From Baldwin and Capote to Warhol and Wright, James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue of signed and inscribed modern first editions. Highlights include Men of the Deep Waters by William Hope Hodgson, with autograph letter; Jorge Amado's most famous novel, Dona Flor e seus dois Maridos as seen above; and Graham Greene's own copy of The Power and the Glory.
![Item #329657 CARELESS LOVE [Poems]. Allen Ginsberg](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/329657.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1676476161)
Madison, [Wisconsin]: The Red Ozier Press, 1978. First edition, limited to 280 numbered copies. Signed. Printed for the benefit of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Boulder, part of the Naropa Institute. Two poems which previously appeared in his book "Gay Sunshine" Read More about CARELESS LOVE [Poems
Price: $125
[San Francisco]: City Lights, 1975. First edition. SIGNED BY GINSBERG ON THE TITLE-PAGE. The introduction states: "This is the complete verbatim transcript of Allen Ginsberg's peace Conspiracy testimony as witness for Yippie-Activist-Pacifist defendants in 1969 Chicago Seven trial...". Uncommon when signed by Allen Ginsberg. Read More about Chicago Trial Testimony
Price: $450
[Gottingen, Germany: Expanded Media Editions, 1973]. First German edition, signed issue, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Allen Ginsberg on the title page (as issued), text in German. SIGNED. Read More about Iron Horse
Price: $175
Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, [printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press.], 1980. First Edition, No. 62 of 330 copies, signed by Gordimer on the colophon. SIGNED BY NADINE GORDIMER. Read More about Town and Country Lovers
Price: $125
London: The Bodley Head, [1967]. First edition. Number 21 of 500 copies specially bound and signed by Greene. Read More about MAY WE BORROW YOUR HUSBAND and Other Comedies of the Sexual Life
Price: $400
New York: Harcourt, 1994. First edition. SIGNED. Read More about Snow Falling on Cedars
Price: $400
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company Inc, 1976. Early reprint Edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on ffep: "December 28, 1982/Jack B. Good-with/ warmest wishes to you/ and your family, from/ me and the whole Roots/ family of Kunta Kinta!/ Sincerely,/ Alex Haley. " Read More about Roots
Price: $350
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1929. No. 50 of 175 copies SIGNED BY HEYWARD and the designer JOSEPH SANDFORD. Signed by the Author and Designer. Read More about The Half Pint Flask
Price: $300
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1945. First edition. Signed. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf. Himes' first novel, a sexually-charged exploration of the alienated consciousness of an African-American worker in an armaments plant in Los Angeles during World War Two, it earned him critical praise, favorable comparison..... Read More about If He Hollers Let Him Go
Price: $2,000
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1914. First edition. Inscribed, with Autograph Letter, signed, 1915. Collection of short stories by author William Hope Hodgson, esteemed for his supernatural novels The House on the Borderland (1908). The Ghost Pirates (1909), and The Night land (1912) and for his stories of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder (1913)..... Read More about Men of the Deep Waters. “Deep Waters of Mysterious Seas, and the Great Deep of Life”
Price: $10,000
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. SIGNED. Signed on front pastedown "Will James '34." and above E.W. Salisbury. Read More about Sand
Price: $400
New York: Atheneum, 1960. First edition. With letter from Jarrell to the book's designer, Harry Ford. With signed letter of thanks addressed to Harry Ford (1919-1999), the book's designer, laid-in, reading in part: "I believe it's the preettiest of mine you've ever done — I couldn't like it better". Ford..... Read More about The Woman at the Zoo: Poems & Translations
Price: $1,200
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, [1947]. First Edition of the author's second book. SIGNED. Flat signed by Kees on the title-page. Read More about The Fall of the Magicians
Price: $1,800
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986. Author's copy from a limited edition of 250. Author's Copy Signed. Read More about Many Waters
Price: $650
![Item #346444 A Most Wanted Man [SIGNED Limited Edition]. John le Carré](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/346444.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1675714857)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008. Signed by the author, numbered 224 of 500 copies. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Read More about A Most Wanted Man [SIGNED Limited Edition
Price: $200
London: Chatto & Windus, 1927. First edition, no. 34 of 79 copies of the "Special edition" One of 79 Signed. Read More about The Wild Body
Price: $1,000
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence. First edition, first state. Inscribed by author on the endpaper: Dear Bert, “The grip it laid on men’s souls, its irony and fathlessness, its risks and hazards and fierce insurgencies of the blood.” p. 179 Jack London. Read More about The Game
Price: $5,000
Cairo: American University Press, [2004]. First edition in English. Signed by Naguib Mahfouz. Signed by the Nobel prize winning author (in Arabic) opposite the title page, with a note by the translator, “signed by Naguib Mahfouz, Maadi, Cairo, June 7, 2006” and inscribed on the title page, “to Bob Silvers..... Read More about The Dreams. Translated by Raymond Stock
Price: $2,000
New York: Random House, -1965. Advance reading copy of the first edition. ADVANCE READING COPY SIGNED BY PETER MATTHIESSEN. This novel was made into a movie of the same name. Read More about At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Price: $450
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. First Trade edition. Signed. Signed by Maugham on the half-title. Read More about Strictly Personal
Price: $300
London: Jonathan Cape, 1992. First edition, No. 31 of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Signed, Limited edition. Read More about Black Dogs
Price: $200
New York: Julian Meissner, [1956]. First Edition. INSCRIBED TO HER AGENT AT PUBLICATION. Inscribed on the ffep to her agent: "To my dear friend Jacques – in gratitude for his patience, kindness and smart head. With love, Grace Metalious Sept 27, 1956." The book was published in late September, 1956..... Read More about Peyton Place
Price: $7,500
New York: The Viking Press, [1964]. Signed Limited First edition, one of five hundred copies for private distribution and four hundred ninety-nine copies for sale. SIGNED BY ARTHUR MILLER on colophon page. Read More about After the Fall
Price: $400
New York: Viking Press, 1949. First edition, Second Printing before Publication. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on the title-page: "To Frank Krohn Best, Arthur Miller." Read More about Death of a Salesman
Price: $4,000
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First edition. A Rare Inscribed Copy. INSCRIBED on the flyleaf: “For Ruth Cooper, Without whom nothing [underlined] would happen right! Best luck, Arthur Miller.” A fine association copy of this book, which is rarely found inscribed. Ruth Cooper worked for MCA Management, Ltd., which..... Read More about A View from the Bridge
Price: $1,500