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.....
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: Faber & Faber, 1939. First edition, trade issue in an unusual, apparently hitherto-unrecorded binding, probably produced as an early review copy, advance reading copy, or one-off copy produced for a trade show. [iv], 628 pp. Bound in publisher's maroon paper-covered boards with yellow lettering, tan topstain, fore and bottom.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition, first printing in correct dust jacket. Signed by Ezra Jack Keats, inscribed to book designer Jane Byers Bierhorst, "with whom its been pleasant working." They would collaborate on later books. 34 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with white and red lettering.....
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.....
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition, first state; number 126 of 1,000 numbered copies; with stamped number 5mm tall, the "a" in the word "water" missing on page 22 and "mountain" spelled correctly on page 41. In publisher's black cloth over flexible boards, lettered in gilt on the.....
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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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: Random House, 1958. First edition, first printing. Signed by Truman Capote on the front free end paper. Bound in publisher's canary yellow cloth with gilt titles blocked in black on the spine. Near Fine with spine stamping rubbed, backstrip faintly creased and pages toned. In a Near Fine.....
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2000. 2000-2017. 124 Volumes [100 titles + five multi-volume deluxe sets, and duplicates of several titles, several labeled AP for Artist's Proof.] A complete run of the celebrated series, which features 100 uniformly sized books of various colors, giving each artist a 16-page canvas to exhibit.....
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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.....