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
New York: Viking, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Slight crimping at spine crown, the jacket has the lightest of darkening at spine. Sharp copy. More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. This rarity of science fiction is signed by the author. One of the first novels to involve a Wunderkind. The child in it, Victor Stott, is the son of a famous cricket player. This origin is perhaps a reference to H.G.... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (2010). Alice Leora Briggs. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. This copy signed by Bowden and also the illustrator Alice Leora Briggs. What do you call a place where people are tortured and murdered and buried in the backyard of a nice, middle-class condo? Where the... 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: Ecco Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This copy is signed in full on the title page by Raymond Carver and also is inscribed by Carver below, "For James and Norma from Ray, June 1988, Port Angeles." With photographs by Bill Burke, editged by Constance Sullivan. Preface by... More
New York: Harper, (2012). Limited Signed edition. Hardcover. This signed edition has been specially bound by the publisher with a tipped in sheet signed by the author. 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 evertyhing... More
Johannesburg: Ravan Press, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Booker Prize. Printed and bound in the UK for Ravan Press. In a South Africa whose civil administration is collapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. These are Walker Evans' photographs of people in New York City, with James Agee's eloquent and restrained introduction. These images were made available for the first time in this book. Stark images, yet powerful and beautiful, all at the same time. 178pp. Erratum... More
Winston Salem: Palaemon Press Limited, (1981). First edition. Paperback. 4to. One of 140 numbered and signed copies, of which 40 were numbered I-XL (for private distribution) and 100 were numbered 1-100. This copy is #71 and is signed by Shelby Foote on the colophon page. First separate publication. Foote, famous... More
New York: Abrams, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Text by Rod Slemmons. The first publication to survey the 30-year career of Lee Friedlander, one of America's great masters of photography. 4to. 153 plates in tritone.119 pages with a selected bibliography and selected exhibitions and awards. More
New York: Harper & Row, (1970). First American edition. Hardcover. 2nd issue jacket (w/o "!." the author's masterwork. The multi-generational story of the Buendia family (seven generations). Garcia Marquez popularized a literary style called magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. This special... More
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
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Third printing. This copy warmly inscribed by Karsh: "For Ralph Graves, In happy remembrance of our association at Life Magazine-and with the good wishes of Josuf Karsh, 1983." Graves was the managing editor at Time- Life Books. A wonderful association. 200pp... More
New York: Abrams, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. This retrospective volume celebrates the seventy years of Kertesz' photographic career, from his youth in his native Hungary, through an exciting and fruitful decade in Paris, to his American period in Greenwich Village. It presents 150 insightful and penetrating images, including 60 photographs... More
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
New York: Ecco, (2003). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Drew D Hanson on the title page. This is the first book about Dr. King's legendary "I Have A Dream" speech. Opening with an enthralling account of the August day in 1963 that saw 250,000 Americans converge at the March on... More
Philadelphia and New York: Lippincott, (1977). First edition. Hardcover. This copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and dated 1979. Not one of the "Florida University" copies. Basis for the 1980 TV movie. More
New York: Knopf, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, and also dated by him in the top right hand corner of the same page, "March 1, 1961". This novel, set in France in 1948, when the country was just beginning to... More
