Warrington: Printed by William Eyres, 1774. xix,[1],286pp. Octavo. Disbound, but sewing still sound. Light foxing early and late, residue of earlier binding on spine, otherwise very good. The second edition, with additions and corrections, of this popular compendium assembled by the physician and litterateur. First published in 1772, and reprinted.....
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[Copenhagen, Denmark]: United Artists, [1955]. [12]pp. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers (with upper wrapper adapted from Saul Bass's design). Photographs. Near fine. A program attending the Danish release of the 1955 film adaptation of THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak. The program includes text.....
New York: Brentano's. 1899. Tan cloth, with pictorial design in black and orange, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Faint smudges on lower board, 1899 gift inscription, otherwise about fine. First edition. With a "Prelude" by James G. Huneker, postdating his own first book publication by three months.
New York: Coward, McCann, [ 1973]. Cloth and boards. First edition. Extreme top and bottom edges rubbed, else near very good in darkened and handsoiled dust jacket with sticker removal mark.
New York: Coward, McCann, [1973]. Cloth and boards. First edition. Edges rather dust-soiled, otherwise very good in like dust jacket with sticker shadow on front panel.
New York: Atheneum, 1966. Cloth and boards. First edition of the author's first book. Small sticker shadow on pastedown, else very good or better, in somewhat rubbed and darkened white dust jacket, with a vertical crease in the front flap.
London: Allen, 1967. Cloth. First British edition of the author's first novel. Fine in good, somewhat rubbed dust jacket.
New York: Oxford, 1979. Cloth. A fine copy in a rubbed dust jacket with some small nicks and a short tear to the spine ends. First edition. The New Yorker jazz critic on Ray Charles, Blossom Dearie, Bobby Short, Helen Humes, Tony Bennett, Alberta Hunter, Joe Turner and others.
Boston: Houghton, 1974. Cloth. Photographs. Bit of rubbing to tips, else about fine in dust jacket. First edition. Review copy, with a personal letter from the editor to a NYT reviewer extolling the book's virtues. Portraits of Marian McPartland, Blossom Dearie, Ruby Braff, Tony Bennett, Mabel Mercer, and others, conveyed.....
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New York. 15 May 1986. One and 3/4 pages, on recto and verso of small octavo sheet of NEW YORKER letterhead. Ca. 150 words. Folded for mailing, a couple small smudges; very good. To "Dear Joe" [i.e. Jazz historian and critic, Joe Goldberg]. Balliett thanks him for pointing out a......
New York: Random House, [1985]. Cloth and boards. Photographs. First edition. Publisher's review copy with material laid in. Fine in dust jacket with short closed edge tear.
New York: Random House, [1985]. Gilt cloth and boards. Portrait frontis and plates. First edition. Boards slightly bowed, top edge sunned, one corner lightly bumped, else very good in slightly edge- rubbed dust jacket. Review slip laid in.
New York: Oxford, 1987. Cloth. Photographs. First U.S. edition. Faint sticker ghost on endsheet, light rubbing to edges, else near fine in dust jacket.
New York: Knopf, 1975. Quarto. Cloth. First edition. Poet Cid Corman's copy, with ownership signature and annotations. Remainder mark, else about very good in dust jacket.
Hollywood: The Petersen Company, [ca. 1980s]. [2],122,[1] leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only. Bolt bound in gilt flexible binder (produced by Barbara's Place). Ink name and contact phone number on title, otherwise about fine. The first draft of this original screenplay for an unproduced bio-pic about the.....
[Düsseldorf]: Claassen, [1989]. Cloth. First edition in German, translated from the French edition by Anna Kamp. Fine in dust jacket.
New York: Harper & Row, [ 1974]. Cloth. Large octavo. Photographs. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Laid in is a recent t.l.s. from the author (aged 82) to a California bookseller, writing in search of copies of this book.
New York: A. A. Knopf, 1946. Large octavo. Cloth. First edition. Some light pencil underscores and marginalia, endsheets tanned (as almost always), otherwise a very good or better copy in heavily worn and chipped dust jacket.
Baton Rouge & London: LSU Press, [1977]. Small folio (35.5 x 23 cm). Plastic ringbound plain wrapper. Filing label across lower edges, staple in upper wrapper, very good. Photomechanically reproduced uncorrected long galleys of the first edition, trimmed and bound for early subsidiary rights consideration. Uncommon format.
[New York]: Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]. Pictorial boards. Black & white illustrations throughout text. Fine, without dust jacket as issued. First American edition. Includes a lengthy chapter entitled "W. D. Snodgrass, The Fuehrer Bunker," along with essays on the Ramones, Tarantino's INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, etc.
New York: Abrams, [ 1976]. Quarto. Cloth. Photographs. First edition. With a Foreword by Dizzy Gillespie and an Introduction by James Jones. Bookplate, a few small foxmarks to edges and prelims, else very good in like dust jacket with a small closed snag to the edge of the front panel.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, [1978]. Printed wrapper. Filing label across lower edge, otherwise near fine. Uncorrected page proofs of the first US edition of this crime thriller, the fifth of the Joe Streeter novels.
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, [1967]. Small quarto. Cloth. First edition. A very good or better copy in good, heavily shelfworn dust jacket with tape mend at crown of spine and some creased edge tears.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. Pale blue-grey cloth, stamped in silver. Illustrations by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title: Best wishes from Carl Carmer." Cloth shows typical faint oxidation, but a very good copy, without dust jacket.
[Np]: Paramount Pictures, [1962]. [8]pp. Folio (47 x 31 cm). Pictorial self-wrappers. A bit creased at edges and corners, a couple short edge tears, but generally very good. A studio pressbook for Cassavetes's second feature film, co-written with Richard Carr, and starring Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens. Includes a lengthy.....
