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 BESTIAL WAIL...
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)
Naked Lunch
New York: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Printing [1962]. A Near Fine copy of the book with a small mark to the foot of the spine. In..... (Item #3046)
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)
Le Deuxieme Sexe (in 2...
[Paris]: Gallimard, [1949]. First edition. Original publisher's cloth bindings with titles to spine and pictorial illustrations of Mario Prassinos to boards. Pegasus motif endpapers. Gentle rubbing to extremities of spines;..... (Item #2869)
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)
20 hrs. 40 min.: Our...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. An about Fine copy of the book, sharp, square and unread and with the gilt bright. In a Very Good dust..... (Item #1822)
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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)
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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Absalom, Absalom! (Signed Ltd.)
New York: Random House, 1936. First Edition. One of three hundred signed copies (copy 96). Complete with author's signature on the limitation page and the folding map in the rear..... (Item #2153)
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)
Light in August
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. First edition. A very nearly Fine copy of the book with some offsetting to the end-papers near the gutter, otherwise clean and..... (Item #1503)
Light in August
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. First edition. A Fine copy of the book in a very Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket spine a trifle faded, two..... (Item #2976)
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 Sound and the Fury...
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition. A Fine copy of the book in a Very Good+ to Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket with the spine faded..... (Item #2932)
The Unvanquished (Signed Limited)
New York: Random House, 1938. First Edition. Octavo, original half burgundy cloth and patterned paper boards, top edge gilt. Number 9 of two hundred fifty signed copies. Complete with author's..... (Item #2199)