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: 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..... 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. *SIGNED by Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Jamaica Kincaid, Mary Gaitskill, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Louise Erdrich at their respective contributions..... 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
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Small 8vo (7 1/2 inches / 190 mm), vii, 97 pages. Original orange boards, titles in black to spine. Boards bowed, rear hinge cracked but holding, edges foxed. The dust jacket is unclipped, moderately toned, and has some nicks..... 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