New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 112 pp, 91 Illustrations. In this book, published in conjuction with the Museum's retrospective exhibition of her work (cc. 1920-1963), George P. Elliott, a close friend of the photographer for more than twenty years, recreates Miss Lange's career within the... More
WASHINGTON D.C. Defense Mapping Agency, 1980-2000. Reprints. Hardcover. 3 4to Volumes. Vol 1, H.O. Pub. No. 249. Sight Reduction Tables for Air Navigation (Selected Stars). Vol 2. For Latitudes 0-89, Vol 3 Latitudes 40-89. All three volumes bound in red cloth covered with clear plastic. Loose charts laid in. Tight bindings. See pic. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1975). First edition. Hardcover. This, the author's most famous book of fiction, concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench" has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism... More
Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co of America, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, in the first issue dust jacket (without the Southern Living quote) published by a small press in Baltimore. Tiny first printing. In this copy Bahr was written out a paragraph from the book and signed... More
London: Macmillan, (1984). First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Before the publication of the The Wasp Factory Banks had written several science fiction novels, which had not been accepted for publication. Banks decided to try a more mainstream novel in the hopes that it would be more readily accepted, and... More
n.p. n.p., n.d. First edition. Autographed Letter Signed. Written entirely in black ink by Barker (including his name and return address at the top) on two plain 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of paper, the letter is undated but discussion of Williamson's forthcoming anthology "Masques" which was published in 1984... More
Northampton: Ghenna Press, 1965. Leonard Baaskin. First edition. Paperback. 4to. One of 500 copies printed. A collection of 16 of Baskin's drawings that includes "After Leonardo," "The Torment of Rembrandt,""The Torment of Albrecht Durer," and "The Torment of Michelangelo," among others. In addition to the drawings of the classic artists... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (2006). Michael P Berman. First edition. Hardcover. Small oblong 4to. This copy is signed by both Charles Bowden and photographer Michael P. Berman on the title page. "Inferno burns with Bowden's passion for the desert he calls home. "I want to eat the dirt and... More
New York: Nation Books, (2010). Julian Cardona (photographer). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author and Julian Cardona, the photographer. A devastating chronicle of a city (Cuidad Juarez) in collapse. It begins in January of 2008 when a handwritten list appears on a Juarez monument to fallen police officers. Under... More
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Two stapled promo sheets laid in. The culmination of the author's "accidental trilogy." With familiar surgical precision, Bowden combines memoir, natural history, and keen reportage at breakneck speed. More
Bensenville: Mimeo Press, 1965. First edition. Paperback. One of 500 copies. The author's first book of prose, and the introduction to one Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter-ego. This copy is inscribed by Bukowski to Cert Secunda, and dated '8-14-66." With an original signed typescript poem titled "A Bottomless Joint On Sunset... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Charles Bukowski. First edition, signed deluxe edition. Hardcover. One of 100 numbered copies, #36, with an original painting by Charles Bukowski (with tissue guard). A very elegant forest like scene, abstract, with lace-like images, signed in ink by Bukowski in the bottom right corner... More
Hollywood: Burn Again Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Bukowski's homage to Red Stodolsky, bookseller and friend. #47 of only 50 numbered copies signed by Bukowski. Nine pages. Back in the day, when one visited Red at his Baroque Bookstore on Las Palmas in Hollywood, there would be a special... More
Chicago: Midwest Poetry Chapbooks, (1962). First edition. Paperback. Less than 300 copies were published in March of 1962 by R. R. Cuscaden. Consists of 20 poems, all written in 1960 or 1961. The book is dedicated to William Corrington and was printed at Quality Press Limited, Montreal, Canada. Stapled into stiff red paper wrappers. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Charles Bukowski. First edition, deluxe issue. Hardcover. #83/100 copies, the deluxe issue, with an original painting by Charles Bukowski. A killer painting of a bird, using many colors and thick paint, signed "Buk" bottom right on the painting (with tissue guard). Also signed on... More
New York: Random House, (1965). First edition. Paperback. Advance reading copy of the author's masterpiece, and basis for the black and white film directed by Richard Brooks that starred Scott Wilson and Robert Blake (documentary style). Perfect bound in the original dust jacket (first issue) with burgundy endpapers, as issued. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, (1966). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 12 Volumes in six books housed in the original publisher's slipcases with a cover label on each side of the slipcase. Each book with 32 illustrations. Translated from the original French. Copious notes elucidate the social, biographical, and... More
London: n.p., 1940. First edition. Paperback. Original play script in three acts. Translated by Charles Frank. 138 pp. 8 x 10 sheets stapled into blue stiff wrappers with cover label, and the label of an International Copyright Agency. Laid in is a "Compliments of" note from noted bandleader and producer... More
London: Secker & Warburg, (1999). First edition. Hardcover. Printed by Clays. Winner of the Booker Prize for 1999. Basis for the big screen film (2008) that was directed by Steve Jacobs and stars John Malkovic, Natalie Becker and Jessica Haines. The tale of a South African professor who loses everything... More
Boston: Little Brown, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's first book, signed by Connelly on the title page. Lacking the blue '$5.00 Consumer Rebate!' wrap-around band. An important debut, of not only the writer, but also the lead character, Harry Bosch. Winner of the Mystery Writers' Edgar... More
Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Edited by James Aliner with an introduction by Sherry Turner. 82 illustrations after DeCarava's images of Harlem. 192pp with 82 full-page black and white plates. Still in the original shrink wrap. More
New York: Random House, (1975). First edition. Hardcover. Author's second book (Fan's Notes was his first). The death of Edmund Wilson precipitates an odyssey through the distorted literary landscape of America in search of Wilson's essence as the pre-eminent man of letters and the author's own creative wellsprings. More
New York: The Dial Press, (1954). First edition. Hardcover and paperback. Laid into this copy is an offprint, DELTA No. 4. Published by Paul Valery University (Montpellier), in 1977. 14pp. Printed sheets, measuring 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches staple bound, which prints a review of a section of Foote's... More
n.p. Associated American Artists, 1963. Joseph Hirsch. First edition. Lithograph. Image measures approx 14 1/8 X 22 1/2 inches, overall (framed under glass) 31 1/4 x 26 inches. This copy is marked "Artist Proof, '63" and signed by the artist in pencil. There was an edition of 50 signed. Printed... More
New York: Random House, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Folio. 139pp Produced in collaboration with The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. 127 color plates with foldouts. More
