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First Edition. An uncommon chapbook of poems by the late Latino writer. 39 pages (folded sheet laid into printed covers; not stapled, as issued). First edition (first printing). Near fine.
Price: $75
First Edition. An uncommon chapbook of poems by the late Latino writer. 39 pages (folded sheet laid into printed covers; not stapled, as issued). First edition (first printing). Near fine.
Price: $75
First Edition. A collection of religious and devotional poems by a 19th century Mexican poet. He wrote the poems for his grandchildren and the manuscript remained unpublished when he died in 1910. This is one of the most attractive books, printed in yellow and black, from Casa Editorial Lozano, which.....
Price: $250
An original black-and-white gelatin silver print photograph of Audre Lorde speaking, pictured in three-quarters profile. Lorde (1934–1992) is an influential and popular writer, a self-described, “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” The image is inscribed on the back (verso) and signed "Audrey Lorde." Printed on 8 by 10 inch Kodak paper.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A travelog of a trip to Ecuador made on commission from magazines. Illustrated with four double-page color plates by the author (who is probably best known for his Madeline series of picture books). First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy in.....
Price: $500
First Thus. A reissue of this collection of poems, slightly revised by Updike and with new illustrations by Hyman. This edition was a Newbery Honor book for 2000. First edition with these illustrations (no statement of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed.....
Price: $300
First Edition. Stick figure illustrations with one- and two-word captions in French. 4 by 5-3/4 inches. Toledano, A103. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). Slight spine lean; covers a bit tanned around the edges. Signed by Gorey on the title page.
Price: $85
First Edition. Travelog of the author's cruise through Monte Carlo, Portofino, Leghorn, the Bay of Naples, Capri, and Corsica. Illustrated throughout the text and with four full-color plates. Bemelmans, best known for his Madeline series of picture books, also wrote novels and nonfiction books. First edition (first printing). A very.....
Price: $250
First Edition. An essay and poems by the Chilean founder of the Latin American Surrealists group, Grupo Mandragora. One of 500 numbered copies. 46 pages. 4 by 5-1/2 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback), lacking the publisher's glassine wrapper. Signed on the colophon and additionally.....
Price: $100
First Edition. The sequel to the Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller, a very plausible first-hand account of a bookseller in difficult financial straits. The book purports to be papers found after the unlucky booksellers' demise. The author was in fact a member of local government in Scotland at the.....
Price: $200
First Edition. London's popular account of an ill-fated two-year voyage to the South Pacific in a poorly-built 43-foot sailboat. BAL 11929. 340 pages, plus a color frontispiece. Illustrated with more than 100 half-tone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no later printings indicated). A very good copy with some shelf.....
Price: $3,000
First Edition. A historical novel set in Italy. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Sontag to Peter Perrone who is thanked on the copyright page. Sontag writes, "for my beloved Peter—part of everything, nourisher of the Volcano Lover, guardian angel—your Susan. 9.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A fictionalized biography of the Polish actress Helena Modjeska and her rise to fame in 19th century America. Winner of the National Book Award for best novel. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed to Peter Perrone who is thanked on the copyright.....
Price: $400
First edition. The book that brought Marianne Moore's work to a wide audience. This is no. 81 on Cyril Connolly's hundred key books of the Modern Movement. An expanded version won the National Book Award for 1952. With an eight-page introduction by T. S. Eliot, who edited the book. xvi.....
Price: $750
Uncorrected Proof. The uncorrected proof, issued prior to the first edition of this novel. Bound in printed yellow wrappers. 478 pages. Near fine copy. A few small stains on the plain bank panel. Signed by McMurtry.
Price: $60
First Edition. A posthumous collection of poems from California's first poet laureate. With a biographical essay by Charles Phillips. xxxviii, 215 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, with a few short tears repaired with Japanese tissue on the back (verso). This.....
Price: $100
First Edition. Heine's first book, a collection of poems published by a Berlin bookstore in December 1821 (but dated on the title page 1822). A scarce book by one of the most important 19th century German poets. viii, 170, [1] pages. Collating as: [i] title, [ii] blank, [iii-iv] Zueignung, [v-viii].....
Price: $6,500
Advance Reading Copy. A historical novel set in Italy. Spine a bit faded, else a fine copy in red printed wrappers. This copy is inscribed by Sontag to Peter Perrone, who is thanked on the copyright page, "for Peter, guardian angel—with all my love and gratitude—Susan."
Price: $250
The editor of the Nation responds to a reader who suggested articles on I. F. Stone and on the Sobel case (Morton Sobel was a Soviet spy during the Second World War; he was released from prison in 1969, two years after these letters were written). Both notes are on.....
Price: $150
First Thus. A very attractive re-issue of Olsen's first book, originally published by Lippincott in 1961, a collection of four stories. All four stories were included in Best American Short Stories the year they were first published in literary journals. Olsen is considered an important American writer, despite publishing just.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A collection of drawings made by Steadman, a British artist, during his peak period, where he commented on American scenes and cultures. These are both published and previously unpublished works from his Rolling Stone assignments with Hunter S. Thompson, as well as works commissioned on Disneyland, the Kentucky.....
Price: $750
First Edition. The first collection of short stories by a Japanese American writer in English. The stories are interconnected and offer an intimate look at Issei and Nisei family life in the 1920s and 1930s. The book was scheduled for publication in 1942, but it was postponed by the outbreak.....
Price: $1,500
First Edition. A novelization of the life of the Chinese emperor Guangxu (Kwang Hsu) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Der Ling was three-quarters Chinese and one-quarter American. Her father was a Chinese diplomat and her maternal grandfather was a a Boston merchant. She learned English and French.....
Price: $250
First Edition. The second collection of poems by the first Japanese American millionaire, the Stockton "potato king" Ushijima Kinji, known in the United States as George Shima. In 1920, Ushijima's "Shima Fancy" brand of potatoes had an 85% market share and were grown on 28,000 acres in California's.....
Price: $500
First Edition. The author's first novel, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award and the William Faulkner Award. First edition (stated first printing). A near fine copy in jacket that is lightly tanned at the spine (as usual). A nice copy of a major debut novel.
Price: $75
First hardcover edition. The first book in Elena Ferrante's worldwide bestselling series, the Neapolitan Quartet, published here in a stunningly beautiful signed, limited edition of 126 copies, comprising the entire first hardcover edition in English. Essentially, this edition offers the only obtainable signed books anywhere in the world by Ferrante.....
Price: $4,000