SHIKIKEI LANDSCAPE.
Tokyo: Magazine House, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full-page color photographs by this Japanese master. Clean copy. Fabulous printing and production. More about SHIKIKEI LANDSCAPE
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BOOK COLLECTING. The Last Refuge of the Illiterate.
Salt Lake City: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. One of 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by Bowden. Casebound in black cloth boards, with red paper labels pasted front and rear. Rear endsheet serves as the colophon. Cover design by Edward Bateman. Book design and letterpress printing... More about BOOK COLLECTING. The Last Refuge of the Illiterate
CONFESSIONS OF A MAN INSANE ENOUGH TO LIVE WITH BEASTS
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
THE CURTAINS ARE WAVING AND PEOPLE WALK THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HERE AND IN BERLIN AND IN NEW YORK CITY AND IN MEXICO
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...
HOT WATER MUSIC. Stories. 1/100 With An Original Painting
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
IT CATCHES MY HEART IN ITS HANDS.
New Orleans: Loujon Press, (1963). First edition. Paperback. 4to. One of only 777 copies printed. Signed by Bukowski, using thick silver ink, on the front endpaper, and dated, "6-2-63". Arguably Bukowski's most famous book, which collects poetry (66) written between the years 1955-1963. Individual poems merge to form together a.... More about IT CATCHES MY HEART IN ITS HANDS
NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN
North Hollywood: Essex House, (1969). First edition. Paperback. 16mo. This copy is inscribed by Bukowski to Harold Norse, with an original drawing of a bottle , also signed by Harold Norse on the verso of the front cover. Perfect bound in stiff white pictorial paper wrappers. Front cover printed in... More about NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN
WAR ALL THE TIME. 1/100 With 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
PORTRAITS. Essay By Raymond Carver (inscribed by Raymond Carver)
New York: Ecco Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This copy is signed in full on the title page by Raymond Carver and also is inscribed by Carver below, "For James and Norma from Ray, June 1988, Port Angeles." With photographs by Bill Burke, editged by Constance Sullivan. Preface by... More about PORTRAITS. Essay By Raymond Carver (inscribed by Raymond Carver
WE ARE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER. Stories by William Kittredge
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Eight stories. The signed limited edition, one of 50 numbered copies, #49, signed by both Ray Carver and William Kittredge. Also inscribed by Kittredge (with ownership signature to ffep of the person the book is inscribed to). 128pp. More about WE ARE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER. Stories by William Kittredge
INTIMATE RELATIONS (Les Parents Terribles). ORIGINAL PLAY SCRIPT.
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
EX-CONVICT. How To Pull Time And Parole.
n.p. Published by the Author, 1982. First edition. Paperback. A PBO (paperback original). This copy signed by the author, singer, songwriter on the title page. Coe, to get noticed in Nashville, had a long black hearse with his name printed on the sides (in huge white letters). He used to... More about EX-CONVICT. How To Pull Time And Parole
BLOOD WORK
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
PHOTOGRAPHS.
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
OF NIGHT AND DAY. A Photographic Essay
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
ATTIC.
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. A fantasy for adults under thirty. More about ATTIC
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1962). Second edition being a reprint of the original 1938 first edition. Hardcover. Evans, was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. This book is Walker Evans' pictorial record... More about AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS
THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS. A Fairy-Tale For Lucky Children. Illustrated by the Author
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 about THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS. A Fairy-Tale For Lucky Children. Illustrated by the Author
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE. Translated From the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
New York: Harper & Row, (1970). First American edition. Hardcover. 2nd issue jacket (w/o "!." the author's masterwork. The multi-generational story of the Buendia family (seven generations). Garcia Marquez popularized a literary style called magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. This special... More about ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE. Translated From the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC
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
THE HAWK IN THE RAIN
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 about THE HAWK IN THE RAIN
THE MERCY. Poems
NewYork: Knopf, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. This copy is inscribed by the author on the half title page. Laid in is a full printed sheet, folded in half to make four pages, a brochure of Levine's appearance at the Washington Center for the Book at the Central Seattle... More about THE MERCY. Poems
MAD FOREVER. A New Collection of The Best from Mad Magazine. With an Introduction by Steve Allen
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 about MAD FOREVER. A New Collection of The Best from Mad Magazine. With an Introduction by Steve Allen
THE LAST NIGHT. A Story.
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
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO BE STRANGERS. A Novel.
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1972). First edition. Hardcover. Author's sixth book and fifth novel. A western-accented birth-of-a-writer novel. More about ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO BE STRANGERS. A Novel