New York: A Seymour Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 85pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Pictorial paper over boards with a matching dust jacket. Rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Scattered creases and small losses to edges of dust jacket. DJ is a bit toned..... More
New York: A Seymour Lawrence Book / Delacorte Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 85pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Pictorial paper over boards. Ex-library, with library stamps on the top and bottom edges of the text block. The pastedowns are heavily abraded. A first edition of Brautigan's eighth poetry publication. Richard Brautigan..... More
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 258pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with cream-colored paper over boards, gilt lettering on the spine, and a gilt stamped train motif on the front board. Red endpapers. With a general layer of light soiling to the..... More
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 258pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 blue cloth with cream-colored paper over boards, gilt lettering on the spine, and a gilt stamped train motif on the front board. Red endpapers. Small stain to bottom edge of front board and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1989. Later printing. Paperback. 138pp. Octavo [21 cm] Illustrated wraps. New. Brautigan was the author of ten novels, nine books of poetry, and a collection of short stories. He was a literary idol of the 1960s and early 1970s. Brautigan came of age while..... More
Sirius, 2022. Hardcover. 272pp. Duodecimo [17cm]. Red paper over boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Gilt stamped illustration on front board. All edges gilt. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. More
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
Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes, 1961. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 251pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth covered boards with decorative silver stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Near fine condition. Republished by Photo Offset in a Limited Edition. From the publisher's note- "The book, of course, is admittedly fiction. The names..... More
London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head / Macmillan, 1896. D. Y. Cameron. First edition. Hardcover. 205; 16pp. Octavo [20 cm] 1/4 brown cloth over tan boards illustrated in brown ink. Decorative gilt stamped spine. The top edge has the publisher's brown stain; other edges deckled. The bottom..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2003. Third printing. Hardcover. 338pp. Octavo [20.3cm]. Brown cloth over boards. Light brown end papers. Boards are slightly shelf worn. Hinges are just very slightly loose at the beginning and end of the text block. Lacking slipcase. The Three Hostages was first published by Hodder and..... More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. John Register. 10th printing. Hardcover. 239pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. 1/4 black cloth over illustrated boards. Paper label on spine. Mild toning to extremities. In a rubbed acetate dust jacket. A fictionalized account of Bukowski's experiences writing the screenplay for the critically acclaimed, semi-authobiographical "Barfly,"..... More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Michael Montfort. Deluxe Limited Edition. SIGNED. Oblong quarto [22 cm x 27 cm] 1/2 red cloth with pictorial paper over boards, and a paper title label on the backstrip. Very good. The spine ends and corners of the covers are bumped, there is..... More
Japan: Shinchosha Company, 1999. Foreign language edition. Paperback. 472pp. Sextodecimo [15 cm] Cream colored wraps with Japanese characters and the publishers device printed on the spine and wraps. Very good. There is a previous owner's name on the title page. The illustrated dust wrapper is in very good condition, with..... More
Parantez, [2002]. Turkish language edition. Paperback. 176pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Near fine. Minor bumping to the fore edge of the front cover. There is a tiny sticker on the rear wrap, and there is a previous owner's name on the verso of the front cover. The writings of..... More
Salt Lake City and Berkeley: Litmus, 1973-1976. Litmus first editions. Paperback. All books are in fine or near fine condition. Bound in various colors of illustrated wraps. Many with stapled bindings. Victoria Mundi is a black hardcover with a gilt stamped title on the spine. It also has a dust..... More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First trade edition. Hardcover. 283pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. 1/4 red cloth over illustrated boards. Paper label on spine. Cloth subtly faded and spine ends mildly bumped. In a rubbed acetate dust jacket with price stickers affixed to rear panel. One of 1,000 cloth trade..... More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. First trade edition. Hardcover. 309pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. 1/4 black cloth over illustrated boards. Paper label on spine. Touch of soiling to extremities. In a rubbed acetate dust jacket. One of 750 cloth trade copies. More
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, 1982. Tweede druk (second Dutch edition). Paperback. 234pp. Octavo [20 cm] Purple, red and white pictorial wraps. Very good. The spine and covers show light edge wear. Dutch edition of Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. More
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, 1982. Tweede druk (second Dutch edition). Paperback. 234pp. Octavo [20 cm] Purple, red and white pictorial wraps. Very good. The spine and covers show edge wear, and there is a small, light stain on the top fore edge of the text block. Dutch edition of..... More
Awe/Gebers, 1987. Second Swedish edition. Paperback. 278pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Pictorial pocketbook wraps. There is a former owner's name on the half title page. A Swedish translation of Notes of a Dirty Old Man. The first Swedish edition was published in 1980. More
Awe/Gebers, 1980. First Swedish edition. Paperback. 278pp. Octavo [21 cm] Casebound pictorial wraps. The half title page is darkened at the edges, and has a former owner's name. A Swedish translation of Notes of a Dirty Old Man. More
Göteborg: Lindelöws bokförlag, 2006. Later Swedish printing. Paperback. 319pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Casebound pictorial wraps. With a previous owner's name on the verso of the front cover. A Swedish translation of Notes of a Dirty Old Man. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Signed and inscribed by author on half-title: "To ----, with regards and a happy Christmas. 1975, Anthony Burgess". 161pp. Octavo [22 cm]. Hardcover in blind-embossed and gilt-stamped black cloth with jacket. Light toning and slight irregular fading to jacket;..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 161pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. The extremities are mildly rubbed and the spine is slightly rolled. In a dust jacket, with subtle toning and soiling, and light edge wear. Signed and inscribed (to no person in..... More
