Collection: Signed Books

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

Weston, CT: Magic Circle Press, 1977. 8vo. 165pp. Perfect-bound softcover in printed black and white wraps. First edition. Signed and lovingly inscribed by Duncan on the dedication page. Softening at corners, wear along hinges and at spine ends. Binding secure, text clean and unmarked. A novel... More

NY: Scribners, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. 179pp. First edition. Very good in like jacket. Handsomely signed and inscribed by Harry Duncan on the title page of his section. Top board corners lightly bumped/softened. Some light whitish spotting to board cloth, esp. on rear board. Off-setting along... More

Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi + 269pp, indexed. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. Full orange cloth with gray spine titles. Fine in a near fine jacket, lightly faded along the spine panel. More

NY: Bluejay, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. 297pp. First printing thus, corrected book club edition. Signed by Ellison in red felt pen opposite the title page. Red boards with black vinyl backing and red spine titles. A very good (+) copy with some light/moderate foxing to textblock... More

Madison: University of Wisconsin, 2005. Hardcover. 8vo, xv, 284pp. First printing. Fondly inscribed by Field to a former owner on the title page. Full brown cloth with tan spine titles. Mild forward cocking to spine, gift inscription on front free end paper, else fine in a... More

The first collected edition of Fuchs' enduring novels about life in Depression-era Brooklyn, Summer in Williamsburg, Homage to Blenholt, and Low Company, originally published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. Fuchs has lovingly inscribed this copy to Susan Foster, a long-time personal assistant to film... More

Signed first printing of Gaddis' fourth novel, winner of the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction. NY: Poseidon Press, 1994. Signed by Gaddis on the title page. First edition. Octavo (9.5 x 6.75 in.); 586pp.; brown boards with blue-quarter cloth spine, in dust jacket. Near... More

First edition of this anthology of women's writings about grandmothers, as edited by American poet Nikki Giovanni, who has signed, dated, and inscribed this copy on the title page. Contributors include Gwendolyn Brooks, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Naylor, and others. NY: Henry Holt and Company,... More

Claremont, Australia: Platypus Press, 1994. No. 146 of 200 copies signed by Goodman and Leach-Jones on limitation page at rear. Small octavo, 8-3/8 x 5-3/8 in. viii, 82pp. Gray cloth; title plate mounted on front board; red sewn-in bookmark; lacking a jacket, presumably as issued.... More

First printing of this novel about a "young American engineer sent to China," with laid-in autograph sheet signed and inscribed by Hersey. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First edition. Laid in is a 7 x 5 in. "Signed Autograph Specimens" sheet, on which Hersey has... More

Signed first printing of this mid-career collection of verse by the noted American poet. NY: Atheneum, 1978. First edition. Signed by Hollander on the title page. Octavo (5.75 x 9.25 in.); xi, 238pp.; green cloth, blind embossed on front board, gold spine lettering, in dust... More

Presentation copy of this early collection by one of the singular voices of late 20th century American poetry, a writer unique in her application  of deconstructive linguistic strategies to wide-ranging examinations of history and its subconscious echoes. Signed and inscribed by Howe on the front... More

Howink, Eda. I Live in a Museum. Madras, India: Sayeeda Publications, 1983. First edition. Signature-bound in glossy wraps. 8vo. 32pp. Signed by Howink on the front cover. "This is the first in the series of Eminent Poets released by Sayeeda Publications, India." Howink was a Saint... More

Hughes, Ted, and Peter Keen, photographs. River. London: Faber and Faber, 1983. First edition. Oblong octavo (9.75" x 10.5"); 128pp.; blue textured-paper boards, in dust jacket. Signed by both Hughes and Keen on the title page. edges of boards faintly dust soiled, else about fine... More

Translated into English by Y. Negishi. [Tokyo]: Sunjusha, [1925]. Octavo, wraps. Four hole side-stitch, bound with white string. 11 unpaginated black and white plates with tissue paper + 39pp. Signed on the title page by the translator, Timothy Yoshitaro Negishi, a long-tenured professor at St.... More

Presentation copy of this novel by the 20th century Japanese writer Yasushi Inoue (1907-1991), signed and inscribed by him to American photographer Carl Mydans (1907-2004), who is notable for his documentation of World War II in the South Pacific and Europe. In 1941, while on... More

NY: Random House, 1982. First edition. Octavo; 79pp.; black cloth, in dust jacket. Signed by Johnson on the half-title. Light foxing to textblock edges and endpapers, mild musty odor, else very good in a very good (+) unclipped jacket with a short closed tear at... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First edition. Signed by Johnson on the half-title. Octavo; 262pp.; ochre boards, black quarter cloth, in dust jacket. Johnson’s memoir details her literary coming-of-age in the Beat era, offering sharply drawn portraits of many pivotal writers, with especial focus on... More

Kahler, Erich. The Meaning of History. George Braziller, NY, 1964. Hardcover. Second printing. Black cloth, gilt titles. 8vo. viii + 224pp, indexed. A few spots of soiling to boards, bump to top rear board corner and portion of textblock. Unclipped jacket worn at spine ends,... More

Inscribed first paperback printing of this graphic novel by the American cartoonist and recipient of both Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships. NY: Pantheon Books, 1999. First paperback edition. Signed, dated, and inscribed with a doodle by Katchor on front free endpaper recto. Perfect-bound in printed matte... More

Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1971. First edition. 8vo. 325pp, indexed. Black cloth. Warmly inscribed by Kennedy on the front free end paper. Very good in a good (+) jacket. Minor bumping to board corners, softened spine ends, a few minors spots of soiling to textblock.... More

“If people have no freedom to make such choices as cannabis over nicotine for their preferred lung irritant, what did the Constitution leave to them?”A nicely inscribed copy of this articulate and damning history of America’s enforcement-oriented approach to the drug problem. King investigates the... More

An artist's book on the theme of shoes by one of the founding members of Fluxus. Signed, dated, and briefly inscribed by Knowles on the half-title. First edition. Cavriago, Italy: Edizioni Pari & Dispari, 1977. Signature-bound in printed wraps; 8.75 x 6.5 in.; unpaginated (~130pp.).... More