Modern literature, including poetry, science fiction, detective, and popular pulp literature.
Melbourne: George Robertson, 1872. Later printing. Inscribed by Twain in New Zealand. Inscribed across the title page: "Sincerely Yours/Mark Twain/Nov. 14 95/To Mrs. Fisher". On the date inscribed, Twain gave his second of three "At Home" performances at the Theatre Royal, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Twain was in the midst..... Read More about Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim's Progress
Price: $4,000
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: Methuen & Co, 1906. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE GALSWORTHYS. A superb association copy of Conrad’s novel, inscribed by Conrad to his literary friend, "To dear Ada and Jack from J.C. 1906." Conrad and Galsworthy met in 1893, on board the Torrens, whilst Conrad still followed the sea. Galsworthy was..... Read More about The Mirror of the Sea
Price: $10,000
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. First edition. Near Fine Copy of Conrad's Second Book. Read More about An Outcast of the Islands
Price: $2,000
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915. First edition. RARE IN DUST-JACKET. The stories included are "The Planter of Malata," "The Partner," "The Inn of the Two Witches," and "Because of the Dollars." Conrad wrote to Mrs. Wedgewood (to whom, with her husband, the book is dedicated): "I don't know that..... Read More about Within the Tides
Price: $2,500
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
Elizabethtown, New York: Dragon Press, 1978. First edition. Delany on Disch, Inscribed to Disch. Delany’s book-length, microscopic study of Thomas M. Disch’s story, “Angouleme”, part of the sequence collected in 334 (1972), here inscribed by the author “With great affection to Tom — without whom this book would never …..... Read More about The American Shore. Meditations on a Tale of Science-Fiction by Thomas M. Disch — Angouleme
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 your essays, The..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed (“Samuel R. Delany”), to science fiction author Tom Disch, discussing...
Price: $1,500
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1866 [1865]; 1872 [1871]. Tenniel, John. Second (first published) edition of Wonderland, with the inverted "s" in the content's leaf, last line; first edition, first issue of Through the Looking Glass with "wade" for "wabe" on page 21. Each with half-titles. Read More about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking Glass; and What Alice Found There
Price: $12,500
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
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1900. First edition. Dreiser's first novel, published by Doubleday, Page in 1900, over the objections of Frank Doubleday. Fewer than 600 copies of this edition were distributed, and subsequent editions were cut and bowdlerized. Read More about Sister Carrie
Price: $4,000
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1938. First American edition, with inserted signature leaf preceding the half title. Signed. The classic modern gothic tale, winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the 1940 film by Alfred Hitchcock. Read More about Rebecca
Price: $2,250
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: R. Cobden-Sanderson, [1926]. First edition, 300 copies printed. Dedication copy. Dedication copy, inscribed by the author, the mother of T.S. Eliot, to Eliot's sister: "Marian C. Eliot / With dear love / from / Mother." The book is dedicated: "To My Children." T.S. Eliot wrote the introduction to the book..... Read More about Savonarola. A Dramatic Poem
Price: $5,500
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 from..... 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 Limited, (1938). Fourth edition. Signed by Eliot. Signed ("T.S. Eliot") on the title-page. "In this fourth edition further rearrangements and deletions have been made, which have been found adivsable by experiment in the course of production" (Author's note, p. 7). Read More about Murder in the Cathedral
Price: $1,500
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 the..... 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
