Berkeley, California: Crosscut Saw Press, 1978. First Edition. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm), 111, [1] pages, in illustrated wrappers. Soiling to wrappers and outer page edges. Internally clean. A Very Good copy. SIGNED by Allen Ginsberg, with his East 12th Street, New York, address...
Ellsworth, Maine: Backwoods Broadsides / Sylvester Pollet, 1994-2006. First Edition, First Printing. A rare complete set of the Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series, featuring 100 different poets. Each is one of only 26 lettered and SIGNED copies. (Our set is letter Y.) Total edition sizes ranged from 300 copies at the...
A collection of nearly 60 flyers and handbills for tributes and readings by poets associated with the San Francisco Beat scene. Most are from 2007-2017, and many of the events took place at San Francisco's legendary City Lights Books. Eight are signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, including one for a 1985...
Kansas City, Missouri: Frederic Thoreau Singleton at the Sign of the Red Pale, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. 16 mo (6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 160 x 120 mm), pages [10], 42-62, original decorated wrappers in red and black, enclosed in a modern box. A single volume (February 1896) of...
New York: Underwood and Underwood, ca. 1904. Case measuring 8 x 5-3/4 x 3-3/4 inches containing 100 stereoviews mounted on gray concave card stock. Gilt lettering to spine. A complete set of 100 stereoviews of Switzerland featuring black-and-white photos of the late 1890s and early 1900s. Each has a short description...
London: Ferry Press, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (10 x 8 inches; 251 x 202 mm), [28] pages in stapled glossy wrappers. INSCRIBED by Tom Clark on the title page: "For Bill Beckman / Love Tom / NYC 1967." (? 1967) Clark's first book of poetry, inscribed to the...
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 135 mm), 253 pages, in red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With a dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper. It's a rather explicit inscription, and we won't repeat...
New York: New Directions, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 141 mm, 216 pages, in brown cloth, titles to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder on the front end paper. Ferlinghetti has contributed four poems, while...
New York: Random House, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 210 x 150 mm), xix, 419 pages, in red cloth, titles to spine, light blue top stain. With a dust jacket. SIGNED by Truman Capote on the front end paper. A collection of Capote's essays, travel...
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 216 x 145 mm), 452 pages, in blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in a striking dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Sinclair Lewis on the front end paper: "With the greetings...
Amsterdam: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), 9 leaves plus cover sheet, printed rectos only, stapled twice along the left margin. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the last page, one of only 25 copies. Ferlinghetti describes this scarce edition...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 195 x 135 mm), xiii, 176 pages, in black and gray cloth, titles to spine. With a dust jacket. First edition of Eric Hoffer's unaccountably scarce report on true believers. "Mass movements can...
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches; 190 x 118 mm), viii, 257 pages, in mustard-colored cloth, purple titles to spine, in a stunning dust jacket designed by Larry Rivers. INSCRIBED by Kenneth Koch on the half title: "To Franklin /...
Greenwich, Connecticut: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 250 x 160 mm), 104 pages and an additional 20 pages of advertisements and plates, in wrappers with yapp edges. This issue of THE DIAL contains the first appearance of Virginia...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 193 x 130 mm), 254 pages in green cloth in a pictorial dust jacket. Hemingway's novel about an American colonel obsessed with an Italian countess. This is the true first edition, published in London several...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 193 x 126 mm), 426 pages, in red cloth, titles in gilt to spine and upper board, with dust jacket. *Edith Wharton's novel of World War I and its devastating effects on a painter...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 215 x 150 mm), 124 pages, in orange and black boards, titles to spine in black and to upper board in pink, top edge stained red. A collection of more than 60 poems, accompanied...
[Berkeley, California]: Tangram, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 5/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 246 x 161 mm), [20] pages in stitched plum-colored paper wrappers, printed white paper title label to spine and panels. SIGNED by Denise Levertov on the title page. A collection of poems, one of only...
Montréal: Les Éditions de l'Arbre, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 240 x 190 mm), 96,[4] pages plus 38 black-and-white plates, in pictorial wrappers. INSCRIBED by Fernand Léger on the half title: "Alex Z Wiener / Très Amicalement / F Léger." A catalogue featuring...
New York: Grove Press, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 x 5 3/8 inches / 212 x 135 mm), 96 pages, in pictorial wrappers. *SIGNED by Robert Duncan on the title page in black ink, with "in London May 1968" on the opposite page. A collection of poems, an...
San Francisco and Toronto: Gnomon Press and Island Press, 1966. Second Edition, Second Issue. 8vo (8 x 6 1/2 inches / 203 x 165 mm), [24] pages in stapled green wrappers. *A reissue of a 1952 book of poems, featuring a facsimile of Duncan's handwritten poems "newly drawn for this edition."...
Place published not stated: Publisher not stated, ca. 1900-1910 (?). Edition not stated. Small 4to (9 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 250 x 133 mm), [2] leaves bound into original drab stiff wrappers. Color litho die cut of a pregnant woman in profile, with seven flaps (including a child in...
New York: Boke Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 279 x 215 mm), [108] pages in side-stapled wrappers. A bit of soiling to the wrappers, light toning along the top edge of the front wrapper, and some overall modest handling wear. Internally clean and...
San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 279 x 215 mm), [i-ii], 1-46 pages in side-stapled orange wrappers. Pages printed on rectos only. Some soiling to upper wrapper, light creasing to some lower page corners. A Very Good copy. *A City Lights...
The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous women who expose sexism and racism in the art world, politics, film and the culture at large. They take the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms and appear in public wearing gorilla masks, producing books, posters, and stickers to provoke discussion and a change...
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