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 about DOROTHY LANGE. With a Critical Essay by George P. Elliott
New York: Viking, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Slight crimping at spine crown, the jacket has the lightest of darkening at spine. Sharp copy. More about HUMBOLDT'S GIFT
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
New York: Viking Press, (1970). First edition. Hardcover. Winner of the National Book Award. This copy is inscribed by Bellow "For George Hanson / with best wishes / Saul Bellow / Jan 9, 1973." Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. The author also won, along with... More about MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET
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 about LOS PREMIOS NOBEL DE LITERATURA. Vol. XV
Austin: University of Texas Press, (2006). Michael P Berman. First edition. Hardcover. Small oblong 4to. This copy is signed by both Charles Bowden and photographer Michael P. Berman on the title page. "Inferno burns with Bowden's passion for the desert he calls home. "I want to eat the dirt and... More about INFERNO. Photographs by Michael P. Berman
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 about SOME OF THE DEAD ARE STILL BREATHING. Living in the Future
Bensenville: Mimeo Press, 1965. First edition. Paperback. One of 500 copies. The author's first book of prose, and the introduction to one Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's alter-ego. This copy is inscribed by Bukowski to Cert Secunda, and dated '8-14-66." With an original signed typescript poem titled "A Bottomless Joint On Sunset... More about CONFESSIONS OF A MAN INSANE ENOUGH TO LIVE WITH BEASTS
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
Hollywood: Burn Again Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Bukowski's homage to Red Stodolsky, bookseller and friend. #47 of only 50 numbered copies signed by Bukowski. Nine pages. Back in the day, when one visited Red at his Baroque Bookstore on Las Palmas in Hollywood, there would be a special... More about RED
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
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 about INTIMATE RELATIONS (Les Parents Terribles). ORIGINAL PLAY SCRIPT
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's tenth book. Essays. Seventeen pieces that were all published, with the exception of "A Night at a Waterfall." The stellar piece, in my opinion, is "A Walk in the Country." The first printing was 6500 copies... More about BLOOD AND GRITS. Essays
R. Crumb. Robert Crumb and Mike Price joined forces during the 1980s to produce a stage play, R. CRUMB COMIX: THE PLAY, with stage director Johnny Simons at Texas' Hip Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth. This archive contains related original correspondence from R Crumb to Mike Price in the form... More about R. CRUMB COMIX; THE PLAY. CORRESPONDENCE AND PRODUCTION MATERIALS. 1980s to 1990s
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
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 about DALVA
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 about OUR HOUSE IN THE LAST WORLD
New York: Viking Press, (1962). First edition. Hardcover. First issue book and dust jacket. Basis for the 1975 big screen film directed by Milos Forman that starred Louise Fletcher and Jack Nicholson. Winner of five Academy Awards; Best Picture, Actor & Actress, Director, and the Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay by... More about ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
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 about MATT MAHURIN. 1/25 With Print
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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Edward Shenton. First edition. Hardcover. With the Scribner's "A" but without the seal, and with the front flap price, in red, of $2.50. By the author of The Yearling. The author's autobiographical account of her relationships with her neighbors and her beloved Florida hammocks... More about CROSS CREEK. With Decorations by Edward Shenton
Boston: Godine, (1981). First edition. Hardcover. The story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Erratum slip laid in. More about HUNGER OF MEMORY. The Education of Richard Rodriguez. An Autobiography. Signed
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 about SAUL STEINBERG
Munchen: Bahia Verlag, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 115-pp of black and white photographs of James Dean, both on and off film sets. Roth was a film studio photographer. Text in German. Bound in red cloth. Agency sticker to dust jacket and first blank page. More about JAMES DEAN
Munchen: Bahia Verlag, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Text in German. Black and white photos of the great James Dean by film studio photographer Sanford Roth with text by his wife Beulah. These shots of this famous actor and 'pretty boy' would be hard to beat. More about JAMES DEAN
