Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. **MISSING PAGES 37-43.** The book that grew from Agee's 1936 assignment for Fortune Magazine documenting conditions faced by sharecropping families in the south during the "dust bowl." Agee and Evans (on loan from the federal government, according to the jacket flap) spent eight weeks..... Item #54584 More
Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1888. First edition. First issue with printer's imprint "J. J. Arakelyan" on copyright page and "wore" for "were" p.210:8. His famous Utopian novel. Included in Bleiler's Science Fiction, Grolier's 100 American Books before 1900, Merle Johnson's High Spots of American Literature and many others. In brown-orange..... Item #55166 More
New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1909 - 1912. First edition. Twelve volumes, EACH ONE SIGNED BY BIERCE. (The regular signed limited edition of 250 numbered copies was signed in first volume only.) THIS SET WITH "COMPLIMENTS OF" PAGE SIGNED BY BIERCE IN EACH VOLUME, three of which are signed in..... Item #54511 More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. First edition of Bradbury's first book, a collection of 27 of his earliest stories. There were only 3,112 copies in the first printing. 3 x 5" plain white card laid in SIGNED BY BRADBURY WITH DRAWING OF ONE OF HIS MONSTERS and dated in 1989..... Item #53848 More
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2003. First edition, DELUXE limited issue. All twenty fragments – ranging from a few words to 66 lines – of the poem generally referred to as "On Nature" by pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides of Elea (active circa 475 BC) translated from the Ancient Greek and with..... Item #55883 More
New York: The Center for Book Arts, 2005. First edition. The Center's 30th-anniversary publication, a stunningly innovative work. NUMBER 3 OF 60 COPIES offered for sale from a total edition of 75 (five of which are artist's proofs). INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST, the author and book designer, " for Allen Mears..... Item #55884 More
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Joe Servello. (Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications), (1987.). Original uncut version, first edition thus. One of 450 numbered copies SIGNED BY PHILIP JOSE FARMER, who wrote the foreword for this edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. TOGETHER WITH THE ORIGINAL, SIGNED PAINTING BY JOE SERVELLO used for the dust jacket..... Item #54963 More
(Santa Barbara: Graham Mackintosh, 1987). First edition, limited issue. Issued in an edition of 26 special copies hardbound in boards and 470 regular paperwraps copies. This copy an out-of-series HARDBOUND one SIGNED BY BUKOWSKI on colophon page with handwritten “PRESENTATION COPY” in red beneath and small “From the Library of..... Item #71858 More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1940. Exceedingly scarce first U.S. edition and first edition with this title. Originally published in the UK with a racist term in the title. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE is the world's best-selling mystery and one of the best-selling books of all time. Adapted numerous times..... Item #71776 More
New York: William Morrow, (1991). First edition. THE ELUSIVE HARDCOVER ISSUE -- SIGNED on the title page by Collins and dated "Jan 1992." The book was issued simultaneously in softcover and even that issue is scarce. An early selection of poems from the eventual Poet Laureate, exhibiting his usual wry..... Item #53538 More
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No-place: Ridgway Company, 1919-1920. First U.S. edition thus: seven-part serialization in "Romance" magazine, a short-lived venture edited by Arthur Sullivan Hoffman that was intended as a companion to his "Adventure" pulp magazine. Preceded by the 1919 UK serialization in "Land and Water" magazine (both magazine appearances preceding the book). All..... Item #54532 More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1857 and 1858. First edition, in the original, untrimmed and unopened monthly parts: TEN OCTAVO PARTS IN PICTORIAL PAPERWRAPS, housed together in gilt-lettered green-cloth chemise with bookplate of Maude M. Monell and matching green-cloth slipcase. Pale yellow pictorial paperwraps each with woodcut after..... Item #54014 More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1857--1858. First edition. In the ten original monthly parts, each with two full-page illustrated plates at front. Twenty plates in all; plus woodcut illustrations after Cruikshank replicated on front of each wrapper. Most with PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION blindstamp on front cover. All lacking rear..... Item #54140 More
London: Published for the artist by David Bogue, [1847]. First edition. The six-shilling superior-paper issue was stitched into wrappers (vs being offered on one large sheet for a single shilling). Eight plates on heavy paper with tint block added for shading (vs untinted). Includes original title page and paper covers..... Item #56024 More
Isaac Robert Cruikshank. London: John Lowndes, 1822. Two volumes. (VOLUME 1) FIRST EDITION: Folding hand-colored frontispiece etching, "Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Burroughs & Mr. Wrench, As Logic, Jerry & Corinthian Tom...," by Robert Cruikshank. Bound (together with Songs, Parodies etc below) in 8vo gilt-stamped polished calf by Riviere & Son with..... Item #54607 More
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New York: Harper & Brothers | Harcourt, Brace, 1930, (1932, 1936). First edition of each of the three volumes in Dos Passos "U.S.A. Trilogy." THE 42ND PARALLEL (Harper & Bros., 1930): spine label darkened and a little rubbed, light outlines from old tape on endpapers; otherwise very good or better..... Item #53999 More
Edinburgh: W. Sutherland, 1823. First edition. Includes the "Dramatis Personae," presumably from the Caledonian Theatre perfomance, and the play itself but not any music. Illustrated with twelve unattributed hand-colored plates, including the frontis. Cruikshank bibliographer Albert M. Cohn's copy with his bookplate on front pastedown, above which he's penciled, "of..... Item #54555 More
Middletown, Conn: Robin Price, 1998. Number 43 of 150 copies SIGNED BY BOTH THE ARTIST AND THE PRINTER. Designed, edited and printed letterpress on a Vandercook 219 press by Robin Price, with woodcuts by Keiji Shinohara, a CD of the poet's digitally remastered reading located in a well inside the..... Item #55886 More
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. First edition. ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES of his second book and first to be hardbound. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY EVERSON TO HIS FRIEND AND OYEZ PRESS FOUNDER ROBERT HAWLEY, "for Bob Hawley/ very happy to inscribe this copy..... Item #55619 More
New York: The Vanguard Press, (1934). First edition. INSCRIBED but we don't not know to whom. Long, hand written, filling pastedown and front end paper, also signed on next blank. "Here are some of my first stories, written between 1927 and 1934." then discussion about the titles of the stories..... Item #54602 More
New York: Random House, (1938). First edition, limited issue. Number 44 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Faulkner. One of his smaller limitations. Originally issued in clear acetate without a slipcase. Endpapers darkened at hinges as often seen (offset from the binding materials), spine mellowed from deep red to..... Item #56030 More
No-place: No-publisher, (1982). First edition. Twelve SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS, each one on 11 x 14" paper with all but one image measuring a little over 8.5 x 11.5" (image of Kaufman is 7 x 9"). Each one SIGNED BY FELVER on front at lower right corner just beneath the image and..... Item #71728 More
New York and London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1915. First edition [Harvey A49]. "A lively, personal, and extremely persuasive indictment of modern Prussianism" (Daily Telegraph). INSCRIBED on the half-title page, "For George Keating / Ford Madox Ford." After Ford's heart attack in 1931 left him broke, Keating offered to pay his..... Item #53793 More
New York / London: John Lane / Bodley Head, 1915. First edition, American issue. One of his most famous and most scarce works, a novel set before World War I chronicling the tragic lives of two couples using intricate flashbacks. Provenance, R. P Blackmur, poet, critic and teacher, with his..... Item #53152 More
Alexander King. New York: Claude Kendall, (1931). First edition. Tales of the unexplained, recorded by Ford, with an introduction by Tiffany Thayer, founder of the "Fortean Society" which once counted among its followers such literary luminaries of the day as Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Ben Hecht, Alexander Woollcott and H...... Item #54762 More