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London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First printing, wraps issue. 78 pp., 4.24 x 7 inches. Perfect bound in plain card covers, with dust-jacket. Edited by Earle Birney and Margerie Lowry, with a foreword by Conrad Knickerbocker. First printing of this reissue. Cape Editions 13. Dust-jacket edgeworn and with small faint stains; otherwise very good.

n.p.: John Kidis, 1950. First edition. (47) pp., 6 x 9 inches. Saddle-stapled into printed card covers. One of 1000 numbered copies (this being number 3). With four black-and-white reproductions of paintings by Miller, and a photographic frontispiece (a portrait of Emil Schnellock). Full title: The Waters Reglitterized: The Subject of Water Color in Some of Its More Liquid… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1972 . First printing. 34 pp., 5 x 7 inches. Perfect-bound in printed wrappers. Drawings by Bob Nash. Very slight toning to spine and wear to edges, but essentially a fine copy. The first volume in the Yes! Capra Chapbook Series, edited by Robert Durand and Noel Young, printed at the Capra Press. A… Read more about this item

Prairie City, IL: Press of James A. Decker, 1947. First printing. 178 pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Cloth over boards. Light wear to extremities of cloth, rubbing to cover and spine lettering; tasteful bookplate on front pastedown and age-toning to page edges, otherwise very good. Flannery O’Connor's first book appearance, a short story published while she was a student… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Hall Bartlett Films, n.d. (1977). First printing. 195 pp., 8.5 x 11 inches. A specially bound copy of the script for the 1978 film The Children of Sanchez, produced, co-written, and directed by Hall Bartlett. Inside the front cover a small bookbinder’s label shows that the book was bound by Ronnie Gousman in Hollywood. Save for… Read more about this item

New York: Dutton, 1969. First edition. 146 pp., 5.75 x 11 inches. Uncorrected proof, in plastic comb binding and printed card covers. Slight sunning to covers and mild rumpling to edges, otherwise very good and internally fine. A very uncommon state of this collaborative novel, reprinted several times since the original edition. This copy from the library of Joseph… Read more about this item

Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1905. First printing. 107 pp., 5.25 x 7.75 inches. Cloth over boards, with printed cover and spine labels. Light wear to extremities, and scattered faint marks to cloth; light soiling to cover label, otherwise intact and bright; darkening and edge-chipping to spine label, still quite legible. Internally very good, save for a tape… Read more about this item

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First U.S. edition. 5 x 7 inches, 299 pp. Printed cloth over boards. Hinges cracked, cloth mottled, wear and small losses to crown and foot of spine; a good copy only. With folded check laid in (see comments following). The check laid into this copy of Miller’s best-known book represents an intriguing literary mystery. Made… Read more about this item

New York: Dial Press, 1971. First printing. 134 pp., 5.5 x 8.75 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers, with printed dust-jacket. Drawings by Don Bolognese. Uncorrected galleys for this early young adult title, published the same year as the author’s Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. The book is set on a sharecropper plantation much like the one where Gaines… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2019. First edition thus. 423 pp., 5.25 x 8 inches. Perfect-bound in printed wrappers. Edited by Chris Kraus; expanded and with an introduction by Robert Dewhurst; afterword by Rachel Kushner. Essays by poet, translator, and polymath David Rattray. Initially best known for his translations of Antonin Artaud, Rattray has developed a steadily growing audience for his… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia University Press, 1986. First edition. 6.25 x 9.25 inches, 901 pp. (in two volumes). Cloth over boards in printed dust-jackets. With list of illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, text of the letters, two appendices ("The First Meeting of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten" and "An Unpublished Portrait of Carl Van Vechten by Gertrude Stein"), list of… Read more about this item

Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1993. First printing. Cloth. Very Fine/As New. 8vo, 169 pp. A novel. Tiny stray ink mark on fore-edge, otherwise As New in like jacket.

New York: Scribner's, 1992. First printing. 1/4 cloth. As New/As New. 8vo, 308 pp.

N.p., n.d.. Single folded sheet. Near Fine. Account of an imaginary discovery purporting to be reprinted from the "Journal of Lost Verse." Exterior fold sunned.

Tucson: Interview Press, n.d. [ca. 1965]. First printing. Stapled Wraps. Near Fine. 12mo, 20 2p. Wrappers lightly handled.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. First printing. Boards. Very Good/Fair. 8vo, 188 pp. Spine slightly cocked, tiny nick at head of spine, page edges tanned. Jacket stained, edgeworn.

New York: William Morrow, 1991. First printing. Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, 639 pp. Head of spine slightly pulled, very minor edgewear to jacket.

Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1989. First American edition. 1/4 cloth. About Fine/About Fine. 8vo, 299 pp. Very slight touch of sunning to edges of boards and faint tanning to jacket flaps, but a lovely copy.

Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1976. Limited edition. Cloth. Fine. 8vo, 138 pp. No. 214 of 250 specially-bound, numbered copies, signed by the author. In chipped clear acetate jacket.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999. First American edition. Boards. As New/As New. 8vo, 161 pp.