New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1968). First edition. Hardcover. As Lawrence Durrell puts it in his perceptive introduction, "one senses two strong flavors which complement each other. Firstly, that of his sharply selective yet tender treatment of light and dark; secondly, the flavor of the capital city which he... 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
Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1985. R. Crumb. First edition thus. Hardcover. The tenth anniversary, deluxe edition, illustrated by R. Crumb. This copy being #186 / 250 numbered copies, bound in red cloth with gilt stamped title to front board and backstrip. Housed in a tan paper covered slipcase... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Folio Illustrated with photographs by Richard Avedon and text by Truman Capote. 152 pp., numerous black-and-white illustrations, 11x14º". Mostly portraits of famous people of the twentieth century, including Picasso, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Mae West. With the original glassine and publisher's... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. With 162 Avedon photographs. 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. Promotional material laid in. An impressive debut with a haunting tale of a brief... More
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First edition. Winner of the National Book Award. Touch of dulling to spine (just a touch). More
Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Saul Bellow. This edition, a first edition printed March of 1979, is in Spanish. Features three Nobel winners, Harry Martinson (1974), Eugenio Montale (1975), and Saul Bellow (1976). Bound in leather with gold stamping, t.e.g., ribbon marker, issued without jacket. 1592pp. More
Salt Lake City: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. One of 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by Bowden. Casebound in black cloth boards, with red paper labels pasted front and rear. Rear endsheet serves as the colophon. Cover design by Edward Bateman. Book design and letterpress printing... 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
Bensenville: Open Skull Press, (1966). First edition. Paperback. Stapled in stiff illustrated tan paper wrappers. One of only 400 copies published. When fully open, the wrapper shows a Bukowski illustration of a man on an operating table with three doctors in the background. This drawing is reproduced in black and... More
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Being the hardcover issue, circa 100 copies. Though not called for, this copy is signed by Bukowski. Rare red tissue jacket intact. A collection of 9 poems including the title standout: Fire Station (For Jane, with Love). Krumhansl 34b. 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
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
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: William Morrow, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's third book, one of 7500 copies. This copy inscribed by Crews to film director/actor Paul Bartel: "To Paul / March 23, '80 / Harry Crews / Gainseville, Fl." From the library of Paul Bartel. This southern novel... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978). First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. This copy inscribed by Doig on the front endpaper, "For Michael / from one book guy / to another / (signed) Ivan Doig". A memoir of the author's early life in Montana. Finalist for the National Book Award... More
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1968). Nell Dorr. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. This copy is inscribed by Nell Dorr and dated 1969 opposite the copyright page. A photo essay on man's quest for the meaning of life. 98pp. More
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
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
New York: Random House, (1977). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by Foote on the front endpaper, "For / Michael Hargraves / displaced in Frisco / from / Shelby Foote / Memphis Nov 1982." In this novel, a magisterial historian of the Civil War charts its distant repercussions in... 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
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1979. Catherine Kanner. First edition. Hardcover. Deluxe issue, 69/100 numbered copies, red leather bound, signed by the author with an original drawing. Also inscribed by the author. Vlemk, an artist who makes small boxes, boldly proposes to the princess when she rides by in her carriage... More
