Including scarce Asian Americana, original letters, and inscribed books.
First edition. An extraordinary first edition of the folk singer and activist's memoir, inscribed to her attorney with a double-page drawing. This copy of her second memoir is inscribed to Melvin Morgan. The inscription on the front endpaper and pastedown reads, "Love to Mel—and many thanks—and courragio!! (will you still.....
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A guide to the Tule Lake Japanese internment camp for new civilian employees. Tule Lake, located at 4,000 feet of elevation in the arid, remote northeastern corner of California, was the harshest of the Japanese internment camps. The camp was surrounded by barbed wire and had a dedicated military police.....
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These letters, from the files of H. B. Fortuin, discuss the reception of the BBC production of Bradbury's radio play, Leviathan 99, an adaptation of Moby-Dick in space. The first letter from Bradbury (March 28, 1968; about fifty words) asks how the taping of the play went and expresses Bradbury's.....
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A short, 100-word review of Simon Ortiz's collection of short stories about Navajos and Okies in the Southwest, in both the original, handwritten version and a carbon-copy typescript. Both are signed by Clark. Clark (1941–2018) was the poetry editor of The Paris Review for most of the 1960s; he later.....
Price: $150
First Edition. One of 26 signed, lettered copies of this "raw and powerful novel." The book is laid into a black clamshell box with a matching-letter print of the frontispiece signed by the illustrator, Michael Graham. 103 pages. SOURCE: This book came from the collection of a Texas customer who.....
Price: $250
First Edition. Advance excerpts for publicity purposes of three forthcoming novels with a profane and profound inscription from Harry Crews, whose book Body is one of the novels included in this collection. 75 pages. SOURCE: This book came from the collection of Tom Garner. Crews gleefully wrote outrageous inscriptions in.....
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A nice copy of this uncommon Crews title, a collection of personal essays and fiction that was not issued in hardcover, with a long inscription by the author. 138 pages. SOURCE: The Texas Crews collection again. First edition (first printing, with no statement of later printings). A near fine to.....
Price: $250
First Edition. A nice signed copy of this uncommon Crews title, a collection of personal essays and fiction that was not issued in hardcover. 138 pages. SOURCE: The Texas Crews collection. The collector had a philosophy that if one copy of a book was good, then two was better. So.....
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This autograph was obtained by a young boy in the 1970s who shared a dermatologist with KISS drummer Peter Criss. The autograph reads, "KISS Peter Criss 3" (Criss usually adds his lucky number 3 to his signatures). The original recipient believes that Criss had to see a dermatologist because of.....
Price: $200
![Item No: #364199 Moby Dick by Herman Melville [Signed, Numbered]. Will Eisner](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364199.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722921595)
First Edition. One of 300 signed copies of this limited edition graphic novel adaptation of Moby Dick. 32 pages. 8-3/4 by 11-1/8 inches. SOURCE: A local Portland collector who liked illustrated copies of Moby Dick. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a......
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![Item No: #2199 Up from the Bottomless Pit and Other Stories [Lettered, Signed]....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2199.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1723396531)
First Edition. Fifteen stories collected from the short-lived (2005–2007) fanzine Farmerphile and not previously published in book form. This is one of 26 signed, lettered copies in a traycase. There were also 250 signed and numbered copies. 373 pages. Edited by Christopher Paul Carey. SOURCE: Purchased recently at auction. First.....
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![Item No: #364212 Venus on the Half-Shell and Others [Lettered, Signed]. Philip...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364212.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1723394745)
First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies of this collection of Farmer's stories and novellas written under pseudonyms, including the title work, a classic bit of meta-fiction in which Farmer wrote in the persona of Kilgore Trout, a character from Kurt Vonnegut's novels. This book also includes two Farmer essays.....
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First Edition. Zombie tales, here published in an edition of 250 numbered copies signed by nineteen contributors including Joe Hill, Joe R. Lansdale, Kelly Armstrong, and Max Books. SOURCE: From the Texas Crews collector's library. He also liked Subterranean Press and Cemetery Dance. First edition (first printing). A fine copy.....
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First Edition. A nicely inscribed copy of this collection of poems with military themes published just before Guillén left for Spain to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. Guillén (1902–1989) was the national poet of Cuba and one of the leading Afro-Cuban writers. His commitment to revolution never wavered. Before.....
Price: $500
![Item No: #364121 The Blessing Way [Signed, Numbered]. Tony Hillerman](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364121.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1723394744)
First Thus. A fine signed and numbered hardcover reissue of Hillerman's first book, illustrated with tipped-in color plates (actually color photographs of artwork) by Ernest Franklin. One of 500 copies. There were also 2000 trade hardcovers and 100 deluxe copies with an original Franklin drawing. Introduction by Ernie Bulow. 224.....
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First Edition. A very nice signed first edition of this Jim Chee mystery. 202 pages. SOURCE: The Tom Garner collection. I've been cataloguing books from it for almost a decade. There were a lot of books! First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in.....
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![Item No: #364122 The Blessing Way [Drawing, Signed, Numbered]. Tony Hillerman,...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364122.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1723394742)
First Thus. One of 100 signed copies of this re-issue of Tony Hillerman's first book, with a fine portrait of the main character, Lt. Joe Leaphorn, by Ernest Franklin on the first blank. Ernest Franklin was a Navajo artist who liked embellishing Hillerman's books with drawings reflecting Native culture. This.....
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![Item No: #364123 The Blessing Way [Drawing, Signed, Numbered]. Tony Hillerman,...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364123.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1723394742)
First Thus. One of 100 signed copies of this re-issue of Tony Hillerman's first book, with a fine two-character original drawing by Ernest Franklin on the first blank. Ernest Franklin was a Navajo artist who liked embellishing Hillerman's books with drawings reflecting Native culture. This new edition (the original came.....
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![Item No: #364124 Listening Woman [Drawing, Signed, Numbered]. Tony Hillerman,...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364124.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1723394742)
First Thus. A deluxe reissue of the third Leaphorn and Chee novel, one of 100 signed copies with an original drawing by Ernest Franklin. This new edition is illustrated with line drawings by the Navajo artist Ernest Franklin and it has an introduction by Peter MacDonald. The book is signed.....
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An informational pamphlet for Japanese Americans who were paroled (given indefinite leave) from internment camps during the Second World War. While this publication provides basic information about leaving the camps, having stored property shipped at government expense, working, and the draft, it is also a classic example of what would.....
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First Edition. A nicely inscribed first edition of this collection of essays, some previously published in Rolling Stone, Playboy, and other periodicals. 384 pages. SOURCE: A local Portland estate. First edition (first printing with "First published" on the copyright page and no indication of later printings). A very good to.....
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The acclaimed director writes to one of the people coordinating publicity for his second film, School Daze. A screening was scheduled for February 8, with an afterparty at the nightclub 1018. The entirely handwritten letter on letterhead from Lee's production company, 40 Acres and a Mule, reads: "Enclosed is a......
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First edition, wrappers issue. A signed first edition of this collection of essays about Spike Lee's films paired with black-and-white photographs from the sets. The contributors include Spike Lee (introduction); Lee's brother, the movie photographer David Lee (photographs), Melvin Van Peebles (foreword), and Terry McMillan, Toni Cade Bambara, Nelson George.....
Price: $200
First edition. A portfolio with a dozen halftone photographs from the United Farm Workers strike, each paired with an inspirational text. Lewis spent a year on the strike lines and worked as a staff photographer for "El Malcriado," the official newspaper of the United Farm Workers. This portfolio, which concludes.....
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First Edition. A brief survey of the history and science of cosmology, inscribed to the evolutionary paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. 170 pages. SOURCE: This is from one of the big purchases I negotiated when I owned Eureka Books, in Eureka, California (I sold the store after I moved to Portland.....
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