Literature, 1731-2007
Elizabethtown, NY: L. W. Currey, Inc., 2009. Paperback. Unpaginated, 6x9 inch pictorial wraps; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 310167
Elizabethtown, NY: L. W. Currey, Inc., 2009. Paperback. Unpaginated, 6x9 inch pictorial wraps; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 310167
New York: John Reed Club of New York, 1934. Magazine. 64p., wraps, very good condition copy of this seminal journal. Contributors include Tillie Lerner [Olsen], Alfred Hayes, Georg Lukacs, Isidor Schneider, Philip Rahv and others. More
Cat.No: 92664
Los Angeles: California State University, Los Angeles Department of American Studies and The Upton Sinclair Review Editorial Board, 1978. Paperback. 117p. 9.25x6 inch journal in wraps, signed by multiple contributors including Lorna Dysart Smith, Melville Kress, Leonard Leader, Robert O. Hahn, Edward Allatt and (on the front cover) Jean and..... More
Cat.No: 212471
St. Paul: Coffee House Press, 1984. Paperback. 89p., personal inscription signed by the author on front free endpaper, very good first trade paperback edition, blue wraps and dj. Six stories set in the Pacific Northwest, compared to Hjortsberg and Brautigan. More
Cat.No: 109021
New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1932. Hardcover. 320p., first edition, soiling to pages and heavily soiled yellow cloth boards with vignette on cover, ownership name. Abdullah was the pseudonym of an American writer who supposedly came to the US from Yalta and whose parents were born in..... More
Cat.No: 267457
no place: Self-published by the author as Wings of Ink, 2017. Paperback. 222p., very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. M/M Romance by female author. More
Cat.No: 242976
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Hardcover. 263p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and edgeworn, unclipped dj. Young 5. Novel of a woman dying of leukemia who married her cousin, a composer. Gay subtext. More
Cat.No: 48832
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Hardcover. 255p., two small tape remnants and scuff on front pastedown otherwise a very good first UK edition in cloth boards and lightly-rubbed price-clipped dj. A novel of politcal intrigue on a Caribbean Island by the South African author living in England. This novel came..... More
Cat.No: 198535
Maple Shade: Lethe Press, 2010. Paperback. 221p., very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. A Romantic Gay Novel set in San Francisco. More
Cat.No: 272219
Charlottesville: Just World Books, 2013. Paperback. 125p., personal inscription signed by the poet, glossary of Arabic words, very good first edition trade paperback in white decorative wraps. Palestinian American author and activist. More
Cat.No: 303849
New York: Ivan Obolensky, 1961. Hardcover. 184p., very good first US edition, cloth boards and unclipped but edgeworn dust jacket. Ackerley's only novel. Young 11*. More
Cat.No: 104599
New York: Ivan Obolensky, 1961. Hardcover. 184p., heavy foxing top edge else good first US edition, cloth boards and heavily price-clipped and worn dust jacket with closed tears and tape repair on rear, big red check mark on front panel. As is, reading copy only. Ackerley's only novel. Young 11*..... More
Cat.No: 310553
n.p. Private Edition, Adam's Acre Press, 1965. Pamphlet. 22p., 6x9 inches, personal inscription in pink ink on title page and final page, signed by the poet/publisher, poetry booklet in with stains to corners of the covers, stapled tan wraps. Cornel Adam Lengyel (who also published as Cornel Adam) was a...... More
Cat.No: 296837
Ljubljana: Univerza Edvarda Kardelja v Ljubljani, 1981. Hardcover. 409p., wraps, very good condition. The articles are in Croatian and English. More
Cat.No: 3728
Rochester: BOA Editions, Ltd., 1997. Paperback. 88p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. First edition. Poetry from the San Francisco-based novelist and poet. More
Cat.No: 287418
Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press, 1986. Paperback. xiii, 116p., first edition, wraps, very good condition. Afro-Jamaican writer. More
Cat.No: 30423
Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press, 1986. xiii, 116p., signed and inscribed by the Afro-Jamaican writer, first edition, wraps in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 114311
New York: Picador, 2014. Hardcover. vii, 232p., note from the publisher, very good first US edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. Autobiographical novel about POWs in Italy & Germany who must come to terms with desires in all-male confinement. The author was of Arab & Turkish ancestry..... More
Cat.No: 287332
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1993. Hardcover. 149p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 20528
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1993. Pamphlet. 14p., 5.25x8.5 inches, address label on rear wrap else very good advance brochure in stapled white wraps. More
Cat.No: 46473
New York: Delta, 1989. Paperback. 274p., very good first edition, trade paper in pictorial wraps. Gay coming-of-age novel set in Terre Haute, Indiana. First novel. More
Cat.No: 56282
New York: Vantage Press, 1997. Hardcover. 215p., first edition, dj, very good condition. Novel set in the gastroenterology division of Brooklyn's InterFaith Hospital, by a Nigerian American physician actually practicing there. More
Cat.No: 90815
Berkeley: QUILT | Ishmael Reed & Al Young, 1981. Trade Paperback. 193p., inscribed by Cecil Brown and signed by Al Young and Ishmael Reed, wraps. Includes fiction by Kristin Hunter and Cecil Brown interviewing Truman Capote on black culture (!?). Covers a bit soiled and rubbed. More
Cat.No: 16087
New York: Picador USA, 1998. Hardcover. viii, 245p., briefly inscribed and dated by the Lebanese author, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. This first novel by the well-known painter uses the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war as its motifs. More
Cat.No: 91460