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![Archive of] NEW YORK CITY IN 1979: to Jeanne’s insulted beauty. Kathy ACKER](/pictures/thumb/22819.jpg?v=1561473077)
[Archive of] NEW YORK CITY IN 1979: to Jeanne’s insulted beauty
[New York]: [Various], [1979-1991]. Photocopy of typescript with one page original typescript bearing top-copy typed corrections and holograph number, that page taped to verso of letterhead. 60pp. printed on recto only, stapled at top right corner with neat tape reinforcement over staple on title page. Light wear to title page.....
HENRY JAMES: Selected Letters
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Touches of rubbing to jacket. Mild shelf-wear. Else clean and sound throughout. DJ unclipped. 587pp.
THE HEART OF A WOMAN
New York: Random House, 1981. First Edition. 8vo. Black boards over black cloth spine, stamped in red. In white pictorial dust jacket. Light scuffing and toning to jacket, with one small closed tear to front panel. Minor wear to boards. INSCRIBED on ffep: "Caroline Little, / Joy! / Maya Angelou.....
THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
New York: The Heritage Press, (1955). First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to. Maroon and beige woven cloth, maroon lettering to spine, title illustration to front. In maroon publisher's slipcase with original Sanglass newsletter and Member's bill for the title with envelope laid-in. Spine cloth age toned, outer page edge moderately foxed.....
THE STORY OF MY TYPEWRITER
New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2002. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and white boards in pictorial dust jacket. Mild edgewear and toning to jacket. Edition of 5000 copies. SIGNED by Auster on title page. Very good plus. 78pp. Collaboration pairing Auster's story of his Olympia manual typewriter, his 26-year companion, with "Sam.....
A MEMBER OF THE TRIBE
New York: Lyle Stuart, Inc., (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a like jacket. 8vo. Green cloth. Red reflective lettering to spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped. Jacket lightly edgeworn. Cloth clean, sound. Presumed first edition (no later printing stated to copyright page). Dust jacket retains original price.....
BELIEVERS: A Novella and Stories
New York: Pantheon, (1997). First Edition. Wraps. Fine in a near fine slipcase. 8vo. Illustrated wraps. In original publisher's slipcase. ADVANCE READER'S EDITION / ARC. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR to first endpaper. Slipcase lighly shelf worn. Otherwise about fine. Fantastic signed advance copy of Baxter's fifth collection of short stories.....
THE SHOGUN'S DAUGHTER
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original lavender cloth. Very good minus. Some mottling to cloth, rubbing. Spine faded. Else clean and sound. INSCRIBED by author Bennet to ffep. Scarce thus. With five pictures in color by W. D. Goldbeck. [Smith B-508]. 420pp.
HIJACK!
Ellensburg, WA: Vagabond Press, (1982). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled self wraps. Very good. Significant toning inside and out. Else clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Promo materials from Vagabond Press laid in. 47pp. One of 300 copies. A "white paper" by Bennett discussing a "two-week whirlwind bookselling tour thru Washington.....
IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS
Ellensburg, WA: Vagabond Press, (1982). First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled self wraps. Very good. Significant toning inside and out. Trace soiling, mild corner crease to rear. Interior clean, unmarked. Binding sound. 38pp. One of 300 copies. A "white paper" by Bennett collecting essays on various topics. Cover subtitle reads "Eleven.....
LA INVENCION DE MOREL
Buenos Aires: Emecé Editories, 1953. Later printing. Wraps. 12mo. Wraps. Moderate edgewear, scuffing to corners and spine ends. Diagonal crease to back cover. 155pp. Very good minus. In Spanish. Seventh book by Bioy Casares and winner of the 1941 First Municipal Prize for Literature of Buenos Aires.
2666
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008. First English language edition. Wraps. 8vos. Wraps. Three volumes in slipcase, all near fine. Bolano's last novel, published in three paperback volumes, in English translation by Natasha Wimmer.
THE LOST HORIZON
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1921. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Very good plus. Touches of rubbing to cloth. Else clean, bright and sound. Ex-pat Europeans in revolutionary Central America. Scarce. 341pp.
![BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON [Complete in Four Volumes]. BOSWELL, James](/pictures/thumb/12786.jpg?v=1561471801)
BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON [Complete in Four Volumes]
London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859. Hardcover. 8vos. Original publisher's stamped decorative cloth with gilt spines. Good overall;. Some starting here and there. Cloth worn, rubbed. Couple of chips at spine. But clean and sound overall. A handsome edition of one of the greatest biographies ever written.
KRIEGSFIBEL
Berlin: Eulenspiegel, 1955. First Edition. 4to. Black cloth boards, moderately rubbed and bumped, in black and white photographic dust jacket. Some chipping and scuffing to edges and corners of jacket. A little creasing to endpapers; pages lightly toned. Very good overall. In German. "War primer" made up of poems, commentary.....
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF STERLING A. BROWN
New York: Harper and Row, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed boards in original dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Brown at the title page, "FOR ---- / With best wishes,/ Sterling A. Brown / DECEMBER 1980". Very good. Jacket lightly rubbed and worn with spots of soil at rear. Interior.....
THERE'S NO BUSINESS
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. Third printing. Wraps. Small 4to. Saddle-stapled pictorial wraps. A good plus copy. Some yellowing to wraps, and dampstaining to pages, resulting in light wrinkling throughout. Owner's name to FFEP. Else unmarked. Binding sound. 17pp. Bukowski's short story of a Las Vegas stand-up comedian, illustrated.....
![RIENZI: The Last of the Roman Tribunes: Romanesque Edition [Two-Volume Set]. Lord Edward...](/pictures/thumb/19580.jpeg?v=1561472493)
RIENZI: The Last of the Roman Tribunes: Romanesque Edition [Two-Volume Set]
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [ca. 1890-1900]. Hardcover. 8vo. Gray cloth with gilt-stamped design and titles. Both vols. about very good plus. Very light sunning to spines. Ownership stickers on endpapers. Interiors bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 247pp. (vol. I); 261pp. (vol. II). Includes numerous photographic plates in B&W.....
CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT: A Boy's Book
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1981]. First Edition. Wraps. Tall 8vo. Uncorrected proof. Perfect bound in original pink wraps. Photocopy of jacket copy laid in. Title written in pen at spine. Spine sunned and edges lightly worn with creasing at corners. Marginalia throughout. Very good. Uncorrected proof copy belonging.....
ALBERT CAMUS READING IN FRENCH
New York: Caedmon Records, [1960]. First Edition. 33 & 1/3 RPM LP album, no. TTC 1138. Vinyl near fine. Album cover very good plus, with minor wear to edges/corners. Selections from La Peste, La Chute, L'été, and L'Etranger, read by the author (in French.) Cover design by S. Neil Fujita.....
ALBERT CAMUS: His Works And His Voice
n.p. Les Disques de France / Period Music Co., [ca. 1950s]. First Edition. 33 & 1/3 RPM 12-inch LP album, no. FRL 1534. Vinyl near fine. Cardboard sleeve heavily scuffed along edges, cover moderately rubbed. Lower joint split, with tears starting at spine and upper edge. Four selections by Camus.....
SEASONED TIMBER
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full, coarse linen cloth covered boards, paper title label to spine, in original publisher's slipcase. Color woodblock print frontispiece illustration by Paul Honore. Ccase moderately worn at edges, held together well. Cloth with mild handling wear, interior bright, clean, unmarked. Attractive.....
MADONNA RED
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth in black dust jacket. Jacket rubbed with light wear at edges. Interior clean and bright. Very good. 313pp. First edition of Carroll's novel about an IRA assassin in the United States, influenced by Carroll's experience as a......
THE LONG GOODBYE
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original blue and green cloth in dust jacket (by Walter H. Lorraine). Jacket rubbed and edgeworn, with large chip to top of spine. Unclipped ($3.00). Cloth a little soiled with some rubbing at the extremities. Tape offsetting to front and rear.....
THE JOURNALS OF JOHN CHEEVER
New York: Knopf, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black boards in glossy printed dust jacket. A near fine copy in a very good plus DJ. Jacket toned at edges. Interior bright and clean. Tight. Almost certainly unread. 399pp. Introduction by Cheever's son Benjamin, and editorial notes by Robert Gottlieb.....