London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. Uncorrected galley proofs of the first edition. 136 unbound sheets printed on rectos only plus one final blank sheet; without illustrations. Textual pages dated 23.11.87 at tops; question marks in the heading of the Contents page indicate no printer had been appointed yet; chapter pages on.....
Chicago: Literary Times - Cyfoeth Publications, 1965. First edition. Copy number 3 of 5 [from an edition of 500] of Bukowski's private "Author's Edition," with a typescript signed by Bukowski stapled in at the center. According to Aaron Krumhansl, "As late as the early 1970s Bukowski still retained multiple copies.....
Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. First edition, first state of plates and text. (Bienvenue pp. 4-5.) Bound in publisher's full green cloth, boards and spine decoratively stamped in green and red; "B" binding with publisher's name in red at foot, full "O" in as last letter. This is the.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition, first printing, first state with "fool Red Cross woman" on page 9. Signed by Ken Kesey on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in yellow. Near Fine with toning to pages. In a Very Good first state.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959. First edition. Presentation copy signed by Sylvia Beach on the half title, inscribed to the husband of her childhood friend Carlotta Welles Briggs, "For my old friend (see illustration [effaced word "page"] no 10) Jimmy Briggs with much love from Sylvia October 4th.....
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New York: El Saturn Records, 1985. Signed by Sun Ra on front wrap in red ink. Former owner's faint notation below that "Autographed at Jerry Lind Hall, Oakland, Dec 4, '85." Stapled wraps. Very Good+ with small white/rubbed spot on front wrap bottom, pencil "(0)" symbol on back wrap, light.....
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1926. [xiv], 159, [3, blank] pp. Publisher's pink paper over boards with blue cloth spine, pink paper spine label. First American edition, limited issue. One of 200 numbered copies in the large paper issue printed on Japanese vellum, signed by both A. A......
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1982. One of only 15 hors de commerce copies matching the limited edition of 150. Signed by artist on the title-page and the printer, Andrew Hoyem, on the colophon. [64] pp. Illustrated with 29 woodblock prints. 11.5" x 15.25" Uncovered oak boards decorated with lightning-bolt.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890. First edition, first printing, first issue. Title pages dated 1890, the word "Psy-chology" hyphenated on ads pages facing title pages; definitive errors present on p. 10 of Vol. 1 ("the seat of intellectual power") and p. 101 in Vol. 2, "object of some.....
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Ads dated September 1854; no priority as per BAL 20106. Map has faint S.W. Chandler & Bro. imprint. 357, 8 [ads] pp. with map facing p. 307. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, original yellow endpapers. A Fine copy with.....
London: The Egoist Ltd., 1917. First edition. 40 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps printed in black. From the library of Modernist poet and publisher John Rodker, with laid in typed correspondence between Rodker's daughter Joan and a British bookseller regarding the sale of some of Rodker's books, with an.....
London: F.B. Kitto, 1869. First British edition. Inscribed by A.K. Tolstoy to "C. Heath Esq. from his sincere friend the author" on half-title, but not signed. Charles Heath was an English language and literature instructor at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Saint Petersburg, who later became one of the tutors.....
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