Penguin Classics, 2006. Later printing. Paperback. 60pp. Thin octavo [19.2 cm]. Black, red, and white illustrated wraps. "When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin’s incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text..... More
New York: Riverhead, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 288pp. Octavo [22 cm] 3/4 orange paper over maroon boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine, author's name stamped in gilt on front board. Head of spine noticeably bumped. Spine mildly rolled. Touch of wear to dust jacket. Signed by bookseller Ken..... More
New York: Riverhead, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 288pp. Octavo [22 cm] 3/4 orange paper over maroon boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine, author's name stamped in gilt on front board. Ends lightly bumped. Remainder mark to foot of textblock. Touch of wear to dust jacket. Signed by bookseller..... More
New York: Riverhead, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 288pp. Octavo [22 cm] 3/4 orange paper over maroon boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine, author's name stamped in gilt on front board. Spine ends lightly bumped. Touch of wear to dust jacket. Signed by bookseller Ken Sanders, the "biblio detective."..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2021. First printing. Paperback. 324pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Orange and blue illustrated wraps. An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. More
Penguin Classics, 2019. Later printing. Paperback. 389pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. "Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with..... More
Counterpoint Press, 2011. Later printing. Paperback. 199pp. Octavo [21 cm]. Illustrated wraps. In this volume, American Senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken gives new insight into Haiku by poetic masters Basho, Issa, Buson, and Shiki. In presenting themes from Haiku and from Zen literature, Aitken illuminates the relationship between the two..... More
Vintage Classics, 2011. Later printing. Paperback. 194pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets. More
New York: Hogarth, 2018. Later printing. Paperback. 388pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not..... More
New York: Penguin Classics, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. 211pp. Octavo [19.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "A subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice. It’s Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it rich, even if at the moment he’s unemployed, with no..... More
New York: Penguin Classics, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. 350pp. Octavo [19.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. 344pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. 1/4 red paper over blue boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine and gilt stamped illustration on front board. "How far would you go for a piece of the American dream? A magical realist coming-of-age story, 'Gold Diggers' skewers the..... More
New York: One World, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. 259pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Ivory boards with title stamped in metallic red on spine. "Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets."..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 446pp., 503pp., 507pp., 574pp., 590pp. Large octavo [24cm]. Scarlet cloth over boards with decorations stamped in black ink and gold. Orange-yellow endpapers. Volume one has a previous owners stamp on the front free endpaper with a small pencil mark on the fore..... More
New York: Viking, 2020. Later printing. Hardcover. 288pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. 1/4 orange paper over blue boards. Title stamped in teal on spine. "Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells..... More
Köln (Cologne): TASCHEN, 2020. Kay Nielsen; Walter Crane; Arthur Rackham; Herbert Leupin. First edition thus. Hardcover. 512pp. Octavo [22.5cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. This double-sided book contains the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm on one side and Hans Christian Andersen’s tales on the other, each..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. 343pp. Octavo [19.6cm] New. Illustrated matte paper wraps with white and orange lettering. From Publisher: Frederich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy..... More
Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. 303pp. [32.5cm] New. Hardcover. Olive buckram covered boards with white titles printed on the front cover and spine. Fully illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated throughout. “One of Utah’s most accomplished and beloved artists.” —Utah Museum of Fine Arts This long-awaited volume includes more..... More
Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First edition. Paperback. 165pp. Octavo [22.7 cm]. Pink and orange wraps with black text. In this collection of surreal, dreamlike prose vignettes John Yau takes us on startling journey across wastes of "cities fluttering with lost ghosts" and asks the question "what are you doing now..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Signed, limited edition. Hardcover. Slim duodecimo [21 cm] 1/4 decorative floral cloth with blue paper over boards. The top edge of the text block is just a little foxed. Number 20 in a hardcover edition limited to 100 copies. Signed by Diane Wakoski on..... More
United Kingdom: Changemakers Books, 2020. Paperback. 113pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Tom Bowman has never bought the idea that some problems are too complex to solve. With razor-like precision, he slices through the Gordian Knot of dispiriting misperceptions that lead to a sense of defeat. The result is an inspiring..... More
New York: Random House, 1952. First edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 120pp. Octavo [20.8cm]. Tan paper over boards sramped in green and gold. Blue and green paper lable mounted to the front board. Spine very slightly rolled. Pages and text block edge slightly toned and foxed. The front free endpaper has..... More
New York: Ecco, 2016. Second edition; later printing. Paperback. 83pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]. White illustrated wraps. The essential poems of Emily Dickinson selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates. More
Richmond, CA: Sage Arts; Mayne Smith, 1993. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 131pp. Quarto [27 cm] Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed on the half title page by Mayne Smith. More
Santa Barbara: J. F. Rowny Press, Publishers, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 127pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue pebbled cloth with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good. The covers are just a little concave, and the edges of the covers are gently rubbed. Slight spine slant. There..... More