Fairfax, California: The Red Hill Press, No date (early 1970s). No edition stated. A rare antiwar chapbook featuring poems by Ezra Pound and Wilfred Owen, an excerpt from a small-arms training manual, a letter from the mother of a soldier, and other texts that highlight the horrors of war. Numerous... More
New York: Walter V. McKee, 1929. First Edition. An important anthology from transition, an influential literary magazine published in Paris from 1927 to 1938. Twenty-three stories, with contributions by James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka, Kay Boyle, Kurt Schwitters, Philippe Soupault, and others. (Joyce's contribution, "A Muster From Work in... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. SIGNED five times, by: J.D. McClatchy (on the half title); and at their respective contributions: Robert Stone (page 33); Thomas McGuane (page 234); Karl Kirchwey (page 323), and Chang-rae Lee (page 386). Octavo, 576 pages. A fine copy of the first edition... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. First Edition. SIGNED by J.D. McClatchy, the editor, on the title page. A collection of poet James Merrill's prose pieces -- interviews, essays, stories, and reviews -- over a period of 40 years. 8vo., xvi, 202 pages. Near Fine, with an ink mark on... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First Edition. Stories and poems by 29 university students, including some who went on to distinguished writing careers. Contributors include Joy Williams (State University of Iowa) with her story "In Search of Boston." And Joseph Bruchac (Cornell) contributes two poems, "First Deer," and "The... More
New York: International Publishers, 1969. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Joseph North, the editor. A collection of fiction and nonfiction from the pages of the magazine New Masses. With work by Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Dreiser, James Agee, Kenneth Patchen, John Dos Passos, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren and Garcia Lorca (translated by... More
Milan: John Scheiwiller, 1932. First Edition. An enormously important poetry anthology, one of only 250 copies, featuring many of the key Modernist writers of the period, including James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, W.B. Yeats, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Louis Zukofsky, Basil Bunting, Ford Madox Ford, and... More
New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by one of the contributors, Jewelle L. Gomez, at her essay, "A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction by Women" (page 110). The uncommon first edition of this important feminist anthology; most copies... More