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First edition, review copy of the great American musical based on ("suggested by") the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, with music by Styne and lyrics by a still-obscure Stephen Sondheim.
First edition, review copy of the great American musical based on ("suggested by") the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, with music by Styne and lyrics by a still-obscure Stephen Sondheim.
Original signed letter of almost saintly forbearance, written by the cartoonist in response to an importunate fan, accompanied by a signed Peanuts greeting card.
Advance uncorrected proof copy for the first edition of Berendt's wildly popular account of a mustachioed antiquarian's sensational murder trial in 1980s Savannah, a finalist for a 1995 Pulitzer Prize and the basis for Clint Eastwood's film adaptation.
Signed limited first edition of Updike's sparkling departure from type, a tale of empowered coastal elites learning a little about the Devil and a lot about life.
First edition, second issue of Faulkner's best novel, with the original dust jacket in remarkably beautiful condition.
Signed limited first edition of the last collection of poems published within Faulkner's lifetime.
Signed limited first edition of Faulkner's first book published by Random House, the first and only publication of this short story until its inclusion in 1979's UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER.
First trade edition, first binding of Faulkner's novel, two alternating narratives set in New Orleans, later published under the author's preferred title of IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM.
Inscribed early printing of the first photoplay edition, with the jacket design featuring a scene from the film starring Jim Pierce — who later became Burroughs's son-in-law.
First photoplay edition, with a new jacket design featuring a scene from the film starring Jim Pierce — who later became Burroughs's son-in-law.
First UK edition of the non-fiction companion to HUCKLEBERRY FINN, a memoir of Twain's experiences as a steamboat pilot before the Civil War.
Signed limited first edition of Wilbur's 21 illustrated "clerihews for the telephone," useful scripts in verse for recording on the outgoing-message cassette tapes of the answering machines of yore, written for publisher Stuart Wright.
First edition, advance reading copy, of Bender's first novel, the excellent good follow-up to her acclaimed debut short story collection.
First (and only) printing of this pamphlet, the first of four issued by Equinox for Christmas of 1932, a revised version of Faulkner's poem "My Epitaph" included in the following year's A GREEN BOUGH.
Signed first edition of McNally's play, a reimagined life of Christ and his apostles as gay men in contemporary Texas.
First edition of these collected responses to the award of the 1948 Bollingen Prize to Ezra Pound's PISAN CANTOS, the several objections, and the objections to the objections.
First edition of Sondheim and Weidman's musical based on Perry's 1853 expedition to Japan, a Kabuki-influenced production with a demanding and ambitious Japanese-influenced score.
Signed limited first edition of Updike's second compilation of stories about Henry Bech, a middle-aged writer with more than a hint of self-portraiture beneath his Bellovian, Rothlike exterior.
Signed limited first edition of Updike's narrative of a dim clergyman obsessed with sex and with himself.
Signed limited first edition of Welty's reviews and critical essays on Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and others, together with a selection of personal and occasional nonfiction pieces.
Signed limited first edition of Welty's one-act farce produced as part of the off-Broadway production "The Littlest Revue" at New York's Phoenix Theatre in 1956.