Journal of the Southwest Volume 61, Number 1, Spring 2019 (Special Issue on Chuck Bowden)
Tucson: The Southwest Center, University of Arizona. Paperback. 222pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. More
Literature
Tiger Eye
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
Twee Keurige Dames (Two Serious Ladies)
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
Två allvarligt sinnade damer (Two Serious Ladies)
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
Deux dames sérieuses (Two Serious Ladies)
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
Days: Tangier Journal 1987-1989
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
The Sheltering Sky
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
The Spider's House
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
Things Gone and Things Still Here
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
Without Stopping: An Autobiography
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
Five Eyes: Stories by Abdeslam Boulaich, Mohamed Choukri, Larbi Layachi, Mohammed Mrabet, Ahmed Yacoubi
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
Collected Stories 1939-1976
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
Beach Red
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
Beach Red
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
Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A Novel
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
Babylon Rolling
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
Fifty Stories
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
Live Blog: A Novel
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
When the Killing's Done
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
The History of Luminous Motion
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First American edition. Hardcover. 274pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Photographically illustrated black and white paper over boards. Very good. The extremities are just a bit dinged and rubbed. In a very good dust jacket, with light creasing and several shallow closed tears in the top..... More
River Lady
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942. Hardcover. 374pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. The cloth along the top edge is just a little frayed. Very minor spine lean..... More
The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. First Norton Paperback Edition. Paperback. 277pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch's epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of..... More
The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 216pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good. The spine ends are gently bumped, and the spine is slightly rolled. The edges of the spine and covers are subtly..... More
Days Without Weather
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 249pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 dark blue cloth with light blue paper covered boards. Near fine / Near fine. Cecil Brown's novel depicts the experiences of black comedians, writers, actors, and singers in the cutthroat world of Hollywood. More
Da Vinci Code
New York: Anchor Books, 2003. First paperback edition. Paperback. 489 pp. More