San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. A biography of Ansel Adams, that starts when he was a teenager, and a summer custodian, of sorts, of a small building provided by The Sierra Club. His hikes in the Nevada mountains taught a young Adams a respect for the..... More
New York: Avalon Books, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. 143 loose 8 1/2 x 11 sheets with cover sheet that is handwritten and signed by Pelham. It reads: "Bert: I certify that this is the Master Copy of my second novel, Tired Gun." Signed underneath, "your friend, Howard Pelham." There are..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, (2014). First edition. Hardcover. Here, in this novel, the author returns to Gilead in the unforgetable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. More
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
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
Woody Creek/Loose Valley/Blue Grass/High Desert: Gonao International/Steam Press/Petro III Graphics/Sylph Publications, 2004. Ralph Steadman. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. #45/150 signed by both the author, Hunter S Thompson, and the illustrator, Ralph Steadman on the limitation page. A 51pp previously unpublished short story about a struggling young writer in the..... More
New York: Free Press, (2009). First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Acclaimed travel writer Bonie Tsui takes an affectionate and attentive look at the neighborhood that has bewitched her since childhood, when she eagerly awaited her grandfather's return from the fortune-cookie factory. Tsui..... More
New York: Ecco, (2010). From the author's photographs. First edition. Hardcover. With some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf) transgender women, Kabuki Goddesses, porn queens, poets housewives, makeup artists, geishas, Valkyries and Venus figurines. A charming, evocative and piercing examination of an ancient Japanese tradition and the keys it holds..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1991). First edition. Hardcover. Publisher promotional letter laid in. This book collects all the poems from the author's previously published books. 461pp. More
New York: Random House, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. A presentation copy signed and inscribed by Eudora Welty to her good friend Willie Spann: "To Willie / with love from Eudora / 1972". Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This short novel was first published as a long story in the New..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1954). Joe Krush. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Welty on the front endpaper to her close friends Pearl and Willie Spann,: "For Willie and Miss Pearl / with lots of love / from Eudora / Christmas 1953." Welty began writing this book in the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. Autographed notecard laid in with original mailing envelope dated Feb 4, 1968, to Mrs Frank H Bennett. "Dear Mrs Bennett / Thank you for taking the time to write me about "Leafy Rivers." Not every one has like it, so..... More
Miami Beach: Dennis McMillan, 1987. Joe Servello. Signed limited edition. Hardcover. #51 OF 400 copies numbered and signed by Willeford. Dust jacket painting and endpapers by Joe Servello. A long excerpt (with added material) from Willeford's long novel Shark-Infested Custard originally written in the 1970s. This title was meant to..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated by Clifford Brycelea. A journey to a largely unknown country, a land of the mind and spirit as well as earth and grass, where people live in intimacy with landscape, where earth, mountains, stars..... More
