Signed. Three-quarter view of Edward Abbey, who stands in a bookstore with one with one hand on his hip, smiling cryptically. Signed photographs of the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang seem surprisingly scarce. Read More about Portrait Photograph of Edward Abbey, signed
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Var, France; Berkeley, Brooklyn, etc: 1973-1982. ‘No one has ever given me such a boost’. Correspondence from poet and novelist Paul Auster to poet Charles Simic early in Auster’s career, evolving from an initial formal typed letter, expressing admiration and seeking a contribution to Living Hand, to a steady and..... Read More about Group of Correspondence to Charles Simic, comprising 1 Typed Letter, signed, and 10 Autograph...
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Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1985; 1986; 1986). First editions, each title one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author on the limitation leaf. 1 of 26 Signed copies. The complete New York Trilogy, Paul Auster's classic meta-fictional detective story, in the smallest limitation, one of 26 lettered..... Read More about The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room
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Paris: La Mandragore, [1945]. Masson, Leon. Copy no. 35 of a total edition of 170, this is one of 12 copies containing an extra suite in black and white numbered 25-36. Read More about Un Mangeur d'Opium. Extrait des Paradis Artificiels
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New York: Grove Press, Inc, [1957]. First American edition. Inscribed. Briefly inscribed by Beckett on the title page: "For Dan Pope from Samuel Beckett." The title page is additionally signed by Grover Press publisher Barney Rossett. It is hard to overstate the importance of Rosset in promoting the publication of..... Read More about All That Fall
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New York: Grove Press, Inc, [1958]. First American edition, clothbound trade issue. Inscribed by Samuel Beckett on the title page: "for Dan Pope with best wishes Sam Beckett, July 1988." Additionally signed by Barney Rosset, Grove Press publisher, on the front flyleaf. Along with Waiting for Godot, Endgame is considered..... Read More about Endgame. A Play in One Act followed by Act Without Words. A Mime for One Player … Translated...
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New York: Grove Press, [1954]. First edition in English (translated by the author), preceding the British edition. Beckett’s Masterpiece, Inscribed. Inscribed by Beckett, "for Dan Pope from Sam Beckett". Additionally signed by Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset. The preferred issue of the English text of the Nobel Prize winner's most..... Read More about Waiting for Godot. Tragicomedy in 2 acts
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New York: Grove Press, [1959]. First American edition. Copy number 2 of 4 numbered copies marked hors commerce and signed by Beckett. Barney Rosset’s Copy. This is copy number 2 of 4 numbered copies, marked hors commerce, and signed by Beckett (presumably Beckett was given copy number 1). Additionally this..... Read More about Watt
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Paris: The Hours Press, 1930. First edition of the author's first book, , signed by Samuel Beckett, ad personam issue, designated by Nancy Cunard “For Norman Douglas”. Beckett’s ‘Whoroscope’ Ad Personam Copy for Norman Douglas. Nancy Cunard first met Norman Douglas, in Florence, in 1923. Douglas dedicated his novel Nerinda..... Read More about Whoroscope [A Poem
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New York: Doubleday, Page, [October], 1906. First edition, BAL state A (no priority). SIGNED BY BIERCE. First edition of a work (comprising definitions for A through L) that later gained fame as The Devil’s Dictionary (a complete alphabet was published in 1911 as volume VII of the Collected Works). Bierce’s..... Read More about The Cynic's Word Book
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[n.d., ca. 1930s?]. My station in life Is that of a clerk. But privately There are two things I love Surpassingly: Good wine And the women Of other men. Acting script of the Ethel van der Veer translation of a Chinese play, Circle of Chalk, which tells a tale of..... Read More about Circle of Chalk. (Written and produced probably in the 13th or 14th century A.D.) [Caption title
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Paris: YMCA Press, 1967. First edition. The first publication of this now celebrated satirical novel (after serialization in two issues of a Russian language periodical). The tiny marginal notations appear to correspond to the page numbers in the Harper and Row proofs of the American edition, suggesting the hand of..... Read More about Master i Margarita. Roman [Title in Russian]. [The Master and Margarita
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August 3, 1950. Published: Mademoiselle, April 1951. Collected in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958). The Mademoiselle magazine file copy of the typescript, with editorial corrections, of Truman Capote’s acclaimed story, “House of Flowers”, the story of Haitian prostitute Ottilie, beautiful and strong-willed yet doomed by circumstances. With a short typed note..... Read More about The House of Flowers. Corrected Typescript
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [June], 1913. First Edition, first issue with date on title-page and copyright page. Read More about O Pioneers!
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Iowa City: The University of Iowa Center for the Book, 1990. First edition. Copy 73 of 130 numbered copies, signed by Amy Clampitt and Margaret Sunday. Beautiful fine press production of work by Amy Clampitt (1920-1994), whose books include The Kingfisher (1983) and What the Light Was Like (1985). She..... Read More about Manhattan. An Elegy, and Other Poems
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Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing Company, 1878. First edition, preceding the English edition. Published in October, 1878. Collins’ novel of intrigue and experimental chemistry was serialized in Belgravia from June to November 1878. This Canadian printing precedes the Chatto & Windus edition, published in two volumes in 1879. Read More about The Haunted Hotel. A Mystery of Modern Venice
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1959. First edition. Inscribed to Journalist Earl Wilson, a great association. Inscribed to Rosemary & Earl (Wilson) on the ffep NY 3/25/59 "with warm best wishes and affection." Earl Wilson ran the 6-days-a-week syndicated column, "It Happened Last Night," which described the ins and..... Read More about The Manchurian Candidate
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1970). First edition. Inscribed by Didion on the ffep. Following the novel Run River and the collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem, this was her breakthrough book. It is the the tersely-told story of Maria Wyeth, a thirty-one year old who knows “the meaning of nothing,”..... Read More about Play It As It Lays
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[Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig], 1892. First edition. The first separately published work by Norman Douglas, with his surname misspelled, an offprint limited to "about 50 copies for private distribution" and preceded only by periodical appearances. Written by Norman Douglas following a brief visit to the island of Santorin..... Read More about Zur Fauna Santorins [drop title]. [At head of title] Separat-Abdruck aus dem »Zoollogischen...
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[London]: The Zoologist, 1894. First edition, The author's second separately published work, an offprint from The Zoologist, printed in an edition of "about fifty copies for private distribution". Very uncommon. Read More about Contributions to an Avifauna of Baden. [At head of title:] Reprinted from ‘The Zoologist’ for...
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Chelsea, New York: Privately Printed, n.d. [1927]. No. 3 of 27 copies on Marlowe Antique. “Twenty-seven copies of this book have been printed privately in New York. Each copy contains a sheet of the original manuscript — Copy number one contains sheets one and twenty-eight of the manuscript” (from the..... Read More about The Carnegie Works at Pittsburgh
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[Louisville, Kentucky, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts: 1995]. Published: Louisville: White Fields Press, 1995. “Published in Heaven Chapbook” Series no. 56. With 4 Original Drawings. In Search of Eros is a chapbook celebrating poet and publisher and artist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, reproducing images of his graphic art and collecting essays by Ron Whitehead..... Read More about In Search of Eros [aka Travels in America Deserta]. [Original Art and Production Archive
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The Bungalow, Baldrine, Isle of Man: 1983-1993. A choice clutch of correspondence from George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), author of the enormously popular adventures of Flashman, cad and scoundrel — or, “a coward, a bully, and a satyromaniacal philanderer” (ODNB) — who is nevertheless at the heart of the military and..... Read More about 3 Typed Letters, signed (“George Fraser”), to Robert E. Skinner, on the Flashman novels,...
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1933. Inscribed beneath, “Robert Frost, For Ada Snelf March 4, 1933, Amherst Mass” Snow Falling After it Clears In the thick of a teeming snowfall I saw my shadow on snow. I turned and looked back up at the sky, Where we still look to ask the why Of everything..... Read More about Autograph Mansucript, signed (“Robert Frost”), a Fair Copy of "Snow Falling After it...
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923. First edition, trade issue. NEW HAMPSHIRE with 11-line HOLOGRAPH POEM, with UNRECORDED TITLE. Inscribed and signed by Robert Frost, with an eleven-line poem in ink holograph on front flyleaf, with unrecorded title ("Winter Will Go") with eight variant textual differences from the final..... Read More about New Hampshire. A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes
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