Dragoon, AZ: The Amerind Foundation, Inc., 1987. Cy Lehrer. Paperback. Thin square octavo [20 cm] Stapled gray, black and white illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are lightly rubbed and creased. "This place makes no sense. A whale like boulder balances on an undulating ocean of stone, a tiny shrub... More
Phoenix: Arizona Department of Transportation, 1988. Original edition. Paperback. 48pp. Thin quarto [30 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are very lightly rubbed and creased. Contains the article, A Canyon Called Paria, by Charles Bowden. This is where Bowden spent 6 winter days tracing the steps of John D.... More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. First edition. Paperback. 141pp. Small quarto [25.5cm]. Glossy pictorial wraps. As New. Signed by author on the title page. Photographs by Jack W. Dykinga. 141pp. Oversize trade paperback. Only edition issued. Where the Sonoran desert ends and the tropical forests begin; up... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 297pp. Octavo [23cm]; pictorial wraps. From the publisher: From his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, to his most recent, Murder City: Cuidad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, Charles Bowden has been sounding an alarm about the..... More
Tuscon: First City Publications. Magazine. Paperback. 52pp. Thin folio [35.5 cm] Stapled illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are lightly rubbed and creased. There is a former owner's address label on the front wrap. Includes the article How the UA Took Mt. Graham by Charles Bowden. Also includes Juan for... More
Tucson: The Southwest Center, University of Arizona. Paperback. 222pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. More
Tucson: The Tuscon Public Library, 1987. Paperback. SIGNED. 167pp. Octavo [23 cm] Pictorial wraps. Signed by Chuck Bowden on the half title page, and again at the head of his contributed article, "Useless Deserts & Other Goals." Other contributors include N. Scott Momaday, Frank Waters, John Nichols, William Eastlake, Rudolfo... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Early Grosset reprint. Hardcover. 293pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Orange cloth over boards. The spine and boards are moderately edgeworn, and the fore-edge of the front board is just a bit stained and faded. In a dust jacket, with toning, and sporadic small closed and... More
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, 1967. Nederlandse vertaling (Dutch translation). Paperback. 233pp. Octavo [20 cm] Casebound pictorial wraps. Literaire Reuzenpocket 226. A Dutch-language edition of Two Serious Ladies. More
Stockholm: Gebers, 1967. Swedish edition. Hardcover. 277pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth-effect paper over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Very good, in a very good dust jacket, with mild rubbing and soiling to the surface. A Swedish edition of this 1943 modernist novel. More
Vienne: Gallimard, 1969. "Du Monde Entier" edition. Paperback. 269pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] White wraps printed in black and red. In the "Du Monde Entier" series. A French edition of this 1943 modernist novel. More
New York: The Ecco Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 108pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 black cloth with matching paper over boards. Illustrated. Very good. The spine is a touch rolled back. In a very good dust jacket, with light surface wear, and a creased front flap. "Paul Bowles has opened... More
ecco, 2014. Later printing. Paperback. 327pp. Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. Paul Bowles hypnotic masterpiece about foreign cultures being destroyed because of their mystery, printed here as a 65th anniversary edition by ecco. More
New York: Random House, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 406pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth over boards with gold lettering on blue and green ink stamped panels on the spine and front cover. Publisher's pale blue top stain. The spine ends and corners of the covers are moderately bumped, and... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 89pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 purple cloth with printed paper over boards, and a paper title label on the spine. Green endpapers. The edges of the covers are very subtly faded. Number 16 in an edition of limited to 250... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 379pp. Large octavo [22 cm] White cloth over boards with lettering in metallic blue and gilt on the spine. Orange endpapers. The spine is rolled, the spine ends and corners of the boards are gently bumped, and the boards... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 145pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 turquoise cloth with pictorial paper over boards. Black endpapers. With trivial soiling on the rear board, and a very slight lean to the spine. Number 192 in an edition of 200 signed copies. This copy... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 417pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 purple cloth with decorated cream colored boards. Orange endpapers. In clear mylar dust jacket as issued, with rubbing to the surface. The book has multiple shallow dings along the bottom edges of the covers... More
New York: Random House, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. 122pp. Octavo [21 cm] Tan cloth with title gilt stamped within salmon panels on front board and backstrip. Very good. The top edges of the covers are barely perceptibly stained. The front free endsheet has a previous owner's name. The dust jacket... More
New York: Random House, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED: 122pp. Octavo [21 cm] Tan cloth with title gilt stamped within salmon panels on front board and backstrip. Slight chipping to edges of dust-jacket. Small white stain on front cover. 2" wide and 2/3" deep open tear to back cover. 1/4"... More
Berkely, CA: Counterpoint, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. 280pp. Octavo [23.5cm]; gray paper boards with title in red on spine. Blanche McCrary Boyd's first novel in twenty years continues the story of her protagonist Ellen Burns. When Tomb of the Unknown Racist opens in 1999, Ellen--now sober, haunted by her activist... More
New York: Pantheon, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 301pp. 24.5 cm. Black over yellow boards. First edition, first printing. NF dustjacket with "Autographed Copy" sticker on front cover. SIGNED by author on the title page. "A family from Minneapolis relocates to New Orleans one year before Katrina and settles on Orchard... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 648pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with beige paper covered boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. The dust jacket has edge tears, and is lightly soiled. The jacket's spine is subtly sunned. Kay Boyle's fiction has... More
New York: Tyrant Books, 9/25/2018. First edition. Paperback. 707pp. Octavo [22.5cm]; illustrated wraps. In 2013, Megan Boyle was unhappy with the life she was living and wanted to document it on the internet for an audience. Her hope was that if she documented each thought and action on the internet... More
New York: Viking, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 369pp. Octavo [23.5] Hardcover in dustjacket. From the publisher: Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T.C. Boyle's powerful new novel combines pulse-pounding adventure with a socially conscious, richly humane tale regarding the dominion... More