PHOTOGRAPHS: 1947-1977
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. With 162 Avedon photographs. More
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MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET.
New York: Viking Press, (1970). First edition. Hardcover. Winner of the National Book Award. This copy is inscribed by Bellow "For George Hanson / with best wishes / Saul Bellow / Jan 9, 1973." Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. The author also won, along with... More
MURDER CITY. Cuidad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
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
THE CURTAINS ARE WAVING AND PEOPLE WALK THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HERE AND IN BERLIN AND IN NEW YORK CITY AND IN MEXICO
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, (1967). First edition. Paperback. 16mo. #84 of 125 copies signed by Bukowski. One of about 15 copies, with an original drawing on the colophon page (according to his publisher, "Bukowski added a drawing to his signature in every tenth copy or so.") Consists of 3... More
HOT WATER MUSIC. Stories. 1/100 With An Original Painting
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
POEMS AND DRAWINGS.
Crescent City: Epos, 1962. Charles Bukowski. First edition. Paperback. Signed by Bukowski on the front cover. Special "Extra Issue" of Epos: A Quarterly of Poetry, which was entirely devoted to Bukowski, and sent out as a gift to subscribers of the magazine. This special issue contained all original poems and... More
WAR ALL THE TIME. 1/100 With Original Painting
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
WE ARE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER. Stories by William Kittredge
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Eight stories. The signed limited edition, one of 50 numbered copies, #49, signed by both Ray Carver and William Kittredge. Also inscribed by Kittredge (with ownership signature to ffep of the person the book is inscribed to). 128pp. More
INTIMATE RELATIONS (Les Parents Terribles). ORIGINAL PLAY SCRIPT.
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
EX-CONVICT. How To Pull Time And Parole.
n.p. Published by the Author, 1982. First edition. Paperback. A PBO (paperback original). This copy signed by the author, singer, songwriter on the title page. Coe, to get noticed in Nashville, had a long black hearse with his name printed on the sides (in huge white letters). He used to... More
DALI BY DALI.
New York: Abrams, (1970). Salvador Dali. First edition in U.S. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Translated from the French by Eleanor R. Morse. Heavy book for its size, printed on thick sheets. Very bright oopy. More
THE MICKEY MANTLE KOAN.
Tuscaloosa: Urban Editions, 2004. Howell Golson. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 50 copies produced, being the first separate edition of a portion of Duncan's novel River Teeth. Signed by Duncan and the illustrator Howell Golson (four wood engravings). Blue cloth, white illustrated dust jacket. Approx 26 pages, printed on... More
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1962). Second edition being a reprint of the original 1938 first edition. Hardcover. Evans, was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. This book is Walker Evans' pictorial record... More
RED DRAGON.
New York: Putnam, (1981). First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof, in the original orange perfect bound printed wrappers (text only, no image). Spine free of type, 354pp. This novel introduced the world to Dr. Hannibal Lector, and was adapted for the film "Manhunter." Thomas Harris wrote a sequel to the novel... More
THOSE TORN FROM EARTH. A Novel. Presentation Copy
New York: Liveright, (1941). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Neat pencil inscription on the front endpaper, covering most of the page; "To / Mr and Mrs Bennett / of Deep Well ranch / with thanks for all the / lovely times we've spent / here / Sincerely / Frederick Hollander /... More
THE HAWK IN THE RAIN
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. First American edition of the author's first book of collected poems. The book won the New York Poetry Centre First Publication Award, and is dedicated to his first wife, Sylvia Plath (who typed out the poems and submitted the manuscript for... More
THE DOUBLE AXE & Other Poems
New York: Random House, (1948). First edition. Hardcover. Signed on a tipped in leaf. Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. Housed in a fancy leather backed slipcase with an elegant abstract design. More
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST.
New York: Viking Press, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. First issue book and dust jacket. Basis for the 1975 big screen film directed by Milos Forman that starred Louise Fletcher and Jack Nicholson. Winner of five Academy Awards; Best Picture, Actor & Actress, Director, and the Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay by... More
MAD FOREVER. A New Collection of The Best from Mad Magazine. With an Introduction by Steve Allen
New York: Crown, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Rebound in three panels of yellow, red and black leather, with a large leather onlay making up a portrait of a truly amazing likeness of Alfred E. Neuman, the fictitious mascot and cover boy of this iconic magazine still published today. His... More
MATT MAHURIN. 1/25 With Print
Sante Fe: Twin Palms, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 25 copies signed by Mahurin with an original signed print, "Belfast" laid into a special envelope. The book is bound in brown cloth and laid into the publisher's clamshell black cloth case. A nice production. More
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO BE STRANGERS. A Novel.
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1972). First edition. Hardcover. Author's sixth book and fifth novel. A western-accented birth-of-a-writer novel. More
AFTER DARK. A Novel.
New York: Knopf, 2007. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the blank after the front endpaper, along with his mark. A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The..... More
ANSEL ADAMS. The Eloquent Light. Volume 1
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. A biography of Ansel Adams, that starts when he was a teenager, and a summer custodian, of sorts, of a small building provided by The Sierra Club. His hikes in the Nevada mountains taught a young Adams a respect for the... More
CROSS CREEK. With Decorations by Edward Shenton
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Edward Shenton. First edition. Hardcover. With the Scribner's "A" but without the seal, and with the front flap price, in red, of $2.50. By the author of The Yearling. The author's autobiographical account of her relationships with her neighbors and her beloved Florida hammocks... More
PONY TRACKS. Written & Illustrated by Frederic Remington
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1895. Frederic Remington. First edition. Hardcover. Author/Illustrator's first book. With frontispiece (tissue guard creased), and many black and white illustrations by Remington. Bound in the original illustrated cloth featuring a cowboy on horseback tracking an Indian Chief who is wearing a long-feathered headdress. Done in... More