New York: Harlin Quist, (1980). First edition. Paperback. 4to. A PBO, the first and only edtion. Full of the famous Fiorucci graphics and anecdotes from its heyday, a daytime "Studio 54" experience. Popular with everybody from Warhol, Farah Fawcett, Marc Jacobs, Madonna, Lauren Bacall, Haring, Maripol, Jackie O, Gloria Vanderbilt..... 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. In this copy Bahr was written out a paragraph from the book and signed..... More
Cologne: Taschen, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. A two-volume collection of work by Peter Beard, bound in red cloth with gilt decorations, housed in the publisher's original photo illustrated cloth slipcase. Includes photographs, diary entries, and collages. Vol. 1, 200 pages of diaries + 294 pages of collages including..... More
Prague: Kant, 2000. Second revived and enlarged edition. Hardcover. Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) together with those of Jaromir Funke, Jaroslav Rossler and Josef Sudek, constitute the most significant Czech contributions to world photography in the first half of the 20th Century. Drtikol's photographs remain exceptionally impressive today for their originality, depth..... More
New York: Creative Age Press, (1946). First edition. hardcover. Nineteen (19) mystery/crime stories collected from pulps, including one by Ray Bradbury, "The Watchers" first published in Weird Tales (May 1945). Here, in this copy, Bradbury addresses the legend about how he met his wife, Marguerite McClure, in April of 1946..... More
An archive of three (3) letters written and typed from Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) to two Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity of Manitowoc Wisconsin. The two sisters, Sister Ritarose Stahl and Sister Carina Schisel (1917-2008), add their eyewitness account of what transpired (dated January 20, 2012). In the spring of 1968..... More
New York: Random House, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected First Proof. A collection of short fiction and non-fiction pieces. Includes ‘Handcarved Coffins.” this book spent an unprecedented (for a collection of short works) 16 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Perfect bound in the original red printed wrappers..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First edition thus. Hardcover. #7 of the 'Autograph Edition' this copy marked "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page. Not signed by Cather. Blue and beige cloth with spine label in a decorated, light green dust jacket that is taller than the book. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. First edition. Hardcover. This is the special limited edition, 1/100 copies, specially bound, slipcased, and signed by the author on the title page. This special edition was not sold but given away by the author to help celebrate his involvment with publishing which debuted..... More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. LImited signed edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 25 pages of text, bound in brown cloth and yellow patterned boards with acetate wrapper. #62/200 numbered copies signed by Crumley. The published work contained short fiction and non-fiction published by Clark City Press in 1991. More
Langley (WA): Book Club of Washington, 1983. One of 200 signed. Broadside (single sheet). Measures 14 1/2 inches by 9 1/2 inches, overall framed in wood with light green mat to 22 5/8 x 18 3/4 inches. Printed at the Spring Valley Press. Uncommon. More
New York: Basic Books, (1978). First edition. Hardcover. Criticism with both eyes open, fearless, illuminating, proving that the concern of the critic is with art, that true art is moral and not trivial, that it and the discussion of it can give pleasure, of a sort that lasts and re-echoes..... More
Milwaukie (Oregon): M Press, (2008). First edition. softcover. 4to. Inscribed by John Landis on the title page to Don Rickles and his wife Barbara: "For Don and Barbara / with love / and admiration / (signed) John." Also laid in is a John Landis notecard with this inscription: "Photos of..... More
New York: Macmillan, (1974). Second Printing. hardcover. A realistic novel that won the 1975 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. This special copy is inscribed by Hamilton "For Madeleine (L'Engle) / With very best wishes / Virginia Hamilton." on the title page. Newbery Medal to front cover. From..... More
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2021. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Massive 921 page uncorrected proof copy of the single volume edition of Harrison's COMPLETE POEMS. Signed by the editor Joseph Bednarik on the title page. The definitive collection from one of America's iconic writers. Introduction by activist and naturalist writer Terry..... More
New York: Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, (1988). First edition. Paperback. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Perfect bound in the original illustrated brown printed wrappers. 324pp. Press release/promotional letter laid in. The story of a woman of the west, told in her voice. She shares with us her great determination to find the illegitimate son..... More
New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1979. First edition. Paperback. Signed by Jim Harrison on the title page. According to the Orr/Torrey Jim Harrison bibliography 1964-2008, this advance copy, A14.a. states, "This state of the proof, white pad-bound binding with black lettering. Cover of this proof is paper and is a photocopy..... More
Seattle: Wynn Books, 1986. Russell Chatham. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jim Harrison on the half-title page. A book of poetry. Includes 5 relief prints, measuring 14 x 18 inches, each marked; "AP 8/40" and each pencil signed by Russell Chatham. Though lacking the folder, the 5 prints are all..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1990. First edition. hardcover. This special copy is inscribed by Jim Harrison to Barry Moser on the title page. Harrison has added a drawing of his one-eyed character at the bottom with a balloon caption "ART!" Bookplate of Barry Moser to the front endpaper. A book..... More
New York: Persea, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's scarce first novel. "A wonderful charivari, full of life and new news. He has appropriated the vitality of two cultures to produce, in magical synthesis, a splendid, bitter, and loving work of the imagination." More
New York: Knopf, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Author's second novel. Laid in is a card signed by Humphrey. Set in a small Texas town that is poised on the frontier where two myths meet, those of the South and those of the West. In following the Ordway clan through four..... More
Jackson/London: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Second cloth edition. Hardcover. 4to. Signed by Birney Imes on the title page. Originally published in 1990. Here, Imes reveals a previously unexplored domain, the black juke joints of the Mississippi Delta country, and transforms this familiar phenomenon of Delta cultural life into something..... More
Santa Fe: Arena, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Essay by Clark Worswick. This work springs from the artist's careful scrutiny of the genre of great nineteenth-century "exotic" photographs of Asia, the work that flourished from the banks of the Nile and Cairo to the quayside of Yokohama between 1859 and 1879..... More
Los Angeles: The American Jewish Committee, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Briefly inscribed and signed by George Lucas "Shawn " (signed) George Lucas on the title page. Full page dedication by Bruce M. Ramer, National President, American Jewish Committee. Followed by a page on the history of the Committee. The..... More
Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, (1980). One of 1500. Hardcover. 4to. Mardersteig, 1892-1977, moved to Switzerland in 1922, founded a hand press, the Officina Bodoni, and began producing books. In 1927 he moved his press to Verona, Italy, partly in order to print a state-funded edition of the complete works of Gabriele..... More
