New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., (1956). First edition of his scarce second novel. Basis for the 1962 movie, “Lonely Are the Brave,” starring Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau. A presentable ex-library copy with extensive professional repair. Endpapers replaced; color touched up where tape and labels were removed..... Item #72129 More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. Illustrated with 31 haunting black-and-white photographs by Evans. “...a violent and beautiful book; a supremely moving picture of one stratum of American life and of the effect of this life on two sensitive observers.”—from the dust jacket flap. 8vo silver-stamped black cloth boards; 471..... Item #72066 More

London: Faber & Faber, (1930). First edition. One of only 1,000 copies. As issued in 8vo plain white, stiff paperwraps with blue dust jacket lettered in black and bordered in red on front only affixed at spine. Publisher's "Poetry" prospectus/flyer advertising this and two other titles laid in. About very..... Item #72306 More

London: Calder and Boyars, (1967). First edition in English, limited issue. Number 93 of only 100 numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. (Note: limitation unstated and not in Federman & Fletcher). Illustrated with photographs by Ilse Buhs from the January 1966 production at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. Small 8vo buckram..... Item #72371 More

(Paris): Editions de Minuit, (1951-1953). First edition of each, in the original French. A set of limited deluxe copies printed on finer paper before the regular copies in the first edition. The three novels in his trilogy later published in English as MOLLOY (1955), MALONE DIES (1956), and THE UNNAMABLE..... Item #72704 More

New York: Grove Press, (1957). First U.S. edition of his first published novel. Number 52 of 100 specially bound copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. 8vo gilt-stamped quarter brown cloth; flecked paper boards with small circular design stamped in gray and pink on lower front corner; 282 pages. Near fine with spine..... Item #72362 More

New York: Grove Press, [1957]. First U.S. edition of his first regularly published book. Number 5 of 250 specially bound and numbered copies SIGNED BY BECKETT. 8vo gilt-stamped quarter brown cloth; flecked paper boards with small circular design stamped in gray and pink on lower front corner; 72 pages. Near..... Item #72369 More

(Stamford, CT): New Overbrook Press, 1984. First edition thus: Number 73 of 250 copies SIGNED BY BECKETT (beneath the colophon) AND KLABUNDE. The first and only publication of the New Overbrook Press, a reissue of Beckett's short story about a place "where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost..... Item #72690 More

[New York]: Limited Editions Club, (1989). First edition. Unifies three novellas in a trilogy "which describe old age (Company), the ending of the world (Ill Seen Ill Said), and the creation of life (Worstward Ho)--John Calder, essay in the Monthly Newsletter (laid in). Number 156 of 550 numbered copies SIGNED..... Item #72689 More

[Chicago: circa 1986]. Brooks’ letter is written in red ink on the lower third of the recto and upper half of the verso of Henderson’s typed letter dated August 20, 1986 (her response is undated). Her letter reads in part, “I, too, hope the package your aunt sent you will..... Item #72134 More

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

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. First edition. Burke's scarcest book with reportedly only 500 copies of the hardcover issue printed. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new. Item #72098 More

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1969). First U.S. edition, preceding the UK. INSCRIBED BY CALVINO on front endpaper, "for Sam Goldberg/ Italo Calvino." Short story collection translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Published in the UK in 1970 as TIME IN THE HUNTER. Fine in fine dust jacket..... Item #72304 More