Rare books from Idler Fine Books

Mission Viejo: CA 1994: Airtight Seals Allied Protection [A.S.A.P.], 1994 Limited edition of 100 copies. Hard cover bound in red cloth, with color photo of Hornsby tipped in. Signed by all contributors in gold ink: Wendy Hornsby, the author of the introduction, James Ellroy; the author of the after words, Raymond Obstfeld, and Phil Parks. Book in fine condition.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1930 First printing of the first edition. Rubbing to board edge, faint age-toning to page margins, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a few closed tears, age toning to spine and cover margins, mild paper loss to corners, else fine.

New York : New Directions, 1941 First printing of the first edition, first state, approx. 100 of the total 2000 copies printed [Wallace A22, iii].

Signed by Williams on the front free end-paper: post stroke signature.

Eleven poems, including the 15-part "For the Poem Patterson," issued as the first volume of the Poet of the Month series.

Plain wrappers with sewn binding, (32pp.), unpaginated, in first issue, yellow dust jacket, printed in black on the front panel. Light age-toning to page margins, else plain stitched wrappers in fine condition; dust jacket with mild rubbing to spine ends and corners, soiling, spine fold separating, age-toning to spine, folds, and cover margins, else in fine condition.

New York / Los Angles: Vantage Press, 1990 First printing of the stated first edition, blue cloth, with silver-lettered spine, 64 pp., pictorial dust jacket, with original price intact. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950 First printing of the first edition. Book with light foxing to endpapers, else in fine condition; dust jacket with light rubbing and foxing, else fine.

Baltimore, MD: Borderlands Press, 1993 First printing of the first edition, Author's first collection of short stories. Signed by Poppy Z. Brite on the title page, and also signed by Dan Simmons on the title page of his contributing piece, scarce thus. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Anthenum, 1967 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's second book and first novel. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with moderate shelf wear, else fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975 First edition, stated first printing. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with faint toning to spine/cover margins and light shelf wear, else fine.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958 First printing of the stated first American edition, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. The book is in fine condition with minimal wear; dust jacket with a closed tear/crease to bottom back cover, a diagonal chip to top back cover, creasing and mild edge wear to spine ends and bottom front cover, else fine.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1972 First printing of the British edition. Book with faint toning to top edge of boards, slight crimping to spine ends, and a tiny bump/crimp to upper front corner, else in fine condition; dust jacket with minor creasing, primarily at spine ends and upper corner, else fine. A Lovely copy!

London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1950 First printing of first British edition. Publisher's original binding and dust jacket. Ownership signature to front-free endpage, light rubbing and tanning to board edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with toning to back cover and flap margins, small stamp, "690" to bottom back cover, moderate rubbing/creasing/paper loss to edges, primarily spine ends and corners, and a short ink mark to upper front cover, else fine.

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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / A Borzoi Book, 1981 First printing of the stated first trade edition, preceded by the Franklin Library edition. Signed by Toni Morrison directly on the front endpage. Very slight crease to top corner of the first three leaves, else book in fine condition; in a fine dust jacket. A superb copy.

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.

Greenberg represented Martin Luther King Jr., but was best known for his role in litigating Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 civil rights case in which the high court rejected “separate but equal” public schools for blacks and… Read More

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.

Pinsky was named U.S.… Read More