 1967. First Edition. The Berkeley poet and magazine editor's first book, a poetic tribute to San Francisco, published by d.a. levy's Cleveland-based Seven Flowers Press. Each copy bore an original watercolored cover by Mara. Scarce, with no copies for sale in the trade (July, 2019), and..... More