Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Price was 24-years old when this book was published. The setting is a housing project in the Bronx, similar to where the author grew up. Each of the 12 chapters are loosely connected, mainly by reappearing characters. It is more... More about THE WANDERERS
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
New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1991. David Salle. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler, edited and designed by John Cheim. Best known as a painter, Salle is quite accomplished as a photographer. Printed by the Stinehour Press. 54 images. Bound in illustrated boards in the original acetate dust wrapper (one tear). More about PHOTOGRAPHS 1980-1990
Circa 1983. First edition. Papers. Approx 400pp, 16mo and 4to, being the working draft of Dramocles, housed in the author's original folder with story and character notes scribbled throughout. Consisting of (approx): 71pp of early draft, 50pp of possible scenes, bits and characterizations, 53pp + 170pp of drafts, 70pp of... More about DRAMOCLES. An Intergalactic Soap Opera. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE
Melbourne, London, Toronto: Heinemann, (1957). First British edition. Hardcover. A post-apocalyptic novel that details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere following a nuclear war a year previously. As the radiation approaches... More about ON THE BEACH
Millerton: Aperture, 1986. Neal Slavin. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Folio. Shot with a 20 x 24 Polaroid camera. Images of British associations and groups. Still in the original shrink wrap. More about BRITONS
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's first book, signed by Smiley on the title page. More about BARN BLIND
n.p. 2017. Ralph Steadman. First edition thus, a limited signed edition. This illustration, featured in Hunter S. Thompson's book FEAR & LOATHNG IN LAS VEGAS (Random House, 1971), forever raised the bar on "bad craziness". I cannot think of any image featured in any book that is as instantly recognizable... More about A SAVAGE JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. A Silkscreen Print 1/150 by Ralph Steadman
New York: New Directions, (1954). First American edition. Hardcover. Here, in his last completed masterpiece, Thomas gave fullest expression to his sense of the "daedal dance of life." A "ceremonial portrait" of the circle of a spring day in a small Welsh coast town. It begins with dreams and ghosts... More about UNDER MILK WOOD. A Play For Voices
New York: Atheneum, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author who has added a couple of drawings. Review copy of the author's first book with publisher's dated slip and press release laid in. A vast freewheeling, profoundly hilarious epic, a surreal cornucopia of beastliness and pain. The world... More about YOU BRIGHT AND RISEN ANGELS
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. The voices of these poems are charms against chaos--passionate and kind, civil and ironic, indignant at pain, probing for forgiveness. One inquired, with clinical concern, into the history of heartbreak. Another warns, 'Never give your heart / to someone who eats... More about GOOD NIGHT WILLIE LEE. I'll See You in the Morning. Poems
New York: Knopf, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. A compilation of the great photographer's best work taken between 1930 and 1965. Introduction, edited and biographical information by Louis Stettner. 112 photographs. Here are the flower vendors, the sallow victims of Murder, Inc., the sweltering Coney Island crowds, the night club... More about WEEGEE THE FAMOUS
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, (1945). First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "For Melba Bennett / a friend of Philip McCormick's / Jessamyn West." With the bookplate of Melba Bennett to the front pastedown (as well as a neat bookstore stamp from... More about THE FRIENDLY PERSUASION
New York: Knopf, (1979). First edition. Hardcover. William Wharton, is the pen name of author, and painter Albert William Du Aime. Author's first novel, and basis for the big screen film (1984) directed by Alan Parker that starred Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. Publisher's press release laid in. Two other... More about BIRDY. A Novel
New York: Morrow, (1992). First edition. hardcover. Signed by the author on the half-title, "May 16, 1992 / Best Wishes / Cynthia J Wilbur." An affectionate, moving, and amusing tribute to the baseball greats of the 1940s and 1950s. Told in the players' own voices, this is the story of... More about FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME. Baseball Memories from the Men Who Where There. Signed
