Paternity Test: Broadside Poem.
n.p. Wood Works, 2004. Limited Edition. 1/310 copies. A Fine copy of this poetry broadside. Together with "Ebbets Field" by Dick Lourie. Each poem signed by the poet.
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Home Town: The Face of America. Photographs by Farm Security Photographers.
New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1940. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy with a touch of sunning to the top edge of the boards in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to the front panel and missing a piece from the bottom.....
American Art Deco.
New York: Abrams, 1986. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with light sunning to the spine. This splendid book explores the indigenous tradition of Art Deco in America and, in over 500 illustrations, reveals the beauty and extent of the.....
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B & Back Again).
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This copy is initialed "AW" by Warhol. In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, which is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections, Warhol talks about love, sex.....
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race to Space.
New York: St. Martin's, 1999. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by Cernan. Eugene Cernan was the 12th and last man to walk on the moon as the commander of Apollo 17, the last.....
Reach For the Sun: Selected Letters 1978-1994. Volume 3.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1999. Limited Edition. A Fine unread copy in mylar Dj. This is #259 of 376 copies with a Bukowski seriagraph tipped in. These letters cover the final years of Bukowski's life, a bittersweet period that brought fame and prosperity along with tuberculosis and leukemia. Bukowski's correspondents.....
Screams From the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1993. Limited Edition. A Fine copy in a mylar dj. 1/600 copies Signed by Bukowski & numbered. "I wrote letters because they just came out. They were a need. A scream. A laugh. Something...I never thought of an audience outside of the letters. If I had.....
North. Translated by Ralph Manheim.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1972. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Today, Celine is still considered one of France's most controversial writers denounced as a charlatan, a racist and a Nazi sympathizer. "North" is considered one of Celine's major.....
Some Memories of the Civil War together with an Appreciation of the Career and Character of Major General Israel Putnam Leader of the Colonial Wars and in the American Revolution.
New York: Putnams, 1928. Second Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy with the top edge gilt in a Near Fine (extremely rare) dust jacket. The ten chapters in this memoir were originally conceived as topics for separate lectures and are collected here for the first time. The contents.....
Men with Custer: Biographies of the 7th Cavalry.
Hardin: Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum, 1995. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. How and when some 210 soldiers under George Armstrong Custer’s direct command died remains a mystery because there were no acknowledged survivors. This is a book about.....
Democracy in America. The Henry Reeve Text as Revised By Francis Bowen. Now further correcterd and edited with introduction, editorial notes, and bibliographies by Phillips Bradley.
New York: Knopf, 1980. Later printing. Two Volume set complete. Both volumes are Fine in Near Fine dust jackets. First published in Paris in 1835 and reprinted many times in the 19th Century, but long out of print in this country until its1945 edition. "Democracy in America" has long been.....
Hymn: A Broadside Poem.
Pleasant Valley: Kriya Press, 1967. Limited Edition. 1/100 copies published. Though uncalled for, this copy is signed by Di Prima. A Near Fine copy. Measures 11 x 17. Catalog Creme.
Commodore Hornblower.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1945. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner name on the front pastedown in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Commodore Hornblower works as a historical novel of the Napoleonic era and as a reminder of the immense struggles and.....
The Life of Langston Hughes. 2 Volumes: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America; Volume II 1941-1967 I Dream a World.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. First Printings of the First US Edition. Both Volumes are First Printings. Both volumes are Fine copies in Fine unclipped dust jackets. Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful.....
The Young Hemingway.
New York: Blackwell Publishing, 1986. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket . This is the first volume in Reynolds' five volume Hemingway biography which greatly expands our knowledge of the writer who began carving out his mythic image at an early age.....
This is My Own.
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with three discreet spots to the bottom edge of the rear board in Very Good plus price-clipped dust jacket with a small narrow stain to the lower rear panel. Upon his return.....
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century.
London: Oxford University Press, 1954. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Near Fine copy with a bookplate on the front pastedown in a Near Fine dust jacket with some light age darkenng to the spine. Contains 696 pages. Catalog Creme.
Fiction and the Figures of Life: Essays.
New York: Knopf, 1971. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by Gass on the title page. This volume collects 24 literary essays by the modern master of literary criticism, range from discussion of Gertrude Stein and.....
Sexus, Plexus & Nexus: The Rosy Crucifixion. Three Volumes Complete.
New York: Grove Press, 1965. First Printings of the First US Edition. A Near Fine crisp set of the trilogy in Fine bright unclipped jackets in the slipcase. There is a hardly discernible scrape across the front of one volume, else Fine. This trilogy centers on the somewhat fictionalized life.....
Sunday After the War.
New York: New Directions, 1945. 2nd Issue of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Very Good, lightly chipped dust jacket at the head of the spine. The only difference in the 2nd issue and the 1st is the weight of the paper used and the color of the.....
The Hornblower Companion.
Boston: Little Brown, 1964. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities and a small ink marking on the rear panel This is Forester's story of how the Hornblower saga came into existence. Forester.....
Routes and Rocks: Hiker's Guide to the North Cascades From Glacier Peak to Lake Chelan.
Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1965. First Printing of the First Edition. This book has been long Out of Print. A Near Fine bright copy virtually unread in illustrated boards. All three maps are present. No names or markings to the text. Many of the trails in this book are no longer.....
Conquest of the Coeur D'Alenes, Spokans & Palouses. The Expeditions of Colonels E. J. Steptoe and George Wright Against the "Northern Indians" in 1858.
Spokane: John W. Graham & Co., 1912. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy with age darkening to the spine and board edges. No dust jacket. Illustrated. In 1858, Colonel Steptoe led a detachment of 164 soldiers to the Washington Territory to engage local tribes but.....
Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, with Pound's Critical Essays and Articles about Joyce. Edited and with commentary by Forrst Read.
New York: New Directions, 1967. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This is the record of one of the most interesting personal relationships of modern literature. Between 1913, when Yeats first called Joyces's work to Pound's attention, an 1920.....
The Outsider 4 & 5: Embracing a 46-Page Homage to Patchen. Wtih pressed flower from near Geronimo's grave.
Tucson: Loujon Press, 1968/69. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Very Good plus example of the uncommon dust jacket with foxing to spine. 1/500 copies.