New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. First edition of this collection of eight tales. Edges lightly rubbed and few small stains to lower front board; otherwise very good or better. Lacking the rare dust jacket. Item #54127 More
(West Warwick): Necronomicon Press, 1979. First edition. Edited by S. T. Joshi and Marc A. Michaud. Collects letters to the editor referencing Lovecraft and his works from the Weird Tales' column, "The Eyrie, from 1923 to 1953. Includes bibliography of Lovecraft's appearances in Weird Tales and list of contributors --..... Item #55980 More
(Sauk City): Arkham House, (1985). First edition. SIGNED BY LUPOFF on the title page. Meticulously researched historical novel concerning an offer made by the fascist sympathizer, George Sylvester Viereck, to Lovecraft, who he hired to write a political tract in exchange for the promised publication of a volume of Lovecraft's..... Item #71722 More
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975. First edition. A full-length study of Lovecraft written by one of his oldest and best friends. Fine in near fine dust jacket with few tiny skinned spots to spine. Item #55086 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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., no-date [circa 1936]. First U.S. edition, one of only 260 copies in the first-issue beige cloth bindin and bound up using sheets from the Faber 1936 first edition. Later U.S. issues were in three different bindings and used sheets imported in the 1950's [Armitage]..... Item #55227 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
Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2017. First edition. Printout of brief email correspondence with collector Allen Mears laid in. Manning speaks of his upcoming reading at the local library ("Across from our library is a run-down auto parts shop. A perfect setting.") and acknowledges that the drawing of a...... Item #55951 More
London: William Heinemann, (1930). First edition. Observations from his travels. Lacking the front free endpaper and rear blank otherwise very good with some offset from binding to endpapers. In about very good dust jacket showing some scattered foxing and general light soiling, a bit of fraying to spine ends and..... Item #54048 More
Melbourne, London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, (1950). First edition. SIGNED BY MAUGHAM on front end paper, "W. Somerset Maugham 30 January 1950 at Cap Ferrat." St.Jean Cap Ferrat in France was Maugham’s residence for much of his life. A hand list of his work compiled by and introduction by Raymond..... Item #55228 More
London: William Heinemann, (1944). First UK edition, preceded by the U.S. The story of a former American fighter pilot searching for meaning in his life. Basis for the 1946 movie starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, and Anne Baxter (who won an Oscar for her role), as well as the 1984..... Item #54201 More
London: William Heinemann, 1933. First edition. His last play before deciding to focus on other writing. Page edges foxed otherwise near fine in very good or better lightly foxed and soiled dust jacket slightly tanned at spine. Item #54212 More
London: Willliam Heinemann, (1946). First edition. Three months in the life of Niccolo Machiavelli. Minor shelfwear else fine in near fine dust jacket with rear panel lightly soiled and few tiny chips and small tears. Item #55908 More
Woodside, Amherst, and Berkeley: Heyeck Press et al, (1987 – 1999). First edition of each. Archive from the collection of Allen K. Mears. 10 bound volumes, including two magazines; 4-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, brief AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED, and printouts of 2 emails; as well..... Item #71932 More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1961). First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN, "For Paul, My maiden effort / with Best wishes" and signed "Larry McMurtry" with his usual scrawl. Light foxing to page edges and pastedowns and faint unavoidable offset from the binding to the endpapers..... Item #54149 More
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1970). First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN and first wife, "For Paul & Katie Zimmerman, This extremely long & probably Burdensome Book, with good wishes--- it's almost longer Than marriage" and signed very legibly "Larry McMurtry." Page edges foxed otherwise very..... Item #54147 More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1976. First edition. LETTER "F" OF ONLY 26 SIGNED LETTERED COPIES WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING TIPPED IN. (There were an additional 224 signed numbered copies issued without the drawing.) 8vo full black leather stamped in silver at spine. Foreword by Miller; illustrated with photographs by Jim..... Item #54177 More
Paris: Booster Publications, (1938). First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE PAINTER HILAIRE HILER, "To Hilaire Hiler -- monetary expert. Henry 10/38. Hiler, a fellow expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, tutored Miller in art, and he and Miller (together with William Saroyan) later authored a 1945 book on the subject called..... Item #54161 More
(Puerto Rico): Carrefour, (1939). First edition. Correspondence spanning the years 1935-1936 between Miller and Michael Fraenkel, the model for Boris in TROPIC OF CANCER. 12mo off-white paperwraps printed in red and black. Near fine in original tattered and worn glassine. Item #55981 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
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Paris: The Obelisk Press, (1953). First edition. Two volumes. Number 1,078 of 2000 numbered copies "printed for private circulation." Second book in his Rosy Crucifxion trilogy of SEXUS, PLEXUS and NEXUS, a fictionalized account his life in Brooklyn before leaving for Paris in 1928. Initially banned in the U.S. and..... Item #54373 More
Tokyo: Keimeisha, no-date [1953]. Tenth edition and first Japanese edition, with Japanese language colophon priced 1,200 Yen tipped to verso of rear endpaper (versus p.[357] as noted in Shifreen & Jackson). Red cloth boards lettered in yellow on front and spine; stylized elephant blind-stamped on rear board; colophon slip measuring..... Item #54992 More
Berkeley: Bern Porter, (1944). First U.S. edition of Miller's second book which was originally published in Paris in 1935; includes the first appearance of his "Preface to the Third Edition." Written to raise money for long-time friend Alfred Perles. 3.5 x 5.25" plain, stapled paperwraps in pale yellow dust jacket..... Item #54222 More
Berkeley: Bern Porter, (1944). First edition. Limited to 1150 copes. Selection of the letters from Miller to life-long friend Emil Schnellock. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of watercolors by Miller, including the frontis. Cover drawing by Miller. Quarto off-white paperwraps in stiff paper dust jacket printed in black. Near fine in..... Item #54142 More