Collection: All Books

Review copy of Burroughs' screen treatment of the Alan E. Nourse science fiction novel, The Bladerunner (1974), which was never produced but instead lent its name to the 1982 Ridley Scott film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Berkeley, CA:... More

First edition of this wide-ranging collection of interviews with the American filmmaker. London/Boston: Faber and Faber, 1997. First printing (full number line on copyright page). Octavo, 9-1/2 x 6-1/4 in. xiii, 269pp., with index. Gray textured-paper boards; tan spine lettering; dust jacket. Minor bumping to... More

Uncommon hardcover issue of this collection of essays on various filmmakers (Melies, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Lang, Murnau, etc.). Presented in three sections, "The First Book," "Comedy Tragi/Comedy" and "Narrative as Religion," introduced respectively by Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn, and Guy Davenport.  Berkeley: Turtle Island, 1977. First... More

Uncommon collection of essays by the polymathic video artist and theorist. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1996. First edition. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 7 1/2 x 5 in. 303pp. Near fine, with mild toning and wear to wraps. More

An obscure and fitting edition of one of the 20th century's great literary hoaxes NY: Key Publishing Co., 1957. Octavo (5.5 x 8.25 in.); 146pp.; tan textured paper boards, red spine lettering; in dust jacket. Some light spotting to the boards; small area of foxing... More

Signed, limited edition of this quintessential Jazz Age narrative poem by an early New Yorker editor and author of another of the era’s signature poems, The Wild Party (1926). Written in terse rhyming couplets, The Set-Up concerns an aging Black boxer, Pansy Jones, who is... More

Inscribed second printing (in first state jacket) of Maclean's collection of semi-autobiographical short fiction, a now-classic of Western literature and fly fishing, whose title novella formed the basis for the 1992 Robert Redford-directed film of the same name. Maclean's inscription, on the front endpaper, reads:... More

NY: Ballantine, 1968. 14th printing, with cover featuring a still from the Francois Truffaut film adaptation of the same name. Signed and briefly inscribed by Bradbury on the title page. Mass-market paperback, 7 x 4.25 in., 147 pp. Very good condition, with moderate rubbing to... More

London: Verso, 1985. 8vo. 167pp., indexed. Black textured paper boards, gilt spine titles. First edition. Very light bumping to front board corners, else very near fine in a near fine jacket with some fading to spine panel. A collection of essays by the noted film critic. More