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$350.00London: Gollancz (1965). First UK edition. 192 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Though not credited, the Burgesses translated this novel, which won the Le Prix International du Premier Roman. Uncommon.
$150.00[Anacortes: Margaret’s Press, 1981]. First edition. Single long sheet folded seventeen times accordion-style and bound between cloth-covered boards. Fine paper slipcase with the title calligraphed in ink along the spine. 7 x 3 1/2 inches, closed. Fine. An abstract calligraphic “text,” designed to be hung by loops of string at the crown of the spine.
$250.00NY: Penguin (1977). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1953). xvi + 158 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers with sunned spine, and a very pale bit of discoloration to the edge of the first three leaves. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. The first complete and unexpurgated edition, originally published as JUNKIE under the pen name “William Lee.” SIGNED by Burroughs on the title page.
$75.00London: Wallrich Books (1970). First edition. 51 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Typeography and design by Asa Benveniste of the Trigram Press. One of 50 (of 100) trade hardcover copies. A fifteen part long poem.
$75.00Berkeley: Haunted Bookshop & Private Press (1961). First edition. [40 pp]. Bump to one lower corner, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Poems with illustrations by Cliff Robinson. Introduction by Brother Antoninus. Butler’s first book.
$55.00(np): Unicorn Books, 1969. First edition. [16 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers with printed cover label. One of 450 (of 500) copies on Four Stones Mill laid paper. INSCRIBED by Butler to Carolyn [Kizer], “for Carolyn / with thanks / Bill Butler / 17 IV 70.”
$25.00London: Chatto & Windus (1998). First edition. 232 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Byatt on the title page.
$35.00London: Chatto & Windus (1993). First edition. 135 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (January 6th 1994) and SIGNED by Byatt. Three short stories.
$250.00(np): Lunation Press, 1991. First edition. Oblong 8vo. [14 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with clever removable spine that allows the entire book to be opened out into a single long sheet. Hand-set type and multi-color linoleum block prints, executed on a Vandercook. One of 50 numbered copies on Somerset Satin paper INITIALED by Bytheriver.
$125.00Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003. First US edition. 423 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Small publisher’s sticker inside front board, else fine in full black cloth with yellow stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Claudine Frank, with her introduction. Translated from the original French by Frank and Camille Naish.
$35.00NY: Grove Press (2022). First edition. 259 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Compelling memoir by the daughter of Peter Schjeldahl.
$35.00NY: Knopf, 1972. First US edition. 192 pp w/notes & variants. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. Afterword and Notes by Jean Sarocchi. His first novel, composed c. 1936-1938. Cahiers Albert Camus I.
$250.00London: Latimer (1974). First edition. 125 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with wear to rear panel and sunning to the red spine lettering. Cameron Allan’s penciled name and date (’76) on the front free endpaper. Cardew wrestles with modern music and class.
$45.00Sunderland: Ceolfrith Press (1970). First edition. 8 1/4 x 7 inch card, printed in silver on black stock. Fine. One of 350 copies. Ceolfrith Poem Card 1.
$500.00Bolinas: Tombouctor/Lamplighter (1978). First edition, first issue. 150 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with a few very light creases down spine. A tight bright copy of this classic memoir.
$125.00Santa Monica: Voyager Company (1991). First edition. Floppy disc housed in the original illustrated packaging, together with the single sheet history and aspirations of Voyager Expanded Books. Near fine. Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner. One of three books released at MacWorld San Francisco in January 1992. The others were THE COMPLETE HITCH HIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY and JURASSIC PARK.
$850.00[Carrollton]: Press on Scroll Road (2006). First edition. 4to. 44 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed label. No dust jacket, as issued. Wood engravings by Wesley Bates. One of 54 copies printed letterpress on Twinrocker Handmade paper. Collects “Marshall Washer” by Carruth, “The Value of Money: from PIG EARTH” by John Berger, and “Green Fields: from THE VIXEN” by Merwin.
$45.00NY: Pantheon (1990). First US edition. xxii + 242 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Corinna Sargood. Stories from around the world, all featuring a female protagonist, assembled by Carter with her introduction. Review slip laid in.
$650.00Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1983). First edition. 189 pp. Very near fine in paper-covered boards with gilt stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Essays, poems, and stories, with a significant afterword by Carver. One of a small number of hardcover copies designated primarily for libraries. INSCRIBED by Carver on title page: “For Doug Blazek, / Salud! / with regards- / Ray. Carver.”
$45.00Cambridge: Polity Press/Blackwell (2003). First trade paperback printing. vi + 174 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Dated (2 December 2003) and INSCRIBED by Castells on the title page. Conversations with social scientist Castells, best known for his THE INFORMATION AGE trilogy.
$55.00Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (1990). First edition. 312 pp. Light sunning to spine, else very near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. SIGNED by Castillo on the title page. Her second novel.
$75.00Binghamton: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (1986). First edition. 132 pp. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Dated (1998 / Wash DC) and INSCRIBED by Castillo. Her first novel. Laid into this copy is an invitation to a reading by Castillo at the Library of Congress.
$12.50San Francisco: North Point, 1984. First edition. xiv + 268 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cavell contributes a preface to this collection of twelve essays on various aspects of American media and culture.
$200.00NY: Kulchur Foundation (1982). First edition. Small 4to. 126 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Mona da Vinci. Photograph of Ceravolo by Vico Giacalone. His sixth collection of poems, uncommon in trade.
$75.00Berkeley: University of California (2001). First US edition. xxxiv + 278 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by Richard Schiff, concluding essay by Lawrence Gowing. Edited by Michael Doran. Texts by contemporary authors with selections from Cézanne’s own letters.
$75.00London: Colophon Press, 1993. First edition, numbered issue. 17 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 175 numbered copies on Vélin Arches mould-made paper. A short story, found amongst Chatwin’s papers after his death.
$125.00Francestown: Typographeum, 1993. First edition. 26 pp. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 175 copies on Mohawk Superfine, printed and bound by R.T. Risk. Foreword by John Wyse Jackson, frontispiece portrait of Chatwin by Jocelynn Hallen. A talk Chatwin delivered at an art auction in support of the British Red Cross.
$100.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1992. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 260 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited, and with a foreword by Edward Field. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Field. This is copy #1.
$75.00NY: Simon & Schuster (1967). First edition. 240 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a shallow corner crease to the front flap. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Chester’s second novel. Publisher’s reply card specific to this title laid in. Young 649*.
$45.00(np): Mark Childress, 1992. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 75 copies for family and friends. Hand-decorated and colored. INSCRIBED by Childress at the conclusion of the essay.
$150.00NY: Sarabande Press (1984). First edition, numbered & signed issue. Folio. 34 pp w/note. Fine in wrappers with gilt stamping to front cover and spine. Fine publisher’s cloth-covered slipcase. Printed letterpress in two colors. One of 250 copies on dampened Johannot paper SIGNED by Clampitt.
$75.00London: Faber and Faber (1984). First UK edition. 92 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A trade paperback original. SIGNED by Clampitt on the title page.