San Francisco: James Linden, 1986. First edition. Designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. Number 17 of 50 numbered copies (of a total edition of 226), SIGNED BY SNYDER AND MUNDY. There were also 150 unsigned copies and 26 lettered copies. Snyder's broadside poem, "Tree Song," signed by him beneath..... Item #55387 More
(London: Turret Books / Steam Press, 1973). First edition. Number 30 of only 100 copies (of 1,000 in total) SIGNED by Steadman and Lucie-Smith. A six-line poem by Lucie-Smith illustrated by Steadman: "The virile rabbit has no use / For solitary self-abuse. / He copulates with dash and vim; /..... Item #53290 More
London: Turret Books, (1972). First edition. Number 66 of 100 SIGNED copies (of 1,000 copies in total). Poem by Smith and illustrations by Steadman and signed by both. Minor creasing otherwise bright and fine in stiff paperwraps (oblong, 8 x 10"). This copy also INSCRIBED by Smith to an old..... Item #53291 More
[Tucson: Furtherrr], 2015. First edition. A remarkable rendition in bronze of Ralph Steadman's iconic image of Hunter S. Thompson's most infamous character. ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES, numbered and signed by Steadman in the bronze. Approximately 22 inches high, 34 inches wide and 26 inches long, including wood base. San..... Item #54263 More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1978. First edition. One of 500 copies. Previously unpublished letters sent to his agent and lifelong friend, Elizabeth Otis, found in the 1978. Edited by Florian J. Shasky and Susan F. Riggs; introduction by Carlton A. Sheffield. Printed at the Plantin Press in..... Item #54094 More
Portland, Maine: Coyote Love Press, 1985. First edition. #191/300 as issued. Printed on Mohawk letterpress and sewn into green Fabriano wraps. Three beautiful woodcuts by Mary Azarian and a nice example of modern fine printing. His poems have appeared in The Sun magazine and the Progressive. An award-winning touring artist..... Item #55632 More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, (1917.). First edition. #264/300. Decorations by Frederic W. Goudy. Original beige cloth and pale blue boards, 6 x 8.5 inches, 54pp. Printed in 4 colors by Taylor & Taylor. Bound in light blue boards, linen spine, and paper label. [BCC #4]. Faded cover but..... Item #55635 More
Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press, 1978. First edition. Styron's tribute to Warren. Number 197 of 250 SIGNED copies (there were also 26 lettered copies). Black-and-white frontis photograph of Warren. Plain white heavy wraps and blue dust jacket with printed paper label. Fine. Item #54474 More
(New York: Random House, 1987). First edition and only edition. One of only 2,000 printed. Includes many authors and others with memories of Klopfer, who was Chairman Emeritus and co-founder of Random House. Styron's 3-page contribution is SIGNED by him (at the end of his piece). Fine in clear acetate..... Item #54417 More
No-place: Press de la Warr, 1988. First separate edition. Number 55 of 100 (of 126 total) SIGNED, numbered copies. A section from an unpublished novel Styron wrote in 1953 while living in Italy. Stringbound in plain paperwraps; in marbled paper dust jacket with printed label. Fine. Item #54481 More
Davidson, NC: Briarpatch Press, (1977). First edition. One of 350 copies SIGNED BY STYRON. His commencement address at the Episcopal college-preparatory school he attended for two years. Blue sewn printed paperwraps. Edges very slightly faded still fine. Item #54472 More
John Held. New York: Vanguard Press, (1930). First edition. Limited edition especially printed for the author's and publisher's friends, #33 of 117 numbered copies. SIGNED on page preceding title page. Very good in blue cloth binding with full-color cover art by John Held on paper affixed to the front. Corners..... Item #51389 More
(Soho: Privately Printed), [1954]. "Two Epigrams of Fealty...." was published by Gawsworthy ("King Juan" of Redonda) in an edition of 30 numbered copies sometime after Thomas's death in November 1953 for members of the "Redonda Court." It prints 2 short poems by Thomas: "Upon King Juan's Return from Stebbing" (2..... Item #56089 More
Stanford: James Ladd Delkin, 1946. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. INSCRIBED BY MILLER on front free endpaper, "To Joseph Whitnah, during a recess at Big Sur. Best of greetings. Henry Miller 9/1/46." Whitnah, a "re-write man" for the Oakland Tribune, compiled two books on California in the mid-1940's A...... Item #54179 More
[Washington DC]: 1949. First edition, limited issue. Program from Truman's second inauguration, SIGNED BY HARRY TRUMAN on May 13, 1967. One of an undesignated number of copies of the "Limited DeLuxe Edition," this being number 781 and signed by MELVIN D. HILDRETH, General Chairman of the Inaugural Committee, presumably as..... Item #53710 More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1979. First edition. A selection of "Talk of the Town" stories by Updike published in The New Yorker in the 1950s. One of 300 SIGNED numbered copies, this one designated "PRESENTATION COPY." Gray-and-blue patterned paper boards, gilt-lettered plum cloth spine. Mild tanning to edges otherwise fine..... Item #54798 More
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1984. First edition thus. SIGNED by Updike, with "special message" by him and illustrations by Michael Deas not in the trade edition. Basis for the movie of the same name starring Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon as the three repressed women who accidentally conjur what..... Item #54959 More
Holyoke, MA. Crossroads Press, 1993. First edition. A comic-book adaptation of Vachss's story by Lansdale illustrated by Gary Gianna; introduction by Barrett. Number 150 of 300 numbered copies SIGNED BY VACHSS, LANSDALE and BARRETT. Includes Vachss's story, Lansdale panel-by-panel "Comic Adaptation Script," and the comic itself. Black-and-white stapled paperwraps. Fine..... Item #55459 More
Champaign, Illinois: The Ceres Press, 1972. First edition. Van Duyn's fourth book, which followed her National Book Award-winner, TO SEE, TO TAKE. Poetic recollections from the perspective of her grandmother and in her grandmother's Germanic dialect. One of 300 copies hand printed and hand bound at the Distaff Bindery. This..... Item #54271 More
(Lexington, KY: Joe Petro III, 2004). First edition. "Vonnegut's searing and wry recounting [that] laid the foundation for his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five" (publisher Joe Petro). Prints Vonnegut's heartbreaking May 29, 1945, letter to his parents informing them he was no longer missing in action and recounting his capture and escape..... Item #53795 More
Sherman Oaks, Ca: Mixolydian Editions, 2006. First edition. The first book published by Wagener's Mixolydian Editions. SIGNED BY WAGENER, the author/publisher/ printer AND INSCRIBED on the colophon page "For Allen / With Best Regards / Richard Wagener / 1/15/07" This 5.5 x 10 inch tall book contains four full-page wood..... Item #55876 More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1966. First edition. One of 500 copies. Printed by Graham Mackintosh at The Greenwood Press. Bound in decorated boards. Includes mention of Robinson Jeffers, George Sterling, Jack London, Lincoln Steffens, et al. Illustrated with photographs. [BCC #122]. Good. Item #55661 More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1932. First edition. One of 310 SIGNED "large paper" copies. Very fine condition in acetate wrapper which we assume was added. We assumed it was not issued in a regular dust jacket but in either acetate or glassine, however we were informed by Charles Folcke that..... Item #36880 More
New York: Random House, (1985). First edition. Number 165 of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Published to celebrate his 80th birthday. Fine with a tiny touch of creasing at spine ends; in original, near fine slipcase. Issued without a dust jacket. Item #49619 More
New York: Random House, (1974). First edition. Number 206 of 300 SIGNED, numbered copies. Slight sunning to spine, otherwise near fine or better in original black paper-covered slipcase which is a little bumped and worn at corners (very slight paper loss at open edges). Issued without a dust jacket. Item #49045 More