LIMITED EDITION
TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC.
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1975. Special edition of his Pultizer Prize winner, published by the Franklin Library in their Pulitzer series. Illustrated with full-color reproductions of paintings by William Franklin Draper. Fine in decorated full leather with all page edges gilt and ribbon place marker. Nice production... Item #35929 More
BOOK OF FRIENDS: A Tribute to Friends of Long Ago; [Signed, lettered and with an original drawing signed by Miller tipped in].
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
AFTER THE FALL: A PLAY.
New York: Viking Press, (1964). First edition. One of 499 SIGNED numbered copies for sale. There were also 500 copies for private distribution. One of his most personal plays, a thinly veiled personal critique centered on Miller's recent divorce from Marilyn Monroe. The book is very good with spine slightly..... Item #54687 More
THE NIGHTMARE NOTEBOOK.
(New York): New Directions Book, (1975). First edition. Number 260 of 700 copies SIGNED BY MILLER. Facsimilie 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 and acetate dust jackets. Glassine..... Item #54139 More
IF ONLY I WERE BALD.
Leicester: Tony Savage, 1981. First edition. Number 23 of 100 copies SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Poems by Milligan illustrated with drawings by Graham. 16 pages on light blue handmade paper watermarked with Milligan's signature; handsewn into blue paperwraps stamped in black on front. The title is from the last line..... Item #55229 More
GREEN GRASS, BLUE SKY, WHITE HOUSE.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First edition. One of 200 SIGNED, NUMBERED copies. Fine in original acetate dust jacket. Item #35727 More
HERE IS EINBAUM.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First edition. One of 226 SIGNED, NUMBERED copies. Fine without dust jacket, as issued. Item #35410 More
BEDROCK.
No-place: Aralia Press, 1998. First edition. One of 160 unnumbered copies. INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winning poet Anthony Hecht, "To Tony Hecht with fond wishes for a prolific New Year. Tim Murphy 28 December 1998." Also with a four-line inscription on an early page signed "Timothy of Shrewsbury." Fine in..... Item #54404 More
CREATURES OF HABITAT: Poems of creatures, seeds, and their places with new translations of Native American songs.
[San Francisco]: Tangram, 1998. First edition. One of 170 unnumbered copies. His only book of poems. Nabham is an ecologist, ethnobotanist, and Ecumenical Franciscan. His work focuses primarily on Southwest plants and cultures, and he's considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the movement to save heirloom seeds..... Item #55391 More
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LUMINOUS: [VARIATION #1, HOT DOUG'S SAUSAGE SUPERSTORE].
(No-place: no-publisher, 2012). First edition. An artist's book exploring themes loosely related to food, eating and appetite via abstract narrative. NUMBER ONE OF EIGHT COPIES, each one being unique. INITIALED AND NUMBERED at base of rear pastedown, "2012 SN 1 of 8." Additionally THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED "For Allen Mears..... Item #55466 More
THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. First edition by this publisher. Translated by Thomas Commons. Printed at the Thistle Press. #753/1500. Illustrated by Arnold Bank. Issued unsigned. Designed by influential book designer Adrian Wilson, who began his career in printing at Untide Press while interned with William Everson, et al...... Item #55659 More
CAESAR: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard; and HUSSEIN: An Entertainment [Two volume set in slipcase].
(London): The British Library, (1999). First edition thus: O'Brian's first two books originally published under his given name "Richard Patrick Russ" in 1930 and 1938, respectively. With a new introduction by the author. Number 23 of 250 copies SIGNED BY O'BRIAN (there were an additional 750 copies unsigned). Quarter leather..... Item #54872 More
SONGS OF ENCHANTMENT.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1993). First edition, a hardcover limited-issue "reading copy." Limitation notice stamped on the title page with handwritten"122/200"; beneath which, THOUGH NOT CALLED FOR, this copy SIGNED BY OKRI and dated "20-11-93 / DC." Black cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; plain brown paper dust jacket with..... Item #54904 More
THE CHAIN OF MEMORY IS RESURRECTION
San Francisco: Margery Cantor Press, 1984. First edition. #19/200. Large (9.75" x 12") stitched letterpress pamphlet with a wrap-around jacket of Fabriano Roma paper stamped "charles olson" in brush script on the front panel. Title page calligraphy by Glen Epstein. 8-page poem, un-paginated. Designed and printed by Margery Cantor. Very..... Item #55630 More
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript
Weston, Mass. M & S Press, 1984. First edition thus. Edited by Daniel G. Siegel. A folio-sized volume, bound in quarter navy-blue "Niger goat" leather over marbled boards and housed in the original cloth-covered slipcase. Number 58 of 275 copies bound as such. (An additional 55 were bound in full..... Item #54670 More
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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
THE HONEST ACCOUNT OF A MEMORABLE LIFE: AN APOCRYPHAL GOSPEL
(Rocky Mount, NC): North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, (1994). First edition, limited issue. Number 520 of 750 SIGNED copies, this one INSCRIBED to the Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and his wife, "For Tony & Helen with love & hope from Reynolds." Fine in original burgundy cloth..... Item #53647 More
COUNTRY MOUSE, CITY MOUSE.
(Durham, NC: North Carolina Wesleyan College, 1981). First edition. Previously uncollected essay published by the Friends of the Library on the occasion of his reading, October 11, 1981. One of 500 copies (of which 50 were numbered and signed). Limited edition. In white, stapled paperwraps with photo-illustrated front cover. Near..... Item #46784 More
PROUD FLESH: Four Short Plays.
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1980. First edition. One of 250 SIGNED numbered copies. Fine in dust jacket. Item #32243 More
DOORS OPEN.
Gladestry: Scorpion Press, (2008). First edition, using sheets from the Orion trade edition, and published a week later, on September 25, 2008. Number 46 of 80 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. There were also 16 specially bound copies. Includes an appreciation by Denise Mina. Bound in dark blue quarter..... Item #46189 More
CHRISTOPH RANSMAYR: Presentation at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., on April 6, 1998.
Washington, D.C. (Embassy of Austria), 1998. First edition. Edited by Roswitha Novak. Number 154 of 333 copies SIGNED BY RANSMAYR. From the short-lived "New Literature from Europe" series of readings at the Library of Congress, Presentation copy with Embassy of Austria greeting card from the cultural attache of the Embassy..... Item #54813 More
AN EXPLANATION OF THE TWO VISIONS.
Leamington Spa, England: Sixth Chamber Press, 1985. First edition. SIGNED BY REDGROVE. This very limited edition is #4 of 6 special copies from a run of 56. Handmade paper. Redgrove, who died in 2003, was a British poet who also wrote prose, novels and plays. Item #55633 More
OF BOOKMEN & PRINTERS: A GATHERING OF MEMORIES.
Los Angeles, CA: Dawsons, 1989. First edition, limited issue. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Number 43 of 50 copies SIGNED BY RITCHIE AND POWELL and with binding and slipcase designed and hand produced by Joseph D'Ambrosio. Chapters on Jeffers, Zeitlin, Powell, Grabhorn, others. Fine, virtually as new. Interesting binding and..... Item #55843 More
LAGUNA VERDE IMPRENTA.
Los Angeles, CA: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1988. First edition, limited issue. Set and printed by hand on an Albion Press, one of 50 copies SIGNED BY RITCHIE. (WR# 27) bibliography of press 1975--1987. Two Jeffers items. Has errata sheet that is (WR# 28). New in a black paper slipcase. This..... Item #55856 More