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Beckett, Samuel. ALL STRANGE AWAY. New York: Gotham Book Mart, [1976]. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with drawings by Edward Gorey. One of 200 numbered copies signed by author and illustrator. Bound in pictorial boards with giltstamped leather spine. At this writing, no copies were available online. Hardcover. Fine in publisher's slipcase, as issued.
$3,000.00
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Beckett, Samuel. POEMS IN ENGLISH. New York: Grove Press, [1963]. First American edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Fine in a fine, unfaded dust jacket, uncommon thus.
$500.00
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Beckett, Samuel. STIRRINGS STILL. New York / London: Blue Moon Books / John Calder, [1988]. First edition. ISBN: 3518403435. Folio. Illustrated with drawings by Louis le Brocquy, including one original duotone lithograph. One of 200 numbered copies signed by author and artist (of a total edition of 226). Lithographically printed on deckle-edged Velin de Rives paper and quarter bound in parchment and natural linen stamped in 18-carat gold. This lovely livre d'artiste quickly went out of print. Beckett's last work of fiction, a haunting foreshadowing of his death in the following year. Hardcover. As new in publisher's cloth slipcase, as issued.
$5,000.00
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Beckett, Samuel. WHOROSCOPE. Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. 8vo. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. The rest of the edition comprised 200 unsigned copies. This copy bears the scarce original wraparound label that announces Beckett as the prize-winner of a contest sponsored by the Hours Press to compose a poem on the concept of time. Beckett, who was at the time indigent, wrote an elaborate Cartesian narrative as the contest deadline loomed, completing: "Half before dinner, had a guzzle of salad and Chambertin ... and finished it about three in the morning." He then put the poem in the mail. A just-about fine copy of this fragile rarity. Housed in a custom-made chemise and slipcase.
$12,500.00
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Bellow, Saul. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING: A Novel. New York: Viking, 1959. First edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Fine in a fine, unfaded dust jacket.
$750.00
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Bishop, Elizabeth. THE COMPLETE POEMS. London: Chatto & Windus, [1969]. First English edition. 8vo. This copy is inscribed by the author: "For Dorothee & Taylor Bowie -- in exchange for 50 lbs. of smoked salmon, among other kindnesses -- love, Elizabeth Bishop." Elizabeth Bishop and Dorothee Bowie first met in 1965 at the University of Washington where Bishop was a visiting professor. They remained good friends for many years. Hardcover. Fine in a near-fine dust jacket.
$4,500.00
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Bowles, Jane. TWO SERIOUS LADIES. New York: Knopf, 1943. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. A prescient novel of lesbian life, published in a time when it was a taboo subject. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket that belies its age and usually compromised appearance.
$3,500.00
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Boyle, Kay. SHORT STORIES. Paris: Black Sun, 1929. First edition of the author's first book. Small 4to. One of 150 numbered copies on Holland Van Gelder Zonen. Laid into this copy is a 1987 ALS from Boyle to a bookseller in which the 87-year-old author ruminates on the settling of her affairs: "I think there is no doubt that you should be my literary executor, not only because of my great affection for you as a person, and my respect, but because you know far more about my work than I do." Some 475 bittersweet words. Printed wrappers. Fine in original publisher's glassine and gold-foil chemise with ties as issued.
$2,500.00
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Brodsky, Joseph. STEKOTVORENI I POEMI. Washington DC: Inter-Language Literary Associates, 1965. First edition of the future Nobelist's first book. 8vo. Published clandestinely (in Russian) by the C.I.A., marking the first appearance of Brodsky's verse other than a few poems issued in Samizdat form. Printed wrappers. Fine and rare.
$3,250.00
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Bukowski, Charles. 7 UNCORRECTED PROOF COPIES of Volumes of Previously Unpublished Poetry. New York: Ecco, [2003-2009]. Uncorrected proofs of the first editions. 8vo. Edited by John Martin._1 - Sifting Through The Madness For The Word The Line The Way (2003)_2 - The Flash Of Lightning Behind The Mountain (2004)_3 - Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)_4 - Come On In (2006)_5 - The People Look Like Flowers At Last (2007)_6 - The Pleasures Of The Damned: Poems 1951-1993 (2007)_7 - The Continual Condition (2009) Pictorial wrappers. All volumes fine.
$1,250.00
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Bukowski, Charles. AT TERROR STREET AND AGONY WAY. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968. First edition. 8vo. One of 15 signed presentation copies, so designated on the colophon page. There were also 75 numbered and signed copies. All copies with an original Bukowski watercolor painting on a tipped-in page. The first hardbound Bukowski collection published by Black Sparrow. Splendidly designed by Barbara Martin in bright primary colors of purple, yellow, green, and blue. Hardcover. Fine without dust jacket as issued.
$7,500.00
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Bukowski, Charles. DEAR MR. BUKOWSKI. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First edition. 8vo.10 multi-colored silkscreens by the author with his accompanying text. One of 50 numbered copies printed by Garage Graphics, each of which is signed by Bukowski. Loose sheets in printed envelope. As new in the original printed envelope.
$4,000.00
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Bukowski, Charles. THE DAYS RUN AWAY LIKE WILD HORSES OVER THE HILLS. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First edition. 4to. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Bukowski and with an original illustration by him of a bespectacled creature tipped-in. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket, as issued.
$6,500.00
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Bukowski, Charles. HORSEMEAT. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First edition. Folio. Illustrated with tipped-in color photographs of Bukowski at the racetrack by Michael Montfort. One of 125 numbered copies signed by the author and the photographer (only 100 of which were offered for sale), this being the publisher's copy, so designated on the colophon page. Laid in is a pictorial prospectus (one of 26 lettered copies signed by Bukowski, this being copy "A"). A high-water mark for the press in terms of both inspiration and execution. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket , as issued.
$6,500.00
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Bukowski, Charles. LONGSHOT POMES FOR BROKE PLAYERS. New York: 7 Poets Press, [1962]. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with drawings by the author. An early title that ranks among the author's scarcest. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box.
$6,500.00
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Bukowski, Charles. MOCKINGBIRD WISH ME LUCK. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First edition. 4to. One of 50 numbered copies (copy #3) signed by the author and with an original illustration by him. The full-color illustration in this copy is of a mockingbird's face. Although not called for, this copy has an additional pen and ink drawing by Bukowski tipped in and signed by him. Hardcover. Fine in acetate dust jacket, as issued.
$7,500.00
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Bukowski, Charles. POEMS AND DRAWINGS. Crescent City: Epos, 1962. First edition. 8vo. An extra issue of Epos: A Quarterly Of Poetry that was completely devoted to the poems and drawings of Bukowski. Printed wrappers. Fine.
$2,250.00
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[Bukowski, Charles.]. BUKOWSKI: Photographs by Michael Montfort. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 2002. First edition. Oblong 4to. One of 110 numbered copies (the entire edition), none of which were for sale. A posthumous volume of superbly composed color photographs of Bukowski depicting the author in the winter of his life (he died in 1994). The last Black Sparrow book to be published. Hardcover. Fine in publisher's slipcase as issued.
$1,500.00
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Bukowski, Charles. TRUE STORY, ON GOING OUT TO GET THE MAIL, TO KISS THE WORMS GOODNIGHT, THE GIRLS / FOR THE MERCY-MONGERS, and THE FLOWER LOVER / I MET A GENIUS. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, [1966]. First editions. 5 broadside poems. Folio. Each broadside is one of 27 numbered copies signed by the author (of a total edition of 30). Publisher John Martin remembers giving many of the broadsides away to random visitors in a time when Bukowski was virtually unknown. Broadsides. A fine, complete set of these rare Bukowski broadsides, which comprise five of the first six titles published by the Black Sparrow Press (Morrow & Lafourcade 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6). Early Bukowski and, at this late juncture, virtually unobtainable. Housed in a custom-made chemise and clamshell box.
$37,500.00
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Bukowski, Charles. THE WEDDING. San Pedro: Brown Buddha Books, 1986. First edition. 4to. With eleven tipped-in photographs by Michael Montfort. One of 40 numbered copies signed by Bukowski and Montfort (the entire edition). Issued to celebrate the marriage of Bukowski and Linda Lee Beighle. This copy has the bride's surname misspelled on the colophon page. A corrected colophon appears in some but not all of the copies with the error. One of the book's photographs -- a portrait of Linda kneeling in front of Bukowski and mending his trousers -- was deemed perversely suggestive by the bride and most of the edition bears a replacement photograph that shows the couple dancing. Laid into this copy are two photographs, the first of which depicts Bukowski smiling ruefully as if he knew his leukemia was in its final stage, the second a color photograph of his headstone, beside which a single rose has been placed. Hardcover. Fine.
$6,500.00
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Burroughs, William S[eward]. THE NAKED LUNCH. Paris: Olympia Press, [1959]. First edition, first issue. 12mo. Laid into this copy is a photo-postcard signed by Burroughs. The image is well-known, depicting Buroughs in Tangier in 1961, surrounded by other icons of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corse, Paul Bowles, and Peter Orlovsky. Decorated wrappers. A splendid copy of the author's magnum opus -- fine and in a fine dust jacket.
$10,000.00
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Byron, Robert. THE ROAD TO OXIANA. London: Macmillan, 1937. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with photographs. The text describes Byron's ten-month journey through Afghanistan and Persia. It is widely considered a travel classic by such as Paul Fussell ("What Ulysses is to the novel between the wars, and what The Waste Land is to poetry") and Bruce Chatwin who dubbed The Road To Oxiana "a sacred text." Copies have always been hard to come by, especially in this exemplary condition. Hardcover. With some light, intermittent foxing to the jacket, else a truly fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
$7,500.00
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