Oakland, California: Georgia Loring Bamford, 1931. Hardcover. Octavo size, 255 pp. The life and work of Jack London (1876-1916) have been the subjects of many critical writings, and here Georgia Loring Bamford (1873-1966), a personal friend of London's, reminisces about London's life, his prominence in the literary circle in San..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., [1950]. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 142 pp. English poet George Barker (1913-1991) wrote numerous works of both poetry and prose, often part of the New Apocalyptics movement, a refutation of the realism of the 1930s using mythical themes. "The Dead Seagull", although a work..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company (Printed by Taylor, Nash & Taylor), (1913). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 212 pp., inscribed by John Barry to Lincoln Steffens. A series of essays which, per the sub-title, deal "mainly with aspects of everyday living from a point of view less controversial than..... More
Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press for The Enitharmon Press, 1972. Arikha, Avigdor. Limited First Edition. Folio. Number XIII of XV copies, folio size, [24] pp., with an extra suite of three etchings, all of which are signed by the artist, signed by Samuel Beckett on the limitation page. "The North" is..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 signed/numbered hardcover copies, octavo size, 209 pp., signed by Bukowski. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A...... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Bukowski, Charles. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 (126 total) signed/numbered hardcover copies with original artwork, octavo size, 287 pp., signed at colophon. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 signed/numbered hardcover copies, 243 pp., signed by Bukowski. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A cult hero..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Bukowski, Charles. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 126 lettered/numbered hardcover copies with original artwork, octavo size, 225 pp., signed at the colophon. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 signed/numbered copies, octavo size, 225 pp., signed by Bukowski, with poster prospectus. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Bukowski, Charles. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 50 signed/numbered hardcover copies with original artwork, large octavo size, 119 pp., with prospectus. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 750 signed/numbered hardcover copies, octavo size, 208 pp., signed by Bukowski. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A...... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 signed/numbered hardcover copies, octavo size, 317 pp., signed by Bukowski. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was "a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A...... More
Llandogo, Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, 2012. Pusch, Steffi. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 5 of 100, folio size, [40] pp., signed by S.J. Butler and Steffi Pusch. "The Swimmer" first appeared in "The Warwick Review" and was then selected for "The Best British Short Stories 2011" published by Salt; this..... More
[Oakland]: Chez Log Press [printed and bound by Dorothy Yule at the Eucalyptus Press], [1988]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 14 of 40 copies, duodecimo size, 24 pp. Ken Chowder has scripted over 25 documentary films (and one feature film) broadcast on PBS, NBC, TBS, Discovery, A & E, and BBC..... More
London: Harvill Secker, (2007). Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 75 of 100, octavo size, 239 pp., signed by J. M. Coetzee. J. M. Coetzee (b. 1940) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as the Jerusalem Prize, CNA Prize (thrice)..... More
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[Fyfield, United Kingdom]: Oak Tree Press, 2008. Limited Edition. Leather. Copy "L" of 26 copies lettered A-Z (of a total edition of 186), quarto size, 82 pp., signed by J.M. Coetzee. South African author J.M. Coetzee (b. 1940), novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator, is the recipient of the Nobel Prize..... More
New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 352 pp. Isak Dinesen (nom de plume, Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke of Rungstedlund, nee Dinesen, 1885-1962) is likely best-remembered today for "Out of Africa", a fictionalized recounting of the life she led with her husband operating a...... More
New York: The Century Co., 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size , 582 pp. This volume includes six months of the wonderful St. Nicholas children's magazine, with the July issue containing the first published appearance of the short story "The Cruise of the Dazzler" (pp. 784-812). ___DESCRIPTION: Decorated red cloth..... More
London: Viking, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. No. 102 of 150, octavo size, 319 pp., signed by Margaret Drabble. English novelist Margaret Drabble (b. 1939) wrote "A Natural Curiosity" as an unintended sequel to her earlier novel "The Radiant Way"; the story continues to follow the lives of three women featured..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1992. Kitaj, R.B. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 196 of 200, folio size, 63 pp., signed by Allen Ginsberg and R.B. Kitaj. Written three years after the death of his mother, Ginsberg focused on a cryptic note left to him by her, the mother who had..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1929). First Edition. Hardcover. First issue (see details below), octavo size, 448 pp., in publisher's dust jacket. Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was born into a literary family and showed literary genius from a young age. Although the horrors of "The Great War" and subsequent difficulties had..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 150 copies, octavo size, 367 pp., signed by Carl Hiaasen. Carl Hiaasen (b. 1953) earned a degree in journalism and went on to become an investigative reporter, writing novels in his spare time. His work centres on his home..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1947. 4th Printing. Hardcover. The fourth printing of the first edition, duodecimo size, 280 pp. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (1904-1986), friend of both W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender, was living in Weimar Germany and witnessed the rise of Nazism. It was while there that we wrote..... More
Cambridge: Printed at the University Printing House for The Limited Editions Club, 1969. Nebel, Gustave. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, duodecimo size, 112 pp. signed by Gustave Nebel, with prospectus and announcement. Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author who wrote in the genre of both literary realism..... More
[Covelo]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1992]. Baskin, Leonard. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 52 of 130 copies, folio size, 107 pp., signed by Leonard Baskin and John Fowles, with prospectus and "The Making of the Book" David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was extremely controversial for his day due to works such as..... More