Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. First Hardcover Edition. Significant copy of Delany's most ambitious work, first issued as a paperback original by Bantam Books in 1975. "To the depopulated city of Bellona, which is subjected to occasional distortions of time and space, comes a youthful hero hungry for experience and keen..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First Edition. A superb association copy of this novel set in the thirty-second century, "a grail epic cast as space opera, whose hero must trawl the core of an exploding star for the fabulous element that is the power source of the..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1940. First Edition. A pseudonymous John Dickson Carr "whodunnit" featuring detective Sir Henry Merrival and Scotand Yard Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters. Set during the opening days of World War II, the novel is centered around a young woman hired by the film industry after..... More
West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1982. First, Limited Edition. Slim collection of 37 poems by Hugo Award-winning author Thomas Disch (1940-2008), inscribed to Samuel Delany and his partner Frank Romeo. Disch and Delany were long-time friends and collaborators, writing repeatedly on each other's work (The American Shore, Delany's 1978..... More
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1983. First Edition. Limited Issue, signed by the author on a preliminary leaf. Octavo (24cm); full brown leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; marbled endpages; all edges gilt; 379pp. A few pinpoint rubbed spots to extremities, else Fine. More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968-1969. First Editions. Dorn's best-known work, a long-form political poem about a demigod cowboy travelling the American southwest. A handsome set, seldom found together in the deluxe issue. Morrow & Cooney 35c & 63c. Deluxe Issues. Gunslinger: Book I is one of 4 copies specially..... More
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1958. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [6],7-157,[3]pp ads. Hint of a forward lean, subtle tanning to text edges, else Near Fine. The last of four novels Douglas would write for Gold..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1928. First Trade Edition. Douglas's descriptive treatise on the fauna of the Greek Anthology. In his introduction, he mentions his intention to include domestic animals in his survey, which he abandoned; "The wild animals must suffice for the moment; there are some hundred and fifty-three of..... More
Chicago: Geo. M. Hill, 1898. An attractive, early American edition of the second Sherlock Holmes novel, together with the first short story to feature Conan Doyle's most famous character. Not in Green & Gibson. Hubin, p.122; Barzun & Taylor 1143. Octavo (19.5cm); vertically-ribbed crimson cloth, with titling and decorative elements..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First Edition. A presentable copy of Dreiser's most enduring novel, in which a young man makes a tragic and ill-fated attempt to break from his lower-class background. Fleeing Kansas City from a crime he didn't commit, he settles in a fictional New York town..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1938. First Edition. Well-preserved copy of this dark, tautly-written piece of California fiction by Du Soe (1920-1964), in which a murderous hitch-hiker and two young women catch a ride with an unsuspecting lingerie salesman on the way from San Diego to Los Angeles..... More
New York & Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First Edition. First Printing, an advance copy, with a "Compliments of The Author" card laid in. Octavo (21cm); brown paper and blue cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; blue topstain; dustjacket; [viii],134,[2]pp. Hint of sunning to crown, with..... More
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1987. First Edition. Limited Issue, signed by the author on a preliminary leaf. Octavo (24cm); full red leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; 467pp. A Fine copy, with the publisher's publicity sheet laid in..... More
London: Philip Allan, 1934. First Edition. Anthology of ten stories, issued as ninth of the fourteen-volume Creeps series published between 1932-36. Notable for containing the first appearance in book format of Lord Dunsany's story "The Two Bottles of Relish." "The story, an unqualified tour de force, has an interesting and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. Attractive copy of this collaborative novel, written by the Northern California chapter of the MWA, under the direction of Anthony Boucher. "Each author was to write a chapter for the book. As the book was handed off to the next author, the..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1988. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, a trade paperback original. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [iv],[6],7-88,[4]pp. A Fine, unread copy. Selections from the Swiss author and explorer's French works Pages d'Islam and Dans l'Ombre Chaude d'Islam, translated and with a generous preface by Paul Bowles. More
Minneapolis: Red Egypt Press, 1994. Limited Edition. One of 20 copies (plus three Artist's Proofs) specially bound and signed by Rathman, this being copy no.20. Quarto (33.5cm); text is letterpress printed on Rives BFK, wire-bound into grey cloth-covered boards, with pictorial label inset on front cover; publisher's matching cloth slipcase;..... More
[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
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. First Edition. Handsome set of Eliot's fifth novel, published in an edition of 5252 copies. A social novel, centered around the political disputes in a small, fictitious English town during the time of the Reform Act of 1832. Baker & Ross A8.1;..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Early printing, lacking the requisite "first American edition" statement on the copyright page. Octavo (22cm); light gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-46,[2]pp. Spine gently sunned, some faint, scattered foxing to upper board edges and spine, and dust-soil to..... More
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. First Edition. First Printing, hardcover issue, one of 100 copies. Octavo (23cm); pictorial paper-covered boards; [4],5-22,[6]pp. Gently spine-sunned, covers a little dust-soiled and faintly foxed, with some faint, scattered foxing to text edges and margins; Very Good+. More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (24.5cm); printed paper-covered boards and green cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [10],11-147,[5]pp. Faint foxing to upper..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 200 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and red cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [10],11-190,[6]pp. Faint, tiny stain to upper right corner of front cover, else Fine in a...... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. First Trade Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 250 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and blue cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [8],9-325,[7]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Handsome edition of the poet's..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 copies, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and teal green cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [ix],x-xxxii,[4],5-359,[3]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Third volume in Everson's "The Crooked..... More