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
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
Louisville: White Fields Press, 1995. First edition. Single sheet. Limited to 25 numbered copies signed by Bono, an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist who is best known as the front man of the Dublin based rock band U2. This copy is marked 2/25. A broadside that features... 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
Garden City: Doubleday & Co, 1953. Joe Mugnaini. First edition. Hardcover. Author's fourth book. 22 stories. One of the stories is also the book's namesake. The words "the golden apples of the sun" are from the last line of the final stanza of W.B. Yeats' "The Song of the Wandering Aengus (1899). More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition, signed limited and enhanced. Hardcover. #119 of 350 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author. Occasionally, Bukowski would take a break from the tedium of signing, and, let his mind wander and, he would write down whatever came into his head in... More
San Francisco: City Lights, (1972). First edition. Paperback. A paperback original (PBO). Without question, this book contains Buk's best short stories. One of 5000 copies. Perfect bound in stiff white paper wrappers with white lettering across the front cover, over a photograph of Bukowski by Claude Powell . Lettered in... 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
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
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
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
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
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
Chicago: Playboy Magazine, 1959. First edition. 5 single sheets. These 5 pages from Hefner, in three letters, dated August 19, 1957--January 31, 1958, and February 26, 1958, reveal a fascinating and illuminating glimpse into the editorial mind of Hugh Hefner directing the efforts of the iconic artist Jack Davis. "Dear... 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
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: Atheneum, 1972. Gail Garraty. First edition. Hardcover. The third volume in the "Earthsea" series. Winner of the 1973 National Book Award (Children's books). More
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
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
