Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Trade Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 300 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and taupe cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [14],15-270,[6]pp. Hint of foxing to board extremities, else very Near Fine in a lightly..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 125 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and pale green cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [14],15-270,[6]pp. Faint foxing to..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First American Edition. The first of 26 novels in the writing duo's successful series featuring British Intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon - a gritty, realistic tale of espionage set during the end of World War I. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title. Barzun & Taylor 869; Hubin..... More
Carmel, CA: Brent Enterprises / Granger Graphics, 1967. First Edition. Humorous collaborative work, an illustrated volume featuring hippies and narcs as the central characters, written in the style of "See Spot. See Spot Run" ("See the hippie chick. See the hippie chick bake cookies. See the hippie chick eat the..... More
London: Morland Press, 1923. First, Limited Edition. Handsome edition of Conrad's two-act play, one of the smallest limitations of any of his works. Basis for Herbert Wilcox's 1953 film of the same name, starring Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, and Forrest Tucker. Ehrsam 2159. One of 200 numbered copies specially bound..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1898. First U.K. Edition. Conrad's third novel, the story of a dying West Indian sailor on board the merchant ship "Narcissus" on the way from Bombay to London. Wise 5; Ehrsam 2211; cf.Keating 11. First Impression, one of 1,500 copies. Crown octavo (19.75cm); in Cagle's 'B' binding..... More
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition. Deluxe issue of Conrad's unfinished novel, which he was working on prior to his death in 1924. Ehrsam 2277; cf.Keating 188. Limited Issue, one of 377 numbered copies printed on large paper and specially bound, this being copy no.40. Octavo..... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901. First Edition. Conrad's only foray into science fiction, a novel centered around a group of people from another, parallel world, who call themselves "Fourth Dimensionalists," whose task is to occupy the earth. Wise 8; cf.Keating 31; Bleiler, p.48; Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy..... More
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First U.K. Edition. Handsome set of this anonymously-published maritime novel by Cooper, centered around the abduction of a woman by the pirate captain of the Water-Witch, and the subsequent pursuit by her suitor. Precedes the American edition by two months, and preceded only..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First Edition. A distinguished copy of Coxe's fiftieth novel, a story of murder, indiscretion, and blackmail set in Trinidad. Inscribed to fellow crime fiction author Frederick Lewis Nebel (1903-1967), who, like Coxe, was one of Joseph T. Shaw's "Black Mask Boys." Their combined prodigious..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1931. First U.K. Edition. An early novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guard of Honor. The story was loosely based on the sinking of the S.S. Vestris in 1928, which helped shape changes to laws governing safety at sea. Bruccoli notes substantial textual variations..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (21.5cm); printed paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; [6],7-42,[2]pp; illustrated throughout with monoprints by Bobbie Creeley. Hint..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (18.25cm); printed paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [10],11-71,[5]pp; illustrated throughout with monoprints..... More
New York: Various Publishers, 1975-2005. First Editions. Significant association copies of Crumley's complete novels featuring down-and-out detectives Milo Milodragovitch and C.W. Sughrue, set in fictional Meriwether, Montana. "Both are alcoholics and cocaine addicts; both are divorced war veterans who are fond of firearms, military tactics, and fistfights over small matters;..... More
Livingston, MT: Clark City Press, 1991. First Edition. A substantial collection of short fiction and nonfiction, culled from various magazine appearances, alongside interviews, and the beginnings of several novels. Provenance: While not marked in any way, this copy is from the collection of Montana author and screenwriter William "Gatz" Hjortsberg..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition. The celebrated poet's first novel, and one of the great works of literature to emerge from World War I. Cummings drew heavily from his experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver in France, where he and his friend William Slater Brown were arrested..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., [1932]. First U.K. Edition. A well-preserved copy of the seventh Race Williams novel. "Race Williams here tells the story of the game he played with the three Gorgon brothers. Two were gangsters, and the third, a mind that, controlling them, ruled a great city. It is..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. First American Edition. The Welsh author's novel about a poverty-stricken woman, fiercely rebelling against the restraints of her married life. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); light brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; [vi],278,[4]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, topstain..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. First Edition of this translation. Handsome edition of Fowles's translation of Claire de Durfort's 1824 novel. In his introduction, Fowles explains how the acquisition and reading of a badly foxed copy in a London bookshop inspired his third novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969). The..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1934. First Edition. Wall Street mystery featuring Dr. Hiram Arthur, an engineer-turned-private investigator who serves the upper echelons of Manhattan's financial district. After a financier is murdered in his private office, "wily old Dr. Arthur and his team of voluptuous secretaries tangle with the..... More
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