Paris: Louis Carré, 1945. First Edition. Small 4to, 50, [2] pages, in original lithographic dust jacket over blank stiff wrappers. Text block detached from wrappers. Jacket has tears along the spine and one-inch chips at top of both the upper and lower panels near the spine. Lacking the original glassine... More
New York: Basic Books, [2000]. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 240 x 165 mm), xxx, 486, [4] pages. Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Spine ends slightly bumped. INSCRIBED by Ishmael Reed on the title page: "For / Brian, / good... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1992. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 145 mm), 272 pages, in half cloth over paper boards, titles to spine. Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Slight soiling along top edge. *SIGNED by Walter Mosley... More
New York: Harlem Moon, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 235 x 155 mm), xx, 840 pages in wrappers. A Fine copy of this massive anthology. SIGNED by Edwidge Danticat, Terry McMillan, and Edward P. Jones at their respective contributions. A collection of works by around 70 African-American authors. SCARCE SIGNED. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 214 x 145 mm), viii, 86 pages, in pink boards, titles to upper board and spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light toning to pages. The dust jacket shows... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 138 mm), xv, 362, [2] pages in wrappers. A Fine copy. *SIGNED by Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Jamaica Kincaid, Mary Gaitskill, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Louise Erdrich at their... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 155 mm), 455, [1] pages, in red and black boards, title to spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Boards rubbed, dust jacket shows light edge wear. Two friends... More
New York: Freedom Press, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), 247, [1] pages in red cloth, titles to spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Slight lean to spine, internally clean and bright. The unclipped dust... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches; 215 x 145 mm), 538 pages, quarter cloth over paper boards. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Some fading to lettering on spine, internally clean and... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm), 462 pages, quarter cloth over paper boards. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. A couple instances of marginalia, otherwise clean and bright. The dust jacket has... More
New York: Random House, Inc., 1954. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 248 pages, in quarter cloth over paper boards, titles to upper board and to spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light toning to... More
New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1973. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 244 pages, in light gray boards, titles in black to spine, silhouette of a spy to upper board, pink topstain. Tiny ink mark near top of fore... More
Warsaw: Ksiazka-I-Wiedza, [1950]. No edition stated. 8vo (8 1/4 x 6 inches; 210 x 150 mm), 238 pages, in black boards. A few small ink smudges on preliminary pages, presumably from an ink stamp to the title page. Some light sunning to page edges. The unclipped dust jacket has some... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First American Edition, 1st Printing. SIGNED by Thomas Mann on the half title. A hypnotist in Italy humiliates a young man named Mario. And then Mario gets his revenge in this anti-fascist political tale. Octavo, 81 pages. Very Good, with light offsetting to the... More
Arlington, Virginia: Bogg Publications, 1993. Second Edition. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), [20] pages in photo-illustrated wrappers. Sunning to edges (common in this title), upper corner crease throughout. A Very Good copy. *SIGNED by Ann Menebroker on the title page in the year of publication... More
Dover, Delaware: Bottle of Smoke Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. 32mo (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches; 108 x 70 mm), [8] pages in stapled card wrappers. A Fine copy. *SIGNED by Ann Menebroker on the verso of the upper wrapper. A small, letterpress printed chapbook featuring five poems by... More
Mt. Aukum, California: Mt. Aukum Press, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 37, [1] pages in stapled wrappers. Staples slightly rusted. A Near Fine copy. *SIGNED by Ann Menebroker on the title page. A collection of 26 poems by the Sacramento... More
Pollock Pines, California: Rattlesnake Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), 21, [3] pages in stapled, illustrated wrappers. A Fine copy. *SIGNED by Ann Menebroker on the title page. A collection of 17 poems by the Sacramento poet (1936-2016). Cover art... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company / A Bulfinch Press Book, 1995. First Edition. Small 4to (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x 155 mm), 149, [3] pages, in cloth-backed boards, plant illustration pasted to upper board, title in silver to spine. A Fine copy, issued without a dust jacket. *A... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966. Later printing. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), xxxvi, 122 pages in red cloth, black title to spine. Near Fine, with pages very lightly toned, in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small crease in the... More
New York: Ecco, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Small 4to (9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 235 x 160 mm), 76 pages, in burgundy cloth, gilt title to spine. Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. *A collection of poems from one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century... More
New York: New Directions, 2008. First Edition Thus. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 215 x 158 mm), 94 pages in cloth. Fine in a Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the colophon, one of 200 copies signed by the author in a special edition... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 218 x 145 mm), 416 pages, in publisher's original red cloth with title in black and gold to the spine. Red top stain. Bookplate to front free end paper, light rubbing to boards... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 197 x 130 mm), xiii, [1], 110, [2] pages, in the publisher's original blue boards with black backstrip and gold printed paper labels to upper board and spine. Board... More
Amsterdam: Kunsthandel Santee Landweer N.V., 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Single sheet folded once to create an oblong invitation measuring 5 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches (115 x 147 mm) when folded. Several creases as well as edge wear. A Very Good copy of a fragile piece of ephemera printed... More