New York: Avon Books, 1959. First US Paperbound Edition. Paperback. Pocket paperbound book. 349 pp. First US paperbound edition of Behan's best known work, a memoir. A well-thumbed copy in very good condition. Should be handled with care. This copy has been nicely INSCRIBED by Behan to a fellow writer..... More
Belfast and London: Blackstaff Press and Jonathan Cape, 1980. First UK edition. Hardcover. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 152 pp. A handsome near fine example in price-intact dustwrapper. The author's second book. SIGNED by Mac Laverty on the title page. Nice copy. More
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1956. First edition. Paperback. Slender stapled wrappers. Foreword by Bell I. Wiley. Collects papers read at a session of the twnety-first annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Memphis, Tennessee, November 10, 1955. 29 pp. A very good example. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's third book, a novel set in the world of rock music. A fine copy in near fine price intact dustwrapper. One of the nicer examples of this title we have seen. Often the jacket is found quite..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound 8vo with clear acetate wrapper. 158 pp. Selections from Stein's writings edited by Robert Bartlett Haas. A fine copy in clear acetate and housed in a decorated hard slipcase. This is Copy #10 of only 60 specially bound copies each..... More
London: W. H. Allen, 1977. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo in dustwrapper. 410 pp. First UK edition of this novel and source for the film of the same name starring Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson. Paper lightly tanned from age else a near fine copy in clipped, but otherwise near..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 279 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Stated first edition. Some offsetting to endpapers. A well-thumbed, but still very good example in very good price-intact dustwrapper. Part travelogue, part musical analysis. More
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 178 pp. Stated first edition. A gorgeous fine copy in fine price-intact dustwrapper. Ozick has SIGNED this copy and dated her signature in the year of publication. More
London: Picador, 1997. First UK edition. Hardcover. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. A 308 pp novel. First printing with complete number row on the copyright page. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Author's first novel. A handsome fine copy in dustwrapper. Wrapper has a E17.85 price sticker afixed to..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. First American edition. Cloth. Clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 161 pp. Stated first American edition. Translated into English by Paul Blackburn. A novel by the author of Hopscotch. Light spotting to cloth covers. Overall a handsome very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper... More
New York: MacMillan Company, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Tall, narrow plastic comb-bound book. Unpaginated. The unrevised, uncorrected proofs of Algren's "Being a guidebook to the seamier sides of New York City, Inner London, Paris, Dublin, Barcelona, Seville, Almeria, Istanbul, Crete and Chicago, Illinois". General light cover wear, else a sound..... More
New York: Young Scott Books, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong illustrated hardbound book in matching dustwrapper. The authors take on the subject of the Earth's rotation and the notions of day and night. Illustrated by Gorey. A handsome near fine copy in price-intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by Gorey on the title..... More
New York: Young Scott Books, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong illustrated hardbound book in dustwrapper. Unpaginated book illustrated by Gorey. In the reinforced library binding. Faint age spotting to top edge else a handsome near fine example in a fine price-intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by Gorey on the title page... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Small oblong hardbound volume in dustwrapper. Unpaginated. First trade edition published simultaneously with a limited signed edition of 250 copies. One of Gorey's perplexing, but enjoyable illustrated tales. A very good or better copy in price-intact dustwrapper. SIGNED by Gorey on the..... More
France: Les Editions De Minuit, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Slender, narrow bound wrappers. 66 pp. Text in French. First French trade edition. In handsome very good condition. More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. First American edition. Cloth. Clothbound octavo in hard slipcase. Issued without dustwrapper. 176 pp. Translation by Andree Conrad. One of 200 copies hand-numbered and SIGNED. A fine copy. Lovely fine press edition. More
New York: grove Press, 1969. First edition. Cloth. Cloth octavo in dustwrapper. 190 pp. Stated first printing. A handsome very good plus copy in gorgeous dustwrapper. With numerous black and white phtographs from the production. With contributions by Samuel Beckett, John Lennon and others. An erotic entertainment... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 245 pp. Stated first edition. A collection of stories culled from the early years of publishing in The Paris Review Magazine. Introduction by William Styron. A very good copy in about very good dustwrapper which..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound octavo in dustwrapper. 349 pp. Stated first edition. A compendium of offerings from the Village Voice Newspaper. Very good indeed in two-tone cloth binding in a handsome very good plus dustwrapper. Uncommon thus. More
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound octavo. 294 pp. First edition of Steinbeck's second book. Light offsetting to the endpapers else a clean and well-bound copy. Very sturdy. There is some fade to edges of the front and rear panel and more substantial fade and..... More
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966. Reprint. Cloth. Clothbound octavo in dustwrapper. 360 pp. Reprint edition of this early Lawrence title with a new preface by Harry T. Moore. A handsome very good copy in dustwrapper. More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound book in clear acetate wrapper. An 87 pp play by Oates. Illustrated with photographs. One of 350 SIGNED copies. A near fine example in badly chipped clear acetate wrapper. More
New York: Atheneum, 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. A 312 pp nove by this award-winning poet. Second printing. Originally published in 1957. Remainder dot to lower edge else a handsome very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Truman Capote blurb to the front cover... More
No Place: Sidney E. Porcelain, 1955. First edition. Paperback. Slender stapled booklet. An eleven page story by Himes entitled Friends. Published as UNUSUAL SUPPLEMENT (from Vol. 1 #3 of Unusual Magazine). Supplement sold here separately. Small stain to the middle of the first page else a very good copy. Scarce..... More
London: Universal Edition, 1960. First edition. Paperback. Tall printed stapled wrappers. 24 pp. The full score in both English and German for this play by Beckett. Mild cover wear. A very good example. More
