Let Us Now Praise Famous...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. A Near Fine copy on account of a faint red smudge to the closed page block, not affecting the inner sheets, otherwise in excellent..... (Item #1715)
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En attendant Godot [Waiting for...
Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1952. First edition. A Near Fine copy of the first trade edition, following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book, uncommon in this condition..... (Item #2261)
All the Assholes in the...
Bensenville, Ill. Open Skull Press, 1966. First edition. Publisher's illustrated saddle-stitched wrappers, 12 unpaginated leaves, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. One of about 400 copies. This copy in Fine condition with..... (Item #639)
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Flower, Fist, and the Bestial...
Eureka, CA: Hearse Press, [1960]. First edition. One of 200 copies of Bukowski's debut chapbook. This copy one of approximately five "author's edition" copies with an original illustration by the..... (Item #1041)
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The Master and Margarita
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First edition thus. First Harper and Row edition, and the first US translation by Michael Glenny. This translation follows the Mirra Ginsburg translation..... (Item #3136)
The Master and Margarita
New York: Grove Press, 1967. First American edition. The first appearance of the Master and Margarita in the US. Translated by Mirra Ginsburg. Preceding the other American edition of 1967..... (Item #3296)
A Clockwork Orange
London: Heinemann, 1962. First edition. Fine in original black publisher's cloth, in just about Fine jacket. Trivial toning to text block; unmarked but for a neat ownership signature to the..... (Item #3422)
Everybody Does It (Presentation Copy)...
New York: Signet Books, 1949. First Edition. No. 759. First printing of this edition. Inscribed by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / With my..... (Item #2069)
Galatea (Presentation Copy)
New York: Signet Books, 1954. First Edition. No. 1152. First printing of this edition. Inscribed by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / Another in..... (Item #2066)
Love's Lovely Counterfeit (Presentation Copy)...
New York: Signet Books, 1957. First Edition. No. 1445. First printing of this edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / With warmest..... (Item #2065)
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The Moth (Presentation Copy)
New York: Signet Books, 1950. First Thus. No. 811. First printing of this edition. Inscribed by the author to Signet Books founder Kurt Enoch: "To Kurt Enoch / 'Long may..... (Item #2067)
Serenade (Inscribed)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. 2nd Printing. Inscribed by the author in the year after publication: "To Miriam Geiger / In memory of pleasant times / James M. Cain..... (Item #1917)
Serenade (Signed Association Copy)
New York: Penguin Books, 1947. First Thus. No. 621. First printing of this edition. Signed by James M. Cain on the first blank. From the Kurt Enoch collection, with a...... (Item #2071)
In Cold Blood
New York: Random House, 1965. First edition. Near Fine in like jacket, with just a hint of toning to front and rear panels. Gentle rubbing to lower corners. Top stain..... (Item #3425)
The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales...
Gantt, Alabama: Whipporwill Publishers, 1973. First edition. A Fine book in like jacket, with very slight foxing to the closed textblock and a miniscule closed tear to the bottom edge..... (Item #3915)
The Lady in the Lake...
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1944. First UK edition. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Faint publisher’s stamp to rear free endpaper verso. Spine minimally..... (Item #2960)
Jericho The South Beheld
Birmingham: Oxmoor House, 1974. First Edition. Folio (measures 406 x 330 mm). Number seven of ten numbered copies signed by Dickey and the book's production team. Publisher's full leather with..... (Item #2482)
An American Tragedy (Presentation copy)...
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Limited Edition. Two volumes in original publishers' boards. One of 795 deluxe copies, this one marked for Presentation, signed on the limitation page and..... (Item #2644)
The Waste Land
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922. First Edition. Flexible covers. A remarkably well preserved copy of T. S. Eliot's magnum opus. A true first state copy with flexible boards and..... (Item #464)
Invisible Man (Signed First Edition)...
New York: Random House, 1952. First edition. A Near Fine copy, signed by the author on the front free end paper, in a supplied, Near Fine dust jacket (with correct..... (Item #3959)
The Fine Art of Mixing...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1948. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author: "To my very good friend and associate, Ernst Lampe. Cordial-ly yours, Dave Embury." A lovely just about..... (Item #1031)
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A Fable (Signed Limited Edition)...
New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. One of a thousand of the signed limited edition, this being number 245. A just about Fine copy of the book that appears..... (Item #3045)
The Old Man (Presentation copy)...
New York: Signet Books, 1948. First edition thus. First publication of "The Old Man" as a stand-alone work (originally published as part of "The Wild Palms"). Inscribed by the author..... (Item #2038)
The Wild Palms (Signed Limited...
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Octavo, with burgundy quarter cloth over wood-grain papered boards. Copy 148 of two hundred fifty copies, signed by Faulkner on the limitation page..... (Item #2200)
The Beautiful and Damned
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First edition. A lovely, Fine copy of the book in a bright nearly Fine dust jacket. Slight wear at the crown, one short tear..... (Item #3002)