Modern First Editions
MARK The GLOVE BOY or, The Last Days of Richard Nixon.
New York: The Macmillan Company, (1964). 1st printing, INSCRIBED by the author [in 2002]. [10], 147, [3] pp. 8vo. Black cloth binding with gilt & silver stamping to spine. White dust jacket lettered in blue, orange & black, with $3.95 price intact. More
The TEN - YEAR NAP.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. 1st Edition. 351, [7] pp. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
RESOLUTION.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (2008). 1st Edition. 292 pp. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
A BIBLIOGRAPHY Of WORKS By JACK KEROUAC.
New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1975. Revised edition. 136 pp (including Index). Frontispiece. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Issued without dust jacket. More
The GENIUS And The GODDESS.
New York: Harper, (1955). 1st US edition. 168 pp. Sm 8vo. Black cloth spine with grey cloth boards. Orange dust jacket. More
The GHOST WRITER.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979. 1st trade edition. 180 pp. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
BLACK SUNDAY.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1975). 1st edition. 318 pp. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. Author's first book, and basis for the 1977 movie. More
STRANGE PILGRIMS.; Stories.
New York. Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. 4th Printing. xiii, 188, [iv] pp. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Plum cloth boards, stamped in gilt to back strip, pictorial dust jacket, top-edge stained dark red. More
LAKE WOBEGON SUMMER 1956.
New York. Viking (The Penguin Group). 2001. 1st Edition. [xii], 291 p. 9-1/4" x 6". Quarter, black cloth with dark blue paper wrapped boards, stamped in gilt to back strip, in original pictorial dust jacket. Address label reads: Ms. Norma Breecher 10590 Wilshire Blvd. Apt. 1001 Los Angeles, CA 90024-7311..... More
OVERNIGHT To MANY DISTANT CITIES.
New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1983. 1st Edition. 174 pp. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Dark blue, quarter cloth, navy blue paper wrapped boards, stamped in gilt to bak strip, in original pictorial dust jacket. More
The KENNEDY TAPES.; Inside the White Hose During the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Cambridge/London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1997. 1st Edition. xv, 728 pp. Some black and white photographs throughout. 9-1/2 x 6-1/2. Black, quarter cloth, gray paper wrapped boards, red lettering to back strip, gray end papers, in pictorial dust jacket. More
RUDOLPH And AMINA; Or the Black Crook.
New York. The John Day Company. 1930. 1st Edition. Cf Lee, 95. [iv], 197 pp. Illustrated dust jacket and small yellow and black vignette on title page. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4. A VG copy with VG dust jacket. Black cloth, gilt lettering to upper board and back strip, hot pink/magenta end..... More
TWO FABLES.
Garden City, New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1925. Stated First Edition. Cf. Lee, 50. 95 pp. Decorative boarders throughout. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4". Black cloth boards, orange title label to upper board and back strip, black lettering, orange end papers, top edge stained red, black illustrative boarders on leaves, in..... More
The ARROW.
Garden City, New York. Doubleday, Page & Company (at the Country Life Press). 1927. Stated First Edition. Cf. Lee, 58. 85 pp. 7" x 4-1/2". Black cloth, stamped in gilt to upper board and back strip, yellow end papers, in original pictorial dust jacket. More
JOHN MISTLETOE.
Garden City, New York. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1931. 1st Edition, 1st Issue. Cf. Lee, 99. SIGNED. 455 pp. (including index). 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Light green cloth boards, with dark green panels and gilt lettering to back strip, in original dust jacket. More
SKABS. #2.
San Jose: California Comics, (1995). 1st printing (stated). Unpaginated, though 22 pp. Illustrated in b&w. 4to. 10-1/4" x 6-5/8". Color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
The LAST CALIFORNIAN.
Amador City: Quintessence Publications, (1987). 1st edition. SIGNED by the author. 10, [4], 504 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Gilt decorated red cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
NOW EAST, NOW WEST.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1927. 1st edition. 317, [1] pp. Crown 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Printed brown paper dust jacket. More
The BREAKING POINT.
New York: George H. Doran Co., (1922). Early printing (cf. Smith R-332). 356 pp. Color frontis by Thomas Fogarty. Crown 8vo. Maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Red & white dust jacket, which reproduces the frontis on the front panel. More
A TOAST To TOMORROW.
New York: The Literary Guild of America Inc., (1941). viii, [2], 310 pp. 8vo. Hardback. Red topstain. Red & yellow dust jacket. More
DRINK To YESTERDAY.
New York: The Literary Guild of America Inc., 1941. 1st edition thus, i.e., by this publisher. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone for 1941. [12], 270, [6 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Hardback. Red topstain. Red & yellow dust jacket. Per a dj blurb, "A thrilling and moving tale of an English spy in Germany."... More
The OLD DOVECOTE And Other Stories. Woodburn Books. #8.
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. 1st edition. #367 / 530 cc. SIGNED by the author. [2 (blank)], 27, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-7/8". Decorative printed paper-wrapped boards. Decorative eps. Dust jacket replicating binding design. More
The WORLD Of SEX.
[Chicago]: Printed by the Friends of J. H. N. for Friends of Henry Miller [Ben Abramson], [1941]. 1st edition (Shifreen & Jackson A25a). Stated limitation of 250 cc. 88, [4 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Red, gold & black mottled..... More
GREEN MANSIONS. Modern Library No 89.
New York: The Modern Library, (1944). Ca 1963. x, [2], 254, [4] pp including the Modern Library Giants. Profusely illustrated with b/w etchings. 7-1/4" x 5". Red cloth binding with blind logo stamped to front board and gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Green dust jacket with yellow title lettering..... More