Long, William JABAA
1906réf. 2221908First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with color frontispiece four full page b/w plates and many marginal vignettes by Charles Copeland. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt t.e.g. Pictorial dust jacket which reproduces the frontispiece. Rare thus. Very good. 296 pages. Signed and inscribed by Long on front free endpaper: "One Man to Another." Ginn & Company, The Athenaeum Press hardcover books
réf. 605122not signed on a 3/4 length portrait of William Saroyan wearing a double breasted suit long silk tie white shirt holding a cigarette looking down and to the right of the camera. Photograph is by Henry Flannery San Francisco; matte finish; 8" x 10". Very good-fine old glue stains on verso fresh. ca. mid 1930'a. unknown books
1791réf. 5476Paris: Firmin Didot 1791. Later Printing. Contemporary somewhat later three-quarter leather. A good copy; joint and backstrip scuffed; some wear to the corners; internally occ. light spotting but very good; untrimmed. Folio. 2 leaves 4 513 pp.; note - 4 page intro. bound after p. 12 of text. Schweiger states: ' . correct und gut gedruckt .' This however is the first and last good thing he mentions about the printing. This printing of Vergil was long in the making and intended to supersede the Baskerville edition in beauty. Although a handome book Wroth Schweiger Brunet etc. all feel the typeface and selection of format is not a success. It is one of a hundred copies produced and is signed and numbered for the publisher on the verso of the last leaf. Schweiger Latin II2 1180; Brunet V 1293; see Wroth p. 221. Firmin Didot hardcover books
1953réf. 500494On personal letterhead Crescent Beach St. Augustine Fl. May 11 1953. 4to 1 page. Her letters are scarce; To Mr. Miller: "I cannot tell you how deeply I regret that it will be impossible for me to attend the Luncheon in honor of Fanny Butcher. I am dependent on my husband to drive me with my assorted animal family to my summer home. Fanny Butcher has long been a powerful influence in the field of American Letters. While lesser editors have come and gone she has maintained consistent integrity and the highest standards. Of Fanny Butcher the woman I can only say that to know her is to love her. Her warm heart and completely charming personality are a delight to those of us privileged to call ourselves her friends. To many Moore years of her superb editing and her gilt for friendship!". unknown books
réf. 2221635Sinclair Upton. Youthful Black and White Vintage Photograph Signed "Upton Sinclair" 8" x 10" on original mount of photographer E. Willard Spurr 165 N. Madison Ave. Pasadena Cal. Signed and inscribed to author/newspaperman Harold D. Carew n.d. but ca. 1930 old stains right side of mount most would mat out. Very good. Carew 1890-1943 was a literary editor Pasadena Star-News from 1923 and author of a 3 volume "History of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley" 1930. Upton Sinclair 1878-1968 was an American writer. He was best known for the Jungle his 1906 novel exposing the horrors of the U.S. meat packing industry. His other novels include "The Brass Check" 1908 "King Coal" 1917 and "Oil!" 1927. In the 1940s he wrote an 11-volume series about contemporary American character Lanny Budd who travels through time and meets historical figures; "Dragon's Teeth" 1942 in which Budd meets Hitler won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Eight of Sinclair's books have been adapted for film and TV including There Will be Blood 2007 based on "Oil!" and starring Daniel Day-Lewis who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Daniel Plainview. books
1994réf. 91510NY: Random House 1994. First edition first prnt. Signed by Thompson as "HSThompson" on the front free endpage. Quarter-cloth with gilt lettering and paper-covered boards. Spine cloth and lettering and board ends minimally rubbed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Fourth book in Thompson's Gonzo Papers series. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House hardcover books
1911réf. 197778First edition. Small folio. 66 plates on coated paper 23 in color; portrait. Original green cloth stamped in gilt with color portrait on upper cover t.e.g. Very good. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1923réf. 229165First edition so stated; "E-X". Octavo. Dust jacket price clipped shallow chip across top of jacket spine; two short tears. Some foxing top edge. Very good. 406 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Booksellers re-order coupon on rear dust jacket flap intact. BAL 3536. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
réf. 500659no date 4 lines in purple ink: "And in the hereafter angles may Role the Stone from the grave away! John G. Whittier." 4 1/2 x 7" with integral leaf. Signed by Authors. F. Soft cover. unknown books
1957réf. 2221684"Alice Toklas" 1 page Paris Oct 18 1957 to Anita Loos. 8 1/4" x 5 1/4". Fine. Together with a typed transcription. Toklas express great pleasure at seeing Loos again and thanks her for her recommendation of a spa treatment at Acqui. In part: ".The doctor recommended ten baths during twelve days.I am very grateful to you. It would be lovely to think you would return to Paris in my time. Toklas 1877-1967 companion of writer Gertrude Stein who wrote about their life together in "What is Remembered" and was the subject of Stein's "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas." Loos 1891-1981 American humorous writer; best known for her novel "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1925; worked for various Hollywood studios as a writer and script consultant; film career from 1912: "My Baby" 1912; "The Telephone Girl and the Lady" 1913; "The Lady in Black" 1913; "San Francisco" 1936; "Saratoga" 1937; "The Women" 1939; "Another Thin Man" 1939; "Strange Cargo" 1940; "Susan and God" 1940; "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" 1945; "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" 1953; "Gigi" 1958. books
1933réf. 197722First edition. 4to. With 17 plates reproducing Hearn's letters to Barel. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt large printed paper label on upper ocver. Fine fresh as new. Enclosed in publisher's folding box with printed paper label on the upper front cover and extra limitation label. No signatures or bookplates. #60 of 250 numbered copies. The Hokuseido Press hardcover books
1905réf. 2222071First edition October 21 1905. Octavo. Color frontispiece of a painting by Maynard Dixon. Original olive green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt with a design in black cream and red. With the rare dust jacket unclipped; small chips; few nicks; light soiling. Very good. 333 pages. No signatures or bookplates. With publisher's three page promotional brochure quoting reviews comparing the book to "The Virginian" and to Jack London. Ben Blair was filmed in 1916 by Wm. Desmond Taylor. William Otis Lillibridge 1878-1909 died at age of 31. His other novel "Where the Trail Divides" was also filmed. See Jeff Dykes "Western High Spots" page 36. A. C. McClurg & Co. hardcover books
réf. 500590"Harriet Beecher Stowe" in black ink on 1/2 length vignette portrait of Stowe. Photograph is by George H. Hastings 147 Tremont St. Boston with his imprint on the verso of the gilt edged mount. 4 1/4" x 6 5/8"; very good fresh; ca 1880. Signed in full on the lower mount: "Harriet Beecher Stowe". unknown books
1957réf. 500113"Ray" on light blue personal 6925 Neptune Place letterhead La Jolla June 3 1957. 4to. 2 pages on separate leaves stapled together. To Edgar N. Carter at N.H. Swanson Company in West Hollywood: "Would it make any difference to a TV deal if I agreed to write the dialogue not the story -- only I suppose what you could call a polish job. Of course the writer would loathe me. I must make it clear that any work I should do would on be done in any TV studio since it might be from Tahiti or Tasmania. I understand that changes might be made because some actor might say "This line just isn't me" or some director might like George Marshall have an itching pencil. I ought to have something to say about who is to play the part. I think the actor is more important than the summer radio shot. I think you have the job of convincing these lauatics that if a show is to last it must cost not too much and must have some sort of special quality. Marlowe is a character of some nobility of scorching wit sad but not defeated lonely but never really sure of himself. It is impossible to think that such a man would not have a sex life but so many writers of this sort of story have made it too blatant and too vulgar. Marlowe would get almost any woman into bed with him by a certain obscure technique which depends almost entirely on making a woman feel that you respect her. Some of this has to go into Philip Marlowe if his is to be any good. If it is not possible to achieve this I think we should forget the whole thing. After all a great many writers have been trying to steal him from me for 15 years and they have never done it yet". unknown books
1927réf. 2221662WITH ORIGINAL BOREIN DRAWING First edition. 11" x 7 3/4". Illustrated with color frontispiece and 16 b/w full page drawings by Edward Borein and several vignettes. Two page introduction by Owen Wister. Original red stamped pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Very good. 76 pages. With a large signed original detailed ink drawing by Borein of two cowboys on horseback inscribed to Frank E. Bliss and dated 1927. Most original drawings by Borein in books tend to be much less detailed and smaller. Engraved bookplate of Francis E Bliss on front pastedown. Borein 1872-1945 was a noted Western illustrator and painter. His cowboy drawings appeared in "Land of Sunshine" with encouragement by Charles F. Lummis. Wallace Hebberd hardcover books
réf. 23335In 1979 Jon Friedman founded the annual Bisbee Poetry Festival in the historic mining town of Bisbee AZ a picturesque town on the Mexican border that had become a vibrant center of creative activity for musicians writers and artists. Every year for the next seven years Friedman invited six of the best contemporary poets to Bisbee during third week of August to read their poetry to audiences that usually exceeded 500 avid fans from around the country. The readings which might more accurately be described as performances varied from an hour to an hour and a half and these readings along with the interviews workshops press conferences and informal social events that surrounded the readings were all professionally videotaped thereby capturing some of the most riveting live poetry readings of the period. In all forty-four poets participated in the personalized week-long residences that the Bisbee Poetry Festival offered them including Kathy Acker Helen Adam Ai David Antin John Ashbery Amiri Baraka Ted Berrigan Gregory Corso Jayne Cortez Robert Creeley Ed Dorn Robert Duncan William Everson Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg Susan Griffin Bobbie Louise Hawkins Juan Felipe Herrera Galway Kinnell Carolyn Kizer Joanne Kyger Phillip Lamantia Philip Levine Jackson MacLow Michael McClure Alice Notley Rochelle Owens Robert Pack Margaret Randall Jerome Rothenberg Ed Sanders May Swenson Diane Wakoski Anne Waldman Philip Whalen among others. The Bisbee Poetry Festival video archive comprises approximately 120 hours of broadcast quality footage consisting of the following tapes: 126 tapes recorded on Sony videocassette KCA60 Broadcast quality - 3/4 inch - usually one hour each some are 2 hours each; 20 tapes of Sony KCS20 Broadcast quality - 3/4 inch - 20 minutes each; 8 reel-to-reel audio tapes Crescendo Medallion Series Magnetic recording tape 2400 feet per reel 7 inch reels 1/4 inch silicone coated Mylar 1/2 mil 2 hours each; 9 compact audio cassettes 1 hour each. unknown books
