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$100.00NY: Knopf, 1979. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 260 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Near fine decorated publisher’s slipcase. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Updike.$125.00(np): Albondocani/Ampersand (1974). First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Original mailling envelope present. Cover drawing by Robert Dunn. One of 400 copies published as a holiday greeting for the author and publisher. SIGNED by Updike on the title page, and also by the publisher, “from George.”$45.00Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1977. First printing of this edition. 342 pp. Fine in full decorated red leather. Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Includes a “Special Message for Subscribers” written for this edition. One of an unstated SIGNED by Updike.$25.00Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1986. First edition. 329 pp. Fine in fulll gilt-decorated dark blue leather. a.e.g., ribbon place marker bound-in. One of an unstated number of copies SIGNED by Updike. Contains a “special message for the first edition” by Updike, not in the trade edition.$100.00Cleveland: Bits Press (1991). First edition. [8 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers (from the home of a smoker). One of 237 copies. Though not called for, SIGNED by Updike.$125.00Northridge: Lord John Press 1982. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 29 pp. Fine in cloth covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 100 numbered copies on Warren’s Olde Style paper SIGNED by Updike.
$125.00Worcester: Metacom Press, 1980. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with integral marbled-paper dust jacket and printed cover label. One of 300 numbered copies on Antique Laid paper SIGNED by Updike. A short story with a new foreword by Updike for this edition. Note on the printing of this edition by the publishers laid in.$150.00Marvin: Blue Cloud Quarterly (1963). First edition. 7 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Volume XVII, Number 1 of the Blue Cloud Quarterly. SIGNED by Updike on the front cover.$45.00NY: Knopf, 1966. First edition. 259 pp. Top and fore-edges grubby (from a light dampstain), else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a light sticker shadow at base of spine. SIGNED by Updike on the front free endpaper.$40.00Greenwich: Crest/Fawcett (1965). First edition. 175 pp. Previous owner's name stamp to first leaf, else near fine in illustrated wrappers; a mass-market paperback original. Collects THE CARPENTERED HEN and TELEPHONE POLES in one volume. SIGNED by Updike on the title page.$35.00Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1984. First edition. 566 pp w/reference maps. Fine in full gilt-decorated leather. a.e.g. Ribbon place maker bound-in. Illustrated by Reinord Von Whitt-Pritchette. “A special message” by Uris, not in the trade edition. One of an unstated limitation SIGNED by Uris.$20.00Victoria: Press Porcépic (1982). First edition. 115 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems, illustrated with drawings by Tony Urquhart. SIGNED by Jane Urquhart on the title page.$35.00London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1970). Uncorrected proof. 208 pp. Light sunning to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Dated (1969) and warmly INSCRIBED by Vaizey.$35.00San Francisco: Wire Press (1980). First edition. 137 pp. Uneven toning to spine and rear cover, else near fine in printed wrappers. Dated (16 April 80) and INSCRIBED by Valaoritis.$45.00San Francisco: Wire Press (1980). First edition. 137 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Poems with illustrations by Marie Wilson. Dated (Oakland 7 May 80) and INSCRIBED by Valaoritis, “For Bob Pearlman / whose photograph is I believe / in all the newspapers of the future / with friendly greetings, / Nanos.”$25.00San Francisco: City Lights Books (1990). First edition. 88 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Poems translated from the original Greek. Dated (Berkeley 6/6/90) and INSCRIBED by Valaoritis to poet Leslie Scalapino.
$100.00NY: chantpress, 1962. First edition. 12mo. [28 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 225 numbered copies SIGNED by Van Den Heuvel. Poems, of a Beat sensibility, printed letterpress in Greenwich Village. Each cover individually decorated. Penned inside this cover is an advertisement for THE EO7 WILD WEST SHOW to be published in Fall ‘64.$25.00London: Joe DiMaggio Press, 1975. First edition. 30 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Van Dias to another poet.$30.00Norfolk: New Directions (1942). First trade paperback printing. [24 pp]. Very good plus in like dust jacket. Dated (8/14/42) and briefly INSCRIBED by Van Doren. Also bears a non-authorial gift inscription. A volume in the "Poet of the Month" series.$20.00NY: William Sloane Associates (1946). First edition. 131 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with wear to crown of spine. SIGNED by Van Doren on the verso of the second free end paper.$85.00Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964. First trade paperback printing. 57 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Van Duyn to a fellow poet, “For ____ / (THANK you for / delivering my poems / in Eugene!!) / Mona Van Duyn.”$50.00NY: Knopf, 1993. Uncorrected proof. 83 pp w/notes. Fine in printed blue wrappers. SIGNED by Van Duyn on the title page.$45.00NY: Knopf, 1990. Uncorrected proof. 69 pp w/notes. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Van Duyn on the half-title page.$35.00Port Townsend: Copper Canyon (1975). First edition. [28 pp]. Very good plus in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Some wear at crown of spine. Designed and printed by Tree Swenson and Sam Hamill. SIGNED by Van Dyke on the colophon page. Laid in is a brief TLS from Van Dyke.
$200.00Clonmel: Coracle, 2011. First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in full orange cloth with stamped spine and front cover with bound-in ribbon ties. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 80 numbered copies. Each of the drawings is laid in, numbered, and SIGNED by Van Horn.$200.00NY: Greenberg (1950). First edition. 210 pp. Damp stains to bottom edge and rear panel, else very good plus in like dust jacket with corresponding staining. Bookplate removal evidence to first leaf. INSCRIBED by Van Vogt over the glue stains, “For Dick Wald / Good luck, good wishes / and al the best in the world / with your own enterprises, / & may you prove as / invaluable as the people / in this story / A E van Vogt.”
$250.00NY: Gnome Press (1952). First edition. 223 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two short edge tears. Cover art by Ric Binkley. INSCRIBED by Van Vogt on the front free endpaper, “For Richard Wald / It developed that this / was a story women / could like - and you, / also, I hope. Best, / A. E. Van Vogt.”$200.00NY: Simon & Schuster 1948. First edition. 246 pp. Generic bookplate to front free endpaper, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with one short closed tear. INSCRIBED by Van Vogt, “For Richard Wald / The first of two Null-A /stories, with a third in works! Best - A E Van Vogt.”$150.00San Francisco & Columbia: Underwood-Miller, 1982. First edition, signed issue. 126 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. One of 200 copies SIGNED by Vance. Originally published in paperback as SLAVES OF THE KLAU in 1958.$85.00London: Severn House (1987). First UK edition. 240 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Vance on the title page.$85.00San Francisco & Columbia: Underwood/Miller, 1979. First edition. 194 pp. Light foxing to top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. One of 450 copies. SIGNED by Vance on a label affixed to the second blank leaf.$55.00Los Angeles: Red Hill Press (1974). First edition. [26 pp, printed on rectos only]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 200 copies. Text reproduced from the calligraphy of Rosie Thomas. Beautifully INSCRIBED by Thomas on the first leaf, “for my great & good friend / John Montgomery / Banzai! / John Thomas / June 1974.”