10 LB. PENALTY.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1997). First American edition. INSCRIBED "Hi, Brenda!" and SIGNED by Francis. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #46979 More
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1001 AFTERNOONS IN NEW YORK; [Together with THE BEWITCHED TAILOR, an excerpt from the book that is signed by Hecht and Grosz].
New York: Viking Press, 1941. First edition. Near fine with pages slightly age toned and touch of light foxing to endpapers; in very good dust jacket somewhat tanned at spine and along rear edges, with few tiny nicks and short tears and a small rubbed v-shaped tear to front panel..... Item #55558 More
1876: A Novel.
New York: Random House, (1976). First edition. SIGNED on the half-title page. His sequel to BURR; the third volume chronologically in his "Narratives of Empire" series. Near fine with dark blue cloth just a bit faded on edges in very good or better dust jacket with spine and edges just..... Item #54486 More
![Item #55776 2006 CENTER BROADSIDES READING SERIES; [Portfolio of 12 Signed Broadsides]. Grace Paley](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55776.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1582065636)
2006 CENTER BROADSIDES READING SERIES; [Portfolio of 12 Signed Broadsides].
(New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2006). First edition. One of 50 copies (each broadside with stated limitation of 100 however, according to Sarah Nicholls, Program Coordinator for the Center, only 50 were to be made). 12 letterpress-printed broadsides -- EACH ONE SIGNED BY THE POET -- in portfolio..... Item #55776 More
21 LETTERS OF AMBROSE BIERCE.
West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, (1991). First edition thus. Reprint of the 1922 limited edition, adding an introduction by Donald R. Burleson. Collects Bierce's letters to Loveman, who he seemed to have taken under his wing, from October 1908 until a few months before he disappeared in Mexico in December..... Item #54069 More
22 and DEVOTION (Two SIGNED volumes).
Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles, 1974 - 1976. First edition, first printing of DEVOTION. "22," is a second printing. Both are signed by Malanga. Whole issues of Sparrow 22 and 48, respectively. Both in stapled wraps. A fine set. Item #55124 More
22; DEVOTION; THIS WILL KILL THAT (Three SIGNED volumes).
Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles, 1974 - 1978. First edition, first printing of each of the volumes except "22," which is a second printing. Whole issues of Sparrow 22, 48 and 66, respectively, and each in stapled wraps. A fine set. Item #55123 More
2666; (Three volumes).
New York: Farrar, Straus, 2008. First U.S. edition, simultaneous paperwraps issue. Three softcover volumes in publisher's card slipcase printed in red. (Also issued in single-volume hardcover.) Bolano's highly praised final novel, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Originally published in Chile in 2004, this is the first English translation..... Item #71633 More
27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON And Other Plays.
Norfolk: New Directions, (1953). Third printing, with two plays added. First issue. Near fine with page edges slightly soiled and previous owner's initials and date on front endpaper; in dust jacket with rubbing and edge wear. Item #25109 More
3 SMITHS IN THE WIND.
Garden City: Doubleday & Co, Inc., 1946. First edition. "Three Best Sellers in One Volume by an Outstanding American Humorist"--from the dust jacket. Collects his first three books: LOW MAN ON A TOTEM POLE, LIFE IN A PUTTY KNIFE FACTORY and LOST IN THE HORSE LATITUDES. Near fine in like..... Item #54488 More
30 DAYS IN SYDNEY: A Wildly Distorted Account.
(London): Bloomsbury, (2001). First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Item #28801 More
7 MEN.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First edition. SIGNED by author on front endpaper. Unavoidable offset due to the binding glue on the pastedowns, otherwise very good to fine in dust jacket with one small closed tear and spine darkened but still very good. Clippings and publisher ads in..... Item #45536 More
90 NEW PLAYS: Play Bureau Publication No. 4, December, 1936.
New York: Play Bureau, 1936. First edition. Synopses of 90 plays selected by Francis Bosworth and Converse Tyler. The Play Bureau was part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project. This particular publication is a compilation of plays made available for production by over eighty playwrights for a standard..... Item #55396 More
![Item #55952 99 POEMS: New & Selected | POETRY AS ENCHANTMENT [inscribed] | TYPED LETTER SIGNED...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55952.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585768755)
99 POEMS: New & Selected | POETRY AS ENCHANTMENT [inscribed] | TYPED LETTER SIGNED [with enclosures] | HAUNTED [Gioia interview and reading on CD] | AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED.
Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2016. First edition. From the collection of Allen K. Mears. 8vo silver-stamped black boards; 194 pages including index. Small crimp to base of spine otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. Copy of a letter sent by Mears to Gioia (praising his poetry and expressing his wish..... Item #55952 More
ABAFT THE FUNNEL.
New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909. First U.S. edition. Though a pirated one, it does precede the authorized Doubleday, Page and Co. edition by a few months. First issue in gilt-lettered blue cloth boards with ship at sea illustration stamped In black. Spine a little shaken otherwise near..... Item #55046 More
ABAFT THE FUNNEL.
New York: B. W. Dodge, 1909. First edition, unauthorized. Third issue with red lettering printed vs stamped (or gilt); in dust jacket--the only one of the three to be issued in one. Short stories and one poem. Very good in good dust jacket with old tape repair to chips and..... Item #54088 More
ABBEY'S ROAD.
New York: Dutton, (1979). First edition. His travels in the U.S. and beyond. "Edward Abbey brings his bright idiosyncratic vision -- his own philosophy and humor -- to every place he visits. His explorations throughout the world emphasize man's need for a direct connection with nature" -- from the dust..... Item #71869 More
ABBEYS.
Paddington Station, London: The Great Western Railway, 1925. First edition. Additional chapter on "Monastic Life and Buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson. Illustrated. Great Western Railway map in pocket on back paste down. About very good with offset shadow on front board, corners rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, name on front endpaper..... Item #52473 More
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS; ["...contains one hitherto unpublished, authentic Lincoln story which does not appear in the book"].
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [circa 1926]. First edition. Pre-publication booklet illustrated with photographs. One of a stated 2500 copies. The publisher suggests on the cover its "preservation as a Lincoln item" (it would appear not many did). 34 pp; stapled, printed green paperwraps. Damp staining to top edge..... Item #55522 More
ABRAHAM LONCOLN: "The Battle of the Giants" by Frederick Taylor Hill; "The Parents of Lincoln" by Ida M. Tarbell; and "An Appeal to Patriotism" by Richard Lloyd Jones.
New York: (The Lincoln Farm Association), 1907. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. First appearance of Tarbell's essay. A "souvenir" book for the "Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York February 12, 1907." Published by The Lincoln Farm Association incorporated the year before for the purposes..... Item #71629 More
ABRIDGED WORK OF ADMIRALTY PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF HER MAJESTY'S MOST HONORABLE PRIVY COUNCIL: British Ship Australia, formerly American Ship Rob Roy.
Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood and Company, 1860. First edition. INSCRIBED BY BURROWS on front endpaper to "The Honorable Judge McCurdy/ From his old friend & Most [illegible] Servent [sic]/ Silas E. Burrows." Burrows' record of the proceedings before the court in the case of the American citizen Silas Enoch..... Item #56131 More
THE ABYSMAL BRUTE.
New York: The Century Company, 1913. First edition, third issue in light green rouch cloth stamped in green and black. Slightly smaller than the 2 issues that precede it with boards measuring approximately 4.75 x 6.75" (first issue is a little wider and 7" tall). [Woodbridge 109]. Crimp to base..... Item #71790 More
THE ABYSMAL BRUTE.
New York: The Century Company, 1913. First edition, in first-issue or primary binding of smooth olive cloth. Good with spine lettering a little dulled and somewhat rubbed and rear hinge paper repair; in trimmed but otherwise very good dust jacket. Item #71791 More
THE ABYSS: In The Smith Magazine.
New York: The Smith, 1970. First edition. Baudelaire poem translated by Whitten. Featured as a special issue of The Smith Magazine, number 8. Fine in white stapled paperwraps with just light tanning along the spine. Item #51289 More
THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST.
London: Chatto & Windus, (1985). First UK edition. Uncorrected proof in publisher's thin, patterned paper wraps and a proof dust jacket with provisional publication date, etc. printed on rear flap edge and a higher printed price on the front flap than that of the eventual book (9.95 vs 8.95). Fine..... Item #9360 More