Association Copies

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. First edition, first prnt. First issue dustjacket. Review Copy with the publisher's printed slip laid-in. Signed abd dated "Feb-11-83" by Martin Booth. Faint beginning toning of dustjacket front panel topedge (not immediately apparent). Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Booth, a poet, small press publisher, novelist and non-fiction writer, was MAN/Booker shortlisted for Industry of Souls.. Signed by Owner. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

NY: Doubleday, 1982. First edition, first prnt. Inscribed by Jones to Cleanth Brooks. "For Cleanth Brooks, with best regards, Madison Jones 11/9/82." Spine cloth lightly pushed and rubbed; dustjacket with wear at corners and spine ends and beginning toning on the rear flap topedge. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dusjacket with an archival cover. Brooks was the influential literary critic and educator and seminal figure with Robert Penn Warren in the New Criticism movement.. Inscribed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1973 First printing of the first U.K. edition. Publisher's black cloth and dust jacket with £2.50 price, Octavo, 163pp.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s copy (Who wrote the forward), with his armorial bookplate on front-free-endpaper (also, loosely laid-in is an auction card for The Estate of Douglass Fairbanks, Jr.

Signed and inscribed by Harold French to Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who wrote the Foreword.

Light bump to upper board edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with mild edge wear, light tanning to spine, and a bit of age-toning to top edge of flaps, else dust jacket in fine condition.

Unique, signed-association copy , scarce thus.

London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1945. First Edition. Very good without dust jacket.. First edition featuring a presentation inscription from C.H. Bretherton's wife to the wife of Kenneth Grahame on the flyleaf. Bretherton was a frequent contributor to Punch magazine and an enthusiastic support of Grahame. Poems was published after the death of both Bretherton and Grahame, hence the inscription to/from their respective spouses.

NY: Random House, 1994. Signed first edition. Inscribed presentation copy to Stepp and Cook Neilson. Motorcycle legend Cook Neilson was a preeminent motorcycle journalist and editor of Cycle Magazine. He won the Daytona Superbike race in 1977 on a Ducati. He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame and the Ducati North America Hall of Fame in 2006. Published NY: Random House, 1994. 8vo. Slight creasing to spine, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1954. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Printing of the First Edition. Fine copy, in a fine jacket. This was Dorothy Livesay's copy, and bears her name and nickname on the front endpaper, inscribed, ( in her distinctive script ), by P. K. Page. An exceptional copy of this Governor General Award winning book..

New York: Bluejay Books, 1984. A Bluejay Special Edition. Signed. Softcover. Octavo. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 195 pp. Very Good in wraps. Association copy. Signed by author on title page, with inscription to long-time friend and fellow author Joe Hensley: "As always, with love + chum-ness, to Joe." Pictorial wraps. Minor bumping to head of spine and both leading corners of front wrap. Pages unmarked and clean.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Uncorrected proof. Signed by Harlan Ellison. Softcover. Octavo. 8.25 x 5.25 inches. 229 pp. Fine in plastic protected wraps. Association copy. Proofread by Hensley's long-time friend and fellow author Harlan Ellison. Inscribed and signed by Ellison on front wrap: "Proofread for errors by Harlan Ellison 29 June – 3 August 1994." Inscribed and signed by Ellison on half title: "For Joe! A memento of our ongoing 40+ year friendship. Yr. pal, Harlan 3 August 94 Los Angeles." Inscribed by Ellison on title page: "Terrific book overall!" and "Joe – Jim Carlos is a great character! More, please! With Daggert as his 'sidekick.'" Ellison's dog-earring and proofreading markups throughout, else Fine. Scarce thus.

Baltimore, MD: Borderlands Press, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 239 pp. Fine / Fine in Fine slipcase. Association copy. Number 424 of 1000 signed by author on fly leaf. Post-It laid onto front free endpaper with inscription to long-time friend and fellow author Joe Hensley and wife: "Joe, Char - You might want to check the dedication page on this new 1st H.C. edition. - he." Dedication page reads: "For years of friendship, For forcing open doors and, Busting out windows, This one, with love, for Joe L. and Charlotte Hensley." Blue cloth, silver stamped on front board and spine. Light blue endpapers. Text block square and tight. Interior pristine. Dust jacket unclipped. Includes 16 tales.

Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 332 pp. Fine. Lacking dust jacket. Association copy. Signed by author on title page, with inscription to long-time friend and fellow author Joe Hensley: "For Honest Joe my old fishing hole buddy, with undiminished lots of love & affection – Harlan 6 Sept 82." Bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Author's initials blind stamped on front board. Very tiny indentation in lower left quarter of front board, else Fine. Collection of sixteen stories and four essays. Foreword by Stephen King.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1976 First printing of the first British edition. Signed and inscribed by Saul Bellow to Terry Eagleton, the eminent literary theorist, new historicist, and Thomas Wharton Professor of English at Oxford: "For Terry Eagleton / from his neighbor at Durrant's / Saul Bellow / London Dec. 22, 1976." Book with light toning to spine and top edge of boards, else in fine condition; dust jacket with toning to spine and mild edge wear, else fine. Recipient of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize.

[1945], 98pp. original binding. Memories of colleague resistance fighters privately published in 1945 It is very rare. The authors of these personal memories, however, remain anonymous. Erik Schaap published a book about Walraven van Hall and mentions this early book on Walraven van Hall.Walraven (Wally) van Hall (10 February 1906 - 12 February 1945) was a Dutch banker and resistance leader during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. He founded the bank of the Resistance, which was used to distribute funds to victims of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and fund the Dutch resistance.A film was made about his wartime activities.The present volume belonged to a member of his family (on his mother's side).This volume is available at a negotiable and substantially reduced price to Dutch museums, libraries and other institutions involved in the maintenance of an historical record of Dutch WWII resistance and the fate of the Jewish community. Contact seller.

Chicago: The David Company, 1991 First edition, publisher’s original stiff wrappers, a black and white mottled design of a composition notebook with poems written in first-person voice of twenty imagined young characters. Presentation copy signed and inscribed "For Kenan Heise. / Sincerely / Gwendolyn Brooks / July 21, 1996."
A few faint creases to front cover, else book in fine condition, issued without a dust jacket.

Kenan Heise’s links to Chicago history are strong, nurturing relationships with Chicago luminaries such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Studs Terkel. Kenan Heise is a member of the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame, a prolific author and historian, a poet and a playwright, and a prodigious book collector and broker (Proprietor of Chicago Historical Bookworks). He worked for the Chicago Tribune newspapers for 36 years, including Chicago's American, Chicago Today and the Tribune. He is a Michigan native, and has written or collaborated on more than 25 books and memoirs… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 First printing of the stated first edition. Presentation copy (signed and dated in year of publication on the half-title page) to famed civil rights lawyer and activist, Jack Greenberg (1924–2016): "For Jack Greenberg / long in the / Storm. / Sincerely, / Alice Walker / 2-26-73." Provenance: the personal copy of Jack Greenberg, consigned by his adopted son William Cole.
Light rubbing to edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to cover margins, light wear to spine ends, and light shelf wear.

Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall.

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New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1975 First edition in pictorial wrappers: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Author's first book of poetry. Signed presentation to Mark Strand by Robert Pinsky directly on the half-title page: "For Mark, with / warm regards / and admiration. / Robert / 2/9/76." Additionally, a Cambridge envelope addressed to Mark Strand laid-in with a short letter to Strand from Pinsky on a personal stock card, reading: "Dear Mark, / Thank you for The Weather of Words--you kept your / promise! -- and I'm glad. An I, too, have been / busy with the alphabet. / It was great to see you, and really impressive, as / ever, to hear you read the poems. / Yours, / Robert."

Light toning to spine and a faint short crease to upper front cover, else book in fine condition. A lovely copy.


Mark Strand was named U.S. poet Laureate in 1990 and received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Blizzard of One in 1999.

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