Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1897. Hardcover. Wretched copy, wonderful breaker: 412p., humerous chromos staring boys mostly, two girls, and an elderly man, described below. Find profuse b&w wood-engraved plates, ads; clothbacked boards with pastedown illustration. A virtually unrestoreable exemplar; terrifically worn casing is detached from its terrifically shaken textblock; many..... More

Cat.No: 196625

Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co., 1981. Paperback. 184p., very good first printing re-issue trade paperback in red pictorial wraps. Ackerley's only novel originally published in 1960. Semi-autobiographical. Filmed in 1988 with Alan Bates and Gary Oldman. More

Cat.No: 173500

San Francisco: UCSG Oral History Program, Department of the History of Health Sciences, UCSF, 1992. Paperback. xvii, 174p., foreword, preface, introduction, appendixes, index, footnotes, references, illustrations and photos, first edition in 9x7.5 inch wraps. Newspaper obituary tipped-in to inside front cover; it has toned but not offset. Mild edgewear, a...... More

Cat.No: 146604

Oakland: Zeitgeist Press, 1989. Pamphlet. 66p., 5.5x8.5 inches, decorated with cover drawing and rear panel author photo, very good poetry chapbook in stapled glossy pictorial wraps but bears a doubtless accidental ink dot that marks titlepage and six adjacent leaves. Dedication page: "to the dogs"; humor vies with bitter wit..... More

Cat.No: 243871

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Hardcover. xiii, 271p., introduction, fine first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. On Eighner's homeless period in Austin and hitchhiking to California with his dog. More

Cat.No: 228159

Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1913 [?]. Sheet_music. 5p., ad, large fascicle of 12x9 inches, rubricated titlepage with nice cover illustration (by T.J. Cain?). Rather worn with old vertical and transverse crease-lines, hand-soil and flecks; complete but as is. A rubber-stamp (neatly applied) lets us know the item was originally purchased..... More

Cat.No: 228863

Davis CA: Self-published by the author, 1993. Hardcover. 167p., illustrated with mounted photographs (photolithographed), a finepress item in 10.5x7 inch white linen boards with a wide brown cloth backstrip spine-titled gilt. A quite good copy; clean, sound, square and unmarked. More

Cat.No: 242254

New York: Macmillan, 1917. Hardcover. [ix] 337p. 3 leaves [6p.] of ads, color frontispiece, hinges sound, very good first edition per Sisson page 94, BAL 11973, red cloth boards with black vignette of two dogs in silhouette, gilt titles, author name in black, covers lightly rubbed, 5 small stains at..... More

Cat.No: 191778

New York: Holiday House, 2000. Hardcover. Hardbound item; [28]p., color illustrations throughout, first edition laminated pictorial boards in glossy ditto-image dust jacket, 10x10 inches, a fine clean copy. Blues story for children, featuring two dogs, a young guitarist and an elderly percussionist who plays "the bones". Includes lyrics and notations..... More

Cat.No: 138371

Madrid: Editorial Betania, 2002. Paperback. 144p., text in Spanish, signed and inscribed by Thomas on the half-title, lightly-worn first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Coleccion Narrativa. Author was born in Mexico and lived in San Francisco at the time of publication. More

Cat.No: 251000