The Gemini: a novel
London: Peter Owen, 1964. Hardcover. 178p., very good first edition, boards, in a slightly worn and soiled but unclipped dj. Young 130. A tragedy set in a Northern England industrial town. More
Cat.No: 63017
London: Peter Owen, 1964. Hardcover. 178p., very good first edition, boards, in a slightly worn and soiled but unclipped dj. Young 130. A tragedy set in a Northern England industrial town. More
Cat.No: 63017
London: Faber and Faber, 1948. Hardcover. 126p., bump to head of spine else very good first UK edition in yellow cloth and very good price-clipped dj. Young 136 P. More
Cat.No: 320312
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. Hardcover. 72p., very good first edition stated. 1st printing indicated as is common with Random House of the period with a number line ending in 2 (see Verkler & Zempel) quarter-cloth boards, unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 250836
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. Hardcover. 57p., very good first UK edition in boards and price-clipped dj. Young 139. More
Cat.No: 30467
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Leather Bound. 737p., editor's and author's prefaces, appendixes, indexes, near-fine limited edition in full green leather and gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, small scrape on bottom edge, ribbon bookmark bound-in, satin endpapers. Reissue of the 1976 Franklin Limited Edition minus the Spender..... More
Cat.No: 247391
New York: Random House, 1977. Hardcover. xxiii, 469p., frontis-portrait, , preface, footnotes, appendixes, index, very good first edition stated with number line ending in 2 as called for with Random House first printings, in plum cloth boards, remainder mark top edge and price-clipped dj. More
Cat.No: 271845
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. Hardcover. 180p. + 8p. photographs, very food first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 14434
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1927. Hardcover. vii, 51p., first American edition in 8x5 inch insubstantial black boards backed in paper vellum with printed spine and cover labels. Light smudges to casing, slight general edgewear with chipped snags at top and tail, and the loss of most of the..... More
Cat.No: 316548
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. Hardcover. 253p. + 8p. photos, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and lightly-worn unclipped dj. Auden's affair with Chester Kallman. More
Cat.No: 14771
New York: Schocken Books, 1987. xiii, 178p., first US edition in dj, small sticker remnant on jacket, a very good copy. Historical fictions, the Inquisition a prominent theme; Ayala a "vanguard novelist" of the 1920s, forced into exile after serving with the Republic's diplomatic corps. The jacket blurbs feature an..... More
Cat.No: 12054
Iowa City: Aunt Lute Book Company, 1984. Paperback. ix, 110p, good first edition trade paperback in toned wraps. Mock-Greek Tragedy about streetwise lesbians. More
Cat.No: 21364
London: Onlywomen Press, 1987. Paperback. 95p., pages lightly and evenly toned, else very good first UK trade paperback edition in yellow pictorial wraps. Anna Livia's copy, with her signature. Born in Brooklyn, at writing an eight-year San Francisco resident, Azpdu is from a Sicilian immigrant family, writes in the context..... More
Cat.No: 126416
Copenhagen & LA: Green Integer, 2008. Paperback. 79p., 4.25x6 inches, personal inscription signed by the poet, very good first edition, first printing pocket paperback in pictorial wraps. Green Integer #167. More
Cat.No: 316448
Chicago: March/Abrazo, 1982. Pamphlet. 16p., 5.25x8.25 inches, bilingual texts in Spanish and English, illustrated with woodcuts, very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial yellow wraps. Includes a one-page introduction by Sandra Cisneros. Poetry. The poet/educator was born in Buenos Aires and lives and teaches in Chicago. More
Cat.No: 71812
Los Angeles: Flying Machine Publishing, 2003. Paperback. 86p., text in Spanish, very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Puertorriqueña author. More
Cat.No: 128196
Los Angeles: Flying Machine Pub. 1994. Paperback. [ii] 110p., prologue, stories, author bio, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. First book by the Puerto Rican author living in Hollywood, California. More
Cat.No: 194593
New York: Dutton, 1992. Hardcover. 164p., remainder mark, else very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Autobiography of growing up gay in working-class London. More
Cat.No: 100272
Norfolk CT: New Directions, 1941. 32p., on calendared paperstock with a monochrome vignette on title page, printed paper over boards in dj. Casing slightly age-discolored, jacket is chipped and has some tears, good clean sound copy. Poet of the Month series #4. Poet's first book of poetry. Husband of novelist..... More
Cat.No: 169313
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Hardcover. 256p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 31851
Washington: Some of Us Press, [1974?]. Pamphlet. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inches, good first edition booklet, small stain at upper left corner, stapled white pictorial wraps. Cover uses a Dorothea Lange photo. Lesbian poet, described as a nude model and formerly a go-go dancer. More
Cat.No: 115821
New York: Rineharts & Co., 1956. Hardcover. 309p., light tanning to margins of textblock otherwise a very good first US edition with Rinehart R on copyright page, in lightly-shelfworn blue cloth and unclipped edgeworn and sunned dj. The British first was Young 154 and a British Book Society selectio. More
Cat.No: 164877
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. Hardcover. 252p., first British edition, very good condition lacking the jacket. The story "The Outing" is Young 159. More
Cat.No: 318176
New York: The Lion Press, 1970. Hardcover. 157p., dj. Odd novel of a young black southerner who moves north, very good condition in like dj. Chicago-born European-American author. More
Cat.No: 44000
New York: Writers Club Press, 2002. Paperback. 210p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Vanity press lesbian novel. More
Cat.No: 205687
Oakland: Self-published by the author, 1931. Hardcover. 252p., frontis-portrait by Arnold Genthe, illustrations, photos, mild off-set to free endpapers otherwise a very good first edition in brown cloth with paper spine and cover title labels in an unclipped, lightly worn dj with small chips at edges and closed tear. More
Cat.No: 36440