CRITICAL QUARTERLY (Spring 1964; Volume 6, Number 2)
With an editorial essay on the rising importance of James Baldwin and Sylvia Plath, as well as original poetry by Anne Sexton, Karen Gershon, Ted Hughes, and more.
With an editorial essay on the rising importance of James Baldwin and Sylvia Plath, as well as original poetry by Anne Sexton, Karen Gershon, Ted Hughes, and more.
Uncommon edition of "Parson's Pleasure," a satisfying short story of a dishonest antiques dealer too clever for himself, from Dahl's KISS KISS collection.
Association first edition of Southern's collected short fiction and essays, inscribed to popular '60s comedy duo Bob Booker and George Foster.
First edition of Rhys's great postcolonial reimagining of JANE EYRE, the story of ill-fated Antoinette Cosway, Jamaican-born first wife of the fearful and hateful Edward Fairfax Rochester.
First edition of the acclaimed novel about a Black man just released from prison, "the bright boy of infinite promise [...] and the very old parolee of twenty-two, who sees little difference between the prison world and the world outside."
Scarce transcription of a panel discussion with Porter, O'Connor, Caroline Gordon, Madison Jones, and moderator Louis D. Rubin, the final event in a two-day symposium on Southern writing held at Wesleyan College in 1960.
First edition of this play based on E. M. Forster's 1924 novel, a story of scandal and racism that takes place in British colonial India during the rise of the Indian independence movement.
First edition of Thomas's unfinished film script, based on the Irish-language autobiography of Maurice O'Sullivan.
First edition of Thomas's screenplay adaptation of the classic Stevenson short story, first issued as a novella ten years after Thomas's death in conjunction with a planned but never produced Richard Burton film.
Inscribed first printing of the influential literary achievement by a towering figure of the counterculture.
First edition of this uncommon anthology classifying and interpreting the 20th century short story, with commentary by authors and editors including Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, William Saroyan, Kay Boyle — in the scarce dust jacket.
First edition thus of the classic collaborative portrait of three Depression-era tenant farmer families, an expanded second edition with a new foreword by Walker Evans and 30 additional photographs not included in the first edition.
First printing of this scarce anthology of classic American short fiction in Polish translation, with cover art by midcentury poster designer Marian Stachurski.
Signed Franklin Press edition of this dark satire on the patriotic narrative of American triumph in World War II, in the original box.
First printing of Didion's iconic collection of essays of 1960s and 70s California culture.
Signed first edition of this story of three women in mid-century Mississippi struggling against their roles, adapted into an Oscar-winning film.
First UK edition of Styron's Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel, based on the 1831 uprising led by enslaved Virginian Nat Turner.
First US edition of Rhys's great postcolonial reimagining of JANE EYRE, the story of ill-fated Antoinette Cosway, Jamaican-born first wife of the fearful and hateful Edward Fairfax Rochester.
Signet movie tie-in edition, of the play that "changed American theater forever" (NEW YORK TIMES).
First printing of Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize-winning final novel, containing "some of the most hair-raising and bizarre horse racing in the history of fact or fiction" (jacket) — in exceptional condition.
First UK edition of Styron's third novel, centered around a group of postwar American expatriates who take to the Amalfi coast to do violence among the picturesque ruins of the Old World.
First edition of Styron's third novel, centered around a group of postwar American expatriates who take to the Amalfi coast to do violence among the picturesque ruins of the Old World.
First printing of Le Carré's masterpiece of moral ambiguity in Cold War espionage.
First impression, the only book in the James Bond series told from the point of view of a woman rather than from Bond's own perspective.
First US edition of Dinesen's four-part coda to her classic OUT OF AFRICA, recalling the dreams and memories of her years in Kenya.