Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1966. First edition. One of 3,500 copies. A collection of stories and essays by and about Lovecraft. Also includes August Derleth, C. M. Eddy, Fritz Leiber, et al, Illustrated with a few black-and-white photographs and with full-page illustrations by Frank Utpatel, et al. Fine in..... Item #55216 More
[No Place]: The Strange Company, (1976). First of this edition. Folio No. 3. Number 10 of 150 copies SIGNED by R. Alain Everts, the publisher. The original holograph version and its transcription with an introduction by Everts. 8 ¾ x 10’ loose sheets laid in heavier printed portfolio. Pages not..... Item #55224 More
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1966). First edition. Collection of 16 essays including one on "the making and meaning of one of the author's own novels, THE VELVET HORN." Foreword by Allen Tate. RAMBLINGLY INSCRIBED (covering most of the title page and with a few crossed out false starts)..... Item #72133 More
London: Robert Hale, (1975). First British edition, and the first hardback edition, preceding the U.S. hardback by five years. A Travis McGee mystery published in paperback in 1973. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jacket with skinned spot near front top corner and tiny chip to bottom..... Item #49457 More
No-place: Privately Printed, (1937). First edition. Second collection of essays by the "saloonkeeper" profiled in The New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell. INSCRIBED BY MADDEN on the front endpaper, as most copies seem to be. Page top edges foxed and unavoidable offset from binding to pastedowns otherwise near fine in very..... Item #54112 More
Atlanta, GA: Norman Mailer Society, (2018). Second edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies in the "Signature Edition" marked "Presentation." There were an additional 40 numbered copies. All 55 copies with leaf SIGNED BY MAILER BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 2007 tipped in at front. According to Michael Lennon, of the 15..... Item #55547 More
New York: Random House, (2003). First edition. A paperback original. SIGNED by the author. 260+ pages of poems and drawings with a preface by Mailer. Fine in pictorial paperwraps. Item #49382 More
Pacific Palisades: Rasselas Press, 1982. First edition. Frontispiece drawing of Maugham and facsimile handwritten letter. Printed leterpress by Patrick Reagh. Edited and with an introduction by Loren R. Rothschild. One of 26 SIGNED lettered copies (signed by Reagh and Rothschild). There were also 274 unsigned, numbered copies. Gray cloth with..... Item #42721 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. About very good with cloth binding lightly rubbed and soiled, spine ends and corners rubbed, spine slightly faded and bumped on ends, small tear in cloth at top of spine, rear endpaper lightly soiled, and a few small..... Item #51856 More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1980). First edition. SIGNED on front endpaper, "Thomas McGuane / Key West / 1988." Minor bump to lower board and barest fading to cover edges otherwise bright and fine in fine dust jacket with just a hint of soiling. Item #54871 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1968). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Remainder mark on bottom page edge, otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket with minor edge creasing. Item #51452 More
Chicago: Robert O. Ballou, 1924. First edition. Introduction by Frederic W. Goudy. Previous owner's name on title page otherwise very good or better with cloth frayed at spine ends and base of spine faded but rest of spine and its gilt lettering bright and with the front and back boards..... Item #53303 More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988). First edition. Uncorrected proof in RARE PROOF DUST JACKET with blank flaps and a completely different design. TOGETHER WITH a copy of the book in its eventual trade dust jacket that is INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, "To .../ A gloomy tale/ Larry McMurtry."..... Item #53607 More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1983). First edition. Uncorrected proof with "Sept 6" handwritten on front (presume the publication date). Fine in yellow paperwraps with only light paper clip crease to top edge front cover. Item #33601 More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1987). First edition. Uncorrected proof, fine in yellow paperwraps. Item #33594 More
London: John Murray, 1847. First edition, early reprint. Not in BAL. Would appear to precede the U.S. edition, or at least be reissued from a version that preceded it, as it appears to be a stereotype conforming to the original, unrevised text of "NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS' ... "..... Item #71589 More
New York: Viking Press, 1930. First edition. Credited by music historian Elijah Wald with having “the first printed description of a Mississippi juke joint” (“The Blue Blues,” Oxford American, Issue 75, Winter 2011). The story of a "Negro vagabond," John Henry, teeming with "passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching..... Item #72041 More
(Puerto Rico) / New York: Carrefour, (1939 / 1941). First edition. Two volumes. Correspondence spanning the years 1935-1938 between Miller and Michael Fraenkel, the model for Boris in TROPIC OF CANCER. Both volumes in off-white printed paperwraps. Volume I is bright, clean, unopened and very nearly fine with just a...... Item #54037 More
(New York): New Directions Book, (1975). First edition. Number 260 of 700 copies SIGNED BY MILLER. Facsimile of Miller's notebook kept on his 3-year odyssey across the U.S. after returning from 10 years of expatriation. Quarto green cloth boards, printed spine label. In original glassine dust jacket which is a...... Item #54139 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition thus: illustrated with 7 color plates and title-page vignette by A. I. Keller. 8vo brick red cloth-covered boards with elaborate gilt-stamped design by Amy Richards (signed "AR" in the design); top edges gilt; "D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston" printer's slug..... Item #71890 More
New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932. First edition. Translated by Jane Hinton. Helen Hayes starred in the New York production. Residue from bookplate removal on front pastedown (partially under flap) and light soiling, otherwise near fine in a slightly soiled price-clipped dust jacket. Item #29046 More
London: Reeves & Turner, 1891. First UK edition, trade issue; preceded by a limited large-paper issue. A classic work, combining utopian socialism and science fiction. 8vo dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered front and spine; pages edges untrimmed, yellow coated endpapers. Very good to near fine with covers bright and pages only..... Item #53950 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. The Nobel Prize-winning author's second book. Rebound with fresh endpapers added in 8vo brick-red cloth with illustration from the dust jacket inset on front cover and a printed label on spine. Crisp and fine lacking a dust jacket. Item #72057 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. First edition. Nordhoff (grandfather of the MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY Nordhoff) toured major Utopian settlements: the Shakers, the Amana Colony, the Perfectionists, the Icarians, and many others -- in order to compile this large work providing extensive information on the religious beliefs, poetry, architecture..... Item #55231 More
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., (1937). First edition. SIGNED BY NORRIS and dated October 1937 on front endpaper. Memoirs of the Philadelphia reporter, lawyer, banker, and public official described on the jacket flap as being “far too clever to draw the veil of faint praise over the characters of those..... Item #71757 More