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First Edition. A novel set in a boarding house in Jacksonville, Florida. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Crews on the title page.
Price: $85
First Edition. A novel set in a boarding house in Jacksonville, Florida. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Crews on the title page.
Price: $85
Uncorrected Proof. An advance copy in printed yellow wrappers (paper covers), issued prior to the first edition. A sequel to The Desert Rose. 461 pages. Near fine. Minor bend to lower front cover, tea (?) stain on top edge. Signed by McMurtry on the first blank.
Price: $25
First Edition. A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl. In his memoir Literary Life, McMurtry said he wrote this novel "in twenty-two days" and that the book "seemed to flow out of me as rapidly as I could type. The Desert Rose was supposed to have been a screenplay, but.....
Price: $60
First Edition. A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl. In his memoir Literary Life, McMurtry said he wrote this novel "in twenty-two days" and that the book "seemed to flow out of me as rapidly as I could type. The Desert Rose was supposed to have been a screenplay, but.....
Price: $75
First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's verse-play set among enslaved people on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina. Dove also served as the US Poet Laureate. This is one of 224 numbered copies, signed by the author on the title page. 140 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy.....
Price: $85
First Edition. Six essays on horses, published in an edition of 300 copies. Lowman, Printing Arts in Texas, p. 61: "One of the most sought after modern rarities... Chef d'oevre of the Book Club of Texas." Marcus, The Book Club of Texas, VI. First edition (first printing). A very good.....
Price: $2,000
First Edition. Perhaps greatest Latin American novel of the 20th century--the sort of book where most Spanish speaking booklovers can quote the opening line, "Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer.....
Price: $1,500
First Edition. The title of this novel is taken from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, in which the Morlocks are the workers of the world, who live underground. In Welsh's novel, "the Morlocks are unofficial secret organizations within the trade unions whose purpose is to stir up revolution. Their.....
Price: $250
First Edition. The text of the Naumburg Memorial Lecture, about writing biographical novels, by one of the best practitioners of the genre as the author of Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh), Sailor on Horseback (Jack London), and The Origin (Charles Darwin). 17 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine.....
Price: $75
First French Edition. A French translation of Wright's last novel, a grim story of a Black mortician trying to navigate life in Jim Crow Mississippi. With an interview with Wright by Maurice Nadeau and a portrait of him by Monique Métrot. Issued as Les lettres nouvelles no. 3. 459 pages.....
Price: $500
First Edition. Poetry by Dickinson illustrated with reproductions of Tudor's paintings. 63 pages. First edition (states "First impression"). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Tudor on the title page. Tudor's thank you card laid in.
Price: $75
First Edition. The second volume of Spiegelman's holocaust tale, probably the most critically acclaimed graphic novel. It was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992; to date, the only graphic novel so honored. The first Maus graphic novel appeared as a paperback original in 1986, after having been serialized in.....
Price: $750
First Edition. A novel set in a boarding house in Jacksonville, Florida. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Crews on the title page.
Price: $75
First Edition. Excerpts from Bukowski's journals from 1991 to 1993, with illustrations by R. Crumb. "Why are there so few interesting people? Out of the millions, why aren't there a few. Must we continue to live with this drab and ponderous species. Seems their only act is violence"—Charles Bukowski asking.....
Price: $400
One page (folding). 7-1/2 by 4-1/2 inches. Edition of 50 copies. Published October 11, 2014, soon after Rolando Estévez left Ediciones Vigía to form Ediciones El Fortín. The book is a single poem, reproducing Estévez's calligraphy on white paper. The text sheet is folded several times. The book is illustrated.....
Price: $300
173 pages. 7-1/2 by 9-3/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del Estero. An anthology of three books of poems by a Havana poet, photocopied on white paper. Designed and illustrated by Marialva Ríos. Prologue by Roberto Manzano. The cover is assembled from pieces of corrugated paper mounted with collaged.....
Price: $200
First edition. One of 50 signed and numbered hardcover copies (there was also a paperback issue). A collection of prose and poetry imagining the details of the life of the poet's Jewish grandmother who fled Europe for Chile in 1939. Agosín writes in Spanish; an English translation by Brigid A......
Price: $50
First Edition. The program of a memorial service for de Hoyos, with a biography and consideration of de Hoyos's poetry by Milligan and an afterword by Carmen Tafolla. Illustrated in color with images of de Hoyos's books, books she published as M & A Editions, and reproductions of her artwork.....
Price: $30
62 pages. 7-1/2 by 7 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del Estero. A collection of poems photocopied on white paper from the text handwritten by Rolando Estévez, who also designed and illustrated the book. The illustrations include a large handcolored horizontal panorama, collages, and small original drawings on the.....
Price: $650
[3] leaves. 6-1/2 by 6-1/4 inches. An edition of 100 copies. Colección del San Juan. As the title suggests, a single-page mimeographed poem illustrated from drawings by Sigfredo Ariel. The cover design is a pasted-on mimeographed illustration with a hand-drawn border. The upper left corner of the front cover is.....
Price: $100
11 pages. 6-1/2 by 8-3/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. A poem, designed by Vicente Enríquez Landín, with a particularly effective portrait of the composer pasted onto the front cover. OCLC: BNCJM CRU CSL CUI CUZ DEIAI DLC DRB EEM FHM FQG FUG GZN IND IQU.....
Price: $175
4 pages (a single, folded sheet) in an envelope. 4 by 5-1/2 inches. The edition size is not stated, but it was perhaps as small as 10 copies. A chapbook with a single short poem, in English and Spanish translation, designed by the author. The poem, titled "The Angel and.....
Price: $125
Two volume set, illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with more than 120 full-page black-and-white plates. Title in full: The Works of Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick. Containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds & sayings of Gargantua and his sonne Pantagruel, together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of.....
Price: $200
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