San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1985. First edition. Copy 41 of 126 copies in the limited edition. Signed by Bowles on the colophon in black ink. 92 pp. with bibliography, author bio and colophon. Fine in acetate wraps. Wraps have a small tear on front panel and another on the back..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First edition, limited issue, #157 of 300 copies signed by Paul Bowles on page following copyright page. 417, [5] pp. Purple cloth backstrip and boards. Bottom edge a little rubbed, else Fine in publisher's unprinted acetate jacket. The chilling, existential short stories of the..... More
Sauk City, WIS. Arkham House, 1947. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ray Bradbury on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light shelf wear to cloth. Pages toned; endsheets offset from binder's glue and lightly foxed. In a Near Fine..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Limited edition signed by Ray Bradbury, first printing thus. Copy #407 of 500 in the 40th Anniversary edition. Fine and unread. 190, [1] pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering, housed in original slipcase lettered in gilt. More
Newport Beach: The Gold Stein Press, 1998. 17pp. Copy #30 of a limited 50 copies, designed and produced by Joseph D'Ambrosio, signed by Ray Bradbury on the last page, and by D'Ambrosio on the limitation statement. Letterpress printed text mounted in thick pages, adorned with hand-made collage decorations, bound in..... More
New York: The Kulchur Foundation, 1971. First edition. Signed by Joe Brainard on the title page, and inscribed to Harvey [Donegan.] Bound in publisher's salmon wraps printed in dark blue. Near Fine with light soiling, light rubbing light toning to wraps, light reading crease to front cover. A collection of..... More
San Francisco: The Communication Company, 1967. First edition, first printing. Signed with a small drawing of a fish by Richard Brautigan on the title page. Mimeographed sheets bound in publisher's yellow wraps printed in black. Very Good with some creasing to wraps and thumbing to pages. Brautigan's fifth book, and..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1964. First edition. Signed by the author on the half title page, dated July 7, 1979, Pine Creek, Montana, where he resided at the time. Near fine in a very good or better dust jacket, lightly toned, lightly edge-worn with several short tears. The author's first..... More
San Francisco: The White Rabbit Press, 1958. First edition, first printing. Signed by Richard Brautigan on the title page. Hand-sewn red wrappers in a printed parchment cover. Near Fine with trivial stain to front cover near spine and top page corners lightly bent. Richard Brautigan's second book of poetry, published..... More
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1968. First trade edition, first printing. Signed by Richard Brautigan on the first page. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wraps. Near Fine or better, with light shelf wear. In this novel Brautigan does post-apocalyptic science fiction in his own unique way, which is to say..... More
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1968. First edition, signed limited issue. Copy number 14 of 50, signed by Richard Brautigan, and one of the author's scarcest items with the smallest limitation. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth-backed boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very Fine. In this novel Brautigan does..... More
San Francisco: Four Seasons, 1968. First edition, signed limited issue. Copy number 46 of 50, signed by Richard Brautigan. Bound in publisher's original orangish cloth-backed boards with spine lettered in gilt. [xii], 108, [2] pp. Fine. A sharp copy. Poems by the late author of Trout Fishing in America. Readers..... More
San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1967. First edition, first printing, issued as "Writing 14" and preceding later editions published by Delta. Signed by Richard Brautigan on the first blank page. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with light shelf wear, light soiling to bottom textblock edge near spine. A...... More
New York: The Frederick Stokes Company, 1930. First edition, limited issue. Copy 252 of 500 signed by author on tipped-in sheet before title page. 463 pp. Red and white cloth lettered in gilt, silver endsheets repeating jacket design. Fine in lightly scratched and edge-worn silver foil dust jacket, Very Good+..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1945. First edition. Signed by Gwendolyn Brooks on the half title, inscribed " For Terry! (For a Distinct appreciator of Poetry!) Sincerely, Gwendolyn Brooks October 12, 1990." vi, 57, [1] pp. Publisher's black cloth with brown stamping lettered in gilt. Near Fine with a...... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987. First edition. Signed by the author, inscribed to the son of OSS and CIA chief William "Wild Bill" Donovan, "For David Donovan, a good friend over many years for the biography of your father's colleague! All the best, [signed] Tony Brown, January 1988." Brown..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1948. First edition signed by author on front free endpaper. 224 pp. Crimson cloth lettered in black. Very Good+ with boards worn along edges, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with small chips at head and tail, rubbing and wear along folds, not too..... More
Miami Beach: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1986. First edition. Copy 75 of 400 copies, signed by Willeford. Very slight bump to top board else Fine in Fine dust jacket. An uncommon pairing of Miami Blues author Charles Willeford with seven pulp stories of popular but critically-neglected author Fredric Brown. More
New York: The Dial Press, 1969. Inscribed by Brown on half title in the early '70s: "See it's no between: you're either free or you are a slave." It is the signature phrase of Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, currently serving a life sentence. Also..... More
New York: Cowles Book Company, 1970. Signed by Buck on the half title. First edition, second printing. 218pp. Leather-backed ream-colored cloth boards,lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light foxing to cloth and very slight lean to spine, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear near foot, a...... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. First edition. Number four of a limited 99 copies signed by Charles Bukowski. In publisher's string-bound brown wraps printed in black. Fine. As the title suggests, this contains two poems by Charles Bukowski, "Family, Family," and "A Little Atomic Bomb." More
Norristown, PA: Blackrose Editions, 1983. Copy 45 of 150 numbered copies issued along with 26 lettered copies; signed by Bukowski in black ink on back cover with heart-shaped sun, dog, flower (?), and lil' Buk doodles. 10.5" x 15" Large single sheet folded to create four pages. First book publication..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First edition. Signed by Charles Bukowski, inscribed, "poems - what the hell," to a former owner in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's second state red wraps with a white title label on the front cover. Very Good, wraps worn (especially at yapped..... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. First edition. Signed limited edition. Number 59 of 226 copies signed by Charles Bukowski and handbound by Earle Gray. Title label on spine is slightly lifting, and there are several small, faint marks to textblock edge, though still Fine in publisher's lightly rubbed acetate..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First edition. #32 of limited 50 numbered copies with an original painting by Bukowski tipped in, signed by him on the limitation page, and hand bound by Earle Gray. Fine. In original acetate jacket with detached chip to back panel. An important poetry collection..... More