New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 112 pp, 91 Illustrations. In this book, published in conjuction with the Museum's retrospective exhibition of her work (cc. 1920-1963), George P. Elliott, a close friend of the photographer for more than twenty years, recreates Miss Lange's career within the..... More
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
Tokyo: Magazine House, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full-page color photographs by this Japanese master. Clean copy. Fabulous printing and production. More
London: Macmillan, (1984). First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Before the publication of the The Wasp Factory Banks had written several science fiction novels, which had not been accepted for publication. Banks decided to try a more mainstream novel in the hopes that it would be more readily accepted, and..... 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: 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
Washington DC: Black Sun Press, (1946). First edition. Paperback. Portfolio measuring 12 3/8 x 17 1/2 inches. Designed by Caresse Crosby. Less than 1000 copies were printed and published in the spring of 1946. The portfolio includes Bukowski's first separately published work: "20 Tanks from Kasseldown", a prose work printed..... 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: Random House, (1965). First edition. Paperback. Advance reading copy of the author's masterpiece, and basis for the black and white film directed by Richard Brooks that starred Scott Wilson and Robert Blake (documentary style). Perfect bound in the original dust jacket (first issue) with burgundy endpapers, as issued..... 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
New York: Knopf, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof. Laid into this copy is an ANS, on a 5 x 7 inch sheet (Random House), with the printed name of Jeff Stone: "Michael - Please be discrete / about this gift since / they are very rare / though the..... More
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
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: 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: 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
Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. No friend was closer to Barbara Hepworth, over a period of forty years, than Margaret Gardiner. In this vivid and personal account of the early days in Hampstead, when Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore and Herbert Read all lived and worked, for..... More
Palo Alto: Glencannon Press, 2000. First edition thus. Hardcover. This is a re-issue of this 1943 book by Gilpatric. It was the basis for the famous big screen film starring Humphrey Bogart, among others. An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat and the survivors spend eleven days at..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Every day, internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal..... More
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
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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Publisher's press release laid in. Winner of the Whibread Novel Award. The story concerns an author of children's books, and his wife, two years after the kidnapping of their three-year-old daughter Kate. More
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
New York: Bloomsbury, (2015). First edition. Hardcover. The first book to bring readers deep inside a stellar mixed martial arts gym, Beast shows exactly what it takes to reach the top of this exacting sport. Doug Merlino spent two years at Florida's American Top Team, living, eating, and training alongside..... More
