PADI, 1988. Features an instruction booklet, 32mo size with 87 pages, and two plastic wheels with calibrations (back to back) plus a plastic coated card "Data Carrier". For single, repetitive and multilevel dives. All housed in a plastic book like holder that reveals all when opened. 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
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
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Two stapled promo sheets laid in. The culmination of the author's "accidental trilogy." With familiar surgical precision, Bowden combines memoir, natural history, and keen reportage at breakneck speed. More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, (1967). First edition. Paperback. 16mo. #84 of 125 copies signed by Bukowski. One of about 15 copies, with an original drawing on the colophon page (according to his publisher, "Bukowski added a drawing to his signature in every tenth copy or so.") Consists of 3... 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
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: Grossman, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Sm 8vo. Unpaginated. Features 47 exquisite black and white photographs (including frontispiece). More
New York: Viking Press, (1987). First edition. Being the unrevised and unpublished proofs. Part adventure story, part philosophical essay, this extraordinary book takes us into the heart of Australia on a search for the source and meaning of man's restless nature. Bound in bright orange perfect bound printed wrappers, as issued. More
London: Secker & Warburg, (1999). First edition. Hardcover. Printed by Clays. Winner of the Booker Prize for 1999. Basis for the big screen film (2008) that was directed by Steve Jacobs and stars John Malkovic, Natalie Becker and Jessica Haines. The tale of a South African professor who loses evertyhing... More
Johannesburg: Ravan Press, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Booker Prize. Printed and bound in the UK for Ravan Press. In a South Africa whose civil administration is collapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother... More
Boston: Little Brown, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's first book, signed by Connelly on the title page. Lacking the blue '$5.00 Consumer Rebate!' wrap-around band. An important debut, of not only the writer, but also the lead character, Harry Bosch. Winner of the Mystery Writers' Edgar... 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: Abrams, (1970). Salvador Dali. First edition in U.S. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Translated from the French by Eleanor R. Morse. Heavy book for its size, printed on thick sheets. Very bright oopy. 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
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, (1969). First edition. Hardcover. Signed "In Remembrance, Lillian Gish" on the front endpaper. A well-made heavy book illustrated from photographs. The author tells the story of her own era and of the personalities who built the movie industry to its present greatness. 388pp with index. More
New York: Putnam, (1981). First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof, in the original orange perfect bound printed wrappers (text only, no image). Spine free of type, 354pp. This novel introduced the world to Dr. Hannibal Lector, and was adapted for the film "Manhunter." Thomas Harris wrote a sequel to the novel... 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: 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
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: Crown, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Rebound in three panels of yellow, red and black leather, with a large leather onlay making up a portrait of a truly amazing likeness of Alfred E. Neuman, the fictitious mascot and cover boy of this iconic magazine still published today. His... More
Chicago: Contemporary Books, (1985). Hardcover. Signed by Paul Newman on the front endpaper. Laid in is a color flyer highlighting how much his food line donates to charity, and a "thank you" to Oregon retailers for their support. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. 136 pages with index and recipies. More
First Edition. Photograph. An original black and white photograph, signed by Bristol on the mat "Horace Bristol '4" Image measures 7 x 8.75 inches, overall approx 17.25 x 21.25 inches matted and framed under glass, wood frame painted black (with a few rubs and nicks). A stunning image, close-up head... More
New York: Knopf, (1978). Saul Steinberg. First edition. Hardcover. One of a specially bound edition limited to 300 copies signed by the artist. This copy is #287. Published in conjunction with the first major American retrospective of his work, at the Whitney Museum of America Art in New York. With... More
