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 about A Two-Page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED From Clive Barker to Editor J. N. Williamson
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First edition. Winner of the National Book Award. Touch of dulling to spine (just a touch). More about MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET
Iowa City: Univ of Iowa Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, a book of stories. Briefly inscribed by Boswell. Winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. More about DANCING IN THE MOVIES. Stories
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 about THE CURTAINS ARE WAVING AND PEOPLE WALK THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HERE AND IN BERLIN AND IN NEW YORK...
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 about HOT WATER MUSIC. Stories. 1/100 With An Original Painting
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 about WAR ALL THE TIME. 1/100 With Original Painting
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 about IN COLD BLOOD. A True Account of a Multiple Murder And It's Consequences. Advance Copy
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 everything... More about DISGRACE
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 about DOUBLING THE POINT. Essays and Interviews. Edited by Davie Attwell
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 about THE BLACK ECHO
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 about BLOOD WORK
Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Edited by James Aliner with an introduction by Sherry Turner. 82 illustrations after DeCarava's images of Harlem. 192pp with 82 full-page black and white plates. Still in the original shrink wrap. More about PHOTOGRAPHS
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1968). Nell Dorr. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. This copy is inscribed by Nell Dorr and dated 1969 opposite the copyright page. A photo essay on man's quest for the meaning of life. 98pp. More about OF NIGHT AND DAY. A Photographic Essay
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 about ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC
Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, with four lines and dated 'October 19, 1976'. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, transported to North... More about ROOTS. The Saga of an American Family
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 about RED DRAGON
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 about PRIVACY'S BLUEPRINT. The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies
London: Faber & Faber, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year. A new translation of an Old English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th and the early 11th century, set in Denmark and... More about BEOWULF. A New Translation
New York: Abrams, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. This retrospective volume celebrates the seventy years of Kertesz' photographic career, from his youth in his native Hungary, through an exciting and fruitful decade in Paris, to his American period in Greenwich Village. It presents 150 insightful and penetrating images, including 60 photographs... More about A LIFETIME OF PERCEPTION
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 about CONDOMINIUM. A Novel. Inscribed By The Author
New York: Targ Editions, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. First edition thus. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Mailer. A short story originally published by Esquire magazine in 1962, printed at the Grenfell Press on all-rag sheet paper. Bound in cloth and pattered boards, unprinted jacket. More about THE LAST NIGHT. A Story
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 about ALTARS. Introduction by Edmund White
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009). First edition. Hardcover. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author. This small edition was done through Three Dog Books of Archer City Texas. Signed and numbered on a stamped limitation page, this being 100/100. The author's second book of his three volume... More about A LITERARY LIFE. A Second Memoir
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 about ORIGINAL BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPH BY HORACE BRISTOL
New York: Random House, 1994. Roz Chast. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Inscribed by both writers, and the illustrator, to actor/director Paul Bartel. Slick illustrated boards. This is the second book for children done by Roz Chast (and her first experience with shrews). This book answers many questions regarding shrews, like;... More about GABBY THE SHREW. Illustrated by Roz Chast
