New York: Frank Hallman, 1975. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, ths being copy no. 11. Octavo (19cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in brown on spine and front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [4],5-27[3]pp. A Fine copy. A volume..... More
New York: Frank Hallman, 1975. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue, one of 1,000 copies. Slim octavo (18.5cm); original letterpressed card wrappers; [ii],[4],5-27,[3]pp. While not called for, this copy has been signed by the author on the title page. Hint of sunning to spine, else very Near Fine. A volume..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1990. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 75 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.28. Octavo (20.5cm); cream paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-80pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced £12.95), with some pinpoint wear and rubbing..... More
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1988. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (20.25cm); pictorial card wrappers; [10],11-86,[6]pp. Trivial wear to extremities, else a Fine, unread copy. "In these seven new stories Paul Bowles ranges widely in time, in form, and in geographic space - from Massachusetts to Morocco, from 1932..... More
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1988. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [10],11-86,[6]pp. Upper corners gently tapped (though still sharp), tiny scuff to upper front board edge, else Near Fine. "In these seven new stories Paul Bowles..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1987. Second UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [9],10-377,[7]pp. Rough erasure on front pastedown, otherwise Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £18.50). An autobiography by the noted expatriate author, composer and translator. More
Zurich: Memory/Cage Editions, 1995. First Edition. Trade Issue, one of 1,500 copies. Square quarto (22.75cm); photo-illustrated paper-covered boards; [10],11-54,[6]pp; illus. A Fine copy of this short story, first written in 1962, illustrated throughout with photographs by Vittorio Santoro. More
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First American Edition. Attractive copy of this collaborative work between Bowles and Swiss photographer Peter Haeberlin, who capture in text and images accounts of daily life among the desert and hill country tribes of Northwestern Africa. Miller A8b. First Printing, one of 3,500 copies. Quarto..... More
London: Scribners, 1990. First Edition. First Impression. Tall quarto (33cm); pictorial card wrappers with French flaps; [8],9-93,[3]pp; illus. A Fine copy of this richly-illustrated volume, documenting the filming and production of Bertolucci's adaptation of Bowles's first novel. Contents include a foreword and contributions by Bowles, various essays, and interviews. A...... More
[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: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers, 1919. First Edition. Collection of Boyle's Boston Blackie stories, first published in Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and American magazine, which he cobbled together and revised slightly to resemble a novel. His stories, featuring the explots of this gentleman safecracker, were wildly popular in their time..... More
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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
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1988]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Broadside, printed in red on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Signed "Ray Bradbury 12/12/88" above the title. Light wear and handling to extremities..... More
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1987]. First Edition. The holiday broadside, an annual tradition, was sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. The text, titled "On the night before diring up into Deep Space, a future robot priest offers this sermon to the far-traveling astronauts," is an..... 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
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition. The author's second novel, "a bucolic evocation of of Bradbury's youth through rose-colored glasses. Though not strictly fantastic, this poetic blend of nostalgia and ever-so-slightly macabre happenings defines the author's view of the past as a country of the bizarre..... 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
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. An attractive copy of the author's beloved Halloween classic, in which the characters travel through time to visit Halloween's past. First Printing. Octavo (23cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in orange and silver on spine and front cover;..... More
Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1992. First Separate Edition. First illustrated edition of Bradbury's time-travel story, first published in the pages of Playboy in 1984. 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..... 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
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1992]. First Edition. Christmas-themed poem and annual tradition, sent by the Bradbury's to friends and family. Provenance: through the trade, from the estate of William Safire. Broadside, with text printed in red in two columns on white laid paper, measuring 8.5" x 11"..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. An attractive collection of poems by the prominent New York School figure, several of which first appeared in the pages of Adventures In Poetry, 49 South, Big Sky, and The World. Morrow & Cooney 151b. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies..... 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
New York: Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, 1969. First Combined Edition. Attractive copy of this omnibus collecting three titles originally published by the Four Seasons Foundation between 1967-68. This edition is also the first trade hardcover edition for all three titles (all published separately as hardcovers by Jonathan Cape in..... More
New York: Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, 1970. First Edition. A substantial collection of poems, several of which first appeared in the pages of Heliotrope Catalogue, Rolling Stone, San Francisco Express Times, and The Free You. Provenance: From the collection of Montana author, screenwriter, and outdoorsman William Hjortsberg (1941-2017), a...... More