Newly cataloged modern first editions, with a few nice SF titles thrown in for seasoning.
First Edition. A biography of Chavez and the United Farm Workers, by a journalist friendly to the cause. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Levy uses transcripts of interviews and his own journal entries to tell much of the story. 546 pages. First edition (first printing, with numberline ending in 1). A......
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First edition. Included in this issue are three open letters from Oscar "Zeta" Acosta: one on his embarrassing fascination with light-skinned women, one on his troubles as an unpaid civil rights lawyer, and one on the trial of Catolicos Por La Paz—a group arrested for disturbing a Christmas Eve mass.....
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First Edition. The third, and perhaps scarcest, Detective Chief Inspector Masters novels. First edition (first printing, stating "First published 1970", with no indications of later printings, on the copyright page). A tight copy, a bit bumped at the spine ends, in a very good dust jacket with minor edgewear and.....
Price: $150
First Edition. The novel that inspired the acclaimed film of the same name. Jennifer Lawrence won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work on this film. The movie also starred Bradley Cooper. The novel is the story of a man in a neural health facility who believes that.....
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First Edition. Two plays from the great American dramatist. First edition (first printing stated). A very copy in a fine dust jacket (there was also a more common simultaneous paperback version). The blue cloth is sun-struck along the top and bottom edges.
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An offset poster reinterpreting the original Starbucks logo (a topless mermaid) to mark the company's quarter-century anniversary. Victor Moscoso is a graphic artist closely associated with the psychedelic movement in the 1960s, designing a number of iconic concert posters, and with Zap Comix, to which he contributed from nearly the.....
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![Item No: #362440 [Zap 13 Cover Proof Limited Edition]. Victor Moscoso](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362440.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675111362)
An uncut offset lithograph proof of the cover art for Zap 13, printed on sheet-fed press on medium weight paper. The magazine cover is printed two-up (two copies on one sheet), with a blank back. The image is a tribute to psychedelic poster designer and Zap contributor Rick Griffin, who.....
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![Item No: #362428 The President Is Missing [Signed Issue]. Bill Clinton, James...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362428.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1702433129)
First Edition. The first thriller co-written by the 42nd president and the best-selling series writer of our time. This is one of an unspecified number of copies signed by both Clinton and Patterson on a tipped in leaf of noticeably thicker weight than the text paper. These signed copies were.....
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![Item No: #362423 Red Noise [and] Flatland [Signed, Slipcased]. John Sladek](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362423.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675111356)
First Edition. Two hardboiled short stories, separately published as chapbooks. Red Noise is illustrated by Kent Bash. Introduction by Thomas Disch. This is one of the first 75 copies, signed by Sladek and Bash, with an accompanying chapbook copy of Flatland laid in, as issued (Flatland appears to have been.....
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![Item No: #362406 Les histoires de Monsieur Mouche [Signed, Numbered]. Moebius,...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362406.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675111349)
First Edition. Postcards, one of 1000 signed and numbered sets. These are a curious collection of comic, or perhaps Surrealist, texts printed with Moebius (Jean Gerard) illustrations above. 14 postcards plus a cover sheet and a colophon page (for 16 total cards), housed in a folding paper case. 4-1/8 by.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A science fiction space saga, the first volume in the Hyperion Cantos, and the winner of both the Hugo and Locus awards in 1990. One of the standout SF novels of the last quarter of the 20th century. The book was issued in hardcover and paperback simultaneously with.....
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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
Advance Reading Copy. A signed promotional copy of this festschrift published in honor of the writer Richard Matheson. This is one of a small number of proof copies issued with a signature sheet signed by two of the contributors, Stephen King and his son, Joe Hill. A fine copy Signed.....
Price: $850
"A handful of copies of this translation of L'Image previously proposed in a critique* of the first published (but unacknowledged) English version, have been privately printed, for the translator's personal pleasure and in order that an optimally faithful text should be available..." Printed with two alternating typefaces which gives the.....
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First Edition. The first volume of Spiegelman's holocaust tale, originally serialized in RAW magazine. Maus is probably the most critically acclaimed graphic novel. It was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992; to date, the only graphic novel so honored. A paperback original (the hardcover version was published years later;.....
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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
![Item No: #318942 The Club Dumas [Signed, Numbered]. Arturo Perez-Reverte](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/318942.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670638083)
An adventure novel about an Alexandre Dumas (père) manuscript, set in the world of rare books and here illustrated by Victor Chong. This deluxe edition is one of 500 numbered copies, signed by Perez-Reverte. 327 pages. With five moody full-page illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This.....
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![Item No: #96338 Zeke and Ned [Uncorrected Proof]. Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/96338.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675111290)
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 collection of essays in three sections: reading, seeing, and there and here. First edition (with no indications of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to Peter Perrone, who helped Sontag with The Volcano Lover and In America and is.....
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First edition. This issue includes a short story by Oscar Zeta Acosta, his second time in print. "Perla is a Pig" is part of the first novel Acosta wrote for which he could not find a publisher. This story appeared two years before his first book, "The Autobiography of a......
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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
