Modern literature, including poetry, science fiction, detective, and popular pulp literature.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1939]. First edition. One of Ambler’s most celebrated novels and the basis for the 1944 film, A Coffin for Dimitrios, starring Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, and Zachary Scott. Rare. Read More about The Mask of Dimitrios
Price: $850
New York: November 29, 1933. Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Sherwood Anderson
Price: $1,500
nd. An uncommon typescript copy of Auden's Pulitzer Prize-winning poem, prepared by a collector and signed by Auden at the poem's conclusion. "The Age of Anxiety," a six-part ecologue concerned with the increasing industrialization of modern life, served as the basis for a symphony composed by Leonard Bernstein shortly after..... Read More about Typescript, Signed of "The Age of Anxiety, A Baroque Eclogue" prepared by a collector...
Price: $600
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1956]. First edition. First edition, inscribed by Berryman on the front free endpaper: "To Tim and Else Phelps, with the best wishes of John Berryman. Mpls 23 Febr 57" Read More about Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Price: $1,500
London: Wm. Muir, 1920. No. 21 of 50 [i.e., 32] copies, signed by Muir. Muir Facsimile. Read More about The Book of Thel
Price: $3,000
London: Faber and Faber, [1959]. First edition. Hugo Award Winner. Blish’s novel of a Jesuit priest on the planet Lithia, where the inhabitants seem to have evolved to behave to the highest ethical standards but without concepts of religion or original sin. Winner of the Hugo award for best novel. Read More about A Case of Conscience
Price: $1,500
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel / Nordisk Forlag, 1942. First edition. "Navigare necesse est..." Signed with Blixen's personal motto. Signed on the half-title, with the motto Blixen adopted as a youth: "Karen Blixen.– Navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse." (To sail is necessary, to live is not necessary.) The famous quote is..... Read More about Vinter-Eventyr
Price: $2,250
N.p: Printed for Private Circulation Only, [1894]. First edition. A classic of homoerotic literature and of the greatest rarity. This tale of the tragic love between a priest and his 14-year-old acolyte is believed by Timothy d'Arch Smith to be the precursor of Ronald Firbank's witty novel, Concerning the Eccentricities..... Read More about The Priest and the Acolyte
Price: $2,500
London: Sidgwick & Jackson [Printed at the Complete Press, West Norwood], 1915. First edition of the poet's posthumous second book. ‘But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold’. Handsome copy of this landmark book of verse. Read More about 1914 and Other Poems
Price: $4,000
London: Heinemann, (1956). First edition, Proof Copy. PROOF COPY OF HIS FIRST BOOK. Read More about Times for a Tiger
Price: $2,000
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, [1936]. First edition. The eighth book of the Mars series. Read More about Swords of Mars
Price: $1,100
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1914. First edition, first state, with printer’s name set in two lines of Old English type. The first edition of the first Tarzan novel — a brighter than usual copy. The child of Lord and Lady Greystoke who were marooned in West Africa, Tarzan ("White..... Read More about Tarzan of the Apes
Price: $5,000
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [co. 1914]. Reprint. Inscribed by Burroughs to 'Jane'. Inscribed by Burroughs to Maureen "Jane" Farrow on the ffep, "… with all good wishes from her old friend and admirer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzana, California, January 31, 1938." Maureen O'Sullivan Farrow (1911-1998) played Jane alongside Johnny..... Read More about Tarzan of the Apes
Price: $7,500
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, [1932]. First edition. The sixteenth book in the Tarzan series. Read More about Tarzan Triumphant
Price: $750
New York: Grove Press, [1962]. First American edition. Inscribed on the title-page, "For Bob Wilson all the best at Thanksgiving William S. Burroughs Nov 23, 1974." Read More about Naked Lunch
Price: $3,500
New York: Grove Press, [1967]. First American edition, revised and expanded from the Olympia Press edition. Inscribed on the title page: “for Bob Wilson | William S. Burroughs”. Read More about The Ticket that Exploded
Price: $2,000
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916. First edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on ffep by Bynner as Emanuel Morgan, to his Santa Fe friend, Mirandi Masocco: "Reflecting the year of her birth, Hal fondly presents Mirandi to that old fake, Emanuel Morgan." (Hal was Bynner's nickname.) A fine copy of this volume of..... Read More about Spectra. A Book of Poetic Experiments. By Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish
Price: $500
Los Angeles: 29 May 1942. Chandler Sells Part of His Soul. Chandler assigns film rights for his third novel, completed in March 1942, here still bearing his original title, The Brasher Doubloon as well as the alternate title that Chandler gave it at Blanche Knopf’s suggestion. The High Window was..... Read More about Original Typed Document, signed in ink (“Raymond Chandler”), dated 29 May 1942, assigning...
Price: $10,000
Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First edition. Clancy's first novel, INSCRIBED on the half title "To Vicki / with best wishes / Tom Clancy" Read More about The Hunt for Red October
Price: $1,500
New York: Random House, [1940]. First edition, advance copy with publisher’s notice laid in. Source for the classic 1943 Western staring Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn. Read More about The Ox-Bow Incident
Price: $1,250
Colombo, Ceylon: 24 Sept 1959. "All education and experience is important to a writer ... " Written in response to Hartley's TLS asking: "How important ... was [your] high school education, and is college experience necessary for creative writing?" Hartley had cited the biographical sketch in MODERN SF, and Clarke..... Read More about Typed Letter Signed ("Arthur C. Clarke") to Westley S. Hartley, in response to the...
Price: $600
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