Collection: Signed Books

Abe, Kobo. Hakobune Sakura-Maru [The Ark Sakura]. 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... More

Madison, WI: Circle Publications, 1977. First edition of 1,000 copies. Octavo; 59pp.; saddle-stapled in printed wraps. Inscribed on the title page, presumably in Fox’s hand: "Blessed be, Selena & Jim." Moderate browning to wraps, one minor ding to fore-edge of textblock, else near fine: clean,... 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

Second collection of verse by the American avant-garde poet and critic. In a 2013 interview conducted by Stephen Fredman, Antin referred to the work in Code of Flag Behavior as "pop poems," a claim bolstered by the book design's affinity with the flag paintings of... 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, in dust jacket. Signed by Babbitt on the title page. Herbert Rowbarge details the successful but unhappy life of the titular character through the lens of his adult twin daughters. Having been... 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. Signed by Ballantyne on the front free end paper. 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... 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

Signed copy of this selection of verse by the Russian émigré poet, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and in 1991 served as United States Poet Laureate. NY: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-5/8 in. 172pp. Title and... More

Inscribed first edition of this 1979 collection of essays, mesostics, and other procedurally generated writings by the avant-garde American composer. The title work is a text-score in which chance operations are used to systematically deconstruct the journals of Henry David Thoreau—a tactic born of Cage's... More

Psychedelic memoirs in the form of affable, colorful, and instructive vignettes, by a one-time member of Art Kleps' Neo-American Church, now involved with (and perhaps founder of) The Institute for the Advancement of Psychedelic Christianity. Whittier, CA: Spiraling Books, 1984. First edition. Signed by Call... 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. Hardcover. 8vo. 242pp. Stated first edition. Inscribed by Carpenter with a doodle of what might be a frog on the front free end paper. Full black cloth with bronze spine titles. Rear board corners very lightly bumped, a touch... More

Collectible signed copy of Carpenter's ninth novel and the last to be published during his lifetime, a dark but honest reckoning with suburban malaise playing out among the members of a fractured family in Marin County, California. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1988. First edition.... 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: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First American edition. Signed on the title page by both Chatwin and Theroux. A collaborative text, written in the form of an alternating dialogue, by two writers who both penned influential travelogues about Patagonia in the late 1970s: Chatwin's "In... More

NY: Ballantine Books, 1953. 7 x 4.25 in., 214pp. First paperback printing, issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Signed by Clarke in his customary blue ballpoint pen on the title page. Very good condition, with no serious structural issues, but with the following minor cosmetic imperfections... 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