IN A MARINE LIGHT
by CARVER, Raymond
London: Harvill, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a small, light scratch on the front. There is no comparable U.S. edition of this collection of poems which were published in the United States in two volumes--WHERE WATER COMES TOGETHER WITH OTHER WATER and ULTRAMARINE--and are here rearranged with an epigraph that does not... Read More
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WE ARE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER
by (CARVER, Raymond) KITTREDGE, William
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Foreword by Raymond Carver. One of 50 numbered and SIGNED copies by both Kittredge and Carver.
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WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE and FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES
by CARVER, Raymond
New York: Vintage Books, (March 1982) and (March 1984). First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. Fine, both housed in a specially made stiff, archival paper case. First Paperback printings of both books, each copy INSCRIBED "For Bert(?)" and SIGNED by the author "Ray Carver/Sacramento" on the half-title pages, the first title also dated "2-24-87."
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ULTRAMARINE
by CARVER, Raymond
New York: Random House, (1986). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof in bright yellow printed wraps of this collection of poems. This copy with the publisher's information slip, taped to the front cover, printed in black and stating a price of $13.95 and a publication date of 7 November 1986.
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MY FATHER'S LIFE
by CARVER, Raymond
Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. First Edition. wraps. Slight crimp in lower front corner. About Fine. Gaylord Schanilec. Copy #192 of 200 numbered copies sewn into Fabriano Roma wrappers and SIGNED by the author of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page by Gaylord Schanilec. A memoir of... Read More
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MY FATHER'S LIFE
by CARVER, Raymond
Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Gaylord Schanilec. Copy #140 of 200 numbered copies sewn into Fabriano Roma wrappers and SIGNED by the author of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page by Gaylord Schanilec. A memoir of Carver's father that first appeared in ESQUIRE... Read More
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WINTER INSOMNIA
by CARVER, Raymond
(Santa Cruz): (Kayak), (1970). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Printed yellow and green wraps. Carver's first regularly published book and second book overall, a collection of poems published in an edition of 1000 copies. Illustrated with color prints by Robert McChesney. This copy SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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WHERE I'M CALLING FROM. NEW AND SELECTED STORIES
by CARVER, Raymond
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Decorated two-tone burgundy leather with beautiful gilt swirl design. Illustrated with a color frontispiece depicting a scene fron one of the stories. Limited and true First Edition of this important collection from a modern master of the short story, SIGNED by the author and with a special introduction... Read More
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MY FATHER'S LIFE
by CARVER, Raymond
Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, 1986. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Gaylord Schanilec. Copy #XXXVI of only 40 numbered copies sewn into Mouchette de Pombie wrappers and SIGNED by the author and by the artist of a total edition of 240. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title page by Gaylord Schanilec. A memoir of Carver's... Read More
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WHERE I'M CALLING FROM. NEW AND SELECTED STORIES
by CARVER, Raymond
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase without dustwrapper, as issued. The author's strongest collection of stories and the last to be published in his lifetime. One of only 250 numbered copies of the publisher's limited first edition SIGNED by the author.
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THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA (THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASA NOVA)
by CASANOVA, Jacques
Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Fine in two Fine slipcases. Eight tall octavo (6-1/2" x 11-3/8") volumes in two slipcases. Bound in half buckram and decorated paper. Translated by Arthur Machen with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed by R. & R. Clark. The first fully annotated edition in English of... Read More
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THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA (THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASA NOVA): A complete set of the 16 ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS and the 17 LINE DRAWINGS for the book
by CASANOVA, Jacques (Rene Ben SUSSAN)
[Haarlem, Holland]: [Limited Editions Club], [1972]. Original Art. Fine. Rene Ben Sussan. The complete publisher's archive of 16 ORIGINAL watercolors, some mildly erotic in theme, and 17 ORIGINAL line drawings by Rene Ben Sussan used for the book. The watercolors are 5" x 8" on 7-3/4" x 11-1/4" paper with the line drawings on smaller, various sized sheets.... Read More
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THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA (THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASA NOVA)
by CASANOVA, Jacques
Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Variable foxing to the endpapers. Very Good or better in two Very Good slipcases. Eight tall octavo (6-1/2" x 11-3/8") volumes in two slipcases. Bound in half buckram and decorated paper. Translated by Arthur Machen with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed by R. & R.... Read More
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THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA (THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASA NOVA)
by CASANOVA, Jacques
Edinburgh: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Small university bookplates on the front pastedown of each volume. Near Fine in two slipcases, one Near Fine the other would be but for a closed split at one top edge. Eight tall octavo (6-1/2" x 11-3/8") volumes in two slipcases. Bound in half buckram and decorated paper. Translated by Arthur Machen... Read More
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THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA (THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASA NOVA)
by CASANOVA, Jacques
Haarlem, Holland: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and just about Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Quarto (7-7/8" x 12") bound in cream-toned buckram printed in crimson with an allover flower-and-leaf pattern and a paper spine label; 560 pages. Translated by Arthur Machen; selected and annotated by J. Rives Childs. Copy #887 of 1500 copies illustrated... Read More
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My Brother-in-Law and Me"
by CASEY, Michael
Cambridge: Pomegranate Press, 1974. First Edition. Broadside. Fine. K. Klopp. 12-1/2" x 19". One of 180 numbered copies, this being one of the first 100 which were SIGNED by Klopp & Casey.
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NUDE WITH FLOWERED HAT
by CASTELLON, Hilda
First Edition. Print. Fine. Original lithograph (13" x 20", image size 10-1/8" x 16") printed on B F K Rives paper. Copy #32 of only 35 SIGNED, titled, and numbered in pencil below the image by the artist. Hilda Castellon, wife of the famous Spanish American printmaker, Federico Castellon, was a talented artist whose work, based on personal... Read More
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NOUVELLE CHASSE AUX PAPILLONS
by CASTILLON, [A.]
Paris: A.Courcier, [1858]. First Edition. Hardcover. Text with foxing; darkening to some plates. Binding just lightly worn. Very Good. Large octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in publisher's pebbled red cloth with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine, all edges gilt; [iv], 396 pages. Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and 11 chromolithograph plates of butterflies.
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EL VIEJO EDUA. CRONICAS DE GUERRA
by [CASTRO, Fidel] GOMEZ, Maximo
Havana: Editora del Consejo Nacional de Cultura, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Close to Fine. Original pictorial wraps bound in black morocco-backed gilt-lettered dark blue morocco leather; 97 pages. Lengthily INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page by Fidel Castro to Lieutenant Pedro García Peláez sending him this book in acknowledgment of his birthday and the wars that they... Read More
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SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
by CATHER, Willa
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate on front pastedown. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Advance Copy with the page stating such tipped in as the front endpaper.
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DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
by CATHER, Willa
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Very mild and faint spotting to vellum which maintains a fresh, bright white color. Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper and slipcase. Harold von Schmidt. Bound in full vellum with a silver decoration on the front cover and silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with drawings and designs by... Read More
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A LOST LADY
by CATHER, Willa
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Hardcover. Hint of sunning to the spine. Fine in a Fine slipcase. William Bailey. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10-1/4") bound with a fine South German aniline leather spine and corners and decorative floral cloth sides .Introduction by John Hollander. Copy #333 of 1500 illustrated by William Bailey with an original etched frontispiece... Read More
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A LOST LADY
by CATHER, Willa
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. William Bailey. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10-1/4") bound with a fine South German aniline leather spine and corners and decorative floral cloth sides .Introduction by John Hollander. Copy #1168 of 1500 illustrated by William Bailey with an original etched frontispiece and four full-page... Read More
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A LOST LADY
by CATHER, Willa
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with uneven sunning. William Bailey. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10-1/4") bound with a fine South German aniline leather spine and corners and decorative floral cloth sides .Introduction by John Hollander. Copy #887 of 1500 illustrated by William Bailey with an original etched... Read More
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DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
by CATHER, Willa
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean and fresh; covers bright with sunning to the spine and darkening of the spine label. Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Original green cloth with the first printing error on page 20. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper and quite scarce as such.... Read More
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