Search Results: Titles starting with S from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Hornsea, England: PS Publishing, 2005. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A limited edition re-issue of this 1966 collection of stories aimed at a younger audience. With a foreword by Arthur C. Clarke and an introduction by Tim Powers. This is one of 200 hardcovers issued in a slipcase and signed by Bradbury. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and slipcase. Numbered, and signed by Bradbury on the limitation page.

Tokyo: Chikura Shobo, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A Japanese literary critic and novelist comments on American life based on a year-long tour of the country, visiting Japanese American communities during the Great Depression. Kimura and two friends pooled their money and bought a Ford, ultimately putting 15,000 miles on the odometer before selling it for most of what they paid initially. Kimura, while not (apparently) a Communist, was definitely a sympathizer and much of his commentary discusses the radical left in the United States. One chapter is devoted to American views on the Japanese socialist Katayama Sen. Other chapters consider Leon Trotsky and Upton Sinclair. [2], 5, [1], 3, [1], 374, [8] pages OCLC: 673327595 (National Diet Library). First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the publisher's light green cloth-covered boards printed with a skyscraper design. Probably lacking either a dust jacket, a publisher's box, or both.

Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Wth 100 black-and-white plates, reproducing Izo's large-format images of (mostly) stone religious buildings. 12-3/8 by 10-5/8 inches. First edition. A fine copy in a jacket that would be fine but for the typical fading at the spine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A collection of short pieces, many reworked for this publication. The first edition was 2000 numbered copies. xx, 230 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket that is tanned at the spine and is missing one-inch piece near the top of the spine. There is fading to the cloth visible through the chip and a shadow from the jacket on the front board. Two bookstore labels on the rear pastedown. With the publisher's survey postcard laid in.

London: Faber & Faber, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A mystery novel featuring the private detective Castagnetti. Set in Italy. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author and dated on the title page.

1985. Ephemera. Fine. 35 leaves; ribbon-copy typescript, with extensive corrections with Wite-Out and retyping. This story is an alternate history in which the Wright Brothers, a young Erwin Rommel and Sheriff Pat Garrett meet in a shabby hotel in the West. The story was first published in The Best of the West, edited by Joe R. Lansdale. It was included in Other Seasons, a collection of Barrett's best stories from his fifty-year career. A fine copy, inscribed on the cover, "For you, Tom! Original (elec. typewriter) (plus rejections! comments) Neal Barrett Jr." Barrett has lightly noted the word count of each page in blue pencil at the base of each leaf. The typescript is accompanied by several rejection letters, plus its acceptance letter. Housed in a custom archival folding paper sleeve.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2015. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Fine. A mystery set in Hollywood. Garris was the producer of Showtime's Masters of Horror series. 200 pages. Uncorrected proof of the limited edition.

Birmingham, England: Printed for J. Groom ... and Bazaar, 1855. Ephemera. Very good. A small chapbook about formerly enslaved Africans in Jamaica converting to Christianity. First published in 1840 by Wright and Albright. The dating of this version is from OCLC, which is speculative based on dates in a bound volume of tracts. 8 pages plus wrappers, with half-page illustrations on the cover, the first, and the back cover. 2-5/8 by 4-1/8 inches. Small spots on front and back wrappers.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A collection of ghost stories, including the title story about a circus run by vampires. First published in the UK in 1932; both editions are scarce. "Capable, interesting stories"-Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1490. 11 stories, 329 pages. First US edition (stated). A very good copy in a good dust jacket, chipped at the top of the spine. Red lettering on the spine is a bit faded.

Irvine, CA: Suntup Editions, 2021. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The Artist Gift edition is limited to 750 copies with a dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Lemen. It is a full cloth, smyth sewn binding with two-hits foil stamping. It is the only edition of the three with the dust jacket, and is signed by artist Vanessa Lemen. The edition is housed in a paper covered slipcase."-the publisher's website. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and slipcase. Still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. Fine. An advance copy of a novel by the author of The Gospel Singer. 284 pages. A fine copy in printed blue wrappers (paperback). Nicely inscribed to a friend, "Tom, why am I signing a reading copy? Harry Crews.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel set in a boarding house in Jacksonville, Florida. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Crews on the title page.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A novel set in a boarding house in Jacksonville, Florida. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Crews on the title page.

Los Angeles: UCLA Division of Honors, 1986. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. The text of the Naumburg Memorial Lecture, about writing biographical novels, by one of the best practitioners of the genre as the author of Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh), Sailor on Horseback (Jack London), and The Origin (Charles Darwin). 17 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (pamphlet). This copy is inscribed by Stone to the National Book Award-winning evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould: "Dear Steve-Just in case you ever wanted to write a Biography of Evolutions... My best, Irving." This copy comes from Gould's Harvard office library, with a letterpress-printed bookplate denoting the provenance.

London: Head of Zeus, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A murder mystery. The author's second book. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by Blok on the title page.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Hellman's memoir about the Joseph McCarthy era, when she was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). "One of a special edition reserved for the friends of the author and Little, Brown and Company." 155 pages. With a 32-page introduction by Garry Wills. First edition (first printing). Spine somewhat faded, else a fine hardcover copy in the original unprinted acetate jacket which is missing a small piece at one corner. Signed by Hellman as issued.

Baltimore, MD: Cemetery Dance, 2011. Advance Reading Copy. Trade paperback. Near fine. An advance reading copy of the limited edition of this anthology of horror film scripts. The contributors are Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Richard Laymon, Harlan Ellison, Joe R. Lansdale, and Ed Gorman. 545 pages. Just shy of 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Minor wear to the corners, else fine. An uncommon format.

(N.-pl.): US Army Corps of Engineers, 1881. Ephemera. Near fine. A cabinet view albumen silver print of erosion and bank protection improvements on the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri. The image depicts the river and a line of A-frame supports with wire and branches below the waterline to stop debris flows during the rainy season. Two Black men sit in the foreground, one in a canoe and the other seated on the river bank. They may be the photographer's assistants, as a case with a handle is visible in the canoe. The caption of the photograph continues, "Missouri River improvements, St. Charles, Mo. Main Dyke, 3,600 Feet. Cross-Dykes, 2,000 Feet-July, 1881." This view was published as an engraving in the Annual Report of the Chief Engineers, United States Army, to the Secretary of War, for the Year 1882. Part II, following page 1678. Over several decades in the late 19th century the Army Corps of Engineers experimented with many systems to keep the Missouri River channel open. In November… Read More

[Monterey, CA?], 1900. A lovely commercially produced (though likely in small quantities) album of colorful preserved marine algae specimens mounted on six leaves of cardstock and enclosed within thin sections of whale vertebrae. The algae samples are beautifully arranged and still have brilliant color. The bone front cover has a hollowed-out center lined with cardstock with specimens mounted in the center. The rear cover is a solid piece of bone. The binding is seWn with a green silk ribbon. An exceptional example of a specimen book, both well preserved and beautiful. The book has 17 mounted specimens inside plus two or three on the cover; the interior specimens are numbered in pencil and keyed to a 23-name list of species mounted to the rear pastedown. This specimen book appears complete; the books were likely assembled based on the available "sea moss" and likely varied from copy to copy. A short printed note about whaling in old Monterey, where whale bones were so plentiful they were used as… Read More

New York: Riverhead, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An illustrated poem about Afghan refugees. Illustrated by Dan Williams. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued signed, with a "signed copy" sticker on the front panel and Hosseini's signature opposite the half-title page.