Search Results: Fiction : Postwar from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 144pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Tom Veitch (as "Tom & Ron") to fellow author Opal Louis Nations. 1 of 1000 stated copies of this experimental text, with cover by George Schneeman. Unmarked copy, some spotting to covers.

Asheville, NC: Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, 1999. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, v+99pp, printed wrappers. An illustrated overview of Rumaker's career, includes an interview with the author. A 1999 cover letter from the publishers to a San Francisco patron of the work is laid in. Unmarked copy, light wear to edges.

Los Angeles: The California Quarterly, Inc, 1952. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Includes short stories by Ray Bradbury and B. Traven. Light toning and wear to wrappers, no markings.

Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 92pp, printed wrappers. Unmarked copy (from the collection of Opal Louis Nations) of this experimental work by gladsome 'Pataphysician Harry Mathews, nicely designed and printed by Burning Deck. Light edgewear, sound overall.

Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2005. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 40pp, sewn wrappers. Number 28 of 60 copies of this chapbook publication constituting the first complete version of a 1956 story written by Southern for a group of children he knew whilst living in Geneva. Unmarked copy, faint sunning.

New York: Mystery Publishing Co., Inc, 1957. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 68pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon 1957 men's magazine. Faulkner, Schulberg, and Bowles named on cover. Clean copy, minor cover wear (and corner crease to Bowles story page).

New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). 8vo, 224pp, printed wrappers. Tasteful literary collection from 1970, includes an advance excerpt from William Gaddis's "J. R.," an experimental piece by Rudolph Wurlitzer, an excerpt from Brautigan's "The Abortion," etc. Nice Near Fine copy.

New York: Angel Hair Books, 1974. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 160pp, printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Tom Veitch to fellow author Opal Louis Nations in 1975. 1 of 1000 stated copies of this collection of experimental texts, with cover lettering by Greg Irons. Light cover soil and minor wear, sound overall.

London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1954. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 80pp, printed wrappers. Features an early excerpt from My Dog, Tulip by J. R. Ackerley, recounting the emotional relationship between the author and his Alsatian. The text was subsequently enlarged to a book, much praised by Truman Capote and others. Issue also includes a Robert Warshow essay on Western films and other interesting content. Unmarked copy, light buckling at spine.

New York: Fiction, Inc, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. Tabloid, 28pp. Co-edited by Thomas Pynchon's editor Faith Sale (around the time of Gravity's Rainbow". Includes work by John Lennon (1/2 page fiction), Alfred Jarry, Robert Stone, and Donald Barthelme. Nicely preserved copy with typical toning of newsprint stock.

New York: Fiction, Inc, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. Tabloid, 28pp (has been stored flat). Co-edited by Thomas Pynchon's editor Faith Sale (around the time of the editing of Gravity's Rainbow). Includes work by J. G. Ballard, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Samuel Beckett, Robert Creeley, Thomas McGuane, Kenneth Koch, John Barth, et al. Well preserved copy of a fragile and fugitive item, with yellowing to tabloid stock and minor edgewear.

Penland, NC: The Jargon Society, 1973 [1965]. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, [viii]+192pp, printed wrappers. 1973 printing of the Jargon Society edition of this Melville-referencing experimental novel first published in 1965. Unmarked copy, a little foxing to page edges and minor sunning.

New York: Excellent Publications, Inc, 1957. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 68pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon 1957 men's magazine. Faulkner, O'Hara, and Benchley named on cover. Clean copy, small erasure to cover, age toning to acidic paper stock.

London: Atlas Press, 1994. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Stated limitation of 1,000 copies, though this copy unnumbered. A rare early production from the essential Atlas Press, a revised version of this translation previously published in Australia. Unmarked copy, light spotting to page edges.

New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Fine (as new). 8vo, 340pp, printed wrappers. ADVANCE READER'S COPY in paperback, preceding the first edition of this acclaimed novel. As new copy, appears unread.

New York: New American Library, 1953. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 12mo, 320pp, printed wrappers. An uncommonly sharp copy of the 1953 first printing of the fourth volume of this important series. Includes Gore Vidal, Borges, and a portfolio of current art. No markings, light toning and wear.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1983. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG+ hardcover in unclipped VG+ dustwrapper. 8vo, 426pp, red half-cloth with spine stamped in gold. Affectionately INSCRIBED by Lacey Fosburgh (as "Lacey") to close friends on the front free endpaper. Three publication party notices, signed and mailed by the author, are laid in (two for this book and one for "India Gate"). Unmarked copy with a few spots to page edges and minor wear to dustwrapper.

Black River Falls, WI: Obscure Publications, 2007. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 40pp, sewn wrappers. Number 20 of 80 copies of this chapbook publication collecting three short works by Terry Southern. Unmarked copy, minor wear.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG in VG+ dw. INSCRIBED by the author on the FFEP. 8vo, 256pp, blind-stamped oatmeal cloth with spine stamped in gold. An ambitious work of historical fiction published by the Sierra Club. A few pieces of ephemera relating to the author are laid in. Book is unmarked (aside from inscription with some foxing to the cloth; jacket has minor toning and spots.

New York: George Braziller, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in VG dw. Large 8vo, viii+626pp, black cloth stamp in silver and purple, printed dustwrapper. Nice copy of the first American edition of this English translation of a monumental work on Genet by Sartre. Cloth has minor soil to back cover (internally clean), jacket has price clipped and shows some toning to spine and a closed tear to cover.