San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971. First edition thus, revised with a new introduction. One of 275 copies signed by Allen Ginsberg on the title page, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem on hand-made paper, and bound in cloth with a drawing by Robert La Vigne. Fine. A beautiful production of... More about Howl for Carl Solomon
New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First edition stated, first printing. First issue, bound in publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine, with fading to spine, light wear at tips. Pages toned, with a small stain to the fore edge. A lovely copy, uncommon to... More about The Fountainhead
New York: Thomas Hamilton, 1863. First edition. 288 pp. Publisher's dark brown ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original yellow endpapers. A Good copy with significant chipping to head cloth, tear to spine edge with exposed area of back gutter, worn extremities, small stain to front board, back hinge starting... More about The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements
London: William Heinemann, 1928. First edition. [viii], 347 pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. A Fine copy in an unfaded, unclipped dust jacket with light blue line of offsetting mostly visible on verso, else Fine. An attractive copy. More about Swan Song
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1967. First edition. 317, [1] pp. Wraps. Very Good with foxing to wraps and edges, a little musty, but square with no reading creases to spine. The bestselling autobiography of Robert Beck, covering his days as a pimp. A true-crime classic; the literary equivalent of a.... More about Pimp: The Story of My Life
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. First edition. [x], 193 pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Near Fine, a little dust-soiled, gift inscription on front free endpaper, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with darkened spine panel, a little soiling. A novel composed of sketches of family... More about The Laughter of My Father
New York: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Co. Inc., 1944. First edition. 207 pp. Original bluish green cloth with black lettering on spine. Fine with tiny name stamp on front free endpaper, bright contents, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a little wear at head, tail, and... More about Quoth the Raven
San Francisco: Oracle Co-operative Publishing Co., 1967. Vol. 1 No. 10. 32 pp. Folded newsprint sheets with variously-colored inks. October issue. Very Good, wear at extremities, a little foxing to cover, fold a bit rubbed, pages toned with age. A beautifully-designed underground paper from Haight-Ashbury at the height of... More about The City of San Francisco Oracle Vol. 1 No. 10
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. First edition, third printing. Signed by Rose Wilder Lane on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Fine, with hinge over-opened at the title page, light softening to cloth at spine ends. In a Very Good unclipped dust... More about Free Land
New York: New American Library, 1966. Signed limited edition. Seven hundred copies in the limited edition were signed and numbered by the author. The 700 copies sold very quickly, and the publisher issued an additional 300 copies, signed but unnumbered as found here. Previous owner name to front free endpaper... More about Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
The Fountain Press and The Hogarth Press: New York and London, 1929. First edition, large paper issue, copy number 399 of a limited 492 signed by Virginia Woolf in purple ink. Publisher's original red cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on spine. Very Good, cloth unevenly sunned, lightly worn... More about A Room of One's Own
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by author as Richard Hooker on the title page with quote marks around his name; Richard Hooker is the pseudonym of Dr. Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. Near Fine, with light edge wear, toning to spine ends, small evidence... More about Mash
Tucson: Moon Pony Press, 1990. First edition. [iv], 27 pp. Tall gray wrappers with cover design by Heather Green, lettered in crimson. Very Good with numbers 36-15-77 written in pen on back cover, bump to top edge, spine a little sunned, head a little worn. More about History of Desire
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First edition, cloth issue. Signed by Ashbery on the title page. 63, [1] pp. Publisher's tan cloth lettered in black, marigold endpapers. Tiny scuff to front board, else Fine in Near Fine rubbed and very slightly spine sunned unclipped jacket. An early collection... More about Rivers and Mountains
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First edition. Signed by Ginsberg on title page, dated 8/23/94. xi, [ii], 89 pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with boards slightly bowed, a little foxing and wear to edges, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, slightly toned. More about White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. xiii, 111 pp. Original quarter cloth, gilt title label. Very Good+, title label well-rubbed and oxidized as is typical, tiny tear to head cloth, offsetting to front free endpaper. In Good unclipped dust jacket with a 1.25" chip at foot, smaller one... More about The Black Christ & Other Poems
London: Constable: The Book Society, 1956. Inscribed by author on title page, "Remember Always the Precious Heritage of Freedom. [signed] Slavomir Rawicz Apr. [?] 1960." [iv], 240, [1, map] pp. Original navy cloth lettered in silver. First thus. (States on copyright page, "This edition issued on first publication by the... More about The Long Walk
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper, "To Betty -- With greatest gratitude and the friendliest good wishes. -- [signed] Gwendolyn Brooks December 23, 1949 (-Merry Christmas!)." x, 60 pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with some offsetting... More about Annie Allen
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. First edition. Signed by co-author Stanley Engerman on front free endpaper. xviii, 286 pp. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Edges lightly foxed, else Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, light shelf wear, tiny nick to fore edge of back panel. Two... More about Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. First edition, trade cloth issue. 202, [3] pp. Paper covered boards with black cloth backstrip, red paper label. Near Fine with edge rubbing, lacking acetate jacket. Bukowski's last novel, a tongue-in-cheek detective mystery. More about Pulp
New York: New American Library, 1966. First edition. (Perinn A 7.) ix, 309, [1] pp. Original black boards with green spine cloth, silver lettered. Near Fine with sunned head, former owner's name on paste down, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, chipped and creased at head, a little rubbed. A.... More about Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
New York: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First edition, first printing stated. Near Fine with light shelf wear and several creased page corners. In a Very Good+ un-clipped first state dust jacket, with a white border around the image on the rear panel, and with light rubbing, light edge wear, and... More about Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. First British edition, first printing. Publisher's pale green cloth with titles stamped in maroon on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Good or better. Cloth is lightly soiled, sunned at edges and spine, with boards bumped at corners and along top edge. Foxing to endsheets, bookseller... More about Nineteen Eighty-Four
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition, first printing with 1942 listed on the title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in black; lacking the dust jacket. Good, with cloth soiled and rubbed through at front spine joint and tips. Previous owner name to front free end paper, with... More about West with the Night
Mount Vernon: The Golden Eagle Press, 1935. First trade edition, one of 900 unnumbered copies. Oblong, bound in publisher's beige cloth with titles stamped in red, all page edges black. Very Good with toning and soiling to cloth; toning to pages. The book's title is directed at the list of... More about No Thanks