Modern Literature / First Editions
Night Dogs
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the author's second book, a dark crime novel set in Seattle. A fine clothbound copy in fine price intact dustwrapper. Unread. This copy SIGNED by Anderson on title page. Highly recommended. Signed by Author. More
Writings of Ruth Benedict An Anthropologist At Work
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. First edition. Cloth. Very thick clothbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 583 pp. Biography of Benedict by her star pupil, Margaret Mead. Inked name to front pastedown else a beautiful near fine copy in dustwrapper. First edition stated of this important work. More
The Poet Assassinated
New York: The Broom Publishing Company, 1923. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Translated from the French with a Biographical Notice and Notes by Matthew Josephson. One of 1,250 hand numbered copies. A very good plus copy in pale blue boards with vellum spine. Unclipped dustwrapper shows wear and..... More
Color Of Time
New York: Zone, 1980. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 52 pp. Translation and introduction by Barbara Gerber. A play. This is a clean very good or better copy in printed and bound blue wrappers. Uncommon title. More
The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Four Books in Two Volumes)
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1954. First edition thus. Cloth. Four clothbound quartos contained in two hard slipcases. These volumes contain the sixty-five stories told by Shahrazade the Sultaness to divert Shahryar the Sultan from the execution of a vow he had made to avenge the disloyalty of his first Sultness..... More
Vada Nothing Personal Just Politics (Inscribed by Vada's Son); My Life in the Arkansas House and Senate
Mountain Home, AR: Sheids Corporation, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Small hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 250 pp. A memoir of Vada Sheid and her life in the Arkansas statehouse. A fine copy in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by Vada Sheid's son, Richard. More
Waterscapes, Landscapes
New York: Glenn Horowitz, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this book of paintings by Gornik with introduction by Kurt Vonnegut. One of 100 SIGNED copies by Gornik and Vonnegut. A fine copy in blue cloth in fine slipcase. No dustwrapper, as issued. Signed by Author. More
Why I Go To The Movies Alone
New York: Tanam Press, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. First edition of this early title by artist Richard Prince who also designed the book and its photographic wrappers. 96 pp. Fiction. A nearly fine copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. Uncommon. More
Alice (with several related promotional inserts and an Original Drawing)
Germany: Thalia Theatre, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Oblong paperbound quarto. 63 pp. With illustrations by Robert Wilson. A new "take" on the Alice In Wonderland story by Wilson, Waits and Schmidt. Clear tape reinforcement to spine else a very good copy in bound wrappers. Laid into this copy are several..... More
Marsden Hartley The Biography of an American Artist (Inscribed by Ludington)
Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1998. First Paperbound Edition. Paperback. Thick trade paperbound volume. 327 pp. First paperbound edition. The first full-scale biography of one of the great American painters of the twentieth century. A clean very good copy. INSCRIBED by Townsend Ludington and dated in year of publication... More
Where Flies The Flag
London: Collin's Clear-Type Press, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this title, an adventure story illustrated by Arthur Rackham with all six colour plates present. Very good indeed in variant red decorated boards. No date specified but 1904. One of the earlier books to feature Arthur Rackham's work and..... More
The Phoenix Book Shop; A Nest of Memories (Signed by Four Contributors)
Candia: John LeBow, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Trade paper book. 42 pp. Edited by Bob Wilson, Kenneth Doubrava and John LeBow. Reminiscences on visits to Bob Wilson's Phoenix Book Shop. A fine unread copy in stapled printed wrappers. One of 200 paper copies, hand-numbered, and SIGNED by Baraka, McClure, Bob..... More
Exit Lady Masham (Signed Leatherbound Edition)
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1983. First edition. Leather Bound. Full leatherbound first edition of this 169 pp novel by Auchincloss. SIGNED by the author as called for. A fine copy in decorated red leather binding with all gilt edges and integral silk bookmark. More
The Art of Hunger - Essays, Prefaces, Interviews (Inscribed)
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo in dustwrapper. Quarter green cloth over boards. 312 pp. Includes essays and interviews with literary figures from Franz Kafka to Samuel Beckett to Charles Reznikoff. A handsome fine copy in near fine price-intact dustwrapper. This copy has been..... More
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (Signed Limited Edition)
New York: The Delos Press, 1992. First edition. Leather Bound. Small paper quarto. A 17 pp short story by Auster published here in a fine press edition by William Drenttel and The Delos Press in an edition of four hundred and fiftycopies. Fifty were bound in goatskin; one hundred were..... More
City of Glass
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected page proof of Auster's breakout novel, the first in the New York Trilogy. Near fine in gray wrappers. Laid in to this copy is the scarce one-page publisher's promotional sheet. Folded, else fine. One of the scarcer uncorrected proofs..... More
Facing the Music
New York: Station Hill Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Fine copy in decorated wrappers, one of 1,000 unnumbered copies. There was no hardcover edition. More
The Invention Of Solitude
New York: Sun, 1982. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound original. Early volume of prose by the author of Unearth. A sharp, well-bound copy in photo-illustrated bound wrappers. 173 pp. Stated first edition. More
The Locked Room (Uncorrected Proof)
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Uncorrected page PROOF of the third book in Auster's New York Trilogy. A near fine copy in beige wrappers. A scarce proof. More
Man In The Dark (Signed)
New York: Henry Holt, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. A 180 pp novel by the author of The Music of Chance and Oracle Night. A fine copy in dustwrapper. Front panel of wrapper has faint evidence of a sticker removal. SIGNED by Auster on the title page..... More
Unfinished Journey
New York: Oxford University Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound octavo in dustwrapper. 303 pp. An autobiography of life in Rhondda Valley, the worst of England's derelict mining areas, and beyond to the author's participation in the Boer War. Preface by the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George. A handsome very..... More
The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman (Inscribed)
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1955. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 304 pp. Autobiography of a self-described fair-skinned woman who voluntarily called herself and identified as a negro growing up in the American South. Founder of the Chicago branch of the International Friendship House and staff member of the National..... More
Sky High; The Story of Aviation
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1929. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 337 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Red cloth covers printed in black. Minor soiling. With the scarce illustrated dustwrapper. Wrapper is clipped at front flap and has some small chips and tears at edges, but a handsome example..... More