PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT.
New York: Random House, (1969). First trade edition. Hardcover. This is the book that turned the author into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit and candid treatment of sexuality.
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PRIDE OF THE BIMBOS.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. This copy is inscribed by Sayles on the half-title page. A novel about a midget (named Pogo) who is a traveling baseball player who dresses in drag and plays local teams. The baseball is always played without comedy...
BRITONS.
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.
A SAVAGE JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. A Silkscreen Print 1/150 by Ralph Steadman
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...
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
New York: Putnam, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title along with a red stamp. This novel focuses on four Chinese American families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of...
UNDER MILK WOOD. A Play For Voices
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...
FEAR AND LOATHING: ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL '72. With Illustrations by Ralph Steadman.
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). Ralph Steadman. First edition. Hardcover. An advance, prepublication copy, slip laid in, along with a black and white photograph, 5 x 7, of the book with the dust jacket front panel and spine showing. A collection of articles covering the 1972 presidential campaign, which...
PETER WHIFFLE. His Life And Works. With the Original Decorated Slipcase
New York: Knopf, 1927. First edition thus. Hardcover. This edition is bound with Ralph Barton's celebrated map of Paris with the kind permission of the artist. With 32 illustrations. Printed on the rear panel of the decorated slipcase; "Peter Whittle, Carl Van Vechten's first novel, was published in April, 1922...
SACRED AND PROFANE MEMORIES. One of 2000 Numbered Copies
New York: Knopf, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. This is copy 933. With four illustrations in aquatone. A collection of Van Vechten's writings dealing with "things remembered." "Selected and arranged to create a homogeneous impression, and they have been extensively rewritten". The contents are: The Tin Trunk, The Folksongs of Iowa...
YOU BRIGHT AND RISEN ANGELS.
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...
WAMPETERS FOMA & GRANFALLOONS. (Options).
New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of reviews and essays, and a few speeches made by the author. The title of the book is taken from three words from the author's novel CAT'S CRADLE. A wampeter is an object around which the lives of many otherwise...
LIVING BY THE WORD. Selected Writings 1973-1987
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1988). First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected Proof of this book of prose pieces. Perfect bound in sky blue printed wrappers, as issued. Here, the author expands on our intimate connection with plants and animals, the poisoning of our environment, and nuclear peril. She describes her struggles...
ONE WRITER'S BEGINNINGS. Signed
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Eudora Welty on the front free endpaper. A collection of autobiographical essays. The book is based on three lectures she delivered at Harvard University in April 1983, as part of the William E. Massey Sr. lecture series. The three essays...
THE FRIENDLY PERSUASION
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...
LEAFY RIVERS. A Novel. With An Autographed Notecard Laid in.
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...
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