Iowa City: Empyrean Press, 2016. Arlington, Viza. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 198 of 225 copies, broadside, signed by Marilynne Robinson. This broadside features an excerpt from Marilynne Robinson's (b. 1943) novel "Housekeeping", which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for...
San Francisco: The Abbott & Briggs Company, 1911. First Edition. Wraps. First printed appearance of the short story, folio size, 27 pp. Jack London (1876-1916), giant of early twentieth century literature, journalist, and social activist, is best known for his novels "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" which...
Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Company, 1912. Cardboard covers. Duodecimo size, [95] pp., inscribed by Tiffany Blake (dedicatee). Bert Leston Taylor (1866-1921), humourist, poet, and columnist, writes this ode to the American wilderness, discerning not only the beauty and inspiration found in walking through the woods, but also that which...
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...
New York: Scribner, (2014). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 538 pp., signed by Anthony Doerr. Anthony Doerr's (b. 1973) novel tells the intertwining stories of a blind French girl and a German boy in occupied France during World War II; first published in 2014, the book won both...
[New York]: Gotham Book Mart, 1976. Gorey, Edward. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 89 of 200 copies (total edition 226), quarto size, [23] pp., signed by Samuel Beckett and Edward Gorey. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is considered one of most significent of the modernist writers, and a key figure in...
Berkeley, California: The Hart Press, (1966). Anderson, Victor R. Limited Edition. Wraps. Quarto size, [8] pp., with a presentation card from the publisher. The annual Christmas publication issued by Ruth and James D. Hart, to friends in a limited edition. James D. Hart (1911-1990) was an American literary scholar and...
