Modern literature, including poetry, science fiction, detective, and popular pulp literature.
Paris: Gallimard, 1962. First trade edition. INSCRIBED TO COLETTE'S HUSBAND. This collection of poems, Cocteau’s final book, published just a year before his death. This copy warmly inscribed at length by Cocteau and signed by him with his characteristic star flourish to his good friend Maurice Goudeket, who was married..... Read More about Le Requiem
Price: $750
London: Gollancz, [1982]. First London edition and the first edition in hardcover (originally published by Bantam in trade paperback format in 1981). Winner of the World Fantasy award. “the best fantasy novel I’ve ever read. Period.” — Thomas M. Disch. Read More about Little, Big
Price: $750
4 Patchin Place, [New York]: May 16, 1946. “the enclosed is what I happen to believe …”. “the enclosed is what I happen to believe. If your friend, the South American poetess, still wishes to 'interview' me after she has read and understood it — fine and dandy; provided she'll..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Cummings”), to Howard Rothschild
Price: $1,500
New York: The Brownstone Press, 1965. First edition, copy 99 of 100 copies printed. Diane Di Prima's first book of poetry (This Kind of Bird Flies Backward) was published by Totem Press in 1958 and she has published nearly four dozen books since then. She is considered a bridge figure..... Read More about Combination Theatre Poem & Birthday Poem for Ten People
Price: $2,500
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Santa Ana, California: 10 January 1981. ‘I am one of the secret Christians battling the Black Iron Prison’. An outstanding letter from Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), the “Shakespeare of Science Fiction”, writes (in part): “And in March 1974 I saw a prison; we are in it; I call it (as..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Love, Phil”), to “Pat” [Patricia Warrick], 10 January 1981, on...
Price: $7,500
Amherst, MA: 2 October 1992. Samuel Delany on science fiction criticism, with overdue apologies. An interesting and digressive letter: “Dear Tom, “At long last I’m getting a manuscript back to you — with a long and unhappy tale. “In 1990, Johns Hopkins University Press sent me the enclosed manuscript of..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed (“Samuel R. Delany”), to science fiction author Tom Disch, discussing...
Price: $1,500
N.p: May 6, 1926. Dreiser on His Portrait in Vanity Fair. Not long after publication of AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY and at the height of his fame, novelist Theodore Dreiser responds to a letter from Portland, Oregon, collector Frederick W. Skiff, who later sold his American literature collection to Mrs. Estelle..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed (“Theodore Dreiser”), to Frederick W. Skiff
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[Hollywood]: March 19, 1926. Dreiser Sells the Movie Rights to AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. Dreiser sells the film rights to his classic novel for $80,000. Interestingly, Horace Liveright — Dreiser’s publisher — was to receive the sum of $10,000, which, In the initial version of this contract, was to be paid..... Read More about Document Signed ("Theodore Dreiser") three times, agreement with Famous Players-Lasky...
Price: $7,500
London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones., Paternoster-Row, 1821. Cruikshank, I.R. and George. First edition, first issue, with first music sheet unnumbered and no footnote on page 9 and the word "good-bies" in the first line of p.376. Hand-colored plates and fold-out music. First edition of this colorful classic, which engendered numerous..... Read More about Life in London or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and His Elegant Friend...
Price: $3,000
London: William Blackwood, 1860. First edition, first state, with the following points: no advert leaf in vol. 1; 16 pp publisher's catalogue at rear lists the 7th edition of Adam Bede. An unusually nice copy of Eliot's second novel, her follow up to Adam Bede. It sold 4600 copies within..... Read More about The Mill on the Floss
Price: $2,750
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. First edition. Presentation from Eliot to Allen Tate. With the error at page 29, line 1 “here” for “her.” A remarkable association copy, with the following pre-publication presentation inscription from Eliot to his American friend and admirer, poet and critic Allen Tate: "To Allen Tate..... Read More about The Cocktail Party. A Comedy
Price: $6,000
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1953]. First edition. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIOT on the front free endpaper: "To Ronnie Duncan from T.S.E. 23.iii.54" Ronald Duncan (1914-1982) was a poet and playwright who was also published by Faber and Faber. This is an early inscription. Read More about The Confidential Clerk
Price: $2,400
London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. First Edition. With TLS to Louis Untermeyer. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, WITH A REVEALING LETTER BY ELIOT. Louis Untermeyer's copy, with newspaper clippings neatly pinned and laid-in at front and with a TLS from Eliot mounted on the pastedown, 16 August 1961. Eliot replies to..... Read More about On Poetry and Poets
Price: $2,500
New York: Smith and Haas, 1935. First edition, NO. 267 OF 310 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Faulkner. One of 310 Copies, Signed. Read More about Pylon
Price: $2,750
New York: Random House, [1938]. First edition. Read More about The Unvanquished
Price: $2,000
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First edition, some battering to type pp 38, 90, 248, first issue jacket with no battering to lips on front panel. First edition of Fitzgerald's third collection of short stories. Read More about All the Sad Young Men
Price: $3,500
London: David Nutt, 1913. First Edition, Second Issue, Binding D, No. 126 of 135 copies, signed and numbered by Frost. This issue offered by Louis Cohn of House of Books when he bought the remains of Dunster House Bookshop from Maurice Firuski. Read More about A Boy's Will
Price: $4,000
New York: Henry Holt and Company [The Spiral Press], [May, 1936]. First edition, no. 634 of 803 copies signed by Frost. LIMITED EDITION, FURTHER INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the ffep by the author "To Mary and Barrett Brown/ from/ Lesley and Robert Frost/ Amherst 1936." Read More about A Further Range. Book Six
Price: $750
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [June, 1962]. First edition. Inscribed on ffep: "To Ruby Dagget librarian of a great bookstore and one of my oldest and best friends Robert Frost Dartmouth 1962." Dagget had worked at the Dartmouth bookstore. Read More about In the Clearing
Price: $750
New York: The New American Library, [1966]. First edition. Author’s First Book, Inscribed. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “For G— P— with best wishes, William Gass”. Read More about Omensetter's Luck
Price: $550
Paris: Marc Barbezat, [1956]. Giacometti. Copy # 1338 of a limited edition of 3000 copies printed on Lana paper. Read More about Le Balcon
Price: $500
[San Francisco]: City Lights Books, [March, 1966]. Fifth edition. Pocket Poets Series no. 14. Presentation Copy. Strange now to think of you gone … Ginsberg’s other long poem, in memory of his mother, Kaddish For Naomi Ginsberg 1894-1956. The first five editions were printed letterpress by Villiers in England (printer..... Read More about Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960
Price: $500
Dublin: C. Jackson, 1780. First Dublin edition. The rare first Dublin edition of Goethe's immensely popular Sturm und Drang epistolary novel of unrequited love. First published in German 1774 and in English translation (from the French) in 1779 in London, from which this first Dublin edition takes its text. According..... Read More about The Sorrows of Werter: a German Story
Price: $3,250
Capri: February 3, 1912. “creating … a new and irreconcilable enemy in Persia”. Frederick Whelen was a member of the Persia Committee, which was a group formed in opposition to Britain's policy toward Persia in the wake of the 1907 Anglo-Russian treaty, which crushed the nascent constitutionalist movement and divided..... Read More about Typed Manuscript, signed (“M. Gorkii”), warning of the consequences of the Russian invasion...
Price: $7,000
