THE MEZZANINE
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
Modern First Editions
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.
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1979. Burt Silverman. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Bound in full brown decorated leather. The First SIGNED Limited edition of Baldwin's first book with a previously unpublished introduction by the author. Illustrated by Burt Silverman.
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.
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.
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 for the Introduction to HARD FACTS
[1975]. Manuscript. TYPED MANUSCRIPT (5 pages) of the Introduction to his book of poetry HARD FACTS. Baraka has made several alterations and additions in the text including about 50 words in his hand at the bottom of the fourth page: "The year the class struggle in Blk America became clear.....
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.....
TYPED MANUSCRIPT: SPEECH AT TESTIMONIAL NOV 7 (ANNA LOIS RUSS) MAMA
n.d. Manuscript. TYPED MANUSCRIPT (5 pages) of a speech given by Baraka about his mother and his upbringing. Titled and numbered by hand with several ink corrections, Baraka talks about the influence his mother had on his life. In part: "I have learned a great deal of what I do.....
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."
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.....
CHIMERA
New York: Random House, (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #244 of 300 numbered and SIGNED copies of this winner of the National Book Award. Walter Shirley's copy with his bookplate tipped to a front blank.
THE BOOK OF YAAK
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. A homage to this wilderness area in northwestern Montana. SIGNED and dated in 1996 on the half-title page.
THE LOST GRIZZLIES: A SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS IN THE WILDERNESS OF COLORADO
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. Russell Chatham. First Edition. Hardcover. A search for grizzly bears in Colorado. Illustrated by Russell Chatham. SIGNED and dated 1995 by the author on the half-title page.
THE NINEMILE WOLVES
(Livingston, MT): (Clark City Press), (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. "Rick Bass has written an inspired essay advocating wolf reintroduction and recolonization, in the context of one small pack's fate." Attractively printed and illustrated with photographs and drawings. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Laid in is a photocopy.....
PLATTE RIVER
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of three novellas. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page.
WATERFALL (Signed Broadside)
(Salt Lake City): Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2003. First Edition. Broadside. Issued on the occasion of the opening of the new Salt Lake City Public Library, this attractive 12" x 18" broadside was printed letterpress on heavy white paper and illustrated in color by R. P. Bissland. One of 100.....
LES FLEURS DU MAL and FLOWERS OF EVIL
Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Auguste Rodin and Jacob Epstein. Hardcover. Two volumes, one in the original French (7" x 9") bound in light blue wraps with glassine wrapper and the other with English translations by various hands (6-3/4" x 11- 1/2") bound in full burgundy cloth with gilt lettering.....
THE FIREMAN'S WIFE AND OTHER STORIES
New York: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of stories from the twin brother of writer Robert Bausch. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page to Brian in 1994. Advance Review Copy with a photograph of the author laid in.
THE LAST GOOD TIME
Garden City, NY: The Dial Press/Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. His third book. SIGNED by the author on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page.