The Last Poem [and] Tough Company (INSCRIBED by Wakoski)
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Dian Wakoski. Small 8vo. [7] pp. Color illustrated string-tied wrappers in fine condition. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Dian Wakoski. Small 8vo. [7] pp. Color illustrated string-tied wrappers in fine condition. More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. Limited #144 of 226 copies. SIGNED by Bukowski on colophon. Small 8vo. Purple cloth spine over color illustrated boards in fine condition. Includes fine copy of the softcover edition. More
San Francisco: Edited and published by John Kelly, May 23, 1959. First Edition. 4to. [22] mimeographed leaves stapled with an illustrated cover on blue paper (with no rear cover, as issued). Cover pulled away from lower staple, general wear; a very good copy of a rare early issue of this..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author "For Dr. Hull, who was there, who is here, and who has my deep thanks for the memories. Fondly, Wil Haygood Feb 2004". Dr. Hull was the renowned eye and ear surgeon who attended to Sammy Davis following..... More
1961. Holograph note on 2 1/2" x 5" slip of paper. Fine condition. "To M.B. - Robinson Jeffers/March 2 1961/my favorite - I have seen and not fallen,/I am stronger than the idols - Women at Point Sur" In early 1961 a friend of the inscribee, "M.B", wrote to Jeffers..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Trade Edition, 1 of 750 (of 1000) unnumbered copies. SIGNED by Charles Bukowski, with 3 original ink drawings, at rear. 8vo. 205 pp. Publishers black cloth spine over illustrated paper covered boards. A fine copy in publisher's acetate dustjacket. Bukowski's second novel and..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1937. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on half-title page. 8vo. 154 pp. Teal blue cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Slight fading to gilt lettering on spine; else fine in fine dustjacket. Chosen from 1340 manuscripts submitted to the publisher's "Novelette Contest"..... More
New York: Putnams, 1911. First Edition. 8vo. vi, 374 pp. Color frontispiece by A.G. Learned, with tissue guard. Striking gilt decorated lavender cloth decorative binding designed by margaret Armstrong housed in scarce publisher's worn slipcase. The book is in exceptionally fine condtion. A tale of unrequited love, leaving the protagonist..... More
new York: Edward J. Clode, 1903. First Edition. 8vo. 317 pp; some pages uncut. With illustrations by the prolific Arthur William Brown. Striking decorative brown cloth stamped in white, red and green with gilt lettering, floral endpapers; in the scarce publisher's brown dustjacket printed in red. The book is in..... More
New York: Published by the author, July, 1935. Second Printing. 8vo. 223 pp. Stiff pale yellow wrappers with yapp edges, printed in red and black. Light general soiling; fading and rubbing along spine; a very good copy. "H.T. Tsiang's satiric, quasi-experimental novel...explores leftist politics in Depression-era New York..." The first..... More
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1899. First Edition. 8vo. 329 pp. Two illusrated plates by Powell Chase (including frontispiece with tissue guard). Dark green pictorial cloth in very good condition (light wear to extremities; front hinge cracked; softening of spine ends). A fictional account of the life of James..... More
Westlake Village, CA: Fantagraphics Books, 1988. First Edition Limited #55 of 400 copies. SIGNED & numbered by Crumb on bookplate inside front cover. 4to. 128 pp. Illustrations (some in color). Introduction by Marty Pahls. Glossy color illustrated boards in fine condition. 'The Complete Crumb Comics' is a series of collections..... More
Cleveland: American Greetings Corp. 1967. First Edition. Small square 8vo. [20 pp], unpaginated. Color illustrations by Crumb. Glossy color illustrated boards in fine condition ("Aug. 1972" in ink on first page). Nineteen-year-old Crumb began designing novelty greeting cards at American Greetings Corp. in Cleveland, OH in 1962, where he met..... More
Paris: Futuropolis, 1986. First Edition Limited #908 of 1000 copies. INSCRIBED "to Michael Dusek from R. Crumb, Suave, Oct. 1995. I'll see you in hell, bubby!!!" Small 8vo. Unpaginated. Graphic illustrations by Crumb. Black leather with silver lettering, yellow silk ribbon, as issued without dustjacket. The book is in a...... More
Paris: Futuropolis, 1986. First Edition Limited #597 of 1000 copies. Small 8vo. Unpaginated. Graphic illustrations by Crumb. Black leather with silver lettering, yellow silk ribbon, as issued without dustjacket. A fine copy. Originally published in France in 1986 by Futuropolis, this first edition of "Bible of Filth" was never distributed..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989-2010. First Editions. Volumes One to Four. 4to. Each volume with a tipped-in photo frontispiece of Jeffers by Ansel Adams, Leigh Wiener and Louis Fleckenstein. Book design by Adrian Wilson. Previous owner name in Volume Four; light, general wear; light spotting on upper page edges;..... More
Black Sparrow Press, [1994]. Color broadside (13" x 6 1/2"). Photograph of Bukowski by Michael Montfort. Fine condition. Promotional broadside for the publication of Bukowski's final novel "Pulp" More
Black Sparrow Press, No date. Large color sheet (17" x 12"). Photograph of Bukowski by Michael Montfort. Fine condition, unfolded. A promotional poster listing many of Bukowski's works. More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964. First Edition. 8vo. 280 pp. Photographic illustrations. The front cover depicts Ezra Pound walking in Venice in 1963. Stiff photo-illustrated softcover in fine condiition (faint rubbing; appears unread). Includes articles by Ferlinghetti, Pound and Celine, Rimbaud, Artaud, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Neal Cassady, Frank..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Ca. 1930, with "K-E" on copyright page. Early printing. Hardcover. Quarto. (xvii) 247pp. Illustrated by the author. 36 full-page plates with 11 in color (including frontispiece) plus 2 small color illustrations; numerous in-text illustrations. Half black cloth and tan paper boards with color..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1891. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; xv, [1], 236 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates. Scattered foxing, boards slightly splayed, else a Near Fine copy of an extremely scarce book. Elegant signed Zaehnsdorf binding in full white vellum, boards ruled in gold, spine elaborately decorated with brown morocco..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, March, 1932. Twenty-fourth printing. INSCRIBED by the author "To Maurice Paquette, With all the best from Ripley "Believe It or Not". Blue cloth with red lettering in uncommon color illustrated dustjacket. Slight cocking; offsetting inside front cover; else near fine in very good dustjacket (light..... More