THE MEZZANINE
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
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THE MEZZANINE
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
ROOM TEMPERATURE
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book, a marvelous tour de force.
VOX
New York: Random House, (1992). First Edition. Decorated wraps. Advance Reading Copy in decorated wraps of this unlikely bestseller about phone sex.
AFTER OUR WAR
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Poet's first full-length book, with the Lamont Prize card laid in. Balaban is best known now for his translations into English of Vietnamese poetry.
THE DAY OF CREATION
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). First American Edition. wraps. Uncorrected proof in light blue wraps by the author of CRASH.
HELLO AMERICA
London: Jonathan Cape, (1981). First Edition. wraps. Uncorrected proof in orange wraps decorated with the publisher's logo of an early science fiction title by the author of CRASH.
RUNNING WILD
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). First American Edition. wraps. Uncorrected proof in printed yellow wraps.
EUGENIE GRANDET
London: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Rene Ben Sussan. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full tan buckram with gold-stamped black leather labels. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by.....
EUGENIE GRANDET
London: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Rene Ben Sussan. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full tan buckram with gold-stamped black leather labels. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by.....
OLD GORIOT
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Rene Ben Sussan. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored.....
OLD GORIOT
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Rene Ben Sussan. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored.....
MR. MUNCHAUSEN. BEING A TRUE ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE RECENT ADVENTURES...
Boston: Noyes, Platt & Company, 1901. Peter Newell. First Edition. Hardcover. BAL 753: Second (Third?) printing. Cloth with an attractive color design by Peter Newell. Charmingly illustrated with 15 full-page color plates by Newell, creator of the even more charming THE HOLE BOOK. Early owner name and date mostly erased.....
CALL & RESPONSE
[Newark, NJ ]: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, 1980. First Edition. Broadside. A SIGNED broadside (9-1/2" x 13") of this poem printed on the dedication of the author's reading at Walker Art Center. Copy #13 of 85. We also have copy #12 in similar condition.
GOING THROUGH CHANGES
[Newark, NJ ]: [C.A.P.], [@1974]. First Edition. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps (5-9/16" x 8-5/8"), 60 pages. This is Baraka's own copy with the top of the front cover SIGNED by him with the notation: "my text." A publication from CAP (Congress of Afrikan People) delineating the changes in the organization the.....
SIGNED TYPESCRIPT: MONEY. A Jazz Opera
Newark/Washington, DC: December 1978 - January 1979. Manuscript. A photocopied ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Baraka consisting of 135 loose pages, many of them with pencil or ink markings and annotations, housed in an orange paper folder with "MONEY/orig)" in Baraka's hand on the front cover. The manuscript is SIGNED in full.....
TYPED MANUSCRIPT of DAGGERS AND JAVELINS: Essays, 1974 - 1979
New York & London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Plain blue wraps with black binder tape spine lettered in white with the text printed on rectos only, 8-1/2" x 11". A collection of essays not officially published until 1984 by William Morrow. We are not sure why Garland.....
WRITER BY TRADE. A PORTRAIT OF ARNOLD BENNETT
New York: Atheneum, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the.....
COLLECTED POEMS 1930 - 1955
London: Faber and Faber, (1957). First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the endpaper: "for Bill Meredith/Summer 1959/George Barker."
SACRED AND SECULAR ELEGIES
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso of the half-title page: "To Bill Meredith/at Sugar Loaf -- no, Bread Loaf/August 1959 from/George Barker."
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
Louisville, KY: 3 February 1870. Letter. A 2-page letter on the front and verso of a 5-1/8" x 8" sheet of blindstamped Galt House letterhead addressed to Mr. Grinnell and SIGNED as "P. T. Barnum." In full: "I enclose a letter from Congressman Kellogg according to my agreement with you.....
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
Bridgeport, CT: 29 August 1890. Letter. A 2-page letter on two 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" sheets of Barnum's Marina letterhead addressed to Mrs. [Alice Graham] Lanigan and SIGNED as "P. T. Barnum." Barnum discusses a sketch being written by Mrs. Barnum and an unnamed neighbor (who might possibly be fictitious). In.....
STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS; OR, SIXTY YEARS' RECOLLECTIONS
Buffalo: Courier Company, 1878. Hardcover. Original cloth; 324 pages. Illustrated with engravings. One of several editions of one of the most famous American autobiographies by one of the world's most sensational entrepreneurs. This edition has a new introduction and preface by Barnum. A compliments slip with Barnum's printed signature is.....
STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS; OR, SIXTY YEARS' RECOLLECTIONS OF P. T. BARNUM, INCLUDING HIS GOLDEN RULES FOR MONEY-MAKING. ILLUSTRATED AND BROUGHT UP TO 1889
Buffalo: Courier Company, 1889. Early Edition. Hardcover. One of several editions of one of the most famous American autobiographies by one of the world's most sensational entrepreneurs. This is a special copy in a full black morocco leather publisher's presentation binding with gilt decorations on the spine and Barnum's gilt.....
SOUTHERN NIGHTS: Epigraphs; From JOE; Cold Black Peas; Birth of a Baby, So Lovely; Swiss Time; From THURBERAMA; Lost Homes; and Sugarhouse
Chapel Hill, NC: The Mud Puppy Press, (1988). First Edition. Wraps. Complete set of eight limited edition chapbooks in printed color wraps, with original printed paper wraparound band. Of a total edition of 126, these are one of 26 lettered copies. Each chapbook is lettered "E" and SIGNED by its.....