THE VILLAGE SQUIRE
(1960-1963)
Collection of original illustrated sales brochures for the raccoon coats, beach capes, and cocktail suits of influential gay menswear designer Bill Miller's Greenwich Village boutique.
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SANTA CALLS
(1993)
Signed first edition of this Christmastime adventure in which three children save Santa from the Dark Elves of Toyland, with an original drawing by Joyce.
CHRISTMAS AT LONG POND
(1992)
Inscribed first edition of this story of a father and son cutting down a Christmas tree, part of the Long Pond series, with spectacular wintertime illustrations of the natural world by Lindsay Barrett George.
THE TEMPEST
[1926]
Signed limited first Rackham edition, one of 520 copies signed by Rackham, with an extra color plate not in the trade edition.
PLAYS BY WILLIAM HOOKER GILLETTE
(1983)
First edition, scarce hardcover issue, of this university press reprint of the famed Sherlockian actor's own original plays: ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME, SECRET SERVICE, and SHERLOCK HOLMES.
THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS
[1923]
First edition of this gorgeous outlier of the Golden Age of Illustration, a fully realized fantasy of interplanetary travel written and illustrated by South African architect William Timlin.
INTERZONE
(1989)
First edition of this collection of previously unpublished short stories, letters, and notebook entries, and other works from the 1950s discovered among Allen Ginsberg's papers at Columbia in 1984 and edited (and with an introduction) by James Grauerholz.
THE PROFILE HOUSE
1872
Rare first edition of this unusual New Hampshire travelogue novel with shades of JANE EYRE, featuring a heroine who wants to attend a university and refuses to get married.
JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS
(1893-1894)
Fresh and beautiful late Victorian set from one of the most celebrated and widely read writers in English.
THE BOAT CLUB; Or, The Bunkers of Rippleton
1855
First edition of this "tale for boys," a pioneering novel of juvenile adventure fiction.
ELISABETH THE COW GHOST
1936
First edition of Pène du Bois's notoriously scarce first book, about the ghost of a cow who is a little too sweet to scare people.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, OCTOBER TERM, 1962, NO. 812: Bradley Reed Smith, Petitioner, v. People of the State of California, Respondent
(1965)
Original communication from attorney De Grazia to William S. Burroughs regarding the Boston ban of NAKED LUNCH, written on the cover of the 1962 amici brief filed in the earlier TROPIC OF CANCER obscenity case, which De Grazia won.
Original art scene of fairies: "Gossip"
1942
Fabulous signed original watercolor by William Timlin, best known for his fairy-populated science-fiction fantasy, THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BACON-SHAKESPEARE CONTROVERSY
1884
First edition of the first attempt at a comprehensive accounting of publications on the Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
(1982)
Signed first edition of the novelization of Melissa Mathison's original screenplay by the World Fantasy Award-winning Kotzwinkle.
THE STRAW MARKET: A Comedy
[circa 1966]
Original working script of the poet and critic William Jay Smith's only dramatic work, with handwritten corrections and taped-in typed lyrics to the songs indicated in stage directions.
IN THE HEART OF THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY
(1981)
First edition thus of this landmark experimental short story collection, showcasing a mythical portrait of the American Midwest — including a revised and expanded preface.
THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORD
1978
First edition of this essay collection by "one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds," his follow-up to FICTION & THE FIGURES OF LIFE.
NAKED LUNCH
(1959) [i.e. 1962]
First US edition, first printing of the Beat masterpiece, also containing the first book appearances of Burroughs's "Deposition: Testimony concerning a Sickness," and "Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs."
THESAURUS GRID
(1970)
A selection of words and their synonyms from Roget's Thesaurus, arranged in colorful squares.
LORD OF THE FLIES
(1954)
True first edition of this classic novel of the devolution of posh English boys into lawless hooligans after being stranded on an island with no adults.
BENTLY & EGG
(1992)
Signed first printing of the adventures of Bently the frog and his obsessional co-dependent relationship with the egg he loves more than life itself, marvelously illustrated in color by William Joyce.
LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS
(1951)
First edition of Styron's first novel, a Southern family tragedy, winner of the 1951 Rome Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award.
HELL TO PAY
(1958)
First edition (a paperback original) of this uncommon 1950s juvenile delinquent panic pulp novel.
THE EXPERIENCES OF A FRENCH DETECTIVE OFFICER
[1861]
First edition of this classic Victorian detective novel, ostensibly written in the form of a memoir by an expat detective who fled his home country to avoid political persecution.
