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
n.p. Warner Bros, 1960. PRESENTATION SCRIPT. Hardcover. Marked "Final Screenplay" (April 11, 1960), 148pp. Directed by Vincent J. Donehue, with a screenplay by Dore Schary, who produced the film (and the play). The film starred Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, and Ann Shoemaker. An ALS is bound in from... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. Raphael Soyer. First edition. Hardcover. One of 500 special copies signed by the author, with a numbered color print signed by Soyer. This is copy #434. Singer, a Nobel Prize-winning author, reminisces about his leaving his friends in Poland in the 1930's, his coming to America... More
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, (1983). Antonio Frasconi. First edition. Hardcover. One of 450 numbered copies, specially bound, signed by the author and illustrator. This copy is #220.Basis for the big screen film directed by Barbara Streisand who also played the lead. Based on Singer's short story "Yentl the... More
Los Angeles: The American Jewish Committee, (1997). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. This copy is boldly signed by Steven Spielberg on the title page. From the Dedication: "Steven Spielberg is a celebration of the human spirit. In his family, he celebrates the human spirit. In this work, he celebrates the human... More
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
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... More
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
Santa Barbara: Neville, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Marked "Presentation Copy" on the colophon page and signed in full by Hunter S Thompson. A small book, 38pp, containing three pieces by the Doctor of Gonzo: Mescalito, Death of a Poet, and Screwjack. Bright red cloth with gilt decoration (HST's monster), issued... More
New York: Knopf, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. In this, the author's parody on early Hollywood, the exploits of one Ambrose Deacon, a New York playwright with one hit travels to Hollywood and meets movie people. What a hilarious ride he takes the reader on. One of the first parodies of... More
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
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... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, (1948). First edition. Hardcover. This copy is inscribed by West on the half-title page; "For Melba Bennett / a friend of Phil's / Jessamyn West." (Melba Berry Bennett was a scholar, poet, writer and bibliophile. She was invited by Robinson Jefferes to do his... More
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
