New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. First Edition. Adapted to film in 1981, directed by Jeremy Kagan. It stars Maximilian Schell and Rod Steiger. At the 1981 Montréal World Film Festival, the film won Grand Prix of the Americas, and Steiger won best actor. First Printing. Signed bookplate laid in..... More

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. First Edition. Anderson's second collection of short stories, all set in the American midwest. Includes the long stories "Unused," "The Man Who Became A Woman" and "A Chicago Hamlet;" the last of these is an extract from Anderson's unpublished early novel "An Ohio Pagan." HANNA..... More

Lenox, MA: Bookstore Press, 1974. First Edition. A nice and quite personal association copy. The story to which Saroyan refers is an account of a poetry reading with Baraka (then LeRoi Jones) in Buffalo, which ended in a screening of Fellini's 8-1/2 in the company of Baraka and his ex-wife..... More

London: Secker and Warburg, 1974. First Edition. First printing, cloth issue. Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 58pp. Fine, unmarked copy in a lightly edge-rubbed dustwrapper, price-clipped, else Near Fine. The acclaimed Polish-born Israeli poet's second published collection in English. Multiple translators are credited, including Bernard Lewis, Robert Mezey, Joel Neuberg..... More

[La Grande, OR]: Grande Ronde Press, 1969. Second printing. 24mo (14cm). Folded, illustrated paper wrappers (unstapled, as issued); [18pp]. Near Fine. Originally issued in an edition of 100 copies (1966) as GRR/book #11. This reissue likely printed in a similar number of copies, though no limitation is stated. More

London: Secker and Warburg, 1957. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo(20cm); Illustrated. red paper covered boards stamped in silver on spine.; dustjacket; 140pp. Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped pictorial dustjacket (priced £12. 6d) with two tiny closed tears to top edge. repaired neatly on verso with tape. From..... More

Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); purple cloth stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 275pp. Slight discoloration to corner of rear board, else Fine copy. Fine, pictorial unclipped dustjacket (priced $12.95). This book contains the uncollected science fiction and fantasy stories of Olaf Stapledon. More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. Signed bookplate laid in. Octavo (22.5cm); tan paper covered boards over red cloth spine, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 391pp. Spine gilt slightly oxidized, else a Fine copy. Unclipped dustjacket (priced $15.95) has very faint spot at..... More

New York: Grove Press, 1993. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue paper covered boards with yellow titles stamped on spine; dustjacket; 281pp. Signed on the title page by author. Faint nudge at spine ends, else Fine. Unclipped dustjacket (priced $21.00) is Fine. Second novel in the "Prostitution Trilogy"..... More

London: Andre Deutsch, 1964. First U.K. Edition. First UK Printing. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 84pp. Signed bookplate laid in. Fine copy. Dustjacket is clipped at lower front flap with trivial wear to the extremities, else Fine. Author's second book of poetry. More

Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, (1926). First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's blue cloth boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece; [1-10];11-205pp. Errata slip bound in before text. Bumping and slight soil to board edges; cover gilt partially flaked away; still a tightly-bound, internally clean copy. Presentation inscription..... More

[Peterboro, NY?: 1870]. Single folio sheet (37cm), printed both sides. Three horizontal folds from mailing, else about Fine. Smith petitions New York Congressman John C. Churchill to vote against the proposed annexation of the island of San Domingo (now shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti), arguing that "The President..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; map endpapers; dustjacket; 404pp. Hint of sunning at crown, else a Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $11.95), with two tiny nicks at crown and..... More