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$20.00NY: Haskell House, 1972. First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1951). 32 pp. Hard erasure to front free endpaper, else fine in boards without dust jacket as issued.$30.00Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press (1980). First Canadian edition. 276 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 18 essays.$125.00Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California, 1971. First edition. 4to. 455 pp w/chronology, select bibliography, & sources of illustrations. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light wrinkles to base and crown of spine. Introduction by Hugh Kenner. Seven hundred and eighty-one illustrations, of which 16 are color plates.$250.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978. First edition, publisher’s copy. 373 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Together with CROSSING THE FRONTIER (also fine in fine jacket) the pair together in a fine example of the publisher's slipcase. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page. Additionally INSCRIBED by Morrow to John and Barbara Martin opposite the title page.$85.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1978. First edition, numbered issue. 373 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Together with CROSSING THE FRONTIER (also fine in fine jacket) the pair together in a fine example of the publisher's slipcase. One of 200 numbered copies.$20.00Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1990. Advance excerpt. 55 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Work by Edgerton, McCorkle, and Brown.$15.00NY: Vintage Books (1975). First mass market paperback printing. xiv + 178 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Stories by Silko, Ortiz, Gorman, etc.$40.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First edition. 398 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with a small scuff on the front panel. Stories by Mark Helprin, Jane Bowles, Harold Brodkey, Ian McEwan, and many others.$55.00Lewiston: Confluence Press (1988). Uncorrected proof. viii + 214 pp. Near fine in printed light blue wrappers with light soiling to rear cover and a stray pen mark.$12.50NY: Harcourt Brace & World (1968). First edition. 80 pp w/indexes. Fine in very good plus dust jacket that is lightly rubbed and has one chip at crown of spine. Includes contributions to periodicals and foreign translations.$75.00Austin: The Texas Observer, 1965. First edition. 16 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Cover story by McMurtry, “Love, Death, and the Astrodome.”$20.00[Santa Barbara]: Carol & Ralph Sipper (1983). First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Printed by Graham Mackintosh.$15.00Santa Barbara: Joseph the Provider (nd). First edition. [126 pp]. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Rare book catalogue. Useful reference.
$100.00Big Sur: Peeramid Press (1991). First edition, limited issue. Oblong 8vo. viii + 87 pp. Fine in full leatherette with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Fully-illustrated. SIGNED by Cross on the title page, with the addition of a holograph colophon on the front free endpaper, “Collector’s Limited Edition of 200. This is copy number 59. Robert Cross. Big Sur.”$40.00Ann Arbor: Roger Jackson (1998). First edition. 38 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 150 copies. Letters, excerpts from letters, and excerpts from published works. Published on the occasion at the Tenth Biennial Conference of the Interanational Lawrence Durrell Society.$20.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. First edition. 30 pp. Hard bump to upper corners, light foxing to endpapers; in all, very good plus in near fine dust jacket.$15.00London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. First trade paperback printing. 30 pp. Fine in glossy printed wrappers. One of 500 copies.$20.00Minneapolis: Henry Miller Literary Society, 1961. First edition. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 1000 numbered copies. “Addendum” sheet present.$25.00Hollywood: 9th House Publishing Company, 1960. First edition. 108 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers, else fine in near fine dust jacket with two pale stains to front panel. Foreword by Henry Miller. Preface by James Boyer May.$55.00[Berkeley]: Bern Porter (1945). First edition, numbered issue. 4to. 157 pp. Very good only in decorated boards with overall edgewear. Lacks dust jacket. Poet and publisher Douglas Blazek’s copy, with his ownership signature and signed bookplate. Two additional inked ownership names to front free endpaper. One of 750 numbered copies. Shifreen & Jackson B29a.$15.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1991. First edition. 4to. 94 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Gretel Ehrlich, Jonathan Williams, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many others close to Miller.
$125.00NY: Walton H. Rawls, 1967. First edition. 128 pp w/glossary & index. Small pale stain on bottom edge, else near fine in two-part cloth with pasted-on cover label. Lacks unprinted glassine dust jacket. Illustrated. Moore contributes a brief foreword to this book by the curator of the Park. SIGNED by Lancaster and Moore on the title page. Abbott B41.$35.00London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1973). First edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Contributions by Quennell, Alfred Appel Jr., Martin Amis, Robert Alter, Dmitri Nabokov, and others.$35.00London: Eyer & Spottiswode (1967). First UK edition. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to crown of spine. Stegner’s first book.$20.00NY: Amistad (1993). First edition. 322 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket with one short closed tear. Review slip laid in.
$650.00Norfolk: New Directions, 1936. First edition. 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. The first book of the press, issued as “New Directions Pamphlets, Number One.” In his introductory note the publisher, James Laughlin, names the author, “the first American surrealist writer.” More than half a century later, in his afterword to Andrews' posthumous THE SURREALIST PARADE (New Directions, 1990), Laughlin recalled that “Wayne became my friend at Harvard...about 1935” and “the original 'Pianos' was...printed in an edition of 300 copies by the Vermont country printer who did the Harvard Advocate. But its unusual aroma quickly pervaded Harvard Square, and it was necessary to rush out a second printing.” WITH: the second printing of this work, bound in red wrappers as issued, adding the subtitle, “A Surrealist Shortstory,” and with the rear cover entirely reset with different text. Near fine. For the pair:$75.00NY: Norton (1994). Uncorrected proof. 160 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Promotional flyer laid in. Collects two pieces by O'Brian, 'Black, Choleric and Married?' and 'Samphire' as well as essays by eight others.$45.00NY: Dutton (1999). First edition. 264 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with one tiny closed tear. SIGNED by Oates on the title page. Promotional flyer laid in.
$35.00[Lisbon]: Penumbra Press (1983). First edition. [6 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 175 numbered copies on Frankfurt White paper. Carlile’s prose vision with two drawings by Schwartzman. A new year’s greeting from the Press.$25.00London: Macmillan (1969). First edition. 279 pp. Top edge dusty, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket. First book appearance of Plath's short story, “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams.” Stories also by Margaret Laurence, Bernard Malamud, Alan Sillitoe, and others.
$40.00Loughton: K.A. Ward (1969). First edition. 6 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Hanley. An essay, illustrated with two photographs. Gibbs A46a.$55.00Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (1992). First edition. 122 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Price contributes an introduction. SIGNED by Price.