New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc. / Seymour Lawrence, 1984. First Edition. Harrison's fifth novel. Hjortsberg (1941-2017) and Harrison enjoyed a close, decades-long friendship, having first met in Northern California, and migrated to Montana in the late 1960's. Drawn by the prospect of adventure, solitude, and good fishing, they, along with..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Harrison's first novel, narrated by the protagonist from the Huron Mountains of upper Michigan. "Thirty-three years old, he is in the woods to escape, however briefly, a self-corrupted world for which his contempt mounts with each new experience of it. He is..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2005. First Edition. Wrappered Issue, one of 650 copies. Small quarto (25.75cm); letterpress printed sheets, hand-sewn into pictorial card wrappers; [28]pp; illus. While not called for, this copy has been signed by the illustrator on the title page. Tiny crease to upper right corner of front..... More
Derry: Field Day Theatre Company Limited, 1983. First Edition. First Impression, cloth issue, one of 1,000 copies. Octavo (23.75cm); greyish-white rexine cloth boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,77,[3]pp. Signed by the author on the title page, dated August, 1993. Fine..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First Edition. Collection containing Hemingway's only full-length play, and a substantial number of his finest short stories, including "The Killers," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "Fifty Grand," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Grissom A.16.1.a; Hanneman A16a. First Printing, one of 5,350 copies..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); light brown paper-covered boards and mustard cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine; [iv],200pp. Signed by Hillerman following the copyright page. Spine ends gently nudged, with some trivial rubbing to titles, else Near Fine in a...... More
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1935. First Edition Thus. Attractive copy of Hilton's pseudonymous Golden Age whodunnit, his only foray into the mystery genre. Centered around the coincidence of two brothers who meet separate accidental deaths while attending the same boarding school, both within the same year. The headmaster solicits..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First Edition. Grim underworld novel centered around 20 year-old Harry Pyler, a bank robber and embezzeler convicted and sentenced to hard labor. Upon escaping from prison, he refuses to reform his old ways, joins up with a gang of bank robbers, and..... More
New York: Zero Press, 1956. First Edition. The final iissue of this short-lived literary magazine, published first from Paris, then from Tangier, and later from New York by Albert (Asa) Benveniste and Themistocles Hoetis (pseud. of George Salamos). Includes "From Notes Taken In Ceylon" by Paul Bowles, "The Smeraldina's Billet..... More
New York: Photo Researchers, Inc., [1962]. Striking photographic portrait of Ursula Andress in her role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the 1962 film Dr. No. Taken by American photographer Bradley Smith (1910-1997) on location in Jamaica, where shooting took place near Ian Fleming's Goldeneye estate and in the small..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905. First Edition. Contents are comprised of two long pieces: "The Question of Our Speech," an address to the graduating class of Bryn Mawr College on June 8, 1905 (it first appeared in the August, 1905 issue Appleton's Booklovers Magazine), and "The..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First Edition. A collection of short fiction with no English counterpart, gathering the following seven stories which first appeared in the pages of Atlantic Monthly, Galaxy, and Scribner's Monthly: "Travelling Companions," "The Sweetheart of M. Briseaux," "Professor Fargo," "At Isella," "Guest's Confession," "Adina," and..... More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., 1918. First Edition. A title for which there was no American counterpart, containing five essays written during World War I, all of which were previously published in the Fortnightly Review, New York Times, New York World, The Book of France, and The Book..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1916. First Edition. An early anthology of James's work selected and edited by Ruth Head, who had James's blessing before he died, giving her permission to publish extracts from his many works. Edel & Laurence A76a; BAL 10692. First Impression, English Issue, one of 700 copies..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1930. First American Edition. An early novel by Jepson (1863-1938), in which a serial killer stacks up a pretty healthy body-count as he works through the guest list of a dinner party thrown by a wealthy businessman and war profiteer. The cast of characters..... More
New York: The Black Sun Press, 1936. First Edition. A typically exquisite production by The Black Sun Press, printing Joyce's Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, and Ecce Puer - the latter never before included in any edition. Slocum & Cahoon A44; Minkoff A-45. Trade Issue, one of 750 numbered copies, this..... More
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. First Edition. Joyce's autobiographical first novel, first serialized in 25 installments in The Egoist between February 2, 1914 and September 1, 1915 by his great patron, Harriet Shaw Weaver. As for the book publication, she was unsuccessful at finding an English printer willing to assume..... More
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 1997. First, Limited Edition. Collection of 15 poems by the Montana author, poet, and songwriter. A compelling association copy inscribed to Hjortsberg, who like Keeler, was friends with Richard Brautigan. Both men attempted to resurrect Brautigan's legacy after his death by writing a biography, though Keeler's..... 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 blue cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [12],13-188,[4]pp. Faint, scattered foxing to text edges, and upper and lower board edges; Near Fine..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1983. A particularly effusive letter from Kennedy, expressing both great admiration for Salter's work, as well as gratitude for a generous letter in response to reading Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. "That was one of the best letters I've ever gotten in my life -- your response..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First Edition. In terms of pure condition, the best copy we've seen of this early, partial catalog raisonné of Kent's work, and the only copy we've handled with the publisher's box. A stunning copy of a book typically found well-worn. First Printing. Quarto..... More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1962. First Edition. Sharp copy of Kesey's first published novel, one of the defining works of the 1960's, set in an Oregon psychiatric ward. Basis for Miloš Forman's Oscar-winning 1975 film, starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher. First Impression, without Kesey's name blacked-out on copyright..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. First Edition. Sharp copy of King's debut, winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. First Printing, first state, with the Hebrew print on the dedication page printed upside down. Octavo (21.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket;..... More
Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 2004. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm); pale blue card wrappers, with titling and pictorial elements printed in black on spine and front cover; [xviii],413,[1]pp; illus. Light wear to base of spine, faint sticker residue to upper front wrapper, with mild hand-soil at mid-spine;..... More
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1984. Second Edition. "The Gunslinger begins the quest by Roland, the gunslinger, to track and confront the "man in black," who knows, perhaps, the secret of the "Dark Tower." As he travels across the barren landscape of King's alternate world, sometimes alone, sometimes with..... More