Go Set a Watchman - Signed Limited Edition by Lee, Harper - 2015

London: Hutchinson, 1961 very rare first edition in near fine DW, unclipped, minor foxing to edges or folds of DW, small area foxing to closed fore edge of pages, not written in or marked, minor foxing from accumulated dust to closed top edge, very scarce with a near pristine DW, our standard shipping rate will be charged but we will upgrade to signature required courier delivery, we prefer a bank deposit as payment for this item please, when the English edition was published it met with controversy and totally different reviews to the blockbuster French edition, and is consequentially a rare item, 487pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Val Biro. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Steinbeck, John. The Long Valley. New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Printing of the First US Edition. First Printing. A Near Fine copy with the usual age darkening to the front pastedown in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with gentle wear to the extremities, and a short closed edge tear at the head of the spine. A collectible copy of this collection of classic Steinbeck fiction. This volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck's characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story "The Murder"; "The Chrysanthemums," perhaps Steinbeck's most challenging story, both personally and artistically;… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1936. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original red cloth with black lettering and publishers vignette. Binding is tight and square with light scuffing to upper spine end. Inside clean, only lightest spotting to first pages. No marks or inscriptions. In bright, original, first state dust jacket with expertly repaired large tear to front cover and neatly restored loss to top edge and spine extremities. Correctly priced at 7/6. 311 pp. and 8 pp. of advertisements at the end. 19 x 13,5 cm. Dust jacket now protected in removable sleeve. A very collectible copy. .

London: Gaberbocchus Press [Printed by Moll-Winter in Lubeck], 1949. First Edition. 8vo. 112pp. Publisher's grey cloth titled in dark red to the spine. Slight soiling and discolouration of the cloth, otherwise a very clean, sharp copy. Internally clean, although the poor paper stock has resulted in some uniform toning. One of the scarcest Gaberbocchus publications, and a fine collaboration from the wildly creative Kavan, one of the few authors to have constructed a nom-de-plume, and then adopted that pseudonym as their real name, amongst numerous other achievements, of course.

First Edition. New. One of 26 Lettered copies. Signed by the printer and the illustrator. The Lettered Deluxe issue, printed on Crisbrook Waterleaf handmade paper, is in loose imperial quartos, with hand-marbled paper-wrappers and presented in a cloth-covered slip-case. The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's story for children, The Cats of Copenhagen, in a special edition of 200 copies, limited to 26 Lettered copies, 170 Numbered copies & 4 copies Hors Commerce.Exquisite, surprising, and with a keen, almost anarchic subtext, The Cats of Copenhagen is a slightly younger twin sister to The Cat and the Devil, the only other known example of James Joyce writing a story for young children. Both works, penned within a few weeks of each other in 1936, are in letters posted to his only grandchild, Stephen James Joyce. Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut… Read More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. Attractive copy of Bukowski's first collection of short fiction. This copy lengthily inscribed to William (Bill) J. Whitaker, who from ca.1970 until the press closed down in 2002 represented Black Sparrow as a traveling salesman on the eastern seaboard, going from bookstore to bookstore each season selling the latest titles from the press. While copies of the signed limited will periodically show up for sale, copies with contemporary inscriptions - particularly to someone with a close, long-standing connection to the press - are genuinely rare. Krumhansl 45b. Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.54. Octavo; 3/4 powder gray paper, printed in 3 colors over black and red patterned cloth, with title label applied to spine; original acetate overlay; 189pp, [3]. Presentation copy, inscribed on the dedication page just three days after publication: "For Bill Whitaker / These stories were all paid for, long… Read More

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Author's First Book, illustrated with Wolfe's own drawings, not only is this copy Signed by Wolfe on the half-title, but it's a presentation from Arnold Gingrich, editor of "Esquire" where some of this material was first published, laid in loosely is a typed letter signed by Gingrich presenting the book to Arthur E. Sudler, chairman of the board and president of Sudler & Hennessey, a healthcare communications company, a very young Wolfe is pictured on the rear cover, nattilly dressed, as usual. Jacket price-clipped, else fine.

Black Sparrow Press: Santa Rosa, CA, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Robert Crumb. Folio. SIGNED BY ARTIST. Fine cream decorated cloth in red cloth slipcase. Number 36 of 175 numbered copies only, with 5 colour serigraphs, each signed by Robert Crumb.120 pp. Bukowski's last book, published three years after his death, in a nice edition in fine condition. The text is excerpts from his diaries, with entries focused on gambling, writing, aging, and everday life.

[Cleveland], 1964. Typescript, two pages, 4to (11 x 8.5 inches). With mailing folds. Two inked corrections. Published in 'The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle' and anthologized in 'The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry,' ed. Alan Kaufman, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999. This typescript shows two corrections made in levy's hand - adding "in cleveland" at the end of the sub-title and changing the last words of the second stanza - that subsequently appeared in the published editions: See 'The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle,' edited by Mike Golden, NY: Seven stories Press, 1999, p. 199." Original manuscript and typescript material by the famed, and infamous, Cleveland poet is scarce, with only two pieces appearing at auction in the past 50 years.

Please see photographs. There are some slight marks on the DJ. One slight tear bottom right all pieces there.Original DJ. The book is nice and clean Please email for more information.