New York: Atheneum, 1970. First edition. (Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with no later printings indicated.) Red cloth with black lettering. Very Good with tape ghosts to boards and endpapers, rubbing to edges, slight bowing to boards, contents clean and unmarked. In Very Good+ unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket with... More about A Story A Story: An African Tale Retold and Illustrated by
Berkeley: Parnassus Press, 1965. First edition. Signed by both author and illustrator on copyright page. Gray cloth with black cloth. Fine in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with wear along top edge, dulling to spine panel. A very nice copy, signed by the 1961 Caldecott-winning illustrator Nicolas Sidjakov. More about Harlequin & Mother Goose: or The Magic Stick
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American edition. [vi], 154, [1] pp. Original tan cloth with maroon spine lettering, red topstain. Near Fine, lacking the dust jacket. Corners bumped, offsetting from bookplate to front paste down and front free endpaper, name written on front free endpaper. A nice copy... More about The Stranger
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition. Original orange cloth with blue lettering, black topstain. A Good+ copy with grubby rubbed and lightly stained cloth, small nick in spine, wear along edges, stain to fore edge, a few faint corner creases and tiny stains to contents. No jacket. The... More about The Big Sleep
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. [viii], 267, [1] pp. Original gray cloth with black and blue stamping. A Very Good+ or better copy with a worn head, toned spine cloth, a few minor blemishes and creased corners to contents. Lacking jacket. An attractive copy of the classic... More about The Maltese Falcon
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. First edition, first printing; one of 650 copies of the first issue. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with slight lean and fading to spine. Remnants of dust jacket tipped in and partially removed... More about The Pastures of Heaven
St. Louis: The C.V. Mosby Company, 1941. First edition. 298 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Hinge starting at front else Near Fine with age-toned contents, slightly bumped corners.Strong gilt. Perhaps the definitive work on psychopathy (often generally referred to today as "sociopathy") from an American psychiatrist whose work influenced... More about The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Reinterpret the So-Called Psychopathic Personality
New York: The Orion Press, 1960. First American edition. xvii, [2], 233, [1] pp. Black cloth decorated in yellow, red, white, and gray. Very Good+ with bowing to boards, in Near Fine dust jacket with light wear, unclipped. An unfinished novel written in the late 18th and early 19th centuries... More about The Saragossa Manuscript: A Collection of Weird Tales
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black and white Art Deco style boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and top and bottom edges of covers. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket... More about The Sound and the Fury
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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First edition. Deluxe issue; one of eight copies signed by Charles Bukowski and marked "Presentation Copy." Bound in publisher's printed lilac paper-covered boards over mottled multi-colored cloth spine; in publisher's unprinted dust jacket. Fine, in Near Fine dust jacket with spine lightly toned and... More about In the Morning and at Night and in Between [A New Year's Greeting from Black Sparrow Press
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2002. First edition. Limited edition, one of 110 copies for private distribution none of which were for sale; this copy is unnumbered and out of series. Near Fine, in a Near Fine publisher's white slipcase, which is lightly soiled and wit ha touch of shelf-wear... More about Bukowski
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... More about Cold Dogs in the Courtyard
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First edition. Copy #38 of limited 200 numbered copies signed by Charles Bukowski. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards over plum cloth spine. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with toning to the spine and light shelf wear. Illustrated by the author. More about You Kissed Lilly
New York: 0 to 9, 1967. First edition, first printing. Mimeographed sheets printed on rectos only bound in publisher's side-stapled thick white wraps printed in black. Very Good with toning; light soiling and light wear to wraps. Saroyan's minimal poems, meditations often consisting of a single word. More about Coffee Coffee
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's rubbed grey-blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Very Good or better, with gilt stamping vert sharp, light rubbing to cloth at extremities and front inner hinge slightly tender. A lovely copy of a book not typically... More about The People of the Abyss
New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. First American edition. (Full number line on copyright page.) [viii], 177 pp. Original half cloth with gilt spine lettering. A Fine unread copy with tight binding, in an attractive Near Fine dust jacket with creasing to front flap, small faint dampstain to verso only. An excellent... More about The Alchemist
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. First American edition. [viii], 305 pp. Original cloth, yellow endpapers and topstain. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket, a hint of shelf wear, tiny smudge to back panel. A very neat, clean copy of the author's first book. More about The Collector
Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1857. First edition. 239 pp. Original pale blue wraps over string binding. Very Good with fragile front and rear wraps present, rear wrap detached, name written on front wrap, chipping along edges of wraps, wear to bottom corner of prelims, offsetting to contents. An uncommon document... More about Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Opinions of the Judges...
London: Andre Deutsch. First British edition. 239 pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt.Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A little offsetting to endpapers. Jacket is bright and attractive. An excellent copy of the author's sixth novel; he's best known for his baseball novels such as Bang the Drum Slowly... More about Wake Up, Stupid
New York: The Viking Press, 1978. First edition, first printing. Signed by Arthur Miller on the front free endpaper. Biopredation to boards and textblock at edges, otherwise Near Fine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear. A nice copy. More about The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First edition, limited issue signed by Bukowski in black beside a doodle of himself (a nice extra touch) on rear colophon, numbered in red, one of only 400 such copies. Original boards with blue cloth backstrip, title label. 125 pp. Fine in unprinted acetate... More about The Movie: Barfly
Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1912. First edition, first printing. Publisher's ribbed dark maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with spine lightly faded and cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities. Staple puncture to front free endpaper. Written while serving as a diplomat, Johnson originally opted to publish this book... More about The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First edition, first printing. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in gilt, ruled in blue. Very Good. Cloth soiled and spine-sunned with light wear at the spine ends. Rear endpapers a bit soiled and with previous owner inkless emboss. The author's first of two novels, which... More about Quicksand
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976. First edition, first printing. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page. Near Fine with lean to spine, light edge wear, light foxing to pages. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing at spine extremities; toning and publisher's label to front flap. More about The Broken Spoke
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933. First edition. Number 193 of a limited 360 copies, signed by William Faulkner. Publisher's linen cloth stamped in black, with two labels illustrated by Lynd Ward on the front cover. Near Fine, with light soiling and light toning to cloth and pages... More about A Green Bough