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Claremont, CA. Sept/October 1960.. II:1. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Very good, with address label to New Directions. Edited by Myron Roberts, et al. A bimonthly of literature, political commentary, art and criticism. Highlighted by an unsigned Eliot pastiche, "The Love Song of Adlai Stevenson." ... more information

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[New York]: American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1948.. unpag. Printed wrappers. Black & white facsimiles. Index. Edges and wrappers somewhat tanned, with a few minor blemishes, otherwise a very good copy. Errata slip laid in. First edition. Preface by Bennett Cerf. Published to "honor, by selection and exhibition, the work of those designers, manufacturers and publishers who ...demonstrate ...what are the principles of good bookmaking." ... more information

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[Np]. 1952.. Whole number 2. Quarto. Mimeographed, stapled fanzine. 18pp. Covers lightly foxed, staples a bit rusty, but very good. Edited/written by Hal Shapiro. Spectator Amateur Press Society mailing. Maybe the only fanzine published by a serviceman restricted to base for going to a Science Fiction convention and returning late. Mailing comments, letters, etc. ... more information

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New York: Praeger, [1954].. Tall octavo. White cloth. Photographs, plans, and detail drawings. First edition. Top edge foxed, light foxing to cloth, but a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. ... more information

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New York: Henry Holt, [1940].. Gilt cloth. First edition, first book of verse. Spine gilding a bit dull, but a near fine copy in a lightly worn dust jacket with offsetting to both panels and a few nicks and chips. ... more information

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Boston: Little, Brown, [1990].. Cloth and boards. First edition. About fine in dust jacket. ... more information

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Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1975].. Large octavo. Pictorial yellow wrappers. A trace of very minor dust smudging to wrappers, light but visible discoloration to fore-edge and margin at top corner, otherwise a very good or better copy. Advance reading copy of the first edition of Abbey's most widely admired novel. Laid into this copy is a typed letter signed from the senior vice president of Lippincott to historian/biographer/novelist William Manchester, forwarding this copy and soliciting a blurb from hi... more information

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Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1975].. Large octavo. Cloth and boards. First edition of the author's most admired novel. Just a hint of sunning to spine through the dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy in bright, fresh jacket with a thin strip of light offsetting (typical of being stacked in the warehouse) down the lower joint and some sunning to the spine. ... more information

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Tucson: Harbinger House, [1989].. Pictorial wrappers. Revised and updated edition. About fine. Contributors include Berry, Eastlake, Barry Lopez, Wakoski, and Gary Snyder. ... more information

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[Np]: Universal International, [1962].. 12pp. Folio. Pictorial self-wrappers. Extensively illustrated. Folded across middle, light use at edges, else very good. The studio pressbook for the 1962 film adaptation of Abbey's BRAVE COWBOY by Trumbo, including promotional texts and illustrations of the campaign material. Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau starred, under the direction of David Miller. Abbey had a walk-on part as well, and is quoted in one of the press snippets printed herein. ... more information

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Kingston, NY: Styles & Kiersted, 1901.. Small octavo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. First edition. One of 750 copies printed. Light rubbing to edges, otherwise a very good (or better) copy. Copies also appeared in orange cloth. ... more information

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New Haven and Boston. Fall 1960 through Summer/Fall 1961.. Whole numbers one through three (of four published). Octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Unusually fine, with a subscription receipt to James Laughlin laid in. Edited by John V. Canfield and Samuel J. Keyser. Includes notes from a 1927 lecture by Whitehead edited by Paul Weiss, letters from Robert Graves and Adam Parry, poems by Theodore Weiss, a translation of a work by H. Böll, etc. The final number was Fall/Winter 1961. ... more information

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London: Constable, 1930.. Cloth. First edition. One of fifty numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author. Additionally inscribed and signed by him. Backstrip sunned, very good. ... more information

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Oxford: Printed for the Author, 1958.. Printed wrappers. First edition of this late collection. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. This copy also bears the author's signed presentation inscription. Lower corner bumped, else fine. ... more information

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[New York]: Press of the Woolly Whale, Christmas 1931.. Half blue morocco, t.e.g. A fine copy. First limited edition of the author's first novel (first published in 1910). One of two hundred and fifty copies printed for private distribution as the press's Christmas book. SMITH A11(ref). ... more information

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Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1979.. Quarto, plastic binder. Advance page proofs of the first edition. Very fine. ... more information

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San Francisco: Cranium Press, [1971].. Pictorial wrappers. Drawings by the author. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 850 copies printed by Clifford Burke and Holbrook Teter. Some faint smudging, 4cm long ink strike on lower wrapper, but near very good. ... more information

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Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1987.. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. About fine. Publisher's review/promotional letter laid in. ... more information

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Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1977.. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations by the author. First edition. Top edge dust marked, otherwise near fine. ... more information

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[Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University Logan Elm Press, 1992.. Narrow small quarto. Linen and boards, stamped in gilt, paper spine label. Illustrations. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Brent Riley. One of three hundred numbered copies, printed by hand in Bulmer and Baskerville types on Johannot paper, signed by the author and the artist. ... more information

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