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
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
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
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: 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
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: Random House, (1963). First edition. Hardcover. Pieces from A Tree of Night, Breakfast at Tiffany's (complete), and non-fiction pieces from Local Color. 460pp. Uncommon title in such nice condition. 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: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, (1966). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 12 Volumes in six books housed in the original publisher's slipcases with a cover label on each side of the slipcase. Each book with 32 illustrations. Translated from the original French. Copious notes elucidate the social, biographical, and... More
New York: Putnam, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. This copy signed by the author on the title page. A novel concerning the sole survivor of a mine disaster who starts a religious cult. 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
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
New York: Random House, (1975). First edition. Hardcover. Author's second book (Fan's Notes was his first). The death of Edmund Wilson precipitates an odyssey through the distorted literary landscape of America in search of Wilson's essence as the pre-eminent man of letters and the author's own creative wellsprings. More
New York: The Dial Press, (1954). First edition. Hardcover and paperback. Laid into this copy is an offprint, DELTA No. 4. Published by Paul Valery University (Montpellier), in 1977. 14pp. Printed sheets, measuring 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches staple bound, which prints a review of a section of Foote's... 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
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
Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. No friend was closer to Barbara Hepworth, over a period of forty years, than Margaret Gardiner. In this vivid and personal account of the early days in Hampstead, when Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore and Herbert Read all lived and worked, for... 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: 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
New York: Liveright, (1941). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Neat pencil inscription on the front endpaper, covering most of the page; "To / Mr and Mrs Bennett / of Deep Well ranch / with thanks for all the / lovely times we've spent / here / Sincerely / Frederick Hollander /... 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: Abrams, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Features 150 duotone illustrations, with text by Ben Lifson. Grey cloth with silver stamping, crisp copy. 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
Austin: Encino Press / Texas Library Association, n.d. (1968). First edition thus. Single sheet. A Broadside, signed by both Larry McMurtry and the publisher Wm Witliff, that features a passage from the book and also has a black and white reproduced photograph in the center of the piece, four cowboys... More
