Authors starting with C from Alexander Rare Books

Montpelier, VT: Invisible Cities Press , 2001. First edition Very Near Fine The poet's first book was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Yusef Komunyakaa. One of four initial volumes in the Contemporary Classics Poetry Series. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket as issued. ... more information

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New York: Knopf, 1993. First edition Near Fine in Wraps An uncorrected proof in blue printed wrappers. An international bestseller by this Italian publisher/writer; translated by Tim Parks. ... more information

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Louisville: Sarabande Books, 1999. First edition 72 pp. Uncorrected proof in illustrated wrappers, with printed pub sheet laid in. Poet's second collection. Near fine. ... more information

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London: Chatto and Windus with The Hogarth Press, 1972. Hardcover First edition. 40 pp. Writer's third collection of poems; a volume in the Phoenix Living Poets series. Fine in a lightly spine-toned dust jacket, with a bit of wear at crown and foot. ... more information

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[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon, 1984. Paperback First edition Palaemon Press Broadside Number Forty-Six (approx. 12x 9 in.); limited to 126 copies, 100 numbered (this copy is no.6), printed in black and red on heavy stock, signed by Wright. Fine. ... more information

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London: The Bodley Head, 1949. Hardcover First edition 297 pp. w/index and notes. Green cloth stamped in red and gilt, in dj. South African poet's first selected poems in the UK. Light shelfwear, red topstain bright, about fine in a worn and torn at extremities dust jacket. Better than usual copy. ... more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1930. Hardcover First edition, first state dust jacket. 8vo. 108 pp. Light foxing to free endpapers only, boards bowed, blue topstain bright; very good or better in complete, spine-toned, worn at edges, very good, dust jacket. Nice copy in the very scarce first issue jacket (reportedly only 150) which repeats the author's name on the spine.  ... more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. Hardcover First edition 61 pp. Brown cloth, blue spine-lettering, in dj. Poet's second book. Offsetting and light foxing to endpapers and foreedge, else very good, in a complete lightly rubbed and soiled about very good dust jacket, with four short pieces of old cello tape on verso. ... more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1930. Hardcover First edition Thin red Ingres d'Arches paper over boards, signed in gold. One of 400 signed and numbered copies; large paper edition. Two illustrations, one in color, by artist/poet David Jones. Printed at The Curwen Press. Both spine corners bumped and torn, edges worn, interior bright and clean. ... more information

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Durham: Duke, 1999. First edition 98 pp. Uncorrected proof in illustrated wrappers of the poet's third collection. Quotes from Mark Doty, Martin Espada and Marilyn Hacker. Cuban-American M.D. who ahs won the Lambda Award for memoir and poetry. Fine. ... more information

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New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition Very Good in Wraps An uncorrected proof copy in plain gray wrappers of this second novel by the MacArthur "genius" Prize fellow, a professor at Tufts, using George Herriman's characters in what The Houston Post called "a tour de force of post-narrative techniques. . . . It tackles enormous questionsÑart, politics, sex, literature, languageÑand is, at times simultaneously maddening shocking, funny and quite disturbingÓ. The tail ... more information

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New York: Knopf, 2003. Hardcover First edition. The third novel by an early recipient of a MacArthur fellowship. Very well-reviewed, and attractively packaged in a Chip Kidd designed jacket. Fine in Fine DJ. ... more information

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New York: Knopf, 1988. Hardcover First edition The second novel by this MacArthur "genius" Prize fellow, a professor at Tufts, using George Herriman's characters in what The Houston Post called "a tour de force of post-narrative techniques. . . . It tackles enormous questionsÑart, politics, sex, literature, languageÑand is, at times simultaneously maddening shocking, funny and quite disturbingÓ. With George Herriman illustrations on the front cover, title page and... more information

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New York: Doubleday/Nan Talese, 2001. Hardcover First edition. The second collection from this noted short story writer. Fine in Fine DJ ... more information

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New York: Doubleday/Nan Talese, 1996. Hardcover First edition First novel, second book by one of the most respected writer's of his generation. Fine unread copy in Fine DJ (in mylar). ... more information

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New York: Doubleday, 1994. Hardcover Fine in Fine DJ Second Printing. One of the finest debut short story collections of the 90's. ... more information

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New York: Random House, 1983. First edition 21 pp. Uncorrected proof in red printed wrappers. A brief memoir of a poignant visit to his father for Christmas. A faint crease to one corner, else a fine copy of a fragile and uncommon proof. ... more information

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New York: Random House, 1963. Hardcover First edition. Cloth. Signed "T. Capote" on title page. Fine copy in a spine-faded else about fine dust jacket. ... more information

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New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. Paperback First printing Twenty stories by the likes of Cheever, Welty, Miller, West., O'Connor, WC Williams and Capote whose House of Flowers was previously only published in a magazine. This is the mass market issue (also issued as were all BB books of the time in hardcover) in Very Good condition slightly cocked and edgeworn. ... more information

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Munich: Crown , 2001. Hardcover First American edition A highly praised first novel by a young British playwright. With a front cover blurb by John Fowles: "Easily the most brilliant fiction I've seen this year - it proves the potential brilliance of the novel form." A printed sheet with quotes from American booksellers laid in. Fine in Fine DJ. ... more information

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