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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1964. First edition. Frank Utpatel [illus].. Black boards, gilt spine. xii,207 pp. First edition. Map illustrated endpapers by Frank Utpatel, created from a map provided by Campbell. A fine copy, in the beautifully illustrated dust jacket by Utpatel; jacket is only lightly sunned at the spine.  First book by the eighteen-year-old Campbell, and the youngest author to date in Arkham House's history. Campbell is credited with making a significant contribution to Cthulhu lore, and with adding additional geography to the Mythos by setting his tales in the Severn Valley of the United Kingdom, rather than in the Arkham country of Massachusetts. JOSHI Eighty Years of Arkham House 73.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Collector's Edition. Daniel Maffia. Quarto. Navy blue leather, 22k gold inlaid on hubbed spine and panels, a.e.g. Blue moiré endpapers, satin-ribbon page marker, acid-neutral paper, all pages sewn. 181,[1] pp. Color frontispiece and nine paintings by Daniel Maffia. Fine; without dust jacket, as issued.  First edition, thus. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert, with an introduction by Wallace Fowlie and the author's Preface. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 1957 was awarded to Albert Camus, according to the Prize Committee, "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times." The Stranger explores themes of absurdity, the indifference of the universe, and the human condition, making it a classic of existentialist literature.

[San Francisco]: City Lights, 1971. First edition. Very good.. Pictorial card wrappers, printed in black. 157 pp. First edition. Wraps very lightly rubbed at edge, text block clean and very bright, very good or better copy.  First edition. From the verso of the lower wrapper: "Before he died in Mexico in 1968, just four days short of his 44th birthday, Neal Cassady had written the jack blurb for this book: 'Seldom has there been a story of a man so balled up. No doubt many readers will not believe the veracity of the author, but I assure these doubting Thomases that every incident, as such, is true.'" A wild ride.

Sign of the Red Pale, Westminister: [William Caxton], 1482. One original folio leaf of the chapter Liber Quartus, viii, (Book Four), printed on recto and verso in black bâtarde typeface, rubricated in red, with marginal chronological notes in red, and ink notations in an early hand. 10.63 x 7.69 in. (27 x 19.5 cm) approx. 40 lines plus heading on each of the two pages. Small chip from the lower foretip, tiny paper adhesion on extreme edge of verso, else very good. Contained in a floating mat for observation of entire leaf. Scarce. William Caxton (1422-1491 or 1492) introduced printing in English in 1476, establishing his first press on the grounds of Westminster Abbey. Printed in 1482, Caxton's edition of Ranulph Higden's Polycronicon, written around 1344, is a universal history concentrating on Britain. It was translated into English by John of Trevisa in 1387 and was a popular text that was widely copied and read. Caxton's early modern translation expands the chronicle to his own time. The… Read More

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 26 of 200 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small, independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 86 of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small, independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 32 of 125 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued.   Black Sparrow Press was a small, independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work.

New York: Random House, 1971. First edition, first impression. Very good / good. Octavo. Black cloth and grey embossed boards. First edition, first impression. 206 pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. Shelf wear on lower edge, sunning to top edge as often seen, a few instances of spot soiling in text and fore-edge, else very good; dust jacket toned at upper edge with some flaring to top and bottom, closed cut through upper edge of spine, a credo  written on the verso, else a good unclipped copy.  From the extensive collection of a San Francisco collector, started in the 1970s and held for over fifty years in their personal library. .

New York: Samuel Weiser Inc., 1970. Octavo. Pictorial and printed wrappers. 368 pp. Light soiling to wraps, else a very good or better copy.   First edition, thus. "Crowley's first novel. To the reader of 1923 it was a shocking experience, but that is the way Aleister Crowley intended it to be ... it presents a deep insight into the freaked-out world of the drug addict of the nineteen thirties," -- from the publisher.

Havana, Cuba: American Express Co., et al., 1930. Small archive of six items from a trip in the early years of the 1930s, all good or better. Items include: One forty page brochure in decorated and printed card stock wrappers, "CUBA The Pearl of the Antilles," with 16 itineraries and copious pictorial advertisements; two contemporary color picture postcards (unused); small brochure, folded to make four pages, offering visits to "Algibe" Farm, the "most typical Cuban Farm in the vicinity of Havana," where you are invited to see how crops are grown, attend "Thrilling Cock-Fights at all hours", and "Royal Palm Climbing Exhibitions." Finally, a fan-folded invitation to "Buy where Cubans buy," at La Isla de Cuba, with an accompanying map, (21 x 14 in.) dated 1928, of the entire downtown Havana shopping district, folded into twelve 7 x 3.75 in. panels with breaks at folds (see photo). All good or better with nicks, small closed tears, and a few smudges.

San Francisco: The Enlightener, Publishers & Printers, 1916. Folio. One sheet 11.5 x 9.5 in., folded to form four pages. Printed and decorated in black. Three "poems" presented as religious/ideological  tracts, "The Four Dimensions of the Sex," "Put the Blame on Woman," and, simply, "Woman." Very good.  Lucille "Mother" Riker was the wife of the famous conman, polygamist, religious cult leader, white supremacist, four-time unsuccessful candidate for governor of California, and founder of both "Perfect Christian Divine Way (PCDW), and Holy City, California, once referred to as a Utopian Community, now a ghost town.   During the time of the printing of this tract the Rikers were living and conducting a "Healing Institute" at three addresses on Hayes Street in San Francisco. William Riker was a White Supremacist who actively warned in his political tracts, The Emancipator: "keep your polluting hands off our White Race Women; they also belong only to the White Race Man. This is the true law of… Read More

Tavistock Square, London: Printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Octavo. Original illustrated boards. 24pp. Illustrations by Eugene McCown.  First edition, one of 420 copies hand-printed and published by the Woolfs at their home publishing firm in Tavistock Square, London. Owner's signature on front free endpaper, small contemporary bookseller's label to rear pastedown, covers lightly tanned, some scattered foxing; still a very good and extremely scarce title.   From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), a wealthy young socialite and heir to the Cunard Line British shipping industry, traveled and mingled with the literary elite who included T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, Louis Aragon, Ernest… Read More