Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. 1st. Tall 8vo. [4] pp. SIGNED by Bukowski on title page. Cream paper covered boards with color design & lettering to front board; turquoise endpapers. Faint age toning else a fine copy. Published for the friends of the Black Sparrow Press on the occasion..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. First Edition. Presentation copy, INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication "To G. M. Acklom/God bless him/both his grin &/his reports on books./Sinclair Lewis/Aug. 31, 1915." Acklom was a British writer, editor, prolific book reviewer, translator and contributor based in New York..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 1st. First Edition, Limited to 300 copies in this format (although not numbered), SIGNED by Thompson. Large 8vo. 756pp. Index. Foreword by David Halberstam; edited by Douglas Brinkley. Full burgundy leather with gilt lettering and decoration to spine with 8 raised bands; the Gonzo..... More
New York: United Feature Syndicate, 1934. First Edition. 4to. [57] leaves. 17 plates illustrated by Gustave Dore; facsimiles. Card of Monte Bourjaily, Editor and General Manager of United Feature Syndicate, clipped to ffep with manuscript note 'With appreciation of/your support on an/historic occasion.' Black pebbled leatherette with gilt lettering on..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1877. First Edition. Small 8vo. With half-titles. bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red leather with gilt decoration to spines; black leather spine labels with gilt lettering; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; AEG. Two abrasions to rear board of Volume I else a fine set. More
Monterey, CA: Monterey History and Art Association; The Jo Mora Trust; Carpe Diem Fine Books, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. First Edition, limited to 400 copies. Quarto; 44pp, stapled wraps. Photograph on front cover of Mora on board the cruise ship 'Silverwillow' at his typewriter. Staplebound wrappers in fine condition, as..... More
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1892-1897. Complete in 41 volumes. Small 8vo. Various paginations; many pages uncut. Illustrated plates with tissue guards (including frontispieces). Uniformly bound by Brentanos in three-quarter blue leather with glt lettering & decoration to spines; gilt ruling; TEG; marbled endpapers. Minor wear to extremities with some board corners..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1945. First edition, second issue. 8vo. 208pp. Canary-yellow cloth in color printed dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities; short closed tears at spine ends). John Steinbeck's iconic novel set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, on a street lined with sardine..... More
San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1918. First Edition Thus. 8vo. vii, 282pp. Edited, with an introduction, by Porter Garnett. Illustrations by Maynard Dixon. Half-bound with rough-weave linen spines/tips & blue paper-wrapped boards; printed paper title labels to spine. Lightt age toning to spine; small chip to spine lable; minor wear to..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. First Hardcover Edition. 8vo. 247 pp. Yellow cloth in illustrated dustjacket. A very good copy (spotting to front board; wear to dustjacket extremities with small paper loss along lower edge of front & rear cover). "... a probing analysis of a man caught in the..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1947. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to previous owners of Mission Ranch in Carmel, CA. 8vo. 214 pp. Blue cloth with red lettering in very good condition. Light wear to extremities; small white spot to lower front board. The author, son of the owner..... More