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
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
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: 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
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
n.p. n.p. 1972. First edition. single sheets. A 3pp TLS from Bloch talking to an agent (Dear Max, (presumably his agent)), about getting Robert Wise to direct an adaptation of a novel by Fritz Leiber called "Gathering Darkness." He describes the story (which is pretty wild), then notes that he... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. One of 125 copies signed by the author and specially bound. Laid into this copy is the prospectus and a one page TLS signed by the publisher W. Thomas Taylor presenting this copy, "AT LAST, here is your copy of the special... 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
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: Capricorn Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Being the hardcover issue, circa 100 copies. Though not called for, this copy is signed by Bukowski. Rare red tissue jacket intact. A collection of 9 poems including the title standout: Fire Station (For Jane, with Love). Krumhansl 34b. 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
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: 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
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
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (1998). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award. 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
London: Daniel O'Connor, n.d. Claud Lovat Fraser. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Color illustrations throughout. Translated from the French by Charles Nodier. Bound in beautiful color illustrated boards with wonderful color endpapers. 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
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
Philadelphia and New York: Lippincott, (1977). First edition. Hardcover. This copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and dated 1979. Not one of the "Florida University" copies. Basis for the 1980 TV movie. More
Philadelphis and New York: Lippincott, (1974). Second printing. Hardcover. With two handwritten phrases by the author, and signed by him on the front free endpaper, dated November 17, 1975. The first one is: "What makes so many of / them so damned angry at / everything lately?" The second one... More
Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Folio. Large perfect bound wrappers, with french flaps, slick illustrated covers, as issued. No hardback issue. 214 pp, illustrated from color photographs by Miyake with a few in black and white. All stylized fashion shots, and all about clothes. Preface by Diane Vreeland. The... More
