Modern literature

San Francisco, 1980-87.. The first 11 issues in 8 volumes, quarto. The first 3 issues are on newsprint in a tabloid format folded once, as issued; the rest are bound in glossy pictorial card covers. 4/5, 6/7, and 8/9 are double issues. Number 11 is the 19 88 2nd printing (first was in 1987). Light rubbing to spine fold of 4/5, else all in fine condition. An avant-garde, counter-culture periodical. Number 4/5 has a William S. Burroughs cover and prints some of his and Brion Gysin's works. Number 8/9 is the J.G. Ballard issue (he contributes to other issues). Number 10 is the Incredibly Strange Films issue, number 6/7 is Industrial Culture Handbook, number 11 is Pranks. Contributions by Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, John Giorno, Kathy Acker, Dian e Di Prima, Michael Moorcock, Julio Cortazar, Octavio Paz, and many others.. Softcover. more information

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London: Andre Deutsch, 1976. Green boards, endpaper maps. Small ink name to front fly leaf; small light tan spot to lower page edges; faint soiling to page edges; small corner crease to two leaves; else fine. Jacket has nicks to spine tips and to top edge of front flap; near fine otherwise. A novel of Ireland from the later part of the 19th century up to the Easter Rising of 1916. A decent copy of this thick (751 pp), easily worn book. Note: Note: 1.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. First UK printing. Hardcover. Thick octavo. more information

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San Francisco: American Russian Institute for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union, (1944).. First edition. Tall 8vo. (viii), (82) pp. Plain card covers with attached dust jacket (red and black on tan), with free endpapers. A fine partially unopened copy. Jacket has soft creases along the top edge, short tear to upper front flap fold intern ally repaired, else fine. Printed by the Grabhorn Press in an edition of 1.5 K copies. Heller / Magee 403. Contributions by Boris Gorbatov, Alexei Tolstoi, O. Kurganov, A. Protopopova, S. Margolis, V.Lidin, Boris Lavranev, Eugene Petrov, and Fiodor Panferov. Quite nice wood engraved illustrations.. more information

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London: Heinemann, 1959. Red boards. pp 128 + frontispiece and three double-sided stills. Foyles sticker to front pastedown hidden by jacket flap; lacking the front free endpaper; ink name and red lipstick kiss to half title leaf; else fine. Red and black on white jacket has a tear the width of the panel and two edge tears to front panel; tiny chips to spine tips, outer corners; dust soiled and tanned spine & panels; tape stains internally from old removed cellotape; thus just good, but not unsightly. First published NY, 1958, this reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story has remained one of the greatest hits of the American musical theatre, basis of a film classic.. First UK printing. Hardcover.. Octavo. more information

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(London): Oswald Wolff, (1967).. 12mo, softcover, plain white card covers in dust jacket. [4], (viii), 79 pp. Fine copy, no previous owner marks. Price-clipped dust jacket has a small corner crease to rear flap, else fine. A collection of chansons from the heyday of the German caba ret, 1900-33. Text in German and English.. more information

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Redwood City, CA: Vagabond Press, 1973. pp (64), stapled, in illustrated card covers. Mimeographed on paper now yellowed, especially inside covers and facing pages; small chips and tears to fore edge of last two leaves and rear cover; a bit of foxing early and late; VG otherwise. Laid in is a folded rear cover from another copy of this issue, on the blank side of which is written "Kirby - check my editorial - John. " I presume this to mean Kirby Congdon and editor John Bennett. A letter from Congdon is used as a two page editorial. Two poems by Canadians - Joan Yamaguchi and Avron Hoffman, both of Vancouver.. Softcover. Squarish octavo. more information

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Washington, DC: Library of Contress, 1964. Black and white card covers. 367 pp, sewn. Cpvers are a bit yellowed and lightly soiled, light spots to spine, soft bump at upper inner corner, VG otherwise, tight in the binding, text clean, no owner marks. Contributions by Louise Bogan, Leonie Adams, William Meredith, Nemerov, Ransom, Rukeyser, Schwarz, Shapiro, Mark Van Doren, Jarrall, Wilbur, Eberhard, Snodgrass, Tate, Brooks, Frost, Langston Huges, Ogden Nash, Rexroth, and others. Issued to mark 50 years of Poetry magazine.. First edition.. Soft Cover. Octavo. more information

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London: "Daily Mail", 1905. Quarto, white cloth stamped in green. viii, (120) pp. Frontispiece photogravure portrait of Queen Alexandra with tissue guard and 14 other black & white plates inserted. Covers lightly soiled, bit of foxing to endpapers, Xmas 1905 ink in scription to front free endpaper, corner crease to one leaf; otherwise externally VG, internally fine. Published as a fund-raiser for the Queen's Fund for the Unemployed. Contributions by Alfred Austen, E.A. Abbey, Hall Caine, Marie Corelli, Austin Dobson, Sir Edward Elgar, W.S. Gilbert, Sarah Grand, Thomas Hardy, W. Holman Hunt, W.W. Jacobs, George Meredith, Arthur Morrison, Sir Gilbert Parker, Max Pemberton, A.W. Pinero, G.R. Sims, Solomon J. Solomon, Alfred Sutro, Bram Stoker, A.C. Swinburn e, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Israel Zangwill, and others. Includes facsimile signatures of the contributors. Hardy contributes the poem "Orphaned", Bram Stoker contributes the poem "The One Thing Needful". Sir Gilbert Parker contributes the poems "In C amp at Juniper Cove" and "Juniper Cover Twenty Years After" (pp 101-04).. First edition.. Hardcover. more information

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NY, 1961. May-June 1961 issue. Behan, Genet, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Paz, others. VG.. Softcover.. Octavo.. more information

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NY, 1959. Winter 1959 issue. Eye of Mexico issue, with contributions by Paz, Fuentes, Duran, many others. VG. Softcover.. Octavo.. more information

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NY, 1962. May-June 1962 issue. Rechy, Whalen, Ferlinghetti, Brassai and Henry Miller. Orange spine faded to yellow, VG otherwise.. Softcover.. Octavo.. more information

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NY, 1961. March-April 1961 issue. Henry Miller, Durrenmatt, Jonathan Williams, Willian Carlos Williams, others. VG.. Softcover.. Octavo.. more information

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(Budapest: Hungarian Book Review, 1979).. 8vo, white card covers. (2), xii, (89), (1) pp. Shallow bruise to top inner edge throughout, soft bruise to upper outer corners throughout, else VG. The long introduction is in English and French, and the responses of all the contributors are in eit her English or French. "An international inquiry of the Hungarian Book Review", the publishers solicited the opinion of a large number of international authors on what could be done to make the literatures of the smaller countries of the world bette r known. Printed here are the responses of Jorge Amado, W.S. Burroughs, Erskine Caldwell, William Cooper, Robert Creeley, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Anthony Powell, C.P. Snow, Gore Vidal, Richard Wilbur, and many others and, interestingly perhaps, the contributors from the non-English speaking being mostly unfamiliar names to this bookseller.. more information

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NY, 1961. Nov-Dec 1961 issue. "The German Scene". Uwe Johnson, Hans Arp, Grass, Celan, Eich. Böll, others. Near fine.. Softcover.. Octavo.. more information

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London: Methuen, 1965. Black boards, illustrated endpapers. pp 94, [2] + photo plates. Fine copy, no owner names. Price-clipped dust jacket has some rubbing, VG otherwise. " Oh ! What a Lovely War began life in 1963 as a stage musical by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop, based on The Donkeys by historian Alan Clark, with some scenes adapted from The Good Soldier Svejk by Czech humorist Jaroslav Hasek. It was an ensemble production with no 'stars' as such, but Workshop regulars such as Brian Murphy, Victor Spinetti and Glynn Edwards played multiple roles. The production transferred intact to Wyndham's Theatre the same year.This satire on World War I (and by extension against war in general), was a surprise hit. It was adapted by the BBC for radio more than once, and in 1969 Richard Attenborough transformed it into a film. His star-studded cast included Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, John Mills, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier, Corin Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Richardson and Maggie Smith. " - Wikipedia.. First printing. Hardcover.. 12mo. more information

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NY, 1961. July-Aug 1961 issue. Rechy, Trocchi, LeRoi Jones, Larry Rivers & Frank O'Hara, others. VG copy.. Softcover.. Octavo.. more information

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New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. Paper issue, advance copy for review with dated review slip laid in. Narrow quarto, 137 pp. White card covers with flaps, cover drawinig by Picasso, red endpapers. Five tipped in illustrations (4 in colour). Very nearly fine, no owner names. Poetry.. First edition.. Softcover. more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1969. Octavo (237) Orange boards. Australian new bookstore sticker on front pastedown; faint damp spot to upper outer corner of text; VG tight and unworn copy otherwise, no owner names. Generously price-clipped black jacket has short tears and very small chips at spine tips; VG otherwise. The noted Japanese author's second book in English.. First UK edition. Hardcover. more information

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New York: Knopf, 1979. Octavo, cloth & boards. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket.. First English edition. Hardcover. more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, [1990], 1990. First trade edition (limited ed. in 1989). 12mo, red cloth spine & cream boards. (xvi), (112) pp, black & white illustrations throughout. VG in VG dustjacket, no owner names. Abbey's last book, completed just two weeks before his death. "... a collection of lively, outrageous, drop-dead funny, tick-you-off sayings, observations, musings, and aphorisms about life, death, beer drinking, religion, music, literature, the environment, and just about everything else." - from the flap.. Hardcover. 12mo. more information

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NY: Dodd, Mead, (1956).. Black cloth and beige boards. Ex library, with label and rubber stamp on front pastedown; most of front flap pasted to front free endpaper; rubber stamps to page edges, title page, and lower margin of one page at rear; small ink notations on verso of title page; re mains of label on rear free endpaper; spine has vertical creases and a bit of wear at tips; bit of shelf wear to lower edges of boards, wear to lower outer corners of boards; a few light soil spots in text; in all, just a good, sound jacketless copy , but no external library marks. The author's very scarce second (and scarcest) book, seldom encountered in any condition, basis of the film "Lonely Are the Brave" starring Kirk Douglas. Nice copies in jacket cost thousands.. First printing. Hardcover.. Octavo. more information

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Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1975).. ADVANCE READING COPY. Narrow octavo, yellow card covers. 352 pp. Black on tan card endpaper maps inserted front & rear. Soft vertical crease to rear endpapers and rear cover; quite faint soiling along front spine fold; else fine. Nice copy of this vulnerable (yellow covers, bulky) advance issue of the author's best-known book, an angry and comic novel and an environmental classic which helped spawn the radical environmental movement. A roman-a-clef of eco-terrorists in the US Southwest at the beginning of the movement.. First edition.. Softcover. more information

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Boston: Little, Brown, (1989).. First edition. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF. 8vo, softcover, yellow non-pictorial card covers, perfect bound. Very light cover soiling, book slightly leaned, still a VG attractive copy. The sequel to his best-known novel, THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG, about an ex-Green Beret, "wilderness avenger", and the resurrected Monkey Wrench Gang, by the eco-author and champion of the wilderness of the western USA, posthumously published. Publication date on cover is 30 Jan., 1990. more information

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London: Cape, 1946. Octavo, blue cloth, 54 pp. Fine copy. Cream dust jacket has a bit darkened spine, mainly fine otherwise. . First edition.. Hardcover. more information

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. Octavo, blue cloth with paper spine label. pp viii, (68), spare label at rear. Text paper lightly toned, spine label yellowed, VG otherwise. Laid in are three printed Christmas Greetings (a poem by the author) for 1937, 1940, and 1944. The cards are a single sheet folded to make a 5 x 6.5 inch area and were printed in editions of 75 copies. Abbott retired as professor emeritus from the University of Durham in 1954. This was his second collection of poetry. BXML01. First edition.. Hardcover. more information

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Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.. Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography, blue cloth stamped in gilt, (xiv), 265, [1] pp, illustrations in text. A fine, as new copy without jacket (as issued), publisher's promo sheet laid in at front.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Octavo.. more information

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St. Paul, Minnesota: Coffee House Press, 1984. Octavo, blue glossy card covers in dust jacket. pp (iv), 89. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has light rubbing to surface gloss, else fine. Short stories.. First Edition. Softcover. Illus. by Gaylord Schanilec. more information

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New York: Knopf, 1996. Octavo, red and grey boards. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has corner creases to rear flap, else fine, flap price intact. The distinguished Japanese author's last book.. First US edition. Hardcover. more information

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New York: Knopf, 1969. Grey cloth spine and black boards. Fine, clean copy. Price-clipped jacket has short tear to upper outer corner of front panel, minor use, basically fine otherwise. "Told in the form--and with the suspense--of a mystery story, 'The Ruined Map' is a melodrama of the mind, its thriller-like excitement allied to a profound mythic quality that has placed Kobo Abe in the forefront of the world's avant-garde novelists." - from the flap.. First US edition. Hardcover. Octavo. more information

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London: Martin Secker, 1922. Original buff boards and yellow cloth spine with paper label. A VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names.. First edition.. Hardcover. Octavo. more information

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London & New York: John Lane, 1908. 12mo, green cloth, spine gilt lettered, top edges gilt. pp (175). Spine lightly darkened, frayed at foot; Canadian book collector's bookplate at front; else a VG clean and tight copy of this collection of poetry and one-act plays. The prolific author's first book.. First edition.. Hardcover. more information

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Toronto: Basilike, 1974. [12] pp, sewn, in grey marbled card covers with small printed cover label, title page printed in red. Designed and published by Paul James Davies in an edition of 125 copies. Fine copy.. First edition.. Softcover. Octavo. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1930. Octavo, dark blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt. pp (2), x, (551) + frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Sticker shadow at lower spine; bookplate inside front cover; 1930 date with later owner name (later date on other side) of front free endpaper; VG clean, tight and unworn copy otherwise. . Hardcover.. more information

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Toronto: Basilike, 1976. (32) pp, octavo, card covers. Covers have some very light darkening, quite minor dust soiling; book softly bent (but not creased) to top; near fine otherwise. Published March, 1976, in an edition of 175 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. First edition.. Softcover. more information

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New York: New Directions, (1975)., 1975. Octavo, green cloth. Tiny pale green spot on front free endpaper, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page "To _____, Walter Abish". Abish has also added an "S"- like flourish which winds around the title. Likely signed in Toronto, 20 Oct., 1993, at a reading. Author's third book, first collection of short stories, somewhat uncommon in the hardcover issue.. Signed by Author. First edition.. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1956. Black boards. Ink owner name on front free endpaper, else a fine, jacketless copy.. First printing. Hardcover.. 12mo. more information

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New York: Grove Press, 1988. Octavo, cloth & boards. A collection of three novels: Kathy Goes to Haiti, My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Florida. The first title published in a trade edition for the first time. Fine in jacket, no owner names.. First collected edition. Hardcover. more information

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New York: Semiotext(e), 1991. Paperback original. 16mo, card covers. Fine copy.. First Edition. Softcover. more information

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New York: Grove Press, 1996. Octavo. Fine in fine unclipped dj. Endpaper illustration by S.Clay Wilson. No owners name.. First Edition. Hardcover. more information

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(Toronto): Rumour Publications, 1978. The correct first edition. (3)-145, [1] pp. Black on pale pink pictorial card covers have minor rubbing to edges; nick and soft crease to fore margin of front cover; near fine otherwise, no owner names. LAID IN are five square black on pink cards reproducing Kushner drawings (3 different illustrations). Edition of 500 copies, not issued in hardcover.. First Edition. Softcover. Square octavo. more information

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New York: Coward-McCann., 1969. Advance copy for review with dated slip laid in. In the first state of the binding, with "Ackerly" [sic] on spine. Black cloth. Small light spots to top page edges, slight sunning to extreme upper edges of covers, very light tanning to the green endpapers, else fine. Jacket has orange spine lettering (author) sunned to pale yellow; sunning to rear flap fold; edge nicks; VG+ o/w.. First US edition. Hardcover.. Octavo. more information

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London: Bodley Head, (1969).. 2nd printing (first was 1968). Blue boards. Ink name, nearly fine o/w. Price-clipped jacket has short creased tears, tiny chips to head of spine; rubbing to flap folds; light soiling to white rear panel.. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987. Octavo, red boards. Near fine in like jacket, no owner names. . First printing. Hardcover. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. Octavo, blue boards. Text paper slightly toned, else fine in fine jacket. Canadian issue jacket ? (Candian price at top of front flap, UK price at bottom). . First edition.. Hardcover. more information

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London: John Lehmann, 1947. First trade edition (previously published by the Golden Cockerell Press). Yellow cloth. 159, [1] pp. Spine and upper margin of front cover slightly darkened; text paper a bit tanned; bookstore rubber stamp to rear pastedown; else a VG unworn jacketless copy, no previous owner names. 17th century Chinese literature.. First trade edition. Hardcover. 12mo.. more information

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NY: A.A. Wyn, 1948.. First US edition, from sheets of the London: John Lehman, l947, edition. Yellow cloth. Shallow bruise to fore edge of front cover; touch of sunning to spine tips; else fine. Jacket has a bit of soiling to rear panel; shallow chip, short tears to hea d of spine; corners of front flap clipped (by publisher?); spine slightly darkened; VG o/w. INSCRIBED BY HAROLD ACTON "To dear Jim, a brief souvenir of my stay in Kansas City, Mo. with love from Harold. 1948". 17th century Chinese literature, previ ously published in English by the Golden Cockerel Press.. more information

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1923.. First edition. Green cloth stamped in black and blind. xii, (148) pp. Frontispiece portrait and one plates inserted. Covers have some bubbling to cloth caused by damp; light rubbing to spine tips; minor endpaper foxing; a VG+ clean & unworn copy oth erwise. The 12 year old author's FIRST BOOK, a collection of verse. Helen Adam was born in Glasgow in 1909 and emigrated to the USA in 1939, where she became a part of the San Francisco Renaissance, publishing many volumes of poetry from 1958 on.. more information

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Munich: Institute for the Study of the USSR, 1958. Card covers. pp (204), indexed. Tan spot to fore edges of text, else a VG clean, tight and uncreased copy, no owner names. Monographs, Series 1, No. 38, January, 1958.. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. more information

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New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1990. Black cloth and lavendar boards. Fine copy. Black price-clipped jacket very lightly rubbed to panels, else fine.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Octavo. more information

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New York: Knopf, 1955. Octavo, uncorrected proof in light blue card covers. Creases to outer corners of covers; corner of text a bit splayed; clean, mainly fine o/w. A novel about a Connecticut family that moves to a small North Carolina town during the Depression. BXML01. First edition. Softcover. more information

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