Minneapolis: Bookslinger (for Toothpaste Press), 1981. First edition. single sheet. #53/85 signed by Atwood. Single sheet, framed under glass, with an overall measurement of 9 3/4 x 13 inches. This broadside, in two colors, was printed at The Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger on the occasion of the author's reading at..... More
Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co of America, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, in the first issue dust jacket (without the Southern Living quote) published by a small press in Baltimore. Tiny first printing. In this copy Bahr was written out a paragraph from the book and signed..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First edition. Winner of the National Book Award. Touch of dulling to spine (just a touch). 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
New York: Scribner's, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Inscribed by Bourjaily on the front free endpaper. This novel draws heavily on Bourjaily's experience as a volunteer ambulance driver during the Second World War. Inevitably critics compared it -- mostly favourably -- to Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Its..... More
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
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
New York: Grossman, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Sm 8vo. Unpaginated. Features 47 exquisite black and white photographs (including frontispiece). More
New York: Harper, (2012). Limited Signed edition. Hardcover. This edition has been specially bound by the publisher with a tipped in sheet signed by the author. A small vinyl used record shop on Telegraph Avenue, that runs through both Berkeley and Oakland, is threatened by a new maga-store close by..... 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
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: Harper & Row, (1966). William Pene Du Bois. Later printing. Hardcover. Small 4to.When an irate eight-year-old girl puts the "magic finger" on the people who live on the neighboring farm, exciting things begin to happen. The author's third book for children. Price clipped jacket but code to bottom..... More
New York: Scribner, (2003). First edition. Hardcover. This copy inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication." An epic saga of two former lovers sired in the pages of Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana Trilogy. Susan Duff -- the bossy, indomitable schoolgirl with a silver voice..... More
New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Twenty tales of indelible characters: a solitary woman struggling to corral a flock of idiot sheep; a young girl who creates a strange fairytale that shatters her parents' love; a modern-day prophet waging war against..... More
New York: Norton, (1988). First limited edition. Hardcover. #36 of 150 special numbered copies signed by Erwitt that includes a print of his famous shot of the cast of 'The Misfits. Erwitt, along with many other Mangnum photographers were hired to document film production on such films as; On the..... More
New York: Basic Books, (1978). John Gardner. First edition. hardback. This copy has a spectacular drawing by the author on the front blank that carries over onto the front pastedown. A woman riding some kind of animal. The drawing is not signed by Gardner but there are two different 'signatures'..... More
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
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, (1997). First edition. Hardcover. Introductions by Dan Gerber and Jim Harrison. Edited by Joseph Bednarik. Signed by all three, Bednarik, Gerber and Jim Harrison. Copy C of 26 lettered copies. Also includes work by Charles Simic, Ezra Pound, Jim Harrison, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2016). First edition. Hardcover. An Indiespensible selection done by Powell's Books that includes a signed first edition of the book, a chapbook interview along with a matching slipcase. Hunt's third novel concerning Nat and Ruth, young orphans, living in a crowded foster home run by..... More
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
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (1966). First edition. hardcover. Author's fifth novel that concerns two women, one a young American wife of the present day, the other a Portuguese nun of the seventeenth century. This copy inscribed on the front endpaper, "For ________ / The Birth of Love..... More
New York: Knopf, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the blank before the half-title page. Lahiri's second novel, set in India and America, concerns two brothers bound by tragedy. A fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past. A country torn by revolution and a love that lasts..... More
New York: Knopf, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Levine on the half title page. Single sheet folded once to make 4 panels. The Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library presents: WINDOWS ON THE WRITING LIFE: A Conversation with Poet Philip Levine. Features a...... 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
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
