Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, (1979). Randall Snyder. First Edition. Hardcover. This copy is #26 of 50 copies signed by the author. The classic American Authors are immortal and living happily ever after in Paris, recently relocated in downtown San Francisco. Then Sherwood Anderson disappears. Ernest "Rhino" Hemingway and F. Scott... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. This novel, by turns, comic, satiric, relentless and terrifying, is ultimately an exploration of human defensiveness, the lust for power, both sexual and politcal, and the need for a compassion beyond what we... 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
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
Iowa City: Univ of Iowa Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, a book of stories. Briefly inscribed by Boswell. Winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. More
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987. Jack W Dykinga. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Bowden on the title page. With photographs by Jack W. Dykinga, this title is about the Santa Catalina Mountains along the northern edge of Tucson Arizona. Called Frog Mountain by native Tohono O'Odham people this natural... 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
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, (1963). First edition. Hardcover. Pieces from A Tree of Night, Breakfast at Tiffany's (complete), and non-fiction pieces from Local Color. 460pp. Uncommon title in such nice condition. More
Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Unproofed Copy (uncorrected proof). These essays and interviews, documenting Coetzee's longtime engagement with his own culture, and with modern culture in general, constitute a literary autobiography. 438pp with index. Bound in yellow printed perfect bound wrappers. An uncommon format. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's tenth book. Essays. Seventeen pieces that were all published, with the exception of "A Night at a Waterfall." The stellar piece, in my opinion, is "A Walk in the Country." The first printing was 6500 copies... More
Berkeley: The Print Mint, 1972. George Pennewell. First edition. no binding. Measures 21 x 31 inches. A rare poster seldom seen. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Basis for the 1940 big screen film that starred Henry Fonda. More
First edition. Photograph. A large color photographic image of William Everson (1912-1994) outside his home in Berkeley, signed by the photographer, who has numbered it 3/5 and added a manuscript ink notation identifying the subject and date on the lower left margin. Image measures approximately 12 1/4 X 18 1/4"... 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. Vlemk, an artist who makes small boxes, boldly proposes to the princess when she rides by in her carriage. Taken by his artistry, she... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Will James. First edition. Hardcover. This copy has both the Scribner seal and the "A". Neat ink gift inscription on the front endpaper; "Bill / from / Helen / Christmas-1935." Neat bookseller tiny sticker to extreme bottom right of front pastedown (Sante Fe). A.... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Will James. First edition. Hardcover. Andy, Stub and Hugh are hired by a range superintendent to round up the orneriest mustangs in the county. Contemporary ownership signature to the front endpaper. Tiny bookseller stamp to bottom of rear pastedown (Sante Fe). This copy has... More
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Advance copy of the author's second book, with the perforated stamp to the title page, and the review request slip laid in. One of 1200 copies printed. Original blue pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, housed in a modern slipcase and chemise, leather backed... 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
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: Targ Editions, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. First edition thus. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Mailer. A short story originally published by Esquire magazine in 1962, printed at the Grenfell Press on all-rag sheet paper. Bound in cloth and pattered boards, unprinted jacket. More
New York: Knopf, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by the author on the half-title page (to a man of the cloth). The second volume of the author's famed Border Trilogy. Although this coming of age novel is neither satirical nor humorous, its realistic portrayal of an often... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1985). First edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A love story, an adventure, an American epic, a story that embraces all of the West--legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers--in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (1976). First paperback edition (perfect bound). Paperback. Meiselas began here, in the midst of a travelling troupe of showgirls whom took their clothes off to music in a collapsable tent in towns across New England and South Carolina. “I was a young woman... More
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1970. First English language edition. Hardcover. 4to. The author's musings on his transformation from a thin, bookish boy into a body-builder. More
