Modern Literature / First Editions
Under Western Eyes
New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Tall, side-stapled wrappers. A short novel printed on rectos only. No limitation provided. A good to very good copy in illustrated side-stapled wrappers. Reproduces the author's holograph printing. More
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
Blood Brother (Movie Source Book)
New York: Duell Sloane & Pearce, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this novel of the American West. Made into the film Broken Arrow starring Jimmie Stewart. A very good copy in cloth binding in a good price clipped dustwrapper. Some chipping to spine ends and a tape repair..... 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
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
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
New Short Novels
New York: Ballantine Books, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo in dustwrapper. 188 pp. A collection of short prose works. Notable for the inclusion of Ride Out by Shelby Foote (author of Shiloh). A very good clean copy in dustwrapper. 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
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
A Writer's Life (Inscribed)
New York: Alfred Knopf, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Stated first edition. 430 pp autobiography by the author of Honor Thy Father and Thy Neighbor's Wife among other bestsellers. A fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in 2006 on the title page... 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