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![Item No: #363058 Portrait of Bob Bondurant [Original Photograph]. Jesse Alexander](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363058.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694296026)
A large (13-1/4 by 20 inches) gelatin silver print (black-and-white) photograph of the American racing legend Bob Bondurant (1933–2021), taken in 1965 by one of the great racing photographers of all time, Jesse Alexander. Bondurant reclines in the cockpit of a Carroll Shelby GT40 at Le Mans; he didn't finish.....
Price: $3,000
First edition. An important early work by this pioneering Chicano poet who was one of the first to explore the Mayan and Aztec roots of Chicano culture. Fifteen years ago, I offered the opinion that of the early Chicano Movement poetry collections, this was the easiest to find; but no.....
Price: $300
A single sheet reprinting lyrics to two songs about Sherlock Holmes written by Isaac Asimov to the tunes of Danny Boy and The Minstrel Boy. The first song begins, "Oh, Sherlock Holmes, the Baker Street Irregulars / Are Gathered here to honor you today" and the second concludes "And bless.....
Price: $450
A short, one-page letter to the owner of a bookstore agreeing to sign books, while preferring that the shop send bookplates instead. A nice letter documenting the famous and prolific author's generosity to his fans. About 75 words. Folded in half for mailing; dime-sized spot in the margin, not affecting.....
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A two-volume collection of work by Peter Beard. Volume I (576 pages) reproduces collages of found objects, photographs, Beard's writings, ink, and paint. Volume II (168 pages) is devoted to an illustrated interview with Beard conducted by Steven M.L. Aronson (text in English and French and German translation); a facsimile.....
Price: $250
First Edition. One of the great horror novels of the 1970s, and the basis for the 1973 film of the same title. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1 on the last page). Slight spine lean and some bumping to the spine ends, thus very good. The.....
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First Edition. One of 26 hardcover copies of this essay gently mocking book collectors. "If you really want to get a leg up in this business, you focus on failed scribblers such as myself, folks who write books that don't sell...and therefore are inherently scarce. Put simply, the only books.....
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A one-page typed letter answering a letter about some of Bradbury's books: Dinosaur Tales and The Ghosts of Forever. About Bradbury's screenplay of Moby-Dick, he writes, "No copies of MOBY DICK published, sorry to say. There will be none. No one has ever expressed an interest in doing it." About.....
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![Item No: #363115 Witness and Celebrate [Binder's Copy]. Ray Bradbury](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363115.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694132384)
First Edition. A collection of Bradbury's poems with short tributes from many friends in honor of his 80th birthday. Illustrated with photos. 49 pages. Published in an edition of 100 numbered, 26 "specially bound", and an unknown number of copies like this one ("Binder's Copy"), with a printed destination on.....
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First Edition. An anthology of short stories for the tenth anniversary of the press. 240 pages. First trade edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by Etchison as well as by two of the contributors, Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch.
Price: $75
![Item No: #363075 Shadow Show: All New Stories in Honor of Ray Bradbury [ARC]....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363075.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694132384)
Uncorrected Proof. An anthology of short fiction with contributions by Joe Hill, Harlan Ellison, Margaret Atwood, Joe Hill, Neil Gaiman, Ramsay Campbell, Robert McCammon, Audrey Niffenegger, Alice Hoffman, Dave Eggers, David Morrell, Charles Yu, and a dozen (or so) others. The trade edition was fewer than 600 copies; this advance.....
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First Edition. Breuer's first book, devoted to generic commercial buildings and spaces, often with dramatic text elements. The photographs were taken in Belgium, Germany, France, and the Netherlands between 1995 and 2005. Breuer is a German photographer. [104] pages. 12 by 5-1/2 inches (oblong). First edition (not statement of later.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A monograph devoted to Breuer's pole photos, published to accompany Breuer's first exhibition in the US. This sequel to Logos, Warehouses, and Containers includes 24 full-page, full-color Poles images, plus a number of small reproductions in the introduction. Breuer is a German photographer. 68 pages. First edition (first.....
Price: $250
![Item No: #362721 Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns [Complete Run]. Charles...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362721.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694132388)
First Edition. A complete run of this short-lived (three issues) literary journal co-edited by Charles Bukowski. Issue one is inscribed by both editors and was mailed by Bukowski to the Wormwood Review, another journal to which he regularly contributed poems. The first volume reprints a pissed-off letter from Carol Bergé.....
Price: $1,250
![Item No: #363001 J. N. Williamson's Illustrated Masques [Signed, Numbered]. Mort...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363001.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694132387)
First Edition. Graphic novel versions of horror stories by Clive Barker, Stephen King, Robert McCammon, F. Paul Wilson, and others. With art by Jose Pimentel, Tim Vigil, Mark Evans, Ted Naifeh, Matt Thompson, and Mike Okamoto. This is one of 500 copies in a slipcase with a lenticular graphic onlay.....
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![Item No: #363030 Shivers VII [Proof]. Richard Chizmar, Clive Barker Stephen...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363030.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694132383)
Uncorrected Proof. Dark fiction stories, including the first book appearance of Stephen King's "Weeds" and Clive Barker's "Hermione and the Moon." 410 pages. Printed prior to the first edition for publicity purposes. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback), as issued.
Price: $75
First Edition. The first book in Clavell's Asia Saga, a series of novels set in feudal Japan, and a worldwide bestseller that remains popular in the US as it approaches its 50th anniversary. The book was turned into a hugely popular TV miniseries in 1980 and a new series is.....
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First Edition. Iconic photos of the early years of Joy Division. A shorter ("abridged") book was published in 2007 with the same title. 256 pages. Photographs reproduced in black and white. 8 by 10-3/4 inches. Foreword by Ian Rankin. First edition (with a numberline ending in 1 on the colophon.....
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First Edition. The numbered edition (100 copies) of Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy, complete in three volumes, with more than 100 signed lithographs bound in, as issued. The artist translated the text with Marcus Sanders and illustrated it after Gustave Doré's well-known 19th century take on Dante's epic literary masterpiece, divided.....
Price: $12,500
![Item No: #363029 Can & Can'tankerous [Signed, Numbered]. Harlan Ellison](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/363029.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694132389)
First Edition. Ten previously uncollected short stories. This limited edition also has more than one hundred pages of facsimile typescripts of Ellison's original drafts. One of 324 numbered copies signed by Ellison. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a near fine.....
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First Edition. The memoirs of the brother of the assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers. xii, 196 pages. First edition (stated first printing). Some spotting to the front board, else very good in a very good dust jacket with shallow chipping to the top of the spine. Pages tanned, as.....
Price: $150
First Edition. In 1963, the New York Times commissioned the great photographer Robert Frank to photograph the actor Zero Mostel (later most famous for playing Max Bialystock on the film versions of The Producers) hamming it up while reading a book. This comic photo monograph was given away to attendees.....
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![Item No: #362997 The Man in the Palace Theater [Signed, Hardcover]. Ray Garton](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362997.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694132388)
First Edition. A short story, issued in an edition of 250 copies in wrappers (paperback) and 52 lettered hardcovers. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy with a paper cover label, as issued. This is a "PC" copy of the lettered issue, signed by Garton. It is additionally inscribed.....
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First Edition. A promotional publication (marked "restricted" on the cover because the Second World War was still underway) encouraging civilian adoption of the Martin Mars Transport, a massive flying boat that the Glenn L. Martin Company was developing to carry cargo for the Navy. The Transport was the planned successor.....
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First Edition. One of the last volumes of California laws officially translated into Spanish, here by José Francisco Godoy, the most prolific of 19th century Mexican American writers. Godoy was born in Mexico in 1851. With his family, he moved to San Francisco in 1864, when his father took the.....
Price: $300
