Cambridge: Pym-Randall, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. This is No. 25 of 400 clothbound copies signed by Rexroth alongside his personal chop stamp. Designed by Joanne Randall, and printed by the Wallace Press in Milford, New... More about ONE HUNDRED POEMS FROM THE FRENCH
San Francisco: Donald S. Ellis, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Ring (1916-2015) was the personal secretary of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood from 1939 until his death in 1940. She typed the manuscript for The Last... More about AGAINST THE CURRENT: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paris: Aux Éditions D'Art de L'Intermédiaire du Bibliophile, 1930. First Edition. Wraps. This is exemplaire number 14 of 25 copies printed on Japon paper. Extra illustrated with two suites of six engravings by Gaston Nick... More about CONTES ET EPIGRAMMES LIBRES
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's second book, and the first published under his less identifiably Jewish pseudonym. Its success earned Sanford a screenwriting contract with Paramount Studios, where... More about THE OLD MAN'S PLACE
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Art Shay to Hugh Hefner on the title page and again on page 34, below Shay's 1968 portrait of Hefner... More about NELSON ALGREN'S CHICAGO
Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark Horse Books, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Doug Sneyd to Playboy playmate Shera Bechard on the verso of the front flyleaf: "To Shera, My all-time favorite centrefold - from... More about THE ART OF DOUG SNEYD
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. "A detailed account in the form of a diary of travels in Persia in 1881 by a member of the Bengal Civil Service returning home after... More about SIX MONTHS IN PERSIA
London: Griffith and Farran, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. 359 p. With a color folding map of the Field of Inkermann. "Lt.-Colonel Steevens (d.1894), arriving as a young lieutenant with his regiment, the 88th Regiment of... More about THE CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN WITH "THE CONNAUGHT RANGERS," 1854-55-56
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. With sixteen illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards. A minutely observed tragedy of manners, seen through the eyes of the beautiful, selfish Lady Julia Ongar... More about THE CLAVERINGS
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 16 pp. illustrations. Speculating on the veiled history of the destruction of the Hittite and Mycenaean civilizations by a mysterious sea-faring race, Velikovsky... More about PEOPLES OF THE SEA: The Concluding Volume of the Ages of Chaos Series
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 482 p. With Fifty-Five Drawings by Georges Montbard, and some Photographs. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, [1897]. First edition. In the autumn of 1876, journalist Edward Vizetelly, who had seen... More about THE REMINISCENCES OF A BASHI-BAZOUK
St. Louis: Division of Exhibits, Department of Education, Universal Exposition, 1904. Second Edition. Wraps. "This monograph is printed for limited distribution by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company." Monographs on Education in the United States, No... More about EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. The story of a prize fighting New York taxi driver, this novel first appeared in the pages of Collier's Weekly. It also served as... More about BILL GRIMM'S PROGRESS
Ojai, California: Dillingham Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. An American artist and studio potter, who late in life was dubbed the "Mama of Dada," Wood (1893-1998) served as a partial inspiration for the character of... More about I SHOCK MYSELF: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood
A collection of photographs, letters, telegrams, newspaper clippings, and other material documenting the life of Myron Kendall Strickland of Huron, South Dakota, presumably assembled by his mother, Muriel Strickland. His original birth certificate accompanies more... More about BIRTH TO DEATH SCRAPBOOK OF AN AMERICAN COAST GUARDSMAN KILLED IN ACTION AT GUADALCANAL