London: Robert Hale, [1956]. Large octavo. Gilt lettered black cloth textured boards. Very good, or better, in good, characteristically rubbed price-clipped dust jacket with two small snags in the front panel and internal mends at crown and toe of spine. First edition of a work which represents itself as autobiographical.....
New York: Putnam, [1968]. Large octavo. White cloth, with color floral decorations and electric pink pictorial endsheets. Plates. A fine copy, in very good, slightly rubbed black dust jacket with shallow creased snag at toe of spine. First edition. Publisher's review copy with dated slip and promotional flyer laid in.....
[New York]: Bollingen Foundation / Pantheon Books, [1949]. Large octavo. Gilt decorated three-piece cloth binding. Frontis and plates. Early ink name on endsheet, some faint finger smudges on upper boards, otherwise near fine in very good, price-clipped and lightly nicked and frayed dust jacket with 3 cm scratch on rear.....
New York: Orion Press, [1961]. xi,[1],385pp. Large octavo. Cloth. Ink name, some modest use, but a good copy in lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition. This substantial anthology presents texts by Gautier, Huxley, Burroughs, Mezzrow, Billy Holiday, De Quincey, Ludlow, Wasson, Cocteau and others, without exploitative sensationalism.
New York: Peter Blum Edition, 1982. Portfolio of nine original etchings and one silver gelatin print photograph (images 16 x 20cm printed on 42 x 50cm sheets). The whole enclosed in hinged folding polished wood box (55 x 46 cm), titled in black. Fine. Copy #6 of 35 numbered portfolios.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1976]. Cloth. First (US) edition of this translation by Helen Weaver. Top edge faintly dust tanned, otherwise about fine in near fine dust jacket with minuscule nick at top of lower spine fold.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. Large octavo. Gilt lettered forest-green cloth textured boards. Small 1cm circular adhesion shadow to front free endsheet from something now long absent, otherwise near fine in very good, price-clipped dust jacket. First edition of the dramatist / novelist / producer's record of his six LSD sessions.....
New York: Grove Press, [1960]. Stiff pictorial wrapper. Trace of light foxing or dusting to edges and endsheets, otherwise very good or better. First (US) edition, simultaneous wrapper-bound issue, of the author's last lifetime novel, but the first under his own name, preceded by the several pseudonymous book-length fictions he.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901. [10],375pp. Burgundy red cloth, decorated in gilt and black (the probable primary binding of at least three). Frontis and plates. Profusely illustrated by J. Augustus Knapp. Minor bumps at fore-edge and lower fore-tips, 1913 pencil ownership inscription, slight tanning at endsheet edges, otherwise.....
[New Delhi]: Vikas Publishing House, [1981]. 221pp. Fine-grain gray cloth, lettered in black (likely the primary binding of two we've encountered). A very good copy in lightly worn and hand-smudged dust jacket. First edition of this rather late consideration of the topic that is nonetheless described by its publisher as.....
New York: Random House, 1969. Stiff printed wrapper. Shadow of filing label across lower edge, publication date in ink on first blank, trace of light wear at spine corners, otherwise very good or better. Uncorrected page proof of the first edition of the follow-up to Jacobs's influential DEATH AND LIFE.....
New York: Grove Press, [1960]. Pictorial wrapper. Photographs. US price blocked out on wrapper leaving the UK price intact, otherwise very good. First edition of this seminal play of its era, not published clothbound. THE CONNECTION was first produced at the Living Theatre as an unpublished work in 1959. A......
[New York]: Olympia Press, [1970]. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrapper by Ira Cohen and Bill Devore. Textblock tanned, as usual, narrow strip of rubbing to upper wrapper, but a very good copy. First edition of the author's first book, a paperback original. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg.
Bolinas: Grey Fox Press, 1972. Pictorial wrapper. First edition, trade issue. Lower wrapper panel a bit rubbed, but a very good copy. Typed prssentation slip laid in.
[Francestown, NH]: Typographeum, 1993. Cloth, papers spine label. Frontis portrait. About fine. First edition in this format of a lecture by Chatwin delivered at a 1973 Charity Auction for the British Red Cross. Foreword by John Wyse Jackson, frontis by Jocelynn Hallen. One of 175 copies printed and bound by.....
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[New York]: D.C.A. Release, 1955. [8]pp. Folio pressbook (41 x 27 cm). Pictorial self- wrapper. Heavily illustrated. Old horizontal fold, otherwise near fine. A promotional pressbook for the US distribution of the 1954/5 British animated film adaptation of Orwell's beast fable, directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, with voices.....
[San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972]. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Preliminaries and chapter heads illustrated. Thin and almost unobtrusive remainder designation on top edge, otherwise about fine in near very good, typically rubbed pictorial dust jacket with remnant of Yale Co-Op price sticker on front jacket flap near printed.....
Cambridge, Ma. Printed for John B. Wyeth, 1833. [4],87pp. With the one-line erratum slip tipped in following the title-leaf. Half title. Gathered signatures, stitched. Without the rare original wrappers, though with wrapper remnants along the spine. Lightly tanned and spotted. Very good. Untrimmed. In a cloth chemise and half morocco.....
Honolulu: C.C. Bennett, 1869. xii,88,xiii-xxviii pp., including illustrated advertisements. Original half black sheep and printed paper boards. Boards rubbed and with a bit of staining, front hinge loosening, remnants of paper labels on spine. Front free endpaper partially torn. Bookplate of territorial governor George R. Carter on front pastedown, and.....
New York: Avon Books, [1959]. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrapper. Uniform tanning to text block, trace of rubbing at corners, still an unusually nice copy. First Avon printing, the first paperback edition. According to White, 190,000 copies were printed.
New York: Avon Books, [1959]. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrapper. Uniform tanning to text block, trace of rubbing at corners, still an unusually nice copy. Second Avon printing, but the first to include a special Introduction by Malcolm Cowley. According to White, 20,000 copies were printed.
New York: Bantam Books, [1953]. 12mo. Highly pictorial wrapper. Narrow edge- stain overshooting on rear wrapper, slight uniform tanning, but a near fine copy. First paperback edition. According to White, a quarter million copies were printed. Gehman's introduction first appeared in the 1950 ND Classic printing.
New York: Harper & Bros. 1857. Original gray cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Head and toe of spine slightly frayed, with minimal loss, several signatures starting at center of textblock, with signs of early 'tightening' and light discoloration from same at a couple of gutters, early bookplate and some.....
New York: Pass Press, 1990. Glossy pictorial stiff wrapper. Illustrations. Fine. First edition, limited to 500 copies. A good association copy, with the author's extended signed presentation inscription on the half- title, "To Charles Henri Ford and Indra T[amang]. my travel tales and political writings and on page 50 and.....
[New York]: Universe Publishing, [2001]. 112pp. Oblong octavo. Padded vinyl, pictorial labels. Glossy photos. Abut fine. First edition of this companion to Niccolini's exhibition of photographs featuring Billy, an anatomically correct gay doll and friends. An excellent association copy, inscribed and signed "For the irrepressible and unforgettable Charles Henri Ford.....
