Musk and Amber
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1942. 1st. Cloth. Octavo; viii, 303 pages. More
Literature & Poetry
Let it be a Dance (SIGNED)
Carmel, CA: Carmel Publishing Co., 2001. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited to 600 numbered copies; SIGNED by Ric Masten with personalized gift inscription. Large square 8vo. 224 pp. Illustrated by the author/poet. Publisher's order form laid in. Green cloth with gilt lettering in green cloth slipcase. A fine copy. Ric..... More
Then and Now: A Novel
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; 278 pages. More
Celine d'un Peintre a l'Autre
Van Bagaden, 1991. 1st. Paperback. First edition; Limited #117 of 120 copies. From the collection Celiniana. 8vo. Unpaginated [16]pp. Textured white stiff wrappers. Near fine. More
Nop's Trials (INSCRIBED by Doris Salinger)
New York: Crown Publishers, 1984. First Edition. INSCRIBED "Ruth [Tara Fletcher] dear, Hope all is well. They say this is like James Herriot - Hope so - love, Doris [Salinger]". Doris is the older sister of J.D. Salinger. A novel about the bond between a farmer and his black-and-white border..... More
Ghost Tantras (SIGNED)
San Francisco: Distributed by City Lights Books, 1964. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 106pp. SIGNED by McClure on title page. Stiff black & white photo-illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (light wear to extremities). McClure, American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist, found fame as one of the five poets who read at..... More
New Book/ A Book of Torture (SIGNED)
New York & London: Grove Press & Evergreen Books, 1961. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 64 pp. SIGNED by McClure on title page. White illustrated stiff wrappers in near fine condition (light tanning). McClure, American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist, found fame as one of the five poets who read at the..... More
Snow in April
Sooke [BC]: Fireweed Press, 1975. First Edition, #84 of an edition limited to 200 copies. Octavo; [33] pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates: initials in color. A Near Fine copy with a bit of soiling and edgewear. Cover drawing by Nancy Pyner. Illustrations from original linoblocks cut by Jean Rockwell..... More
Trail's End
Boston: Manthorne & Burack, 1938. Hardcover. 8vo. 322pp. Bibliography. Frontispiece photo-reproduction. Green illustrated cloth in cream and black printed dustjacket. A near fine copy (slight spine cocking) in very good plus dustjacket (minor wear to extremities; short closed tears to upper rear and spine head; darkening to spine); a nice..... More
The Archer's Quest
New York: DC Comics, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 175pp. Graphic Novel. Color illustrations. Fine condition. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Collection of Poet's first three books, each inscribed along with ALS
New Haven; Princeton; New York: Yale University Press; Princeton University Press; Alfred A. Knopf, 1944; 1948; 1957. Each volume is INSCRIBED to the poet's good friends. The collection also includes an ALS, a TLS, an INSCRIBED postcard with poem, and INSCRIBED "2 pages from a Colorado River Journal". Love Letter..... More
LAMARA AND OTHER POEMS
San Francisco: A. Roman & Co., 1878. 1st. Hardbound. 12mo, 141 pages. Wear at extremities, name stamp and early signature to ffep, else Very Good. More
Ventures in Editing (SIGNED)
Huntington Beach: James Cahill, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. SIGNED by Michener to colophon page. First edition; proof edition limited to 26 copies. 12mo. xi, 95pp. Red cloth covered boards; silver titles to front board and spine; in original red cloth covered slipcase. Fine in fine slipcase. More
A Walk on the Beach
London: Michael Joseph, 1964. 1st. Hardcover. 243 pages. INSCRIBED by the author in 1965. The volume contains eight short stories and the novella length ' Not for a Seagull,' all but one set in New Zealand. More
Batman: Year One
New York: DC Comics, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 144 pp. Graphic Novel. Color illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Le Sourire au Pied de l'Echelle (INSCRIBED)
Paris: Correa, 1953. First French. Original wrappers. INSCRIBED "For/Toby/from/Henry/5/7/58/Note:English text has/some printer's errors" (inscribee is attorney Webster ('Toby') Street, a close life-long friend of John Steinbeck). Small 8vo. 133 pp. Text in French and English. Frontispiece photo-plate of Miller. Color illustrated wrappers. Light wear and creasing to covers, Very Good..... More
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder (SIGNED)
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1948. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 124pp. Designed by Merle Armitage. "About Henry Miller" by Edwin Corle. Illustrations by Chagall, Picasso, Lautrec, Klee, Rouault, and de Segonzac. Blue and tan printed boards with black cloth spine. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION "To ---/Greetings!/Henry Miller." Spine cloth separated along rear..... More
Ancrene Wisse: Volume 2: A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 402, with Variants from Other Manuscripts
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; lvii, 477 pages. Early English Text Society #326. More
Poetical Works (6 volumes)
London: John Macrone, 1835. First Brydges Edition. Leather bound. First Brydges Edition. 12mo. Various paginations. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. With Imaginative Illustrations by J. M. W. Turner. Bound by Bayntun in full blue morocco with gilt ruling & lettering; 5 raised bands to spine; All Edges Gilt. A lovely..... More
L'automne des images: Pragmatique de la langue figuree chez George Chastelain, Francois Villon et Maurice Scève
Paris: Honore Champion, 2009. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; 345 pages. New, unread copy. More
Call of the House (INSCRIBED)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1927. First Edition. INSCRIBED "With a Gluck Auf! and every good wish for a happy and successful trip and a quick return to your friends. Faithfully, Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young. Yung See San Fong. May 31st, 1927". 8vo. 309 pp. + [2 pp publisher's..... More
Small Archive with Photograph & 2 ALS to an Ardent Admirer
The Archive includes: A 4 1/4” x 6” framed photograph of the poet showcased between an October 7, 1957 TLS and a December 1, 1956 ALS on Marianne Moore’s personal note cards. A 6” x 8” framed February 9, 1957 ALS to the admirer including a hand-addressed envelope on MM’s..... More
Seven: The New Magazine (No. 2, 4, & 8)
Cambridge, England: 1938-1939. First Edition. 8vo. Various paginations. Printed stapled softcovers in very good condition (staples are rusting; agetoning to covers; light, general wear). Contributors in the three issues includ Kay Boyle, William Saroyan, Anais Nin Laurence Vail, Wallace Stevens, Anne Ridler, Lawrence Durrell, J.F. Hendry, Dylan Thomas, Robert Yound..... More
John Steinbeck : A Collection of Books & Manuscripts formed by Harry Valentine of Pacific Grove, California (INSCRIBED by Valentine)
Santa Barbara: Bradford Morrow Bookseller, 1980. First Edition. Octavo; 154pp. A Fine copy in grey cloth, spine titled in gold (as is the Salinas Valley scene on the front cover) in fine printed dust jacket. Lists 700 items of Steinbeckiana. One of 250 hardcover copies, inscribed on ffep 'To Tom..... More
John Steinbeck : A Collection of Books & Manuscripts formed by Harry Valentine of Pacific Grove, California (INSCRIBED by Valentine)
Santa Barbara: Bradford Morrow Bookseller, 1980. First Edition Limited to 250 copies. INSCRIBED by the author. Octavo; 154pp. A Fine copy in grey cloth, spine titled in gold (as is the Salinas Valley scene on the front cover) in fine printed dust jacket. Lists 700 items of Steinbeckiana. More