The Texas Stories of Nelson Algren
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. xviii, 159 pp. More
Literature
Anderson's Alice
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 8.25 x 10.25 in. x, 111 pp. Anderson's illustrated version of Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This version is notable for its limited colot palette, with all of the illustrations rendered in black-and-white line drawings accented by..... More
The Book of Illusions
New York: Henry Holt, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 8.75 in. 321 pp. Signed by Auster on a bookplate on the half-title page. More
Staring at the Sun
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 8.75 in. 197 pp. Signed by Barnes on the title page. This is Barnes' fourth book. Jacket illustration by Javier Romero. More
Three Occasional Pieces
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Small thin octavo. 4.5 x 7.75 in. 32 pp. More
A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2012. Third Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.75 in. 237 pp. Illustrated with black & white maps. Inscribed by Berry on the title page, includes a separate gift inscription to previous owner. More
She Woke Me Up So I Killed Her
San Francisco, CA: Cadmus, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 91 pp. Collection includes thirty years of Bowles' translations including stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Ramón Sender, Ramón de la Serna, Giorgio de Chirico, and thirteen others. More
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5 x 8.25 in. 226 pp. Brautigan's tale of the "romantic possibilities of a public library in California," where anything and everything published may be catalogued and stored. The book does not appear to be an ex-library copy..... More
Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel 1942
Mattituck, NY: Amereon Ltd., [2009]. First Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 220 pp. From a limited Amereon edition bound in cloth. More
Fog: The Jeffrey Stories
Asheville, NC: Safe Harbor Books, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small octavo. 5.25 x 7.75 in. 278 pp. Inscribed by Brookhouse on the title page. More
Fire Station
Santa Barbara, CA: Capricorn Press, 1970. First Softcover Edition. Paperback. Octavo. 6.25 x 8.75 in. 23 pp. Issued simultaneously with 100 hardcover copies. More
Post Office
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Sixth Paperback Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. 115 pp. Post Office is Bukowski's first published novel. Author's photograph by Sam Cherry. More
Olympia: A Monthly Review from Paris–Number One
Paris: Olympia Press, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Small quarto. 7 x 10 in. 80 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs and drawings. Contributors include authors William Burroughs, J.P. Donleavy, Maxwell Kenton, Harriet Daimler, Terry Southern, poet Lawrence Durrell, photographer Robert Doisneau, an article about..... More
The Early Seventeenth Century 1600–1660: Jonson, Donne, and Milton
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 1990 Printing. Hardcover. Thick octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. viii, 680 pp. Originally published in 1945. Oxford History of English Literature series. More
The Jade Mountain
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. xxxvii, 279 pp. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to William Griffith, author of the "American Scrapbook," a collection of prose published in 1930. The book is also accompanied by a brief note from..... More
The Plague
New York: Modern Library, 1962. Early 1960's Modern Library Printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 7.25 x 5 in. 278 pp. This is an early printing of the 1960s Modern Library Edition. Lists 415 titles to verso of dust jacket. More
The Weight of a Piano
New York: Knopf, 2019. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 6 x 8.5 in. 323 pp. Signed by Cander on the title page. More
Forced Entries The Downtown Diaries, 1971–1973
New York: Penguin, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Octavo. 5 x 7.75 in. vii, 184 pp. Carroll's memoir of life in New York's bustling downtown scene in the early 70s. The sequel to The Basketball Diaries, which was made into a film in 1995, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Paperback original..... More
The Panic Hand
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. 295 pp. More
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
London: Macmillan, 1893. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5 x 7.5 in. xxiii, 423 pp. More
The Gaudy Place
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., 1973. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.25 in. 178 pp. More
The Inkling
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 153 pp. Signed by Chappell on the title page. More
It Is Time, Lord
New York: Atheneum, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. 183 pp. Signed by Chappell at the top of the title page. This book is in great shape, with clean pages free of foxing, and marked only with the remnants of a small sticker on the..... More