Covelo, Ca. Carolyn and James Robertson. 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover. Carolyn and James Robertson. Octavo. Printed at The Yolla Bolly Press. Edition limited to 265 copies SIGNED by Garth S. Jeffers. Original glassine is present but edge worn and torn.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Doubleday & Company. Inscribed by Arriola on ffep, (Kindest Weeshes...) with a full page hand-drawn sketch of a dog looking at a ticker-tape, on first blank and an additional inscription. (Ken, This is by no means an intentional indication that.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Hardcover. Chatto & Windus. Octavo. Later printing, one volume edition. Blue cloth stamped in red and gold. This copy with the bookplate and signature of J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska's Arbor Lodge- Morton's White House look-alike. Light wear to top and bottom of spine, light.....
New York: FUCK YOU PRESS, 1965. First edition. Paperback. FUCK YOU PRESS. 8 1/2'' X 7''. Unpaginated. Light toning, still a clean, bright copy of the true first edition.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Yale University Press. Quarto. 200pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Still in original shrinkwrap.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1987. Hardcover. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Octavo. 480pp. Incl index. Tiny spot and light rubbing to edge of dust jacket.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, n.d. (1969). Hardcover. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Octavo. 659pp. Incl index. With the bookplate of Boswell scholar, Joseph Foldare. Cover has some light spots on rear panel. Dust jacket a little toned on spine.
london: Oxford University Press, 1937. Limited edition. Hardcover. Oxford University Press. Royal octavo. 359pp. Incl index. Limited to 1250 copies. With the bookplate of Boswell scholar, Joseph Foldare. Red cloth is considerably faded on spine, spine label worn, but a fresh one is tipped-in at rear of book. Slipcase broken.....
Chicago: 1958. Paperback. Scarce. Octavo.Contributors include Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Whalen, Ginsberg, McClure, Kirby Doyle, Philip Lamantia, and John Wieners Also included are episodes of William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, which was not yet published. 1" tear to spine top. Spine and edges faded, mild corner crease, light general wear. One ink notation.....
New York: McBride & Co., 1935. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. McBride & Co. Octavo. 266pp. Bookplate on front paste-down. Dustjacket is browned on spine, has some soiling and a couple small chips. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
New York: PHALANX PRESS, HALANX. First edition. Softcover. PHALANX PRESS. 8'' X 5 1/2''. 30pp. Crease to title page.
New York: THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, 1983. First edition thus. Hardcover. THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. 10 1/2'' X 7 1/2''. 103pp. Edition limited to 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator William Bailey. Bound in Burgundy aniline leather with cloth boards. The frontice piece is an original etching. Spine sunned, some.....
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1942. First edition thus. Hardcover. Philip C. Duschnes. 8'' x 5''. 60 pp. One thousand copies of this edition' planned by Bruce Rogers. The illustrations were engraved on wood by D. W. Wilson. The book is signed by Wilson. Some toning and foxing to endpapers.....
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Longmans, Green & Co. Octavo. 421pp. plus ads. Blue cloth stamped in gold. Light rubbing to spine and wear to spine ends. Ownership signature on ffep. Historical adventure novel set during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685.
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 1860. Hardcover. T.B. Peterson and Brothers. Octavo.249pp. plus 6pp. ads. In English. Black pebble-cloth stamped in gold, has a hint of fading to spine and edges. Rubbing to spine edge (1/2" frayed spot) and corners. Coated paper endpapers are rubbed a little at front hinge.....
Berkeley, CA: Bern Porter, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Bern Porter. Tall octavo. 33pp. Designed by Ben Kennedy and printed at The Gillick Press. With Drawings by Mary Fabilli. Author's first book. Fellow poet, Victor Di Suvero's copy with his signature of ffep. Di Suvero was once the editior of UC.....
San Francisco: Centaur Press, 1950. First edition. Paperback. Centaur Press. Tall octavo. Unpaginated. one of 250 copies, SIGNED by Duncan. Block printed title-page by Kermit Sheets. Sewn wrappers. Letterpress printing in black and red. Maroon paper cover is faded at edges. Ghost of former price in corner of first page.....
Berkeley Miscellany Editions. First edition. Paperback. Berkeley Miscellany Editions. Octavo. 84pp. Staplebound pamphlet with printed paper cover. 1 of 100 copies. Author's second book. Cover toned on edges and has a hint of creasing to corner and edge; first and last pages and edges toned also; with corresponding hint of.....
London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald, 1928. Limited Edition. Pictoral Paper Over Boards. Frederick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald. 80pp. plus notes. Limited to 580 copies. Uncut and untrimmed. Top onch of spine faded. Edges of boards darkened. Some offset- toning to endpapers. Dustjacket has soiling, chips and large and small.....
Pasadena: California Institute of Technology, 1981-1982. Paperback. California Institute of Technology. Square Octavo. 5 issues. Featuring authors: Ezra Pound, Edward Dahlberg, Charles Olson, James Hillman, Clayton Eshelman, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Duncan, William Carlos Williams, Paul Blackburn, Aime Cesaire, etc. All in very good condition.
Paris: Shakespeare and co., 1927. Paperback. Scarce. Shakespeare and co. Sm.octavo.Wrappers. 164pp. plus ads. Experimental literary magazine featuring James Joyce's "Continuation of a Work in Progrss" which is the earliest form of what became Finnegan's Wake and Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants." Also includes work by Robert McAlmon, with poetry.....
Paris: Shakespeare and co., 1927. Paperback. Shakespeare and co. Sm.octavo.Wrappers. 185pp. plus ads. Experimental literary magazine featuring James Joyce's "Continuation of a Work in Progrss" which is the earliest form of what became Finnegan's Wake. Also featured are works by Kay Boyle and Gertrude Stein, with poetry by Laura Riding.....
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of Virginia, 1975. Limited ed. Loose sheets. Bibliographical Society of Virginia. Quarto. One of 100 copies, (#68) of an edition of 126. Loose gathered signatures. Facsimile of the original, illustrated manuscript. Type hand-set at the Alderman Press in Centaur and Arrighi, printed on Arches paper. Housed in.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Hodder and Stoughton. 9 1/2'' x 6 1/4''. 384pp. Signed by Fforde on the title page. Minor wear to dustjacket.
Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1913. First edition. Hardcover. John W. Luce & Co. Large quarto. 188pp. Large-paper edition nicely printed in black with title in red. Frontise and 104 illustrative plates. This book explains how to de-cipher secret messages in Bacon's own texts and in Shakespeare's plays, which.....