Collection: Signed Books

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1984. First edition. Octavo; 333pp.; black cloth with red titles and panel design, in slipcase. A fine, as new copy in a very good slipcase, which lacks the original tissue paper covering, and shows partial fading to the spine of the red bellyband.... More

Inscribed copy of Antin’s first book of “talk poems,” a radical stylistic departure whose formal and philosophical ramifications Antin would continue to plumb for the rest of his career. NY: New Directions, 1976. First edition, the trade paperback issue. Perfect-bound in black-and-white wraps; 5 x... More

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. 63pp. First edition. Light wear and soiling to board edges, faint dampstain to front board. Erasure mark top of front free endpaper. Unclipped "$3.50" jacket shows moderate soiling and wear, with a couple of small chips out at... More

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First edition. Octavo; 216pp; orange boards, black quarter-cloth; dust jacket. Mild shelfwear to board bottoms, some light waterspotting to textblock top, and a couple of minor spots of soiling to front endpaper. In a price-clipped jacket showing moderate rubbing. Very... More

NY: Carlton, 1995. Hardcover. 8vo. viii+94pp. First edition. Inscribed by the author to former owners' on the front free end paper. Grey cloth boards. Near fine in a very good unclipped jacket that shows Light wear at the spine ends and a few short closed tears.... More

NY: Pantheon, 1980. First edition. 8vo. 208pp. Tan/purple boards with light blue cloth backing and silver spine titles. Signed and affectionately inscribed to former owners on the front free end paper. Light toning to edges of textblock, light off-setting to pastedowns, else fine in a... More

NY: Doubleday, 1975. First edition. Octavo; 278pp.; speckled tan boards with black cloth backing. Purple remainder spray to bottom of textblock. Light shelfwear at spine ends. In an unclipped "$7.95" jacket with light rubbing at spine ends and tips, a touch of browning to flaps.... More

Signed copy of this collection of 30 black-and-white reproductions of Baraka’s mixed-media artworks ("painted poems") dating back to the 1950s. Issued, according to the introduction, in an edition of 450 copies, on the occasion of an exhibit of Baraka’s work at the University of Charleston... More

A small archive of materials relating to writer, musician, and transgender activist Christine Beatty. Central to the grouping is an inscribed copy of Misery Loves Company, a self-published collection of poems and short prose works of a mostly autobiographical nature, detailing Beatty’s turbulent gender transition,... 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

NY: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. Octavo. 172pp.; indexes. Black boards, purple half-cloth; silver spine lettering; dust jacket. Mild bumping & browning at spine ends. A few spots of soiling to top of textblock. Unclipped ("$5.95") jacket with light edge-wear and scuffing. Near fine... More

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. First edition. Quarto. Ix, 187pp. Black cloth boards, white spine titles; dust jacket. Light foxing to edges of textblock and sporadically to interior; boards lightly shelfworn; mild musty odor. In a price-clipped jacket showing moderate rubbing and wear, particularly... More

Whittier, CA: Spiraling Books, 1984. First edition. Signed by Call to title page. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 6-7/8 x 4-5/8 in. 60pp. Mild rubbing to rear spine, else fine. Psychedelic memoirs in the form of affable, colorful, and instructive vignettes, by a one-time member of... More

NY: Crowell, 1973. Hardcover. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated (~24pp.). Yellow vinyl boards with black titles and front panel design. Signed and inscribed by Carle on the front free endpaper/dedication page to the young adult novelist Katherine Paterson, winner of two Newbery medals and two National... More

NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. First edition. Octavo; 242pp; black cloth; bronze spine titles; dust jacket. Rear board corners very lightly bumped, a touch of soiling at bottom of textblock fore-edge. In a fine, unclipped "$5.95" jacket with light creasing at the top of... More

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. First edition. Octavo. 230pp. Red papered boards backed with blue quarter-cloth, gold spine lettering; in unclipped ("$17.95") dustjacket. Spine mildly cocked forward, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Carpenter on front fly-leaf. Collectible signed copy of... More

Inscribed reprint edition of Carroll’s landmark coming-of-age story, an edited collection of the diaries he kept as a teenager in 1960s New York City. NY: Penguin Books, 1987. SIGNED and inscribed by Carroll, "To Louie," on the front leaf. Perfect-bound in printed glossy wraps, 7-3/4... More

NY: Ballantine Books, 1953. First paperback printing, issued simultaneously with the hardcover. 12mo (mass-market paperback). 214pp. Very good condition, with no serious structural issues, but with the following minor cosmetic imperfections (all visible in photos): light crease to front hinge, several soft creases to covers,... More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977. Hardcover. Reprint of the New and Revised Edition. Large octavo. 860pp. Top gilt. Tipped onto the front flyleaf is a signed 1881 note from Clarke's Villa Novello estate in Genoa, Italy, in which she expresses her "kind greetings and... More

London: Macmillan, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 53pp. Grey-green boards, gilt spine titles, dark green topstain. First printing. Briefly inscribed by Cooper on the title page. Minor tape ghosts on free end papers, else about near fine in a fine "$3.95" jacket. Cooper's first book of... More

NY: Liveright, 1976. Large octavo; xv, 218pp.; purple cloth, gilt spine titles, front panel blindstamp. First edition thus. Introduction by Richard S. Kennedy. Edited and with an afterword by George James Firmage, who has signed, dated, and inscribed the front endpaper. Tulips and Chimneys was... More

A grouping of six diminutive books of poetry and drawings by sui generis Scottish poet, musician, and humorist Ivor Cutler (19223-2006). All volumes signed by Cutler on the title pages. Todmorden, England: Arc Publications, 1993-1999. Perfect-bound paperbacks, 4-3/4 x 3-1/4 in. A mixture of first... More

NY: Living Hand, 1976. No. 156 of 500 hand- numbered copies. 81pp. 8vo. Signature-bound in French flap wraps. Very good or better, with toning to spine, a few spots of light soiling to wraps. Signed and inscribed by Davis on front flyleaf: “For John -Lydia.”... More

NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First edition. 184pp. 8vo. Black cloth; orange spine titles; dust jacket, featuring design by Saul Lambert. Some fraying to cloth at base of spine. Light bumping top corners. Very good in a very good, unclipped ("$4.95") jacket with wear and... More

Inscribed first edition of this freewheeling experimental novel about 1960s counterculture life on the Lower East Side: a series of edgy, evocative vignettes bursting with psychedelic drug use, queer sex, and all manner of bohemian misfits. Rear panel blurbs from William S. Burroughs and Seymour... More