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.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. First edition of author's first book. O'FLAHERTY'S FIRST BOOK (SIGNED AND IN DUST JACKET). Thy Neighbour's Wife' is an attempt to write a book about life in the Aran Islands from the point of view of a native..." (from the dust jacket). Liam O'Flaherty was born..... Read More about Thy Neighbour's Wife
Price: $1,000
[Dorchester: Cid Corman, printed by Mossen Alcover at Palma de Mallorca, 1953]. First edition. Inscribed. Nice copy of this collection, issued as number 8 in Cid Corman’s Origin series. This copy is inscribed to Olson’s friends and correspondents Mary and Bernhard “Knollie” Knollenberger. Bernhard Knollenberg was a lawyer and Revolutionary..... Read More about In Cold Hell, In Thicket. Origin 8
Price: $2,500
New York: Doubleday, 2001. First edition. Signed and with a Typed Letter Signed. First edition, signed by Palahniuk on the title page. With a 1 page Typed Letter Signed with approximately 20 words of holograph additions in black and red ink. Dated October 22, 2004 from Vancouver, Washington, the letter..... Read More about Choke
Price: $300
London: Privately printed [by Elkin Mathews], 1916. First edition, first impression with unabridged text, number 61 of 200 copies, Signed by Pound with his chop. One of 200, Signed. Read More about Lustra
Price: $2,500
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1992. First edition. Signed. The inspiration for the movie by Spike Lee (1995), as well as the inspiration for HBO's The Wire. Read More about Clockers
Price: $100
New York: Putnam, 1978. First edition , limited issue, one of 350 signed copies. Inscribed. Inscribed to Roslyn Targ on the colphon page: "For Roslyn Patent Wife Thank God. Affectionately, Mario. Read More about Fools Die
Price: $750
New haven: Yale University Press, 1951. First edition, one of 551 copies. INSCRIBED. Published when Rich was a 21-year-old senior at Radcliffe, A Change of World is the poet's first mature book, preceded only by juvenilia. Volume 48 of the Yale Younger Poets series edited by W. H. Auden, one..... Read More about A Change of World. With a foreword by W. H. Auden
Price: $2,000
London: Duckworth & Co, [1919]. First edition. The fifth volume in the author's 'Pilgrimage' series. Signed, in Jacket. Signed by Dorothy M. Richardson on the half-title page. One of her thirteen-part Pilgrimage novels, a modernist roman à clef with a pioneering use of stream of consciousness, that treats the author's..... Read More about Interim
Price: $850
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Dwiggins, W.A. First edition, one of nine copies on green paper. Signed. ONE OF NINE. Read More about Sonnets, 1889-1927
Price: $2,500
London: Jonathan Cape, 1995. First British edition, one of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. A brilliant copy of the limited edition, signed and numbered by Rushdie on the title page. Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; shortlisted for the 1995 Book prize. Read More about The Moor's Last Sigh
Price: $300
London: Jonathan Cape and Granta Books, 1990-2005. All first UK editions. A fine collection of Salman Rushdie works, including 3 signed first editions and 4 uncorrected proofs, as follows: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, London:1990, signed by the author on a tipped in bookplate East, West, London: 1994, signed..... Read More about Salman Rushdie collection: signed first editions and advanced proofs
Price: $500
[Saratoga, Ca: 1980]. First edition, one of 150 signed copies. SIGNED. Read More about Mappings
Price: $600
New York: Gotham Book Mart, June 1973. First edition. Signed. Signed on the cover by Smith in blue ink. Read More about Witt
Price: $500
[Glasgow]: The Caledonian Press, 1947. First edition. "CAROTID CORNUCOPIUS" BY SYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH (1947) (INSCRIBED BY THE POET). Inscribed and signed by Sydney Goodsir Smith: "For John Boyes/ with regards/ from/ Sydney Goodsir Smith" (on front flyleaf). The recipient is Professor John Boyes of Newcastle Upon Tyne (with original 1954..... Read More about Carotid Cornucopius: . Caird O The Cannon Gait and Voyeur O the Outluik Touer... A Drammantick,...
Price: $400
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. First edition, first printing. Signed. An excellent copy of this National Book Award-winner. Inspired by the Merry Pranksters, this is the story of some post-Vietnam characters who get involved in a heroin-smuggling deal that goes bad, and a clear eyed journey to the heart of..... Read More about Dog Soldiers
Price: $300
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed “For Frannie Ness, with best wishes, Robert Stone”. Read More about A Hall of Mirrors
Price: $2,000
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California: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1979. First edition, one of a few unnumbered copies, for presentation, signed by William Styron, and inscribed by the publisher, for author John Cheever [colophon page states: "330 copies. 300 are numbered, 26 lettered and four bear the printed name of a recipient"]. "PRESENTATION COPY FOR..... Read More about Shadrach [Short Story
Price: $950
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1928. First edition, first printing (with page 33/34 tipped in, printing Tate's iconic poem 'Ode to the Confederate Dead'). SIGNED COPY, IN DUST JACKET. Tate's first collection of poetry (preceded only by 'The Golden Mean,' written in 1923 with R. Wills, and his 1928..... Read More about Mr. Pope and Other Poems
Price: $2,000
London: Longmans, 1964. First edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Signed by the author in 2000. The Marsh Arabs is an account of Thesiger's time in the marshes of southern Iraq where he lived from the end of 1951 until June 1958. He writes in the introduction: "From my recollections, helped..... Read More about The Marsh Arabs
Price: $1,150
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1998]. First edition. Signed on tipped in card on the half-title. Read More about The Rum Diary. The Long Lost Novel
Price: $600
Santa Barbara, California: Neville Publishing, 1991. Steadman, Ralph. First edition, No. 60 of 300 numbered edition printed by Patrick Reagh and signed by Hunter S. Thompson. Signed. Read More about Screwjack
Price: $900
Santa Barbara, California: Neville, 1991. Steadman, Ralph. First edition. Copy H of 26 copies, signed by Hunter S. Thompson. Signed. Read More about Screwjack
Price: $2,000
New York: The Macaualy Company, [1933]. First edition of the author's second novel. WITH 2 THURBER DRAWINGS. With pencil portrait of Malcolm Cowley by Thurber on the ffep, entitled "Portait of the Artist as a Young Man" signed by him, additionally signed by Cowley on the half-title and with a...... Read More about Yesterday's Burdens
Price: $5,000
New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1996. Uncorrected advance proof. Signed by the Author. "Infinite Jest" is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch it over and over. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball..... Read More about Infinite Jest
Price: $5,000
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]. First edition. Signed "AW" Signed with initials. Read More about The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Price: $1,200