Chapel Hill: Contempo, 1932. Original wrappers. Single large sheet, folded once to form four pages. Folded horizontally, with old fold line vertically, edgewear, starting at horizontal fold line, very good. Poems and prose by Faulkner.
![Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife [true first edition, hardcover issue]. William H. Gass](/pictures/thumb/822.jpg?v=1608694830)
Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. One of 400 hardcover copies printed, of which 100 were signed by Gass; this copy one of 300 unsigned. Published as TriQuarterly Supplement #2. Original black cloth with photos inlaid on front and rear boards, no jacket as issued. Printed on varying.....
New York: Grove Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. First edition of Gilb's first collection to be published since suffering a stroke in 2009. 194 pp. A fine copy in a jacket with a tiny crease on the lower corner of the front flap, else fine. Signed by Gilb on the.....
Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1993. First edition. 196 pp. Black boards, spine lettered in gilt, with front and rear covers mounted on boards. The uncommon hardcover edition of this collection of essays by this "Black, lesbian, Native American, raised poor, ex-Catholic, fantasy-fiction author." Fine copy.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., [1927]. First edition. 94, 15 [catalog] pp. Deep maroon paper boards, printed label on front cover and spine, with the dust jacket. Slightly rubbed at head and tail of spine and lower front hinge; the jacket is a bit rubbed and has some.....
San Mateo: The Greenwood Press, 1942. First edition thus. Original wrappers. [14] pp. String-sewn wrappers with glassine jacket. Minor browning to glassine and lower edge, near fine. A short poetical passage from Wolfe's great novel Of Time and the River. One of 150 numbered copies printed by Jack Stauffacher. An.....
London: Covent Garden Press, 1972. First edition. Original Wraps. Number Three of the Covent Garden Essays, one of 100 copies (of a total edition of 600) signed and numbered by the author. 22 pp. Printed stapled wraps. Slightly sunned at spine, else a fine copy.
Hove: CodeX, 1996. First edition thus. Original wrappers. 79 pp. Glossy perfect-bound printed wrappers. Minor surface wear, gift inscription to inside rear cover, near fine. First publication thus; previously self-published by Hell's CUZ editions in 1991, this edition with a new afterword by the author. Originally written in 1973, Hell.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008. First edition. 129 pp. White paper boards, spine lettered in red, with the dust jacket. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine, some minor shelfwear to the uncoated jacket. Basis for the film, and now scarce in the first edition.
London: Cassell and Company, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 442, [10] pp. Original brown publisher's cloth, lettered and ruled in black, gilt, and blind. Spine gilt rubbed, some edgewear. An early post-apocalyptic novel, the book describes the ecological repercussions of an unspecified catastrophe. Jefferies was one of the great nature writers.....
![Already Dead [first edition, signed]. Denis Johnson](/pictures/thumb/2111.jpg?v=1641275726)
New York: HarperCollins, 1997. First edition. 437 pp. Black paper boards over black paper backstrip, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of jacket spine, near fine. Johnson's follow-up to his classic collection Jesus' Son, a murky noir set on the northern California.....
![Resuscitation of a Hanged Man [first edition, review copy, signed]. Denis Johnson](/pictures/thumb/2110.jpg?v=1641275760)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First edition. 257 pp. White paper boards over white cloth backstrip, spine lettered in black, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to head and tail of jacket spine, some minor toning to jacket, near fine. Review copy, with review slip, promo material, and.....
Toronto: Anson-Cartwright Editions, 1984. First edition. 101 pp. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Slight edgewear to jacket, which is just slightly taller than the book. Illustrated with two wood engravings by David Jones. One of one thousand copies printed on Zephyr Antique Laid at the.....
Los Angeles: Femme de Chartres Books, 2001. First edition. Original Wraps. First edition, one of 75 numbered copies printed. 22 pp. Original printed stapled wraps. Scarce first book by the award-winning actress and composer. With a full-page inscription by the author on the copyright page, dated 2002. Very faint sticker.....
New York: New American Library, 1974. Glossy folder with "Erica Jong" sticker on front cover. Minor browning to folder, a few acidic sheets within. Contains the following materials: stapled pamphlet, "Free Preview Chapter of Fear of Flying," signed by Jong on the front cover; glossy 5x7 photograph of the author;.....
Flushing [Holland, printed in Trieste]: September 1912. First edition. Broadside. 23 x 9 inches. White wove paper, printed signature (‘James Joyce’) at foot. Three horizontal folds, small marginal tears in 3rd fold, some minor handling wear, overall near fine or better, a beautiful copy of an excessively rare and fragile.....
New York: Joyce Memorial Fund Committee, distributed by the Gotham Book Mart, 1941. First edition. Original wrappers. Stapled printed wrappers. One of 700 numbered copies, of a total edition of 800. Facsimiles of Joyce manuscripts, with commentary by Maria Jolas and Padraic Colum. Frontispiece portrait of Joyce by Jo Davidson.....
[London]: [The Corvinus Press], 1937. First edition. [56] pp. Publisher’s flexible orange vellum, lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. One of 175 numbered copies printed on Arnold handmade paper. Flaking to top edge of boards, occasional light spotting throughout, as always seen, due to.....
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. First edition. xvi, 64 pp. Original printed wrappers, in publisher’s slipcase. One of 500 copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen paper, of a total edition of 650 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Joyce by Brancusi. A fine copy with supplied later acetate wrapper, in the original.....
New York/Philadelphia: Octagon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux/The Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1975. First edition. One of 1775 numbered copies. Three volumes in publisher's slipcase. Full blue cloth lettered in white. Some rubbing to slipcase, volumes about fine. Critical introduction by Harry Levin, bibliographical preface by Clive Driver. Volumes.....
New York: The Gotham Book Mart, 1947. First edition. 44 pp. Printed paper boards over quarter cloth backstrip. Rubbing and browning to edges, corners bumped. Edel's brief and poignant account of his visit to Zurich and Joyce's grave. Inscribed by Edel on the front free endpaper and dated March 1947.....
Los Angeles: Cloverfield Press, 2005. Second printing. Original Wraps. First edition, second printing, stated. Embossed on the title-page with the Cloverfield Press mark, and hand numbered (no. 1368). Stapled wraps, as issued, with letterpress-printed dust jacket and endpapers. Illustration by Emma Hedditch. Although not called for, this copy is signed.....
![The Country Doctor [cover title]. A collection of short stories translated from the German and...](/pictures/thumb/1993.jpg?v=1618534292)
Oxford: Counterpoint Publications, 1945. 47, [3] pp. String-sewn printed wrappers. Covers rubbed with edgewear, slight chipping and some creasing. Uncommon collection of Kafka's tales. Includes On the Gallery; The New Barrister; Jackals and Arabs; A Message From the Emperor; Worries of a Family Man; Eleven Sons; An Old Manuscript; Fratricide;.....
![The House of Sleep [first edition, in dust jacket]. Anna Kavan](/pictures/thumb/1734.jpg?v=1616886628)
Garden City: Doubleday, 1947. First edition. 223 pp. Gray cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black and blind, with the dust jacket. Some minor browning to rear jacket panel, tiny chip to head of jacket at rear panel spine, but overall a very sharp and clean example, rare in.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1936. First edition. Two volumes. 1936 volume: printed paper boards, no dust jacket as issued. Some rubbing and staining to boards, spine browned. Gallup states that 513 copies total were printed, of which 204 were in boards. 1937 volume: printed paper boards, with the dust jacket.....