Dark Thirty [Signed] by Terry Kay - 1984

New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954. First printing of the first American edition, 669pp, with index. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with faint toning to spine and cover margins, a small slightly rubbed spot near lower back spine, and soft creasing to spine ends, else fine.

[Rapallo: Arti Grafiche Tigullio, March 1936].. Narrow folio broadside (44 x 14.5 cm.) Text on recto only, printed in double columns. Griffin device at head and toe. Folded across middle, otherwise a very nice copy. First separate printing of this prospectus for a course of studies devoted to Antonio Vivaldi. Potential subscribers to the series are instructed to contact Pound or the "Instituto Fascista di Cultura." The text was also printed in the 14 March issue of IL MARE. A translation appears in EZRA POUND AND MUSIC, pp.384-7. Uncommon and fragile. GALLUP E2n.

Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1972. First edition / First printing. A paperback original. Orange and purple perfect-bound wrappers. Near fine with very slight fading to the orange paper spine. Sharp copy. The author's first book. Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Stone Diaries. Born in the U. S. She lived in Canada most of her adult life. This title was not published in the U.S.

Ultramarine Press, 1990. First. Hardbound. a fine bright as issued. here offered is copy number "3" [this a subscriber's copy inscribed by Price to a collector]. of an edition of 126, this is one of 100 numbered copies signed by Price and finely bound in marbled paper over bards with gilt stamped dark brown leather spine by Denis Gouey.192 pp.

First Edition. First Printing. A run of only 50 copies, 30 of which are numbered and signed by the author and available here. 267 pages, a fine paperback with an original cover painting by the author ink printed on Breathing Color Velvet, interior pages on Cougar with 14 color illustrations, also by the author. Ivesian Arts Publishing's premiere offering. The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses is an impassioned tribute to one of the most popular and enduring novels by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy.
​From his provocative reflection on the importance of McCarthy's dramatic prose-poetry in "How Cormac McCarthy Saved Civilization," to close readings of small moments that open up worlds of discovery, Josyph changes our perspective on this seminal work by one of our greatest living authors. In what he calls "a reader's memoir," Josyph invites noted McCarthy scholars such as Marty Priola and Wesley Morgan, as well as McCarthy's award-winning Portuguese… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1950. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes First edition. Slight spine slant, some rubbing to extremities, else very good in poor torn and chipped dust jacket. *

London: Cresset Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Cover shows only light wear. Previous owner name and notations on front free endpaper. Dust jacket has small chip missing from head of spine and two small stains to front panel. States First Published in Great Britain in 1949. ; 8 X 5.60 X 0.80 inches .

313+[7 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4' x 5") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with black lettering in gilt rectangular box to spine and black lines running through from spine to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Young Fane, attached to the American Embassy in London, gets into trouble in Germany through the machinations of the beautiful Liselotte, who is an agent of Dr Grundt, called Clubfoot. Objects which Fane has lost are later offered for sale to the United States Government and the young attaché is being hunted down by G-men, but Fane has disappeared somewhere in Central Europe. His twin sister, Patricia, organizes an expedition to find him before the Secret Service men can lay hands upon him. For this endeavor she enlists four soldiers of fortune. The story of the operations of Patricia's friends, the G-men, and Clubfoot's gang moves with speed and mounting tension. Condition: Some intermittent foxing, previous owner's name on front pastedown, slight stains to covers,… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.

John Lehman, London, 1952. First edition, UK. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Book has light toning, unobtrusive previous owners name in ink on last page, slight bumping at corners and spine. Dust jacket has edge wear and creasing, dust shadow and light soiling on rear cover, tears at top edge, price clipped. Blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in maroon on spine.In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.