Boston: Beacon Press, 1980. Uncorrected Proof. softcover. ALS laid in from the publisher's PR person to the 'Book - of - the - Month Club" hoping for a review. Also laid in is a photo-copied press release. that includes 3 review, Ntozake Shange, Marilyn Hacker, and Nathan Huggins. But where..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1979). Mock-up. loose sheets. A central sequence of thirty-four poems on the ordinary life of serious farming, touching on both the brutal and the ecstatic, accompany three other sequences, different in subject, tone, and feeling. This appears to be some type of mock-up of the..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1977). First edition. Paperback. Perfect bound in yellow printed wrappers, as issued. Handwritten information to front cover, title, author, publication date, etc. Also the letter "B" or "Blank" is written out in the appropriate place for the forthcoming hardbound book. 'Gaudete' is a narrative poem..... More
St. Louis: The Haberly Press, (1941). Loyd Haberly. A later printing. Hardcover. One of 1250 copies bound with a black cloth spine and orange boards with yellow decorations to front cover (no dust jacket). 106 pages of poetry with an index of titles. Illustrations by Haberly. More
New York: Ballantine, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. The second volume in this series. Includes poetry by Richard Wilbur, Louise Bogan, John Holmes, Mark Van Doren,Phyllis McGinley, Langston Hughes, May Sarton and Louise Simpson as well as Elizabeth Bishop, E. E. Cummings, Babette Deutsch, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, Carolyn Kizer, William..... More
Hanover: University Press of New England, (2011). First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by the editor on the title page and dated 2015. A collection of witty, intelligent, and provacative pieces about women and their beverage of choice. 28 original essays here come from a diverse community of voices from..... More
New York: Nan A. Talese, (1993). First edition. Hardcover. 16mo. A hat is a flag, a shield, a bit of armour, and the badge of femininity. A hat is the difference between wearing clothes and wearing a costume; it's the difference between being dressed and being dressed up, it's the..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Theatrical anecdotes are almost as old as the theatre itself. For much of its 2500-year history, the stage has teemed with real characters and real stories as fascinating as any created by a...... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, (1978). Paperback. Bob Blanchard spent his entire inheritance on a cattle ranch in the Missouri Ozarks—but it hasn’t turned out the way he’d hoped, and he’s now being threatened with foreclosure. The cattle are sick, and the herd can’t survive, so Blanchard agrees to a...... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. "A construction project in the desert of eastern Oregon forms the basis for a story with deep political, mystical, and--for its time--prescient implications: the impingement of American imperialism on its own native territory. Set in the 1980s, the project underway is..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1981). First edition. Paperback. The Uncorrected Proof. Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He was also awarded two..... More
Seattle: Fireglass Publishing, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. Author's debut novel. Label to front endpaper states; "This is a Collector's Edition copy". Below the label (that mentions forthcoming books in the series) is signed by the author who has also wrote "Find your Stelladaur!" A sixteen-year-old Reilly finds an heirloom treasure..... More
New York / Boston: Atlantic / Little Brown, (1961). First edition. Hardcover. Yates's debut novel about 1950s suburban life on the East Coast. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer. A film adaptation of the book, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kathy..... More
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1984. First edition. Single sheet, a printed Broadside. This broadside, measuring 7 x 11 inches, and printed on light tan stock, has been signed by Margaret Atwood. It was part of a suite of broadsides issued by Copper Canyon Press (Portfolio 1984) but sold separately..... More
New York: World Photo. single sheet, photograph. A black and white photograph, image measuring 6.5 x 9 3/8 inches, overall 8 x 10 inches Inscribed and signed by Kurt Vonnegut. Caption reads: "New York, Oct 21 -- PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST -- Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., stands beside one of..... More
Hollywood: Burn Again Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Bukowski's homage to Red Stodolsky, bookseller and close friend. Only 50 numbered copies were bound in red cloth, numbered and signed by Bukowski. This copy being #47. Nine pages. Back in the day, when one visited Red at his Baroque Bookstore..... More
London/Berlin/Prague: Divus, (2012). Mike Diana. First edition. Paperback. Two volumes, both small 4to's, perfect bound in the original illustrated wrappers with the publisher's illustrated slipcase. This special set, in the larger volume there is an inscription by the author witih two large original drawings dated 2014. The slipcase still in..... More
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, (2000). First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the National Book Award for fiction. It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska, her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendancy to American stardom..... More
London: Bloomsbury, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. Author's fourth book. Set in 17th century London, Sexing the Cherry is about the journeys of a mother, known as The Dog Woman, and her protégé, Jordan." Every journey conceals another journey within its lines; the path not taken and the forgotten angle. These..... More
London: Bloomsbury, (2006). First edition. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. The author's debut novel for children. "Nobody knows what to do when the Time Tornadoes start. Some days are long, some are short. Time stops then jerks forward, People are getting caught in Time..... More
Winston Salem: Palaemon Press Limited, (1981). First edition. Paperback. 4to. One of 140 numbered and signed copies, of which 40 were numbered I-XL (for private distribution) and 100 were numbered 1-100. This copy is #71 and is signed by Shelby Foote on the colophon page. First separate publication. Shelby Foote..... More
New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc, (1963). First printing stated. The author's first book. On a still California night in August of 1959 a Sacramento River rancher placed a .38 caliber revolver on the dock his great-great grandfather built, sat down beside it, and waited for his wife. 264 pages. More
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Ms Hanff, an American author, sometimes television script writer, a salty New Yorker, and book lover writes to Marks & Company, a London bookseller, purveyor of rare and second-handed books filled with wonderful old volumes and its over-mannered staff, she begins a...... More
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, (1994). First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Foreword by Lawrence Wright. This lavish spread of literary entertainment showcases nineteen stories selected from the first two seasons of "Texas Bound," part of the "Arts and Letters Live" literary series presented at the Dallas Museum of Art by..... More
