The Avenue, Clayton City
New York: William Morrow and Company, (1988). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Author's first book. More
First Books
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[Bookseller Catalog]: Black Voices: Catalogue Number One, Spring 1994. Porcupine Bookcellar
London: Porcupine Bookcellar, 1994. Softcover. Bookseller catalog. Slim octavo. 32pp. Inked note on the rear flap else fine in stapled wrappers. More
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[Bookseller Catalog]: Goodspeed's Catalogue Five Sixty-Six: First Books
Boston: Goodspeed's Book Shop, [1980?]. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 127pp. Illustrated. Letterpress printed wrappers. Spine toned, near fine. Rare bookseller's catalog with 541 items. More
Goodspeed's Catalogue Five Sixty-Six: First Books
Boston: Goodspeed's Book Shop, [1980?]. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 127pp. Illustrated. Letterpress printed wrappers. A touch of soiling, else fine. Rare bookseller's catalog with 541 items. More
Kat Ran Press: A Short Survey of the First Three Titles
Florence, Massachuettes: Kat Ran Press, 2000. Unbound. First edition. Single sheet folded once to form four pages. 16mo. Fine. Prospectus for the summer 2000 releases from Kat Ran Press. More
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[Publisher's Prospectus]: Genesis
(San Francisco: The Arion Press), [circa 1996]. Unbound. Publisher's prospectus. One folio sheet folded twice to make eight pages, with a single color plate laid in. Measuring 8" x 11½" closed. Fine. The outer four pages print publication information, and opening it up shows two facing sample pages, the opening..... More
Wheels: An Anthology of Verse 1917
Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1917. Hardcover. First edition. Quarter cloth and pictorial paper over boards. Bookplate of R.D. Jackson, corners worn, soiling and smudging on the boards, good or better copy without dust jacket. Includes Aldous Huxley and the Sitwells. More
In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison
New York: Random House, (1981). Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Norman Mailer. Fine in trifle worn, near fine dust jacket with a tiny interior stain and bit of faint interior tanning, neither of which show through. Abbott, a lifelong convict, presents his bleak view of the prison system. He was..... More
The Killing of the Saints
New York: Crown Publishers, (1991). Hardcover. First edition. Foxing on the top page edge else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear on the front spine fold. Author's first book. More
I Hear Voices
Paris: Olympia Press, (1958). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, else fine dustwrapper. A much better than usual copy of the author's first book. More
Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
London: Hutchinson, (1954). Hardcover. First edition. Just about fine in a price-clipped else near fine dustwrapper with a couple of very short tears. Author's first novel, preceded by two books of poetry. More
Arabian Jazz
San Diego: A Harvest Book / Harcourt Brace, (1993). Softcover. First Harvest edition. Trade paperback. Fine with sticker on front: "Literary Arts Winner Oregon Book Award." Signed by the author. Author's first novel. More
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[Stapled Photocopy]: Politics
[San Francisco or Berkeley?]: Papyrus Press, 1972]. Softcover. Photocopy. Octavo sheets, printed rectos only. [62]pp. Uneven sheets side stapled. Light wear, still fine. Accompanied by original mailing envelope stamped with The Black Tarantula return address and hand addressed by Acker to Robert Bertholf, the influential poetry professor and former curator..... More
Careless Love
(New York): NAL / New American Library, (1966). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of age-toning. A very nice copy of the author's first book. More
Careless Love
(New York): The New American Library, (1966). Hardcover. First edition. Gentle bumping at the spine ends, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a faintly toned spine and very light bumping at the spine ends. A very nice copy of the author's first book. More
The Greenway
(London): Macmillan, (1995). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The author's first novel. More
Watership Down
New York: Avon Books, (1996). Softcover. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Slight edgewear else near fine. More
Out of the Hurly-Burly, or Life in an Odd Corner
Philadelphia: George Maclean & Co., 1874. Hardcover. First edition. Brown cloth decorated in black and gilt, blind embossing on rear board. Nearly four hundred illustrations by Arthur B. Frost, Fred. B. Schell, Wm. L. Sheppard and Ed. B. Bensell. Page 78 illustrated plate taped in, gutter cracked, owner's gift inscription..... More
It Begins With Tears
(Oxford): Heinemann, (1997). Softcover. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Modest toning on pages, faint spotting on wraps with a thick tape shadow on the cover, very good. Adisa was awarded the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award in 1992. Author's first novel. Caribbean Writers Series. More
Notes From a Dark Street
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Hardcover. First edition. Newspaper offsetting on front endpapers, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with toning on flaps and spine. A novel. More
The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz: A Specimen Book of Scientific Writings
Boston: Beacon Press, (1963). Hardcover. First edition. Selected and introduced by Guy Davenport. Foreword by Alfred S. Romer. Octavo. 237pp. Near fine with bumping in near fine dust jacket with touch of edgewear. Davenport's first book. More
Permit Me Voyage
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Archibald MacLeish. Bookplate of author and longtime Yale English professor William Lyon Phelps on the front pastedown, fine in very good or better, price-clipped dust jacket with two shallow chips near the crown. An attractive copy of Agee's fragile..... More
Sweet Eyes
New York: Crown Publishers, (1991). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. A short tear on the front spine fold and slight creasing thus very good. Author's first book. More
